World Bank flags rising unemployment in Pakistan as a trigger for unrest and accelerating outward migration. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/pakistan-job-crisis-unrest-migration-vak3ti0g?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PakistanJobsCrisis #Unemployment #BrainDrain #WorldBankWarning

US grant applicants surge at prestigious European research agency, ERC.

The surge in demand could be another sign that a brain drain might be underway out of the US.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00362-w?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=48226551 #Science #BrainDrain #Trump

10 109 docteurs STEM ont quitté les agences fédérales US en un an. 14% de tous les PhD publics, partis volontairement à 84%.

Le pays qui captait les cerveaux mondiaux voit ses propres experts fuir l'État. Ce brain drain interne détruit l'expertise publique : recherche, santé, environnement vidés de leur substance scientifique.

#ExpertisePublique #SciencePolicy #BrainDrain

https://da.van.ac/10-109-experts-fuient-letat-trump-vide-la-science-americaine/

From Jan 7
Faculty at #TexasAM #University were told this week that roughly 200 courses in the #College of Arts & Sciences could be affected by a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of #race & #gender, the implementation of which has already led administrators to direct a #philosophy professor to remove #Plato readings from a core course.

#law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #BrainDrain #education #FarRight #racism #sexism #heterosexism #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/texas-am-race-gender-courses/

#TexasAM Ends #WomensStudies & Overhauls Classes Over #Race & #Gender

[this on top of the bizarre ban on the #philosophy department from teaching #Plato — seriously]

New policies limiting the teaching of race & gender issues led administrators & professors to change hundreds of courses. #School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation. [ya think?]

#BrainDrain #college #university #education #FarRight #extremism #racism #sexism #heterosexism #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Lavendrey the Dragon and The Brain-Eating Meteor

#comic #dragon #snake #digitalart #forest #originalcharacter #alien #bem #braindrain #brainremoval #braineatingmeteor #Scalie #Wingoffire #WoF #billyandmandy

Brain Mass Transfer Machine B.M.T.M

#reptile #lizard #comic #dinosaur #digitalart #scalie #brain #dolphin #intelligenceincrease #brainsucking #brainincrease #braindrain #Furry #Furryart #Anthro

Cognizard Comic

#Pokemon #Fakemon #fakémon #Charazard #ConvergentEvolution #Psychic #Comic #Scalie #Brainy #BrainDrain #BrainGain #IQdrain #IQGain #BrainExpantion

Well done #Trump 🤦🏼‍♀️

#Universities in #China Surge in Global Rankings as #US #Schools Slip

#Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring #academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.

#education #law #immigration #StudentVisas #WorkVisas #GovernmentInterference #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #censorship #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/harvard-global-ranking-chinese-universities-trump-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

@hmblank Daarom wijken ze met tienduizenden uit naar Canada en Europa #BrainDrain

A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st #US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an #injunction secured by 22 Democratic #state attorneys general, #medical associations & #universities after determining the #funding cuts #NIH announced in February 2025 were #unlawful.

#law #judiciary #science #medicine #Trump #idiocracy #BrainDrain

#Trump cannot slash #NIH #research #funding, court rules

A federal appeals court on Monday ruled Trump's admin cannot carry out steep cuts to federal #grant funding provided by the National Institutes of #Health to #universities engaged in #scientific & #medical research.

#law #judiciary #science #medicine #idiocracy #BrainDrain
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-cannot-slash-nih-research-funding-court-rules-2026-01-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

"YEAR ONE MAHA:
1. Measles returns to America
2. Pertussis returns to America
3. Chronic hepatitis liver cancer returns
4. Pandemic preparedness gone
5. Swung & missed on autism
6. CDC disassembled
7. Biotech industry shutting down
8. Brain drain underway"

~ Peter Hotez

#Trump #RFKJr #measles #pertussis #hepatitis #vaccines #MAHA #CDC #research #cancer #BrainDrain
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https://www.threads.com/@drjanemedmicromaps/post/DS_1LoajKuX/photo-posted-by-dr-jane-colleen-harrington-drjanemedmicromaps

Thousands of skilled professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants are leaving Pakistan due to economic instability and political uncertainty. Learn the reasons behind this 'brain drain' and its impact. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/pakistan-brain-drain-skilled-professionals-exodus-elk1ti3q?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Pakistan #braindrain #migration #skilledprofessionals #AsimMunir

Corruption, mismanagement, and apathy have trapped the nation in a crisis loop. #PakistanCrisis #BrainDrain #EconomicCollapse #EndCorruption #HumanRights #AccountabilityNow https://salmanmehdijournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/pakistans-crisis-deepens-security-surge

Pakistan is in freefall. Security forces face historic casualties, skilled professionals flee, multinational corporations abandon ship, and industries collapse. Corruption, mismanagement, and apathy have trapped the nation in a crisis loop. #PakistanCrisis #BrainDrain #EconomicCollapse #EndCorruption #HumanRights #AccountabilityNow https://salmanmehdijournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/pakistans-crisis-deepens-security-surge

Pakistan is in freefall. Security forces face historic casualties, skilled professionals flee, multinational corporations abandon ship, and industries collapse. #PakistanCrisis #BrainDrain

https://salmanmehdijournal.blogspot.com/2025/12/pakistans-crisis-deepens-security-surge.html

#BrainDrain #fascists

"Brain Drain Hurts Countries That Elect Fascists More than Aerial Bombardment

Trumpism is causing the United States to lose scientific talent. Cutting federal funding for science and reviving the Red Scare is driving international students away and making our own scientists leave for other countries that have the common sense to say, 'What? More smart people? Sure, come on in!'

As with so many other aspects of the Trump regime, this self-inflicted brain drain invites apt analogy to Nazi Germany. Hitler drove scientists out of Germany in the 1930s, providing a gift to other nations and weakening his own war effort. Research by German economist Fabian Waldinger finds this exodus of scientific talent did more long-term damage to German science than the Allied bombings of World War II"

https://dakotafreepress.com/2025/12/18/brain-drain-hurts-countries-that-elect-fascists-more-than-aerial-bombardment/

Confirms what I've encountered: a LOT of newcomers. The vast majority are educated and highly skilled, with higher representation in people with professional degrees (medicine, law) and the tech sector than what I would encounter regularly in the States.

America is experiencing brain drain. If you're staying, ask yourself if it's going to get better in the US. I don't think so.

6,690 Americans apply to move to the Netherlands this year, highest in a decade
https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/14/6690-americans-apply-move-netherlands-year-highest-decade

#braindrain