Sharing the conference online

ESHG encourages participants to use social media during the conference. Posting about sessions extends the meeting well beyond the room, helps colleagues who could not travel, and brings human genetics to a wider audience. We ask only that you do so within the guidance below, which exists to protect presenters’ unpublished work, participants’ privacy, and the quality of what is said in our name.

The official hashtag for the 2027 conference is #eshg2027. Please use it so that your posts can be found and shared.

Follow ESHG

Do

  • Use #eshg2027 on every conference post, so that participants can follow the discussion and find each other.
  • Share what you learn — post, thread, blog or comment on the science presented, unless the speaker has asked that their talk, or particular slides or details, not be shared.
  • Credit the presenter by name and session. Attribution is part of good scientific practice online exactly as it is in print.
  • Be respectful, and keep criticism fair, constructive and professional. Disagreement about evidence is welcome and useful; disparagement of the person presenting it is not.
  • Remember who is reading. Your audience is not only genetics professionals. It includes patients and their families, patient organisations, policymakers, journalists, students and the general public. Many of them will read a single post out of context.
  • Distinguish preliminary findings from established ones, and take care not to overstate clinical implications. A promising early result reported as a breakthrough reaches families who will act on it.
  • Correct yourself openly if you get something wrong. A visible correction is worth more than a quiet deletion.
  • Ask if you are unsure. Speakers are almost always happy to say what they are comfortable having shared.

Don’t

  • Do not photograph or share any presentation marked with the “no picture” symbol, or where the speaker has asked that it not be shared. Posting such images or video on any platform is strictly prohibited. Where nothing is indicated, photography of slides and posters is permitted.
  • Do not capture or redistribute data presented at the conference in a way that could jeopardise its subsequent publication in a scientific journal. Report the message of a talk, not its dataset, and respect all embargoes.
  • Do not record, film or live-stream any part of a session. Audio and video recording by participants is not permitted anywhere in the scientific programme, whether or not a “no picture” symbol is displayed. Recorded sessions are made available by ESHG through the official conference platform.
  • Do not use AI notetakers, transcription tools or meeting assistants in sessions, and do not upload slides, posters, abstracts or photographs of them into AI tools that retain or train on submitted content. These reproduce and store unpublished work as effectively as a recording does, and are covered by the same restriction. Personal notes are of course welcome.
  • Do not photograph or film other participants without asking them first. This applies in the poster halls, the exhibition, networking areas and social events. Take particular care with images in which someone is identifiable but not aware of being photographed, and remove a photograph promptly if you are asked to.
  • Do not post patient information or identifiable case material — images, pedigrees or clinical details — and do not post about any individual’s health, attendance or personal circumstances. In genetics, de-identification is rarely complete.
  • Do not make personal attacks or behave rudely. Comments that are offensive, disrespectful, discriminatory or harassing have no place at the conference or in posts about it.
  • Do not use the conference hashtag for sales messages or self-promotion, and do not post material that is copyrighted, trademarked or otherwise protected without permission.

If you are presenting

You decide how far your work travels. If you would prefer that a slide, a poster or the whole of your talk not be shared:

  • Place the “no picture” symbol on the relevant slides or on your poster. The symbol is included in the ESHG slide and poster templates.
  • Or simply say so at the start of your presentation — a spoken request carries the same weight as the symbol.

Participants are asked to respect either signal without question. If you find that your work has been shared against your wishes, contact us and we will ask for the post to be removed.

If something goes wrong

If you see a post that breaches this policy — content from a session marked no-sharing, an image of a participant who did not consent, or a comment that is offensive or harassing — please tell us at conference@eshg.org, or speak to a member of the conference team at the registration desk.

ESHG will remove such content from its own channels, and will ask the author to remove it elsewhere. Serious breaches may be referred to the Society and may affect participation in future conferences.

Disclaimer

The views and opinions posted on ESHG’s social media channels, or by participants using the conference hashtag, do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions or policies of ESHG, its Board or its membership. ESHG reserves the right to remove comments it deems inappropriate.

Official photography and filming at the conference is carried out by ESHG and its appointed photographers. The processing of personal data is governed by the ESHG Data Protection Policy and the General Terms and Conditions.

Questions about this policy: conference@eshg.org