Recently I was at a workshop in another country. Over dinner one of my colleagues, a scientist, told me that he had made the difficult decision not to attend an upcoming international conference in the U.S.
He was worried that the current political environment in America might be too unfriendly to researchers from other countries. His exact words were “I feel uncomfortable going to the U.S.”
“I know what you mean,” I replied. “Even I feel uncomfortable going to the U.S. I can only imagine how you feel.”