Yeah but this is round two: science boogaloo. We have a government actively hostile to science and research, throwing away where we still had a leading position.

In particular, we’re reversing the brain drain from China. If they’re becoming slightly less repressive and welcome science while we’re cutting research, cutting legal immigration, driving cuts by racism and judging research by whether the ai classifies it as “woke”, too many researchers who would have come here may no longer feel welcome