Canada hires 48 scholars from top U.S. universities
Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities ... Trump and MAGA are making US dumber, 2nd rate power www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
casper-cdn.bsky.social1Hard to get much dumber eh?
Fuzzy Soft1Someone should write a book on the MAGA cult called "Dumb Like Me" because that's what they're aiming for.
Eliza Jayne1Or, Trump and MAGA are doing Putin's bidding.
doxiemeadow.bsky.social1AMERICAN HERE… THAT’S GREAT NEWS! GOOD FOR YOU CANADA!!!!👏🏽👍🏽 🇨🇦🇨🇦
Editor's Note1This will become the norm. I've already informed my company that I'll be happy to relocate overseas if needed.
Past American dominance in science is not due to a few dozen “top scholars.” It’s due to America 🇺🇸 spending ENORMOUSLY more on science than other countries and distributing it widely. Canada 🇨🇦 boasting about attracting “top talent” of a few dozen people is not serious. And not US “brain drain.”
Zen Faulkes305The real American 🇺🇸 “brain drain” isn’t that a few established scholars might get new jobs outside the US, it’s the enormous number of grad students - particularly international grad students - who can’t or won’t study in the US now or in years to come. That’s the body blow.
Angelo Iulianella18The misplaced fascination of focusing on so-called “stars” in science, who disproportionately absorb the attention and funding, is a distraction from most scientists chipping away at discoveries in small labs, collectivity making the biggest impact.
Annika Barber7That said…I wish I were fancy enough to be poached by a foreign country right about now! 😭
Dr. Evan J. Gowan1It was also ridiculous in its narrow scope. No positions for Earth Science despite the stated desire to look for critical minerals. Canada's funding for most academic scientific fields has not increased significantly in 30 years. The people who came here will soon find that out.
Jason Rasgon56I was recently approached for a recruitment opp in Canada. The research $ was less than the grants I currently have (that I could not transfer) & top of the salary scale significantly less than I make, in a city 2.5X my current cost of living. Non-starter unless the gestapo were kicking my door down
Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD43👇🏽 this we are an enterprise like none the world has seen before that's why hundreds of thousands come here every year that enterprise is what's at stake right now
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦19This is all correct and it underscores a critical point: no one is coming to save the US, or science in the US. It is up to us.
Drug Monkey9He has a very good point.
Alan Richardson8True. Canada recruiting those people is better than nothing. But recruiting 300 junior people would be better.
Ravi Menon8The belief that a few dozen smart academics can change the fate of a nation that relies on resource extraction and a weak dollar for sales may be the most uninformed economic policy since the Avro Arrow was cancelled and we decided to buy everything high tech from the US.
Dr Mel T4I fear the stats are correct here. Loads of Western Democracies (Looking at you, Australia!) spend FUCK ALL of their GDP on Research. Do have to adopt (formerly) US tech to keep up! Finland might be actually punching above its weight but has lost ground since the Nokia Brick dumb phone?
Demon King of the New Platform3I mean, there was famously another reason that STEM advocates don’t want to discuss…
Canada hires away nearly 50 US scholars File under: brain drain; academic freedom www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
Asheesh Kapur Siddique33Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council is investing $7.5 million in this academic hiring initiative; meanwhile Trump is defunding the NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences - to say nothing of its attacks on the NEH www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
ali alkhatib7i'd be interested in how phd admissions have changed in the last 2 years. we're entering the first full year after an app cycle (you could argue people would've seen the writing on the walls after nov 2024, but i think people may have applied and even taken offers hoping for the best in april 2025)
Matt Kavanagh3I’m glad to see this, but higher education in Canada is staggering after the feds made it impossible for many institutions to enroll international students. Why aren’t we taking advantage of the Trump admin’s decision to pause visas to recruit more foreign students to our shores?
Paul Francois3Now we also need more funding for everyone to be competitive…
this is what the U.S. did to Germany in the 1930s. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
Andrew Dessler12I wrote about this brain drain on my substack last year: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/a-thank-yo...
David King9It's really too bad Canada is restricting international students at the same time. They could improve their university finances by welcoming those the US won't, but they aren't doing that.
Cristi Proistosescu1Yeah. Except US took in thousands of scientists and academics ( not even counting operation paperclip after the war). I remember seeing an estimate that it was like 15-20% of getman academics. The Canadian effort (and the French one) smells more of PR than a serious attempt.
