Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries
I&#x27;d like to point out a case that the author has politely left out: that some conference organizers truly believe that if you were a good researcher then you would have moved to North America and&#x2F;or Europe. And viceversa.<p>I know plenty of researchers from South America for whom COVID was a godsend as it allowed them to attend three virtual conferences for the price of one and where their virtual experience didn&#x27;t make them feel like second class citizens. Those same researchers are now getting visa appointments for the US scheduled months after the end of the conferences.