Researchers plan to move out as Trump tightens grip

WASHINGTON — In the halls of US universities and research labs, one question has become increasingly common as President Donald Trump tightens his grip on science and education: whether to move abroad.

"Everybody is talking about it," JP Flores, a doctoral student in genetics at the University of North Carolina, told Agence France-Presse.

The discussion was thrust into the spotlight after Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, a specialist in fascism, announced he was taking a post in Canada due to the Trump administration's "authoritarian" bent.