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Improving on legacy conferences by moving online

Scientific conferences and meetings have an important role in research, but they also suffer from a number of disadvantages: in particular, they can have a massive carbon footprint, they are time-consuming, and the high costs involved in attending can exclude many potential participants. The COVID-1...

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Autores principales: Achakulvisut, Titipat, Ruangrong, Tulakan, Bilgin, Isil, Van Den Bossche, Sofie, Wyble, Brad, Goodman, Dan FM, Kording, Konrad P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7170649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32308195
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57892
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author Achakulvisut, Titipat
Ruangrong, Tulakan
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Van Den Bossche, Sofie
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Goodman, Dan FM
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description Scientific conferences and meetings have an important role in research, but they also suffer from a number of disadvantages: in particular, they can have a massive carbon footprint, they are time-consuming, and the high costs involved in attending can exclude many potential participants. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the cancellation of many conferences, forcing the scientific community to explore online alternatives. Here, we report on our experiences of organizing an online neuroscience conference, neuromatch, that attracted some 3000 participants and featured two days of talks, debates, panel discussions, and one-on-one meetings facilitated by a matching algorithm. By offering most of the benefits of traditional conferences, several clear advantages, and with fewer of the downsides, we feel that online conferences have the potential to replace many legacy conferences.
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spelling pubmed-71706492020-04-22 Improving on legacy conferences by moving online Achakulvisut, Titipat Ruangrong, Tulakan Bilgin, Isil Van Den Bossche, Sofie Wyble, Brad Goodman, Dan FM Kording, Konrad P eLife Feature Article Scientific conferences and meetings have an important role in research, but they also suffer from a number of disadvantages: in particular, they can have a massive carbon footprint, they are time-consuming, and the high costs involved in attending can exclude many potential participants. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the cancellation of many conferences, forcing the scientific community to explore online alternatives. Here, we report on our experiences of organizing an online neuroscience conference, neuromatch, that attracted some 3000 participants and featured two days of talks, debates, panel discussions, and one-on-one meetings facilitated by a matching algorithm. By offering most of the benefits of traditional conferences, several clear advantages, and with fewer of the downsides, we feel that online conferences have the potential to replace many legacy conferences. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7170649/ /pubmed/32308195 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57892 Text en © 2020, Achakulvisut et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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