In-person science meetings are returning. It’s a sad fact that during the pandemic, we failed to make virtual events work as a complete replacement for in-person meetings. Despite it being clear that online meetings solve many of the accessibility and sustainability issues that surround in-person events, there’s an appetite for things to return to the way they were. For better or for worse. So what went wrong?

There are perennial topics of discussion on Science Twitter. An example of this is: should figures be at the end of a manuscript are interspersed in the text. These topics tend not to be resolved because there are strong arguments (and personal preferences) on each side. I am not sure whether it is even possible to get people to agree with you using reasoned argument on Twitter.