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The future of meetings in the particle astrophysics community

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A recent survey suggests that reducing the number of meetings and conferences is a viable way to address concerns about the effectiveness of the modern scientific collaboration process, its effects on the environment and the well-being of the community.

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Fig. 1: Breakdown of survey participation by gender, academic status and geographical area.
Fig. 2: Perception of the number of conferences available in the field of particle astrophysics according to the respondents.
Fig. 3: Reasons why the respondents think that there are too many conferences.
Fig. 4: Solutions favoured by respondents who consider the number of conferences too large in order to mitigate the problem.

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  1. IRAP, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, CNES, UPS, Toulouse, France

    L. Tibaldo

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy “Galileo Galilei”, Padova University, Padua, Italy

    E. Prandini

  3. Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Orsay, France

    J. Biteau

  4. Institut universitaire de France (IUF) https://www.iufrance.fr/

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  5. Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France

    D. Horan

  6. Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    G. W. Kluge

  7. ECAP, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    A. Nelles

  8. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen, Germany

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Tibaldo, L., Prandini, E., Biteau, J. et al. The future of meetings in the particle astrophysics community. Nat Astron 7, 1408–1411 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-023-02152-0

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