If we want to make this #EU #BrainGain permanent, and make real research centers, we'll have to do more than just be less bad than Trump. Academic culture everywhere in Europe is very conservative and hierarchical. Researchers massed in the #US because academia there are more focused on the work, and less about who is who, and who has which title. Austrian Academy of Sciences celebrates "Thanks to Trump we are seeing this brain gain" rather than "our great universities"

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-research-council-funding-us-researchers-relocation-europe/