We at eLife Community published a pre-print paper on "making scientific meetings sustainable" Coincidentally, the recommendation to make better use of virtual platforms couldn't be more timely. Thank you Sarvenaz Sarabipour for leading this initiative. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

sarah borrie SfNClimateCrisis Anne Urai - @neuromatch.social/@anneurai summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @drkjjeffery Russ Poldrack Венера Калматаева As Peter Kalmus said so well: "There is no collective action without individuals choosing to contribute to it. There is no cultural shift without individuals leading the way. There is no bright line between systems change and individuals acting according to their principles"

On the 50th Earth Day, take collective action for the planet nature.com/articles/d4158…

Hosting virtual talks that are interesting for a broader audience? Want to keep up with the best in neuroscience while quarantined? Tim Vogels has you covered? Fantastic new resource for green, accessible, high-quality neuroscience talks - right to your laptop. 👏🌎

A call to make academic conferences sustainable, inclusive accessible - a great set of recommendations doi.org/10.1101/2020.0…

"How neuroscience labs can limit their environmental impact" nature.com/articles/s4158…

Today the Stanford faculty senate voted on whether to recommend divestment from fossil fuels to the board of trustees. They voted overwhelmingly to *keep* investing in fossils. I watched the meeting. Three words to sum it up: ignorance, excuses, & cowardice. Thread

Just published in @nature. Our comment how to decarbonize conference travel🛬&include under-represented groups🌍. Go virtual+Regional hubs = No intercontinental flights & 80% CO₂ savings & occasional face2face. As COVID taught us, virtual is possible. 1/6 nature.com/articles/d4158…

The University of California presents a Climate Crisis task force report with concrete recommendations: senate.ucsd.edu/current-affair… Get the word out, and use these for your own institution! thanks to Adam Aron

How has COVID changed opinions and experiences about virtual academic meetings? How often you have participated in virtual meetings? Please take this 5 minutes survey to tell me! forms.gle/XtpYR5mXSvp4k8…

I just signed the Cercedilla manifesto: Research meetings must be more sustainable. Only 266 signatures? Come on! openpetition.eu/petition/onlin…

For years I waited for an OHBM SIG on sustainability🌳. This summer 25 of us submitted formation petition and we are now here. Join us at first OHBM Sustainability & Environment Action meeting Tues 15th Dec (9.00GMT & 18.00GMT) to discuss what neuroimagers can do to save the 🌍

Join me tomorrow 9am with Anne Urai - @neuromatch.social/@anneurai Martin Farley @drkjjeffery for our #BNA2021 symposium on Green Neuroscience 💚

Proud to have written this with Cathy Gere. Calling ALL in large university, hospital & research institutions - check out yr electric power generation. You may find you're actually running on in-house burned methane gas & your institution is hiding behind carbon neutral language

How do scientists and academics engage with climate change beyond research? What barriers to engagement do they perceive? In a new preprint, we investigate this using a survey of 9,220 scientists from all fields & career stages: osf.io/preprints/psya… Maien Sachisthal jonas haslbeck (jmbh.bsky.social)