For decades, the U.S. was seen as a nation that prized its universities and scientific researchers. That changed when President Trump began his second term, says Megan Peters, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Irvine. "It became very apparent, very quickly, that the new administration did not value higher education," she says, or the scientific research done at universities. "So when I went on the job market, I started looking around overseas," Peters says.