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Future of college will involve fewer professors
A futurist who focuses on education technology says artificial intelligence is slowly making human professors less vital to colleges and universities.
Conferences for all
Our academic careers columnist writes, “(I)t’s a great time to assess how to make conferences more accessible to all before we settle back into the old familiar ways that can end up unintentionally excluding people.”
Pondering the power of connections in the post–COVID-19 era
The Lindau Nobel Laureate meetings brought scientists together in Germany after the devastation of World War II.
Antibiotic resistance is at a crisis point
Government support for academia and Big Pharma to find new drugs could help defeat superbugs
Women’s professional STEM societies rethink gender diversity
Still fighting for recognition in male-dominated fields, some women’s organizations consider moving beyond the binary.
Come together
“The annual meeting in April in Philadelphia promises to be special, and I hope every single member of the society will seriously consider attending.”
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Biotechnology greed is prolonging the pandemic. It’s inexcusable.
In the debate over vaccine patents, a flawed logic is being used to justify putting profits above saving lives.
An infectious disease expert explains new federal rules on ‘mix-and-match’ vaccine booster shots
As boosters are authorized for all three COVID-19 shots available in the US, the ability to swap out vaccine types looks to be a boon to the immune system.
How to reply to reviewers’ comments
After receiving positive comments about his rebuttals, the author posted his top tips on Twitter. Here is an extended version.
World Food Day: Let there be bread. Or not bread, please.
Oct. 16 is World Food Day, to commemorate the 1945 founding of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, whose slogan is, “Let There Be Bread.” But that’s not so great for everyone.
Video games keep me from feeling alone
To mark World Mental Health Day, the author describes how they held themself together in the lead-up to a big examination.
Deadlifts and deadlines
‘I’m a Ph.D. candidate happily researching post-transcriptional regulation of filamentation in fungus. When I’m not in the lab, I pick things up and put them down again.’
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