General Discussion

That nice chart talks about direct hires, but the second-order effects are even worse.

The PBS News Hour had a story on scientists in the USA looking at moving abroad. For some, the loss of grant funding imperils their job or the complete existence of their lab or institute, and threats of such cuts caused a non-trivial number of folks to look abroad. The gifted foreign students who came to the US in past generations for their doctoral work think that they might have looked elsewhere under the current climate. Organizations and institutions are threatened by Trump over DEI, as are specific lines of scientific inquiry. Etc. etc. etc.