Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

Do we need conferences and seminars? Why don't we just broadcast our own talks (no need even for a host) and invite the world? Could have a site like @worldwideneuro or @neuromatch that collates them, makes personalised recommendations, keeps recordings and attaches forums (1/5)

And the networking element could also be largely replaced online by having an ongoing "scientific speed dating" service to match scientists based on their interests or needs. This networking bit was the original plan for @neuromatch pre-covid but we got a bit distracted. (2/5)

I love @worldwideneuro and that I can now much more easily access brilliant talks from all over the world, not just the ones that make it over to London (very biased subset). I'll be hugely disappointed if all this goes offline again post-covid. (3/5)