Blackout: Poster protests travel ban
You are not supposed to take pictures on the poster session floor of the Neuroscience 2018 meeting. Photography, video, filming, tape recording, and all other forms of recording are prohibited during the poster sessions , lectures, symposia, minisymposia, nanosymposia, courses, workshops, and on the exhibit floor. But people broke the rules to take pictures of this poster. Here’s a closer look at the one visible section of text: It reads: Unfortunately, due to the travel ban imposed on citizens of Iran and other countries I am unable to be here to present my poster. My supervisor and I therefore decided not to present the poster at all. Science should be about breaking down barriers not creating new ones. I hope to be able to make the next SFN conference in 2019. This situation has been brewing since August, according to co-author Chris Dayas’s Twitter timeline. Starting 20 August : My PhD student who was so excited to attend her first SFN has been denied a visa to enter US based on h...