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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Charles Davis

‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities

View of the skyline of Vienna with the trees of the Prater park in the foreground, in Vienna, Austria.
View of the skyline of Vienna with the trees of the Prater park in the foreground. Photograph: Michael Brooks/Alamy

Wali Malik no longer has to worry that a rightwing bureaucrat – or influencer – will decide his research is “woke”.

He doesn’t 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.

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