Making (neuro)science accessible world-wide: Online seminars for the globe | Labs | eLife

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Summary:

"Initially aimed at the community of theorists, World Wide Neuro (Fig. 2) quickly grew to become a wider-scope repository for openly accessible and free-to-join online seminar announcements. The seminars we announce are organised autonomously by hosts from institutions all across the world, and cover a wide range of topics in neuroscience. In the early days after launching the site, we saw the creation of new seminar series: in NeurodevelopmentVision research, and Invertebrate Neuroecology. These were created by group leaders and postdoctoral researchers who saw the opportunity to bring together a group of speakers for whom they would normally not have had the financial resources. Since then, other series have joined, e.g. NERV: a student-driven initiative from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. More established seminar series have also started to post. Some of the existing series retain access “by registration only”, but this is something that we try to discourage as it creates unnecessary access barriers. After initial issues with Zoom bombing were fixed, we feel this restriction is no longer necessary...."

Link:

https://elifesciences.org/labs/d8f1d697/making-neuro-science-accessible-world-wide-online-seminars-for-the-globe

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Date tagged:

05/26/2020, 13:17

Date published:

05/26/2020, 09:17