Writing for Scientific American, Dawkins wrote our "deeply civilised small nation" should try to lure top scientists from the UK and US eager to escape their countries.
The UK ethologist wrote how "the two largest nations in the English-speaking world have just suffered catastrophes at the hands of voters - in both cases the uneducated, anti-intellectual portion of voters".
Science in both countries would be hit "extremely hard. In the one case, by the xenophobically inspired severing of painstakingly built-up relationships with European partners; in the other by the election of an unqualified, narcissistic, misogynistic sick joke.
"In neither case is the disaster going to be short-lived: in America because of the non-retirement rule of the Supreme Court; in Britain because Brexit is irreversible."