Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited<\/p>\n
Laced with terms such as \u201ccensorship\u201d and \u201cpolitical interference\u201d, the Belgium-based jobs advert was far from typical. The promise of academic freedom, however, hinted at who it was aimed at: researchers in the US looking to flee the funding freezes, cuts and ideological impositions ushered in by Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see it as our duty to come to the aid of our American colleagues,\u201d said Jan Danckaert, the rector of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in explaining why his university \u2013 founded in 1834 to safeguard academia from the interference of church or state \u2013 had decided to open 12 postdoctoral positions for international researchers, with a particular focus on Americans.<\/p>\n
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