{"id":65858,"date":"2026-02-10T00:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/i-saw-the-writing-on-the-wall-austria-offers-safe-haven-for-us-academics-as-trump-wages-war-on-universities\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:57:43","slug":"i-saw-the-writing-on-the-wall-austria-offers-safe-haven-for-us-academics-as-trump-wages-war-on-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/i-saw-the-writing-on-the-wall-austria-offers-safe-haven-for-us-academics-as-trump-wages-war-on-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I saw the writing on the wall\u2019: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research<\/p>\n<p>Wali Malik no longer has to worry that a rightwing bureaucrat \u2013 or influencer \u2013 will decide his research is \u201cwoke\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t have to fear government retaliation for speaking his mind or following the science wherever it may lead. And like others who have left a polarized United States for the calmer pastures of Austria, he need not fear his lab being decimated because the president decided he wants to deport the people who work there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/10\/academics-austria-safe-haven\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research Wali Malik no longer has to worry that a rightwing bureaucrat \u2013 or influencer \u2013 will decide his research is \u201cwoke\u201d. He doesn\u2019t have to fear government retaliation for speaking his mind or following the science wherever it may &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I saw the writing on the wall\u2019: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/i-saw-the-writing-on-the-wall-austria-offers-safe-haven-for-us-academics-as-trump-wages-war-on-universities\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I saw the writing on the wall\u2019: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}