[iamcurious]

Academia is a horrible industry and it's really just CTD (circling the drain) at this point ... Or, to be more precise, the tenure system killed it by allowing older generations to cannibalize their young. At some point, academics began to openly cop the attitude that research and publication were the real work and that teaching and outreach were just grunt work.

America is not the world. Just as researchers fled to America, it might happen that they will flee to somewhere else.