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22 November 2016
This story has been corrected to remove the names of some of the people quoted, and to reflect that Islam Hussein is a research scientist and not a postdoc.
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Ledford, H., Reardon, S. & Skibba, R. Immigrant and minority scientists shaken by Trump win. Nature 539, 476–477 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/539476a
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