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shaun
lemmy.world

Unless you want to stay permanently, then you had better be ready for wave after wave of anti-immigration policy

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Pipreply
feddit.org

Those policies do not target researchers or other highly skilled migrants. Stop treating immigration as a monolithic block.

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shaunreply
lemmy.world

Depends where in Europe you are. In many countries, immigration policy does treat immigrants as a monolithic block. I live in one of them. It may be easier to get a work visa as a highly skilled person, but it doesn't change much when it gets to applying for permanent residency or citizenship.

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huppakeereply
piefed.social

But only from like 50% of the people and those people don't like Trump either so they actually understand you left your country. Also, the whiter you look the less people will see you as an immigrant. And once you tell people you have a job and pay taxes even the biggest racist suddenly stops caring about whether you are or aren't a local.

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Zweieck
lemmy.org

Is it? We are completely underfunded and for our local universities 50-70% of buildings are in dire need of renovations. Granted, this has been exacerbated by the current administration, but the problems with the buildings have been brewing for years/decades.

I am in Berlin btw.

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feddit.org

Real question: In which country is research properly funded?

I heard that the issue in Germany is that the buildings are not funded nationally.

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Zweieckreply
lemmy.org

I am not exactly sure how the financing works. The city made the current cuts to the budget, so I guess they are least finance a part of the universities.

In theory the TU Berlin has the money to renovate one of their most important buildings (physics), but as far as I know the proposal was turned down (either internally or externally)

So yeah, half of the physics department is kind of losing their workplace and laboratories right now. They even had a nobel laureate from japan write the mayor to say: "this research is important, they need the funding if we are to work with the TU in the future"

Sorry for ranting. It's a heated topic for me

Edit: we are also talking about stuff like the ceiling coming down, no running water or (the opposite) pipes bursting. Some buildings are permanently closed now

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Pipreply
feddit.org

It sounds like TU Berlin doesn't have a facility management function or contractor. Very bizarre.

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