Complaints growing about a 'grey industry' catering to the need for published papers and attendance at specialist events Scammers in China have traditionally preyed on young people looking for quick ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

The UN OSAA 2024 Academic Conference on Africa took place from 3 to 5 December, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. New York Local Time Under the theme "Power, Justice, and the People: Human Rights and the Rule of Law ...

[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 Graduate School of Business (GSB) will host its Academic Freedom Conference from Nov. 4-5. The conference, which has stirred controversy over its speaker lineup and initial decision to be closed ...

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 ...

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 ...