It is, said the president of the Australian Academy of Science, an “urgent and unparalleled opportunity” to grab the best U.S. minds for Australia. The president of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore agrees, but thinks the chaos in U.S. academia is, instead, a “golden opportunity” for Asian universities.
Au contraire, says President Macron of France. As his country’s universities launch programs of “scientific asylum” for researchers fleeing the U.S., the time is right, he says, to “Choose France for Science”.
