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Coral ๐Ÿ˜ท · 33w
I need the library field to please catch up with and accept reality: in-person conferences in the US can't be a thing anymore. (Or outside the US, if you want Americans there.) Masked men from three-...
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It was *already* unethical to hold in-person conferences. I've been arguing as much since 2014, so it isn't *just* about the ongoing pandemic that permanently damages the immune, circulatory, nervous, and renal systems of the human body, or about the recent increase in measles and TB.

We simply can't all attend, some because of disability, some due to caregiving responsibilities, some (increasingly many) because their institution won't fund travel.
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Coral ๐Ÿ˜ท · 33w
It's also a bad use of fossil fuels when there's the option to meet online. We don't need to be flying all over the place to gather, when there's a perfectly good option that takes *significantly* less energy (and much of the energy used for online meetings can come from renewables, unlike jet fue...