This week, I renewed my TSA PreCheck membership. Why? I’m not so sure. For some (admittedly privileged) portion of academics, flying for work is a typical (usually annual) event. I have flown ...

Men tend to dominate the question-and-answer sessions at academic conferences, potentially wielding a significant influence over the future trajectory of scientific research. Recent research sheds ...

One of the most useful sessions at last week's DAMOP meeting (for me, anyway) was the invited session on "Turning Physics Students Into Physicists". This was organized by the APS Forum on Education, ...

We need more kids at our academic conferences. More babies. More toddlers. More school-agers. More teenagers. Seeing our colleagues with their kids at a conference is awesome. Babies, toddlers, and ...

[This is a guest post by Stan Kurkovsky, a professor of computer science at CCSU. Stan and I are teaching a course abroad next year called Secrecy: Science & Fiction. (I totally can’t believe I’ve ...

The ballooning costs of attending high-end academic conferences are excluding early-career researchers. But we need their fresh perspectives Julian Kirchherr is assistant professor at Utrecht ...

As I write, I’ve just returned from the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a vibrant interdisciplinary conference of 900. I’ve attended that meeting for nearly 25 ...

Academic conferences get a bad press. For the Friday night regulars in your local, they are a talking shop where the simple is made incomprehensible. For your supervisors, they are places where ...

America's largest AI conference releases comprehensive comparison of the top AI events worldwide, highlighting what ...

ABU DHABI, 7th May, 2026 (WAM) -- The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA), one of the Arab world’s most prestigious literary awards, in collaboration with the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, ...

Academic conferences worldwide face scrutiny due to their perceived lack of integrity and relevance. Scholars today face challenges from the “publish-or-perish” culture, “pay to present” model, and ...