Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
I'll (Canada) probably be skipping a conference that we usually do each year in the states as well. Not worth potentially getting my phone/laptop scanned and data stolen.
If its off and encrypted, they can't steal your data.
They can copy it. They can't break the encryption.
I have visited the us on long roadtrips down both coasts. I was shocked at the state of their cities. Extremely run down and in a poor state, homeless everywhere and the people who werent homeless were very fat and unhealthy. It was very unpleasant to be there.
Average US visit right there
Smart. Stay the hell away from the US.
I’m surprised even foreign musicians are even traveling here after what happened to UK Subs.
I think it's ridiculous DFAT hasn't updated the smart traveller website. Exercise normal precautions my ass
i was partner with a lab partner while i was in undergrad bio lab class, basically she went to all these talks or conferences 10+years ago. too bad she was a terrible lab partner, as she would use this against me why she wouldnt help in this GROUP project we were doing at the time. that just gave me awful feeling about the industry as a whole, are people this concerned about thier reputation that they are willing to sabotage thier lab partners
Honestly very understandable
It seems reasonable. The US has gotten pretty insane and unpredictable.
Idk how far it is from being like visiting East Berlin before the wall was taken down, or the Soviet Union, but there certainly seems to be some of that kind of risk. It's bad and getting worse. Their actions and intentions are threatening to at some point surpass both of those, and be about as insane as visiting Nazi Germany.
I honest to God do not want to visit the US for a long time and I have family there. I fear for them every day.
Hold them in Aussie land instead!
Hear me out. Host them online and from multiple locations at once. I know we're not quite there in terms of vr or ar, but I've spent plenty of time wasting time in VRC with limeies and kiwis and it was seamless to communicate effectively as if we were standing 2 ft apart while being on opposite sides of the planet. Flying is bad for the planet sincerely an American.
As someone who often attends and speaks at these type of events, I would advice against that. The main benefit of these events lies in the connections people make. These connections are very personal and don't really work in a virtual context (yet, might in the future though). Most innovations are inspired by having a chat with other people and just throw some ideas and different perspectives around. That won't happen if you treat a conference as a Teams meeting, people would just dial in, give their presentation and leave. Frankly, most presentations or talks during these conferences could have been (usually are) an article anyways. It's the discussions that happen outside of these agenda items where the value is.