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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

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133 points yowzadave | 2 comments | 02 Jul 25 22:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.486s | source
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givemeethekeys ◴[02 Jul 25 23:58 UTC] No.44450138[source]▶
Are institutions elsewhere massively increasing funding and positions?

Aren't all the non-bankruptible tuition fees providing plenty of funding already? Where's that money going? The football team?

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1. Figs ◴[03 Jul 25 00:39 UTC] No.44450391[source]▶
> Aren't all the non-bankruptible tuition fees providing plenty of funding already?

No. Having worked in academia for years, most of my funding came from the NSF. Sometimes it was from the state government, or private organizations partnering with us instead. Usually the university took a 50%+ cut of the grants we got as "overhead" too...

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2. Spivak ◴[03 Jul 25 00:48 UTC] No.44450442[source]▶
Can confirm, universities aren't giving money to researchers- they're actually taking a cut of the grants that actually fund research. They don't even pay salaries, that's only in exchange for teaching hours.

Thankfully, since grants started putting caps on how much the university is allowed to take I haven't seen a 50% overhead cut in a long time. It's still a pretty significant chunk though.