Point of View: Mitigating the impact of conference and travel cancellations on researchers’ futures
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Ideas for virtual conferences.
Option | Example(s) |
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Organize virtual poster sessions with live video and chat options. | Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2020) |
Make abstracts, posters, and other conference materials freely available online for anyone to read and share. | SOT 2020 (Hines, 2020) |
Allow speakers to offer a pre-recorded talk for any online session. Provide instructions for recording a talk. Invite pre-recorded speakers for a live Q and A session after their virtual talk, at a time that accommodates the speaker’s time zone. | Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI Foundation/IAS–USA, 2020) |
Organize a virtual conference, followed by a virtual ‘unconference’ where scientists interact with others in small groups that are automatically matched based on similar interests. | Neuromatch 2020 |
Organize a free virtual conference using social media and videoconferencing. | Librarians Building Momentum for Reproducibility (2020) with draft guidance following their organizing experience available from Sayre et al. (2020) 1st International Twitter Conference of Herpetology (Associação Portuguesa de Herpetologia, 2018) |
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Point of View: Mitigating the impact of conference and travel cancellations on researchers’ futures
eLife 9:e57032.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57032