You know, when all this started I was telling people that it’s not as simple as out spending the US in science because most countries don’t have the infrastructure, but here we are in the second year of Trump’s second term with NIH research being strangled, and now I’m having to expand my post-doc search internationally because no one seems to have the money to hire me in the US. I don’t know what will happen the US science infrastructure if there’s no money to hire people to use it, but we’re quickly reaching a point where US researchers don’t have an option but to move overseas to anywhere with the infrastructure capacity to take us. That infrastructure doesn’t appear over night, so some of us may be out of luck, but we can share a lot of existing infrastructure and work in sub-par labs if other countries are willing to hire – and if they continue to expand their infrastructure in the long term I suspect many won’t return to the US even if it does restart science funding.

Also, have any other Americans stopped saying “we” in reference to America? Like it’s the place I started, but…