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A year without conferences? How the coronavirus pandemic could change research

As scientific meetings are cancelled worldwide, researchers are rethinking how they network — a move that some say is long overdue.
  1. Giuliana Viglione
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This is shaping up to be an unusual year — it might even be the year scientists stop going to conferences. As the coronavirus pandemic marches around the world, leading to unprecedented measures to stop the virus’s spread, the number of scientific conferences being cancelled is rising and researchers are scrambling to find alternative ways to share their work and interact with collaborators. Some of these discussions are even pushing researchers to rethink the concept of meetings entirely.

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Nature 579, 327-328 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00786-y

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  • Correction 20 March 2020: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the European Geosciences Union.

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