In my spare time, I read some information about some professional conferences sent to me by scholars and found a strange phenomenon with commonality for a long time.Non-academic factors are mixed into the arrangements, such as the need for "guiding meetings" of scholars, government officials and academic honours (commonly known as haters) and persons not relevant to the meeting.On the large screen of the venue, profiles of the presenters will also be highlighted, highlighting their academic accolades rather than their academic achievements.Some academic conference organizers have also given the conference some "tall" titles, but in fact, it is a little empty.In the past, such meetings often had a grand opening podium, with the head of the conference seated from "C" according to the size of the title.Now that I'm learning from the international chemistry "fan," I've changed the seating arrangement to the first and second rows of the stage, but it's much the same, and the non-academic taste hasn't changed substantially.This is a big difference from academic conferences held in Europe and the United States, where government officials are rarely seen.I was told by an American university professor that he had seen a member of the American Academy of Sciences at an academic conference and was reading the conference's poster carefully.
A young scholar told me that something embarrassing had happened to the organizers at an academic conference.As the opening ceremony was held in the first and second rows, officials from the first and second rows of the conference were seated in the first and second rows.Only the "brand names" of these people remain in these seats, but the eager students continue to sit there looking forward to the academic report.This reminds me of the past when some of our institutions invited scholars to present their reports with too much emphasis on academic honor rather than on scientific achievements themselves.It is not unusual for me to see this with my own eyes when I was in office.When I quit the academic front line, I basically stopped discussing professional academic issues with my peers, because I couldn't read professional scientific literature in time and didn't grasp the frontiers of the subject.Academic communication should be pure, not frivolous and utilitarian.
Things seem to be changing quietly as academic internationalization progresses.Recently, a young scholar was invited to give an academic presentation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.For this reason, I took a tour of the research institute's homepage, as expected, all kinds of outstanding scientific research personnel occupy a high proportion of full-time researchers.The first thing on the website of the institute is not the administrative news, but four columns on academic exchanges: "Today's Report, Academic Conferences, Announcements, and Past Reports.""This arrangement reflects, at least in form, the Institute's philosophy of placing academic exchange activities at the forefront.I looked randomly at the academic presentations for several days, involving the rapporteur and his institution, and found several phenomena of interest to me.The first is the number of reports, which vary almost daily, including most weekends.More than ten sessions a day are rare for a medium-sized research institute characterized by basic research.Second, there is no profile, only title, not honorary title. For example, there is a reporter from the Chinese Academy of Sciences from a university who only uses the title of professor.The Institute's low-key, pragmatic academic style deserves praise.
I made a detailed study of the young scholar's report on the day, which consisted of nine reports.As mentioned above, the Institute's Announcements only list the title, organization and reporting format (i.e., online or offline), and do not have a traditional profile, so it is not possible to know the academic honorific title of the reporter.Of course, if further information on the rapporteur's research is required, it can be found on the website of his or her organization.I found out that only two of the nine reports of the day, including the young scholar, were made offline, and the other seven were made online, which may be related to the post-COVID-19 outbreak.In fact, I appreciate the online reporting, which will not be affected by time and space, but will also save a lot of travel expenses, of course, the effect of communication will be slightly less than offline.The nine presenters include overseas scholars, such as the State University of New York at Ishikawa and the University of Tokyo in Japan, as well as leading universities and universities in the country.Three associate professors were appointed in nine sessions.Therefore, the scholars of the Institute invited the rapporteur to focus on his professional research direction and academic ability and level, rather than his professional title and honorary status.As far as I know, the young scholar who was invited to report was the relevant scholar of the Institute who listened to his report at the relevant conference.This is the most direct way for any scholar to understand the current research situation of his peers, especially the level of research results.This is because it is faster and more timely to listen to scholars' reports than to read scholars' published literature.
A few days ago, a national laboratory in Shenzhen held an academic seminar on open science in a popular field of research.An official of the National Natural Science Foundation of China specially told the organizers to pay attention to inviting people with outstanding results on the research front, not to care about academic honorary titles.This also shows that domestic intellectuals have begun to abandon the "face-to-face project" of those academic activities, and pay attention to pragmatic academic exchange activities, "Academic Conference should not show off results, June 27, 2022 Science Network."
The young scholar planned to spend more than two hours on the report, and one of the audience members of the ancient Chinese Academy of Sciences listened to the report.After the presentation, the team members used lunch time to communicate with relevant scholars to demonstrate the spirit of the "knowledge-seeking" of the academic.I often say that as an academic siege of the growth of students in addition to their own efforts but also through various academic exchange opportunities to learn and grow.Practical academic exchange activities are not just meeting peers, but first of all, understand their scientific research status, understand their research behavior, achievements and the gap between peers.In the course of academic exchange, your academic wings will gradually become full, and will be known and appreciated by peers, especially bull people, which will lay a solid foundation for you to grow into an excellent scholar.