#EPSC (Europlanet Science Congress) is being held hybrid this year, and has an exciting program that includes a session on using new tools such as #VR in planetary science outreach.
But... it's 50 Euro per abstract submission, with no guarantee of acceptance. That's a fairly big punch when the Japanese yen is super weak.
@YetAnotherGeekGuy It does take considerable time to review abstracts and put together the program. But usually, I'd expect any payment for that to come from the registration fee.
@elizabethtasker@YetAnotherGeekGuy Usually those reviews are free right? Done out of the goodness of researchers hearts and so funded by their own funding (implicitly). So a good question is: what is this €50 actually for? To prevent junk abstracts? (In the age of A.I. that's borderline plausible...in other fields.) To get the whole thing off the ground?
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