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A great blog post with useful information for wheelchair users attending EGU, the European Geophysical Union:
Robin’s Blog – Attending EGU in a wheelchair
Way outside the geosciences, but one of my favorite crowd-sourced resource for inclusive academic confereneces is this one: Making Medieval Conferences More Accessible
A Crowdsourced Information Sheet by Medievalists with Disabilities
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