Centering inclusivity in the design of online conferences-An OHBM-Open Science perspective

Elizabeth Levitis; Cassandra D Gould van Praag; Rémi Gau; Stephan Heunis; Elizabeth DuPre; Gregory Kiar; Katherine L Bottenhorn; Tristan Glatard; Aki Nikolaidis; Kirstie Jane Whitaker; Matteo Mancini; Guiomar Niso; Soroosh Afyouni; Eva Alonso-Ortiz; Stefan Appelhoff; Aurina Arnatkeviciute; Selim Melvin Atay; Tibor Auer; Giulia Baracchini; Johanna M M Bayer; Michael J S Beauvais; Janine D Bijsterbosch; Isil P Bilgin; Saskia Bollmann; Steffen Bollmann; Rotem Botvinik-Nezer; Molly G Bright; Vince D Calhoun; Xiao Chen; Sidhant Chopra; Hu Chuan-Peng; Thomas G Close; Savannah L Cookson; R Cameron Craddock; Alejandro De La Vega; Benjamin De Leener; Damion V Demeter; Paola Di Maio; Erin W Dickie; Simon B Eickhoff; Oscar Esteban; Karolina Finc; Matteo Frigo; Saampras Ganesan; Melanie Ganz; Kelly G Garner; Eduardo A Garza-Villarreal; Gabriel Gonzalez-Escamilla; Rohit Goswami; John D Griffiths; Tijl Grootswagers; Samuel Guay; Olivia Guest; Daniel A Handwerker; Peer Herholz; Katja Heuer; Dorien C Huijser; Vittorio Iacovella; Michael J E Joseph; Agah Karakuzu; David B Keator; Xenia Kobeleva; Manoj Kumar; Angela R Laird; Linda J Larson-Prior; Alexandra Lautarescu; Alberto Lazari; Jon Haitz Legarreta; Xue-Ying Li; Jinglei Lv; Sina Mansour L; David Meunier; Dustin Moraczewski; Tulika Nandi; Samuel A Nastase; Matthias Nau; Stephanie Noble; Martin Norgaard; Johnes Obungoloch; Robert Oostenveld; Edwina R Orchard; Ana Luísa Pinho; Russell A Poldrack; Anqi Qiu; Pradeep Reddy Raamana; Ariel Rokem; Saige Rutherford; Malvika Sharan; Thomas B Shaw; Warda T Syeda; Meghan M Testerman; Roberto Toro; Sofie L Valk; Sofie Van Den Bossche; Gaël Varoquaux; František Váša; Michele Veldsman; Jakub Vohryzek; Adina S Wagner; Reubs J Walsh; Tonya White; Fu-Te Wong; Xihe Xie; Chao-Gan Yan; Yu-Fang Yang; Yohan Yee; Gaston E Zanitti; Ana E Van Gulick; Eugene Duff; Camille Maumet

doi:10.1093/gigascience/giab051

Centering inclusivity in the design of online conferences-An OHBM-Open Science perspective

Gigascience. 2021 Aug 20;10(8):giab051. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giab051.

Authors

Elizabeth Levitis^{1

2}, Cassandra D Gould van Praag^{3

4}, Rémi Gau⁵, Stephan Heunis⁶, Elizabeth DuPre⁷, Gregory Kiar^{8

9}, Katherine L Bottenhorn¹⁰, Tristan Glatard¹¹, Aki Nikolaidis⁹, Kirstie Jane Whitaker¹², Matteo Mancini^{13

14

15}, Guiomar Niso^{16

17}, Soroosh Afyouni^{18

19}, Eva Alonso-Ortiz²⁰, Stefan Appelhoff²¹, Aurina Arnatkeviciute²², Selim Melvin Atay²³, Tibor Auer²⁴, Giulia Baracchini^{25

26}, Johanna M M Bayer^{27

28}, Michael J S Beauvais²⁹, Janine D Bijsterbosch³⁰, Isil P Bilgin³¹, Saskia Bollmann³², Steffen Bollmann^{33

34}, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer³⁵, Molly G Bright^{36

37}, Vince D Calhoun³⁸, Xiao Chen^{39

40

41}, Sidhant Chopra²², Hu Chuan-Peng⁴², Thomas G Close^{43

44}, Savannah L Cookson⁴⁵, R Cameron Craddock⁴⁶, Alejandro De La Vega⁴⁷, Benjamin De Leener^{48

49}, Damion V Demeter⁴⁷, Paola Di Maio^{50

51}, Erin W Dickie^{52

53}, Simon B Eickhoff^{54

55}, Oscar Esteban⁵⁶, Karolina Finc⁵⁷, Matteo Frigo⁵⁸, Saampras Ganesan^{59

60}, Melanie Ganz^{61

62}, Kelly G Garner^{63

64

65}, Eduardo A Garza-Villarreal⁶⁶, Gabriel Gonzalez-Escamilla⁶⁷, Rohit Goswami^{68

69}, John D Griffiths^{70

71}, Tijl Grootswagers⁷², Samuel Guay⁷³, Olivia Guest⁷⁴, Daniel A Handwerker⁷⁵, Peer Herholz⁷, Katja Heuer^{76

77}, Dorien C Huijser^{78

79}, Vittorio Iacovella⁸⁰, Michael J E Joseph⁸¹, Agah Karakuzu^{82

83}, David B Keator⁸⁴, Xenia Kobeleva^{85

86}, Manoj Kumar⁸⁷, Angela R Laird⁸⁸, Linda J Larson-Prior^{89

90

91}, Alexandra Lautarescu^{92

93}, Alberto Lazari⁹⁴, Jon Haitz Legarreta⁹⁵, Xue-Ying Li^{96

97

98

99}, Jinglei Lv¹⁰⁰, Sina Mansour L^{59

60}, David Meunier¹⁰¹, Dustin Moraczewski¹⁰², Tulika Nandi¹⁰³, Samuel A Nastase⁸⁷, Matthias Nau^{104

105}, Stephanie Noble¹⁰⁶, Martin Norgaard^{107

108}, Johnes Obungoloch¹⁰⁹, Robert Oostenveld^{110

111}, Edwina R Orchard²², Ana Luísa Pinho¹¹², Russell A Poldrack¹¹³, Anqi Qiu^{114

115}, Pradeep Reddy Raamana¹¹⁶, Ariel Rokem¹¹⁷, Saige Rutherford^{118

119}, Malvika Sharan¹², Thomas B Shaw³², Warda T Syeda¹²⁰, Meghan M Testerman¹²¹, Roberto Toro^{76

122}, Sofie L Valk^{54

55

123}, Sofie Van Den Bossche¹²⁴, Gaël Varoquaux^{112

125}, František Váša¹²⁶, Michele Veldsman¹²⁷, Jakub Vohryzek^{4

128}, Adina S Wagner⁵⁵, Reubs J Walsh^{129

130}, Tonya White^{131

132}, Fu-Te Wong^{133

134}, Xihe Xie¹³⁵, Chao-Gan Yan^{39

136

137}, Yu-Fang Yang¹³⁸, Yohan Yee^{139

140}, Gaston E Zanitti¹¹², Ana E Van Gulick^{141

142}, Eugene Duff^{3

143}, Camille Maumet¹⁴⁴

Affiliations

¹ Section on Developmental Neurogenomics, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
² Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
³ Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK.
⁵ Institute of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve 1348, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612 AP, The Netherlands.
⁷ NeuroDataScience - ORIGAMI laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada.
⁸ Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada.
⁹ Center for the Developing Brain, The Child Mind Institute, New York City, NY 10022, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
¹¹ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada.
¹² The Alan Turing Institute, London, NW1 2DB, UK.
¹³ Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RR, UK.
¹⁴ Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ, UK.
¹⁵ NeuroPoly Lab, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada.
¹⁶ Departement of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
¹⁷ ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and CIBER-BBN, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
¹⁸ Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK.
¹⁹ Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EB, Cambridge, UK.
²⁰ Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada.
²¹ Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany.
²² The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Victoria, VIC, Clayton 3168, Australia.
²³ Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06800, Turkey.
²⁴ School of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK.
²⁵ Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada.
²⁶ Montréal Neurological Institute, Montréal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada.
²⁷ Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia.
²⁸ Orygen Youth Health, Melbourne, VIC, 3052, Royal Park, Melbourne, Australia.
²⁹ Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G1, Canada.
³⁰ Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
³¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cybernetics, The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK.
³² Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
³³ School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
³⁴ ARC Training Centre for Innovation in Biomedical Imaging Technology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
³⁵ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
³⁶ Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
³⁷ Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
³⁸ Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
³⁹ CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, 100101, Beijing, China.
⁴⁰ Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China.
⁴¹ International Big-Data Center for Depression Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Beijing, China.
⁴² School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210024, China.
⁴³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
⁴⁴ National Imaging Facility, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
⁴⁵ Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
⁴⁶ Department of Diagnostic Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
⁴⁷ Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.
⁴⁹ Research Centre, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada.
⁵⁰ Center for Systems, Knowledge Representation and Neuroscience, Edinburgh and Taipei, UK and Taiwan.
⁵¹ Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE).
⁵² Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada.
⁵³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada.
⁵⁴ Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany.
⁵⁵ Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich 52425, Germany.
⁵⁶ Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne 1003, Switzerland.
⁵⁷ Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń 87-100, Poland.
⁵⁸ Athena Project Team, Université Côte D'Azur, Inria, 06103 Nice, France.
⁵⁹ Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
⁶⁰ Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
⁶¹ Neurobiology Research Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark.
⁶² Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark.
⁶³ Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
⁶⁴ School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
⁶⁵ School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
⁶⁶ Laboratorio Nacional de Imagenología por Resonancia Magnética, Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México campus Juriquilla, Querétaro, Qro 76230, Mexico.
⁶⁷ Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Rhine Main Neuroscience Network (rmn2), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55131, Germany.
⁶⁸ Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland.
⁶⁹ Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India.
⁷⁰ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada.
⁷¹ Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada.
⁷² The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development, Western Sydney University, Sydney 2751, NSW, Australia.
⁷³ Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.
⁷⁴ Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6525 EN, Netherlands.
⁷⁵ Section on Functional Imaging Methods, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-9663, USA.
⁷⁶ Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), INSERM U1284, Université de Paris, 75004 Paris, France.
⁷⁷ Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
⁷⁸ Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam 3062, the Netherlands.
⁷⁹ Developmental and Educational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden 2333, the Netherlands.
⁸⁰ Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto 38068, Italy.
⁸¹ Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada.
⁸² NeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, H3T 1N8, Canada.
⁸³ Montréal Heart Institute, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC, H1T 1C8, Canada.
⁸⁴ Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
⁸⁵ Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
⁸⁶ Clinical Research, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
⁸⁷ Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
⁸⁸ Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
⁸⁹ Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
⁹⁰ Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, USA.
⁹¹ Department of Neurology, Pediatrics, Neuroscience & Developmental Sciences, Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
⁹² Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health, Centre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK.
⁹³ Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK.
⁹⁴ Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
⁹⁵ Department of Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada.
⁹⁶ Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing101408, China.
⁹⁷ CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
⁹⁸ Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China.
⁹⁹ CFIN and PET Center, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.
¹⁰⁰ School of Biomedical Engineering & Brain and Mind Center, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
¹⁰¹ Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, INT, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, 13005 Marseille, France.
¹⁰² National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
¹⁰³ Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK.
¹⁰⁴ Section on Learning and Plasticity, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-9663, USA.
¹⁰⁵ Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
¹⁰⁶ Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06519, USA.
¹⁰⁷ Center for Reproducible Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305Ci, USA.
¹⁰⁸ Neurobiology Research Unit, Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.
¹⁰⁹ Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara City, Uganda.
¹¹⁰ Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6500 GL, The Netherlands.
¹¹¹ NatMEG, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden.
¹¹² Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, 91120 Palaiseau, France.
¹¹³ Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
¹¹⁴ Department of Biomedical Engineering, The N.1 Institute for Health, Smart Systems Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore.
¹¹⁵ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
¹¹⁶ Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
¹¹⁷ Department of Psychology & eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
¹¹⁸ Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen 6525 EN, The Netherlands.
¹¹⁹ Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
¹²⁰ Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia.
¹²¹ University Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
¹²² Neuroscience Department, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France.
¹²³ Otto Hahn Group Cognitive Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig 04303, Germany.
¹²⁴ Department of Data Analysis, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium.
¹²⁵ Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, Canada.
¹²⁶ Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London SE5 8AF, London, UK.
¹²⁷ Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6GG, Oxford, UK.
¹²⁸ Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark.
¹²⁹ Department of Clinical, Neuro-, and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam,1081BT, The Netherlands.
¹³⁰ Center for Applied Transgender Studies , Chicago, USA.
¹³¹ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, 3000CB, The Netherlands.
¹³² Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam 3000CB, The Netherlands.
¹³³ Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹³⁴ Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada.
¹³⁵ Department of Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Graduate School, New York City, NY 10065, USA.
¹³⁶ Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China.
¹³⁷ International Big-Data Center for Depression Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China.
¹³⁸ Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97074, Germany.
¹³⁹ Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada.
¹⁴⁰ Mouse Imaging Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, M5T 3H7, Canada.
¹⁴¹ Figshare, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
¹⁴² University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
¹⁴³ Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
¹⁴⁴ Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, Inserm, IRISA UMR 6074, Empenn ERL U 1228, 35042 Rennes, France.

Abstract

As the global health crisis unfolded, many academic conferences moved online in 2020. This move has been hailed as a positive step towards inclusivity in its attenuation of economic, physical, and legal barriers and effectively enabled many individuals from groups that have traditionally been underrepresented to join and participate. A number of studies have outlined how moving online made it possible to gather a more global community and has increased opportunities for individuals with various constraints, e.g., caregiving responsibilities. Yet, the mere existence of online conferences is no guarantee that everyone can attend and participate meaningfully. In fact, many elements of an online conference are still significant barriers to truly diverse participation: the tools used can be inaccessible for some individuals; the scheduling choices can favour some geographical locations; the set-up of the conference can provide more visibility to well-established researchers and reduce opportunities for early-career researchers. While acknowledging the benefits of an online setting, especially for individuals who have traditionally been underrepresented or excluded, we recognize that fostering social justice requires inclusivity to actively be centered in every aspect of online conference design. Here, we draw from the literature and from our own experiences to identify practices that purposefully encourage a diverse community to attend, participate in, and lead online conferences. Reflecting on how to design more inclusive online events is especially important as multiple scientific organizations have announced that they will continue offering an online version of their event when in-person conferences can resume.

Keywords: collaborative events; diversity; inclusivity; online conferences; open science.

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