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Posted by 28304283409234 7 hours ago

Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)(www.nwo.nl)
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adam_beck 6 hours ago|
Top researchers in what?
pastor_williams 6 hours ago||
From what I can tell

AI, quantum, vaccines, cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health, nuclear energy, climate, food security, astrophysics, democratic resilience

There isn't a full list of fields or researchers because of privacy or not all researchers have told their current institutions about the change.

moffkalast 6 hours ago||
Top. Men.
karmakurtisaani 5 hours ago|||
Who?
28304283409234 6 hours ago|||
And top women: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/07/07/opeens-mochten-we-woord...

Cancer researchers, climatechange, food production, astrophysics, democracy, mental health, Alzheimers, ...

Basically all over the board. But don't worry - you folks still have a president that understands sports really..... REALLY well. /s

larodi 3 hours ago||
And then Dutch-Americans leave for Bulgaria and Romania .) occasionally Croatia
loorke 2 hours ago||
Wishful thinking
Z4cki 4 hours ago||
How did you find this out? Not sure if its true!
mbmbn 3 hours ago||
This title is very misrepresentative of the actual article.

This is an article about initiatives to attract scientists to the Netherlands, not about some supposed ongoing brain drain.

HelloUsername 6 hours ago||
Another news article in English: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/07/top-us-scientists-come-to-n...
derbOac 5 hours ago|
The last paragraph has some important context:

"De Jonge Akademie, an association of young scientists, warned last year that the fund could end up recruiting academic stars who are not under threat, at a time when Dutch universities were cutting jobs because of government cutbacks. The new cabinet reversed those cuts last month, pledging up to €428 million a year extra for research."

cactusplant7374 6 hours ago||
Hopefully it isn't lithography researchers.
JSR_FDED 6 hours ago|
Why hopefully?
blastonico 5 hours ago||
Who are those "top" researchers? and how many?
gtsnexp 6 hours ago||
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lifestyleguru 5 hours ago|
They are going to live in Netherlands where? In what housing?

Maybe Europe will engage the top American intellectual power into ejecting the real estate prices into orbit.

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