So, science friends.
When in the 1930s would you have decided “no, I’m not going to go to that conference in Germany”?
Because the question now needs to be posed looking westwards across the Atlantic.
If your phone can be taken on arrival & searched for messages critical of the government & then you can be denied entry (or perhaps worse in the future), why would you even think of going in the first place?
Absolutely horrifying slide into totalitarianism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
@markmccaughrean If they were to seriously detain everyone who has publicly spoken out against Trump, ICE would soon be overloaded. If there's any strategy behind detaining visiting scientists, it's to quash dissent and enforce self-censorship and compliance. I think we shouldn't abide.