EU to double funding to attract US scientists fleeing Trump

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-21/eu-to-double-funding-to-attract-us-scientists-fleeing-trump.html

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18 Comments

flying_gel@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (2 replies)

MEGA! Make Europe Great Again with all the scientific discoveries.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 1y

I support the sentiment, but for fucks sake please do not adopt an acronym for the movement that’s so obviously adjacent to the one that embodies our rampant idiocy.

chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Nationalism (or regionalism) is super lame!

Make America pay for being fuckwads, but don't do that shit

OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Nice try, Special Agent Smecker!

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Onion bagel, cream cheese?

OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

It's Smegma. Get it right.

errer@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y

I’ll believe it when I see it. Funding for scientists in Europe is historically bad.

Letsdothisok@lemmy.world · -31 pts · 1y (8 replies)

As a scientist, I'd never leave America.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Sure, bud.

pancakes@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Aren't we all just scientists in this big experiment called life?

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

The missing context is that the guy I’m replying to has a consistent history of being an idiot Nazi.

Letsdothisok@lemmy.world · -16 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Hahaha. They got you. They say jump, and you ask, "How high?"

sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Go back to Twitter, grandpa.

Sorry, wouldn't want to misgender. Grandma? Grandperson?

Letsdothisok@lemmy.world · -16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Lol. You border on comedic. You've adopted a characature of a political opinion...

"grandperson?" " i wouldn't want to misgender"?

Lol... not to be "ageist" but you sound young.

OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I have news for you. You both do.

sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech · 5 pts · 1y

Rude. To 14 year olds, that is.