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The annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union is one of the world’s largest scientific conferences. Attendance figures for 2019 reached close to 28,000.Credit: marekuliasz/Shutterstock
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam Fortais had never attended a virtual conference. Now he’s sold on them — and doesn’t want to go back to conventional, in-person gatherings. That’s because of his experience of helping to instigate some virtual sessions for the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), after the organization cancelled the regular conference at short notice. “If given the option, I think I would almost always choose to do the virtual one,” says Fortais, a physicist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. 

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