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MAGATs on this forum and elsewhere have reassured me that we dun need no stinkin' syunce and ree-circh...just bootstraps for the lazy and indolentBlackvegetable » 04 Apr 2026, 7:51 am » wrote: ↑ In March last year, Wali Malik, a robotics engineer in Cambridge, Mass., received a call from a research institution in Austria, a country where he had never been and knew no one. “‘Hey,’” Malik recalled the man saying. “‘We have this position to build an institute from scratch, on A.I. and life sciences.’”
Malik wasn’t looking to uproot his life and move abroad. He was married with three children, and his parents lived in Washington. But with President Trump slashing science research, Malik rolled the dice.
“I had friends who lost their jobs,” he said. “I saw that happening in real time. I thought, ‘Let me entertain this.’”
So he made the leap. Malik signed on in May to head up a new robotics lab at Austria’s Research Institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence and moved his family to Vienna, sight unseen. His first task was to hire top scientists. He helped recruit a team of four — all from U.S. research labs at Yale, M.I.T., the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Francisco.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/busi ... demia.html