French President Emmanuel Macron is offering large grants to attract foreign scientists:
Just a few hours after President Donald Trump announced on 1 June that the United States was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged in a video to "make our planet great again" by intensifying efforts to combat climate change -- and inviting U.S. researchers who might be unhappy with Trump to work in France.
The French government followed up on 8 June by unveiling a website aimed at attracting foreign scientists with 4-year grants worth up to €1.5million each.
But while some U.S. researchers say the invitation is intriguing, it has irritated some French scientists, who say the move raises concerns about their nation's commitment to homegrown science. In particular, some French researchers are disappointed that the new Macron government offered grants to foreign researchers before answering their own recent call to shore up funding for struggling research institutes.
"Instead [of a commitment to stable domestic science funding], we get a fancy website which is more an empty shell than anything else," says Olivier Berné, an astrophysicist and CNRS researcher at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse. He helped organize the March for Science in France, as well as a letter from 1,500 scientists to France's research minister that spelled out 10 funding priorities for the new government.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday June 11 2017, @08:39PM (7 children)
Oh so it's the usual form of (foreign) ph.d. lottery.
Lets see what Macron wants to know; I'm a ... From ... "I’m fighting climate change because…" ... "I currently work on…" ... "My dream is to…" ... "Your new homeland. With a number of Nobel Prizes and Fields medals, leading research universities, top ranked research bodies (CNRS #1 Nature Index worldwide, CEA #2 Thomson Reuters Innovation, etc.), top-level research infrastructure and laboratories as well as an effervescent startup ecosystem, France is a home for excellence in science and innovation."
There doesn't seem to be any room to move Soylent to France as a social-sciences experiment and cash in on that sweet 1M euro grant. Sorry.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Entropy on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:29PM (5 children)
Is he offering a reduction in terrorism-related loss of limbs/property insurance? That would surely make moving to France less problematic.
(Score: 3, Informative) by julian on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:41PM (4 children)
Statistically you are more likely to kill yourself, deliberately, than to be killed by a terrorist.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 11 2017, @10:11PM (1 child)
Not likely enough, in this jerkoff's case. More's the pity.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday June 11 2017, @10:46PM
Don't bet on it. With the potholes and self-driving trucks, not even his mother's basement is a safe place.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Monday June 12 2017, @06:49AM (1 child)
You're more likely to commit suicide(19.5/100000) than to be killed by a drunk driver(5/100000)...does that mean drunk driving isn't a big deal too?
(Score: 1) by fierce on Monday June 12 2017, @11:46AM
Obviously the parent poster was refering to killing yourself by accident.
(Score: 3, Touché) by SanityCheck on Monday June 12 2017, @01:01AM
"I also married my molester"
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday June 11 2017, @08:47PM (4 children)
> before election: I will defend French interests in Europe, The World, And This Quadrant Of The Galaxy
> after election: yo, señorita, want a grant?
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday June 12 2017, @01:14AM (3 children)
It might well be in France's interest to have the world's top scientists there.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday June 12 2017, @01:05PM (2 children)
Yes, under the ideal and unrealistic condition that they have no ties with country of origin.
How easy it is to force a scientist to pass classified data to his country of origin where his family lives?
Do you recall the intranet hacking Chinese interns of some time ago?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @01:16PM (1 child)
Oh shit, the American scientists might tell America how to fight climate change!
The horror!
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday June 14 2017, @07:39AM
Climate change is a game about modeling, modeling is useful in many nasty contexts.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:14PM
Maricón has already imported thousands of foreign scientists. [express.co.uk]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday June 12 2017, @01:16AM
It looks like France has decided to compete with Canada, then. The Canadian government has also told scientists they are welcome.
And maybe we'll both be competing with California.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @02:00AM (1 child)
Make America Great Again is a rediculus slogan because the past was less great than the present for a lot of people, including non-whites and women. That criticism also applies to Macaroni's version.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday June 12 2017, @01:11PM
MAGA is a problem because the cows have escaped. If America got selfish around the Clinton era, they would have pushed the rest of the world in the second world or less. But America and URSS are globalists' inventions like China and Africa. The pattern you will recognize in all of those places is that they have been made a cultural blank slate by genocides or war or ideologies.
Seems like it's EU turn to become the new Africa and for Africa to become the new China.
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(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday June 12 2017, @02:01PM
The research gets done, and we save a lot of money on the research.