3845 - Researcher parents are paying a high price for conference travel — here’s how to fix it
“How did you manage to get away from home for three days?” This was the first question we asked each other after meeting at a workshop hosted by our funding agency. Our answers were similar: careful planning, and negotiation with partners, institutions and, more often than we like, our own parents. We shared stories of presenting a poster with a young baby babbling away in a sling (L.J.P.), roaming the streets of Paris at 4 a.m. to get a baby to sleep ahead of a presentation later that mornin...
