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The post was from the shape-of-things-to-come department.

The UK is facing an exodus of star scientists, with at least 16 recipients of prestigious European grants making plans to move their labs abroad as the UK remains frozen out of the EU's flagship science programme. From a report: Britain's participation in Horizon Europe has been caught in the crosshairs of the dispute over Brexit in Northern Ireland, meaning that 143 UK-based recipients of European Research Council fellowships this week faced a deadline of either relinquishing their grant or transferring it to an institute in an eligible country. The UK government has promised to underwrite the funding, totalling about 250m pound ($307m), but a growing number of scientists appear likely to reject the offer and instead relocate, along with entire teams of researchers.

According to the ERC, 16 academics recently told it that they intend to move their lab abroad or are in talks about doing so. Researchers have been given an extension before their grants end. A group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London, who is due to receive $2.1m over five years from the ERC to study the malaria pathogen, is one of the people considering moving. The lack of flexibility about moving funding internationally was one of the major drawbacks of the UK offer.


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