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US brain drain: Nature’s guide to the initiatives drawing scientists abroad

From Nature: “Efforts launched in regions including Europe, Canada, Australia and China range from enhanced funding opportunities to new programmes dedicated to wooing scientists, many backed by tens of millions of dollars (see ‘How nations are attracting scientists’). The trend has sparked a debate about whether luring US scientists abroad is the best way to support a global research community whose leading entity is under strain — and whether other nations can compete with historically high US levels of research funding.”

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