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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

The latest fight about campus speech is playing out among people who normally agree on most things. The Hannah Arendt Center, at Bard College, held its annual conference earlier this month, convened ...

To my disappointment, Robin Wilson’s article on children at academic conferences oversimplified a complicated professional situation by showing only examples of stereotypically obnoxious behavior on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left: Edward Tian, cofounder and CEO of GPTZero, with CTO and cofounder Alex Cui. (Courtesy of GPTZero) NeurIPS, one of the ...

Successful solutions for addressing climate change will need to be bold and highly impactful. Intriguing examples were the subject of a recent conference co-organized by the University of California, ...

Attention Swifties!Indiana University is gathering Taylor Swift experts for a special conference that will dive into the singer's career and cultural impact.The Taylor Swift Conference will take place ...

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: ...