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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago

Operation stapler?

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago

Once again, Brussels acting a bit too slow for my taste, but ofc good nevertheless

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Researchers will be paid the same as in the US right?

Until we fix our compensation problem and fractured financial markets weโ€™re just gonna get screwed by the US over the long run. We need to act and demand higher pay.

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

You can have a better life with way lower renumeration in Europe, just by virtue of health care expenditure alone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago

And proper summer vacations too. Oh, and unions, employee rights etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

True, but when the salaries in the US are double or tripple that in Europe it just doesn't work out. American labs are also better equipped on average. No way Europe can compete with the US for scientific talent. The money is just not there. Our only hope is that the US voluntarily exits the competition, which seems to be what's happening.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

That's exactly what DOGE has done, they're wrecking entire scientific fields and they changed the percentage of the money that can actually go to those nice labs for the things that didn't get cut.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Cost of living is better here too. And you wonโ€™t get censored much if you work with transgenic mice and such.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Pay doesn't matter. Cost of living matters.