So, science friends.
When in the 1930s would you have decided “no, I’m not going to go to that conference in Germany”?
Because the question now needs to be posed looking westwards across the Atlantic.
If your phone can be taken on arrival & searched for messages critical of the government & then you can be denied entry (or perhaps worse in the future), why would you even think of going in the first place?
Absolutely horrifying slide into totalitarianism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
Seems now is a good time to attend US conferences virtually.
@grb090423 @markmccaughrean Or only send the folks who are prepared to speak up for those who do not want to go and refute whatever nonsense the less critically thinking inclined attendees may have to say about the topics of the conferences.