The first American academics fleeing Donald Trump’s America for France have arrived.

Aix-Marseille University last week introduced eight U.S.-based researchers who were in the final stage of joining the institution’s “Safe Place for Science" program, which aims to woo researchers who have experienced or fear funding cuts under the Trump administration. AMU offers the promise of a brighter future in the sun-drenched Mediterranean port city.

While both France and the European Union have launched multimillion-euro plans to woo researchers across the pond since Trump assumed the U.S. presidency in January, AMU’s initiative was the first of its kind in the country — meaning the eight researchers who were welcomed are the first academic refugees planning to trade the United States for France.

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      No usually my phones keyboard would finish con-gratulations when I double hit spacebar. But the last update decided my keyboard app I’ve been using for 5 years now with no issues needed Ai. And the Ai decided my 5 years of predictive typing is wrong and I ment con. I’m so annoyed I don’t correct it half the time.

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        23 hours ago

        That is the best excuse for a typo ever, congrats to you. (Mine still autocorrects correctly, woo)

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          It used to be known as swyft keyboard. Then Microsoft gobbled it up a couple years back. Now it fucking has copilot. I have never fucking once started a sentence with “Con” I’ve started a whole fucking bunch with congratulations! (I work in education and that’s how I text and email parents when they’ve been taken off the after school program wait list. Wait list because we don’t have the funding to support more children. But my phones Ai got a carve out on this recent budget bill… We are sooo fucked.)