On: Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate – but they carry on

[acidburnNSA]

I keep hoping that additional features in videochat will help regain some of the networking options.

For instance, a feature where you queue up for 30-60 second 1:1s with the speaker after a talk would be cool.

And then basically chat roulette for the hallway sessions. Would be cool.

[gradstudent → acidburnNSA]

We tried various forms of this during the pandemic; systems like gather.town and so on. They were universally awful. I think travel is simply the price of good Science.