Summary

France’s Aix Marseille University is launching a €15 million “safe place for science” program to support U.S. researchers who fear censorship under Trump’s administration.

The initiative, covering climate, health, and social sciences, will fund 15 researchers over three years. Trump’s government has frozen grants and purged climate-related research, leading to fears of widespread funding cuts.

Aix Marseille previously aided scientists from conflict zones. While some see this as an academic lifeline, others view it as France capitalizing on a U.S. brain drain under anti-science policies.