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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Academic conferences have evolved far beyond their traditional role as venues for presenting research. In 2026, they are increasingly serving as career-building platforms where researchers establish ...

I just finished my fourteenth year as a professor at Union College, which means it probably shouldn't seem weird that I get asked for career advice. And yet, it still kind of does. Some of this is a ...

[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 5th International BTS Academic Conference, where scholars worldwide share academic research on BTS, opened on the 2nd at Jeonbuk National University’s Convention Center. This year’s conference, ...

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 ...

While a unicorn named Hopin tends to dominate the virtual conferencing space, a new startup just raised millions of dollars by focusing on what it believes is an untapped niche in the same universe: ...

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 ...