Neuroscience conference policy draws confusion, apology
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Organizers of a leading neuroscience conference are trying to allay concerns after a policy that bars submissions from researchers based at institutions sanctioned by the United States government attracted intense scrutiny online.
Representatives of the 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), due to take place in Sydney, Australia, in December 2026, took to X (formerly Twitter) on 27 March to apologize and note that there had been miscommunication between the..