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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

Like colleges and universities, scholarly associations had been looking forward to something resembling a normal academic year. That meant scheduling in-person annual conferences again, after more ...

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: ...

It’s conference season, and that means we will soon be suffering together in some drab meeting room. The minutes will tick by as an earnest scholar reads — word for excruciating word — a jargon-filled ...