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[–] jtj4135@lemmy.zip 134 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (35 children)

Atmospheric and Oceanic science has been heavily defunded this year. A quarter of my program at NOAA has been laid off this year.

If I lost my science job, I was planning on going into tech. Now where do I go??? It feels like the walls are closing in.

I should have gone to a trade school instead :/ STEM was a bad choice.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

unironically, just leave the US. plenty of countries/international research orgs are pouching all sorts of US-intelligencia right now.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 67 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is not entirely true and blown away out of proportion by the writers of all the articles you're seeing. For example that big one that got a bunch of attention in France was only for 15 applicants. Also outside of a few exceptions, most STEM workers lack the resources to pick up and leave where they are at.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

yeah that stuff is about grabbing PhD's with labs that have or could possibly win nobels and such or just is doing big things in technology. Bad for the us but not useful for people generally working in stem.

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