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@jbz@indieweb.social 23 min. ago

🍁 Canada recruits dozens of foreign scientists, researchers, poaching many from U.S.

｢ The hiring of the 64 new recruits is being funded over eight years by $504 million from the federal government ｣

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/08/27/canada-recruits-dozens-of-foreign-scientists-researchers-poaching-many-from-u-s/

#science #research #canada

CityNews Vancouver

Canada recruits dozens of foreign scientists, researchers, poaching many from U.S.

Canadian universities have recruited dozens of foreign scientists and researchers, many of them poached from prestigious U.S. institutions, in the first intake of a program to attract world-leading academics.

#canada #science #research

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@lemgandi@mastodon.social 14 min. ago

At the risk of Godwin's Law, this has happened before..

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/scientific-exodus/

Scientific Exodus

A startling proportion of the most famous names on the Manhattan Project belonged to scientists who came to England or America to flee from the Axis.

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