Title: Community Newsletter: COVID-19 at INSAR, PTEN enhancer, baby sib findings
Abstract: This week we're back with tweets unrelated to the first in-person gathering of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) in more than three years, which ended a week ago yesterday.Well, for the most part.Some conference-goers on social media are still lamenting the spread of COVID-19 at the meeting.News of post-INSAR positive cases -almost a "mathematical certainty," according to Micheal Sandbank, assistant professor of special education at the University of Texas at Austin -prompted her to pen a thoughtful 19-thread tweet about conference planning with COVID-19 as "an ongoing reality."#INSAR2022 is over and, unfortunately but predictably, several attendees are discovering they got COVID.We need to talk about conference safety and planning conferences in a future where COVID is an ongoing reality.A long ???? 1/n -Micheal Sandbank (@MichealSandbank) May 16, 2022The tweet even includes a link to directions for making a do-it-yourself Corsi-Rosenthal box to filter the air -a crafty switch-up from your standard conference prep.This is big: filter the air!You can build an effective air filter fairly cheaply with a box fan, duct tape, and merv-13 air filters.Instead of printing a ton of programs, put all of the