Much of the Friday afternoon programme was devoted to applied entomology, especially the recognition and management of potentially invasive insects in Switzerland. Stève Breitenmoser of Agroscope Changins presented a study of companion plants, or associated cultivation, and damage caused by the cabbage flea beetle, Psylliodes chrysocephala, in winter oilseed rape. Tanja Sostizzo of Agroscope Reckenholz addressed the Japanese beetle as an invasive pest in Switzerland, while Lukas Seehausen of CABI Delémont discussed biological control of non-native insects in the country.

The protocol lists these contributions as presentations and gives no numerical outcomes, so the report cannot establish how effective any particular management method was or whether the approaches performed differently from one another. Other Friday talks addressed invasive species in urban settings and questions concerning establishment. Marcus Schmidt of the City of Zurich’s Department of Environment and Health presented work on controlling the invasive ant Tapinoma magnum in Zurich.

Ann-Christin Honnen of the Tropical Health Institute Basel discussed invasive mosquitoes in Switzerland and the routes to successful establishment. The programme also included Lisa Fisler of the Swiss Centre for the Faunal Mapping, who reported on hoverflies, or Syrphidae, in Switzerland, including current knowledge, applications and projects, and Sarah Rohr of the University of Bern and the Natural History Museum Bern, who presented work on glacier flies in the Selhofen Zopfen wetland. Gabi Müller of the City of Zurich described the first recorded occurrence of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes grassei in northeastern Switzerland, covering a survey of the infestation and control work.

Daniel Burckhardt of the Natural History Museum Basel examined the taxonomy of pear psyllids within the Hemiptera family Psyllidae, describing the history of continuing misidentifications. Emmanuel Toussaint of the Natural History Museum of the City of Geneva delivered Saturday’s principal lecture on insect phylogenomics, the use of molecular sequence data to reconstruct evolutionary relationships and build phylogenetic trees. He described how sequencing and tree-building methods had become more accurate, faster and less expensive over time.

He also noted that older DNA can increasingly be prepared and used, adding to the research value of museum collections. Projects on skipper butterflies, the family Hesperiidae, illustrated the method’s application to a group that had received comparatively little study. According to the protocol, phylogenomic work in recent years substantially improved knowledge of the systematics of these butterflies and allowed researchers to investigate possible historical spread across Arabia, Africa and Asia.

These routes represent interpretations of evolutionary history, not direct observations of living insects moving between regions. Toussaint also presented recent work on the evolution of large ground beetles using hyRAD-X methods. His lecture placed this work within a broader account of the historical development of molecular phylogenetics, including the increasing use of archived DNA from natural-history specimens.

The protocol does not provide the number of genes, taxa or specimens analysed, nor does it report confidence intervals or other measures of uncertainty. Accordingly, the account establishes the methods and taxonomic scope discussed at the meeting but does not permit independent evaluation of the strength or precision of the inferred relationships and dispersal pathways. Armin Coray of the Natural History Museum Basel asked why insects are still drawn, while Kay Lucek of the University of Basel presented work on intraspecific differentiation during secondary contact between subspecies of the Eurebia euryale species complex.

Rudolf Bryner discussed his revision of the Nematopogon adansoniella species group within Lepidoptera and the family Adelidae. José D. Gilgado of the University of Basel reported a shift in the elevational distribution of several millipede species in the Swiss National Park over the previous 100 years.

Because the protocol does not reproduce the underlying distribution data or define the species-level scope of the comparison, the reported shift cannot be extended to all millipedes or to the Swiss Alps as a whole. Several talks focused on inventories and the organisation of entomological data. Vivien Cosandey of the University of Lausanne presented an inventory and analysis of beetles in Eurasian eagle-owl nest boxes in the canton of Vaud.

Christian Monnerat of the Swiss Centre for the Faunal Mapping discussed the dragonfly genus Omans, and Anne Freitag of the Cantonal Zoology Museum in Lausanne introduced Opération Fourmis, a participatory inventory of ants in the canton of Vaud. The protocol lists the subjects and institutional affiliations of these presentations. It does not provide complete species lists, sampling denominators, detection probabilities or comparative abundance estimates, and it therefore does not establish how representative the resulting records were for the wider regional fauna.

Digitization and scientific communication were also prominent. Hannes Baur of the Natural History Museum Bern presented “Ans Licht geholt,” a project making the museum’s insect holdings accessible through the internet. In the society’s institutional report, the president noted that the Swiss Academy of Sciences had launched an initiative to digitize all natural-history collections in Switzerland, with members of the Swiss Entomological Society involved in that work.

The annual report also described continuing public and professional engagement with insect decline, including media inquiries, panel discussions and contributions to a Hotspot issue devoted to insects. Those activities were reported as society business rather than as new measurements of insect abundance, and the protocol did not present a new trend analysis or causal assessment. At the general meeting, Hannes Baur opened proceedings at 10:10, and the members present approved the 2019 minutes without amendment.

The report said that requests for financial support had been granted in full by the Swiss Academy of Sciences, the Biedermann-Mantel Foundation and Syngenta, which contributed CHF 7,500, CHF 6,000 and CHF 6,000 respectively. The 2019 accounts showed an annual profit of CHF 6,581.53 and assets of CHF 109,416.19. Auditors Michel Sartori and Yannick Chittaro found that the opening balance, annual accounts and receipts corresponded with the accounts submitted, and the members granted discharge to the treasurer.

The 2020 budget anticipated a profit of CHF 0, while membership fees remained CHF 60 for members in Switzerland and CHF 30 for students or others in training for three years. Members elected Oliver Martin of ETH Zurich as president for the 2020–2023 term. Baur moved to the position of vice-president, and Stefan Ungricht became an assessor, while the other board changes were also approved unanimously.

The society’s publishing activities included the third issue of Alpine Entomology in 2019, which comprised 15 articles on 217 pages: 13 research articles, one short note and a meeting report. Ten of the 13 research articles were in English, and the journal had entered the Emerging Sources Citation Index in March 2019. Fauna Helvetica published volumes on vespid wasps and amphipods, and Meloe proscarabaeus, the black-and-blue oil beetle, was chosen as the insect of the year for 2020.

The protocol concluded with the announcement that the next annual meeting would take place on 5 and 6 March 2021 at the Museo cantonale di storia naturale in Lugano.

Subject of Research: Meeting report on Swiss insect research, invasive species, phylogenomics, taxonomy and digital natural-history collections

Article Title: Protokoll der Jahresversammlung der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft vom 6. und 7. März am Naturhistorischen Museum Basel

Article References: Neumann, M. (2020). Protokoll der Jahresversammlung der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft vom 6. und 7. März am Naturhistorischen Museum Basel. Alpine Entomology, 4, 189-193. https://doi.org/10.3897/alpento.4.59809

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DOI: 10.3897/alpento.4.59809

Keywords: Swiss entomology, annual meeting, invasive insects, insect phylogenomics, taxonomy, biodiversity inventories, museum collections, citizen science, digital collections, agricultural pests, Protokoll, Jahresversammlung

STS describes its annual meeting as a global gathering that brings together cardiothoracic surgeons, residents, researchers, advanced practice providers, and industry leaders to examine scientific discoveries, surgical techniques, and advances in patient care. The 2027 meeting’s theme is “Excellence. Evidence. Impact.” According to the announcement, the theme is intended to challenge attendees to think beyond current practice while considering leadership principles and forward-looking ideas for the next era of the specialty. Clinton is scheduled to appear in “A Conversation with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton,” a session focused on leadership in government, diplomacy, and public service.

Rao will present “Building and Scaling Enterprise-Grade Clinician Intelligence,” examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping clinical practice, physician workflows, and patient care. The announcement does not report results from a particular artificial intelligence system or study, and it does not describe clinical outcomes associated with the technology. Instead, the session is listed as a plenary examination of AI’s effects on clinical work. Frederick will deliver the Vivien T. Thomas Lecture, “The Amplification of Humanity in Leadership,” while Marsh will speak on “Health Span and the Science of Longevity.”

STS President Vinay Badhwar, MD, said the Society was honored to welcome four leaders whose achievements had shaped their professions and influenced the world around them. He said their insights could inspire attendees to consider new perspectives, embrace emerging opportunities, and lead with greater purpose in a rapidly changing world. Founded in 1964, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons is a not-for-profit organization representing more than 8,000 cardiothoracic surgeons, researchers, and allied health professionals worldwide. Its stated mission is to enhance the ability of cardiothoracic surgeons to provide high-quality patient care through education, research, and advocacy, including work involving surgery of the heart, lungs, and esophagus.

Subject of Research: Plenary program for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 2027 Annual Meeting

Article Title: STS announces distinguished speakers for 63rd Annual Meeting in San Diego

Article References: STS announces distinguished speakers for 63rd Annual Meeting in San Diego. Original publication (Bibliographic details unavailable.)

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Keywords: Society of Thoracic Surgeons, annual meeting, cardiothoracic surgery, clinical artificial intelligence, medical leadership, health span, patient care, public service, San Diego, announces, distinguished, speakers

The scientific scope outlined by the society is unusually broad, reflecting how much the discipline has changed since the first annual meeting. According to the announcement, ISSCR 2027 will span breakthroughs in basic biology, advances in disease modeling and drug discovery, and new clinical data on cell-based therapies, with artificial intelligence described as an accelerating force across all three domains. That framing captures a genuine shift in the research landscape. Stem cell science is no longer confined to studies of pluripotency and differentiation; it now encompasses sophisticated organoid and tissue-engineered models of human development, engineering approaches to building biological systems, and a growing pipeline of cell and gene therapies that are producing clinical results in areas ranging from blood disorders to neurological disease. The meeting program is designed to showcase advances across this entire spectrum, from fundamental discoveries about how human tissues form to the engineering of new biological platforms and the evaluation of emerging therapies in patients.

Leadership of the meeting reflects its international character. ISSCR President Lorenz Studer, M.D., founding director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States, will preside over the Annual Meeting. Studer is widely known for his work on deriving dopamine-producing neurons from stem cells, research that has underpinned clinical efforts to treat Parkinson’s disease with cell replacement therapy. The scientific program itself will be led by two co-chairs drawn from different sides of the Atlantic and different methodological traditions: Viviane Tabar, M.D., of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Matthias P. Lutolf, Ph.D., of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Tabar’s background spans neurosurgery and stem cell-based approaches to nervous system disease, while Lutolf is recognized for pioneering work in organoids, engineered stem cell niches, and the microenvironmental cues that control tissue formation. The pairing signals a program intended to bridge clinical translation and fundamental bioengineering.

The structure of the scientific program will combine several formats that have become hallmarks of the meeting. Invited presentations will feature pioneering research from leaders in the field, while a substantial share of the platform presentations will be selected directly from submitted abstracts, a mechanism that gives early career researchers and scientists from less represented institutions a route onto the main program. Interactive poster sessions will run alongside these talks, and the society emphasizes opportunities for collaboration across academia, industry, and clinical research as a central purpose of the gathering. In practice, the meeting serves as the point in the calendar where a graduate student presenting a new organoid protocol can share a poster hall with a biotech executive scouting licensing opportunities and a clinician reporting results from an early phase trial, and the society has built explicit mechanisms to encourage exactly those encounters.

Complementing the scientific sessions, the Exhibit and Poster Hall will spotlight the technological infrastructure that increasingly defines modern stem cell research. The announcement highlights innovations in laboratory automation, advanced imaging, computational technologies, and cell manufacturing as focal points of the exhibition. Each of these areas has become critical to the field’s progress. Automation and robotics are enabling the reproducible, large-scale culture of stem cell lines that manual methods cannot achieve. Advanced imaging allows researchers to track cell fate and tissue morphogenesis in living systems with unprecedented resolution. Computational tools, increasingly augmented by machine learning, are being used to analyze the massive single-cell and spatial datasets that stem cell biology now routinely generates. Cell manufacturing, meanwhile, sits at the heart of the translational challenge: turning a laboratory protocol into a consistent, quality-controlled product suitable for clinical use. By connecting researchers directly with the companies and expertise behind these technologies, the society aims to shorten the distance between discovery and application.

The society has opened several distinct participation pathways, each with its own deadline, and together they reveal how the meeting is being shaped. The most consequential for most attendees is the abstract submission process, which closes on 27 January 2027. Researchers at all career stages are invited to submit their latest findings for consideration as oral or poster presentations, and travel awards are available to ISSCR student and postdoctoral members who submit abstracts, a measure designed to reduce the financial barriers that can keep young scientists from attending international meetings. Given that platform talks selected from abstracts are among the most visible slots at the meeting, the January deadline effectively functions as the first competitive gate of ISSCR 2027, and the society is encouraging submissions across the full breadth of the field rather than restricting them to particular themes.

Early career investigators have additional routes into the meeting’s organization. Applications to become ISSCR 2027 Ambassadors close on 23 October 2026, an unusually early deadline that reflects the ambassador program’s role in outreach and community engagement in the months before the meeting convenes. Ambassadors represent and engage the global stem cell research community in the run-up to the event, extending the meeting’s reach to regions and networks that might otherwise be underrepresented. Student and postdoctoral members can also propose Science Spotlight sessions, with proposals due on 27 January 2027, the same day as the abstract deadline. This mechanism hands junior researchers genuine agenda-setting power, allowing them to highlight emerging research areas, innovative approaches, and new developments that the formal program committee might not otherwise feature. It is a notable inversion of the traditional conference hierarchy, in which program content flows almost entirely from senior committees and invited speakers.

The society has also built in practical support and informal networking structures that acknowledge the realities of attending a four-day international meeting. Eligible ISSCR members can apply for Child and Dependent Care Grants to help offset the costs of care associated with attending in person; applications are due by 10 March 2027, and awards are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, a detail that effectively rewards early planning. Researchers with shared scientific interests can organize Meet-Up Hubs, informal gatherings held in the Exhibit and Poster Hall, with a deadline of 19 April 2027 for proposals. Finally, the meeting will offer one-on-one partnering, a scheduling service that lets attendees arrange face-to-face meetings with researchers, industry representatives, and potential collaborators to explore scientific partnerships, investments, licensing opportunities, and new ventures. For translational labs and startup-minded investigators, this matchmaking layer is often cited as one of the meeting’s most valuable functions, since it converts a crowded congress into a structured series of targeted conversations.

The choice of San Francisco as host city reinforces the meeting’s translational ambitions. The Bay Area concentrates an exceptional density of academic stem cell research, biotechnology companies, cell therapy developers, and computational biology expertise, and the region has historically been a hub for both the scientific and commercial sides of regenerative medicine. Holding the twenty-fifth anniversary meeting at Moscone West places the global stem cell community at the intersection of those communities. As the announcement puts the matter, ISSCR 2027 will celebrate the legacy of twenty-five years of annual meetings while looking ahead to the discoveries, technologies, and collaborations that will define the future of the field and of human health. Registration and abstract submissions are now open through the meeting’s official site, and with abstracts due in late January 2027, researchers hoping to present their work at the Global Stem Cell Event face a timeline that begins now.

Subject of Research: Registration and abstract submissions for the ISSCR 2027 Annual Meeting on stem cell science and regenerative medicine

Article Title: ISSCR 2027 Annual Meeting opens registration and abstract submissions

Article References: ISSCR 2027 Annual Meeting opens registration and abstract submissions. (n.d.). Original publication

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Keywords: ISSCR, stem cell research, annual meeting, regenerative medicine, abstract submissions, San Francisco, cell therapy, organoids, artificial intelligence, disease modeling, cell manufacturing, early career researchers

Abstract collections occupy a distinctive place in biomedical publishing. Unlike a conventional review or original research article, an abstract supplement is a snapshot of work in progress: hundreds of concise summaries, each typically describing a single study, case series, quality-improvement project, or technological innovation. The format trades depth for breadth and immediacy. A reader can scan the entire landscape of a field in a single sitting, identifying which questions are attracting attention, which methods are gaining traction, and where the field’s energy is heading. For meeting attendees, the collection functions as a companion volume to the oral and poster sessions; for those who cannot attend, it offers a structured window into conversations they would otherwise miss entirely.

Neurocritical care itself is one of the youngest subspecialties in medicine, and its rapid maturation is part of what makes annual abstract collections from the society so closely watched. The field emerged from the recognition that patients with severe brain injury, whether caused by trauma, stroke, hemorrhage, seizures, or infection, require intensive management that addresses not only the primary insult but also the secondary injuries that unfold in the hours and days afterward. Elevated intracranial pressure, disrupted cerebral blood flow, metabolic derangements, and inflammation can each compound the original damage. Preventing those secondary insults is the central task of the neurocritical care unit, and it demands expertise that spans neurology, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, nursing, and pharmacy.

The scope of work typically presented at the society’s meetings reflects that interdisciplinary character. In past cycles, abstracts have ranged from clinical trials and large observational cohort analyses to bedside physiology studies, investigations of novel monitoring technologies, surveys of practice variation across institutions and countries, and analyses of outcomes and health equity. Quality-improvement and implementation science projects are well represented as well, since translating evidence into consistent bedside practice remains one of the field’s persistent challenges. The 2026 abstracts continue this tradition, gathering contributions from investigators at every career stage, including a substantial share from trainees whose first scientific presentations often begin as meeting abstracts.

For researchers, the publication of meeting abstracts in a peer-reviewed journal serves several practical functions. It establishes priority by timestamping an idea or finding in the permanent record. It allows the work to be cited while the full manuscript is being prepared, which matters enormously in fast-moving areas where a two-year lag between meeting presentation and journal publication can render a finding stale. It also provides early-career investigators with a citable entry on their records at a stage when authorship on a full paper may still be months or years away. Journals in the field, including Neurocritical Care, have long treated these supplements as an integral part of their annual publishing cycle rather than an afterthought.

Readers and clinicians, meanwhile, use abstract collections in a different way: as a forecasting tool. Patterns across hundreds of summaries can reveal where consensus is forming and where controversy persists. When multiple groups from different countries independently report on the same question in the same year, that convergence often signals that a shift in practice or in trial design is imminent. Conversely, persistent disagreement across abstracts can highlight areas where the evidence base remains thin and where large collaborative studies are needed. Meeting abstracts therefore function as an informal but valuable barometer of the field’s direction, one that complements the slower and more definitive signal of fully published trials.

The twenty-fourth annual meeting arrives at a moment of genuine ferment in brain injury medicine. Questions about how best to monitor the injured brain, how to individualize targets for blood pressure, oxygenation, and intracranial pressure, and how to integrate artificial intelligence and advanced analytics into bedside decision-making are all active areas of investigation across the neurocritical care community. Multicenter collaboration has become increasingly central to the field’s progress, because many of the conditions it treats, while devastating for individual patients, are individually rare enough that no single institution can recruit adequate numbers for definitive studies. Annual meetings and their published abstracts are where those collaborations are forged, refined, and announced.

It is worth emphasizing what an abstract collection is not. The summaries in a supplement have typically undergone review for relevance and scientific soundness, but they are not full peer-reviewed papers, and their findings should be regarded as preliminary until they survive the more demanding scrutiny of a complete manuscript. Sample sizes in abstracts are often small, analyses are sometimes interim, and conclusions are appropriately hedged. Responsible reporting and reading of these collections means treating each summary as a hypothesis-generating contribution to an ongoing conversation rather than as settled evidence. That caution applies with particular force to any abstract touching on treatment effects, where premature changes in practice based on preliminary data can do real harm.

Even with those caveats, the appearance of the 2026 abstracts in Neurocritical Care marks the formal opening of the scientific record for the society’s twenty-fourth annual meeting. Clinicians and scientists can now locate, cite, and build upon the work presented there, and the wider public can glimpse the questions that the specialists who care for patients with the most severe neurological injuries are asking next. The full articles that many of these abstracts will become are already in preparation in laboratories and clinical research units around the world, and over the coming months and years they will carry the field’s findings from the meeting hall to the bedside. For a subspecialty defined by the race against secondary brain injury, that pipeline from preliminary result to validated practice is not an administrative detail. It is the mechanism by which the discipline improves, one meeting, one abstract, and one published paper at a time.

Subject of Research: Publication of the Neurocritical Care Society's 24th Annual Meeting 2026 abstracts in the journal Neurocritical Care

Article Title: Neurocritical Care Society Abstracts from the 24th Annual Meeting 2026

Article References: Neurocritical Care Society Abstracts from the 24th Annual Meeting 2026. (2026). Neurocritical Care. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-026-02638-5 (Author names are not included in the publisher’s citation export.)

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DOI: 10.1007/s12028-026-02638-5

Keywords: neurocritical care, Neurocritical Care Society, annual meeting, conference abstracts, brain injury, Springer Nature, medical publishing, intensive care, clinical research, scientific meetings, Neurocritical, Care

The scientific scope of the meeting is deliberately encyclopedic. Organizers highlight upcoming coverage of climate variability across deep time and projected futures, the rapidly transforming Arctic, wildfire behavior and impacts, earthquake science, and the dynamics of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, among many other themes. For reporters, that breadth translates into a compressed news cycle in which a single day can yield findings on paleoclimate proxies, space weather, glacier dynamics and planetary geophysics. The meeting functions as a preview of the research that will shape policy debates, funding decisions and public understanding of the Earth system in the years ahead, and the press program is structured to help journalists identify and contextualize the most significant work before it appears in journals.

Eligibility for press registration extends beyond staff reporters at established outlets. Freelance and student journalists may apply, as may press officers and institutional writers who are covering the meeting for their organizations. Applications will remain open until the end of the conference on Friday, 11 December, but AGU has emphasized one critical logistical constraint: there will be no walk-in press registration on site in San Francisco. All eligible media must complete the registration process through the online portal before arriving at the convention center. Media access to the meeting is issued at the discretion of the AGU Media Relations Office, and reporters with questions about eligibility, registration categories or other conference matters are directed to contact the office directly by email.

Credentialing requirements apply universally, regardless of a reporter’s history with the meeting. All registrants must provide professional credentials even if they have attended previous AGU annual meetings, and media access is strictly non-transferable. Registered press receive, at no charge, access to all scientific sessions, an on-site press room and press events. The organization notes some important limits, however: certain activities, including invitation-only events and communications workshops, are excluded from press access. Reporters planning their coverage budgets should also note that hotel bookings at conference rates can be made during press registration or afterward through the booking page, with reservations closing on 19 November, although AGU cautions that room blocks may fill before that deadline. A practical warning accompanies the housing information: reporters who intend to register as press should not book housing through general registration, because doing so will block them from entering the press registration flow.

The physical infrastructure supporting reporters is substantial. Registered press attendees will have access to a dedicated press room equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi, working and discussion space, power outlets, refreshments, and smaller quiet rooms suitable for conducting interviews away from the bustle of the exhibit hall. The press room will operate from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Monday through Thursday of the meeting week, with abbreviated hours on Friday, 11 December, from 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The meeting itself is centered at the Moscone Convention Center at 747 Howard Street, with some events and sessions also taking place at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis on Mission Street and the InterContinental San Francisco on Howard Street, both within walking distance of the main venue.

The media program itself will follow a hybrid model designed to serve both attending and remote reporters. A press event schedule will be published in November, and press conferences will be hybrid, recorded events that are livestreamed and support participation by journalists who cannot travel to San Francisco. AGU media relations will host two distinct formats. The first is the traditional press conference, built around breaking research findings and timed to the release of new results. The second is a newer, in-person-only roundtable format, designed as an informal, ask-me-anything conversation about ongoing research projects, missions and programs. Roundtables give reporters the chance to probe the uncertainties, false starts and long-term trajectories of major scientific endeavors in a setting that is less scripted than a formal briefing, a format that has proven valuable for enterprise and investigative reporting.

Virtual access extends well beyond press events. Recordings of plenaries, named lectures, Union sessions, oral sessions, GeoBurst sessions and town halls will be posted on demand on the conference platform within 72 hours of the live sessions, allowing reporters who miss a talk in real time to catch up quickly. Poster presenters will have the option of uploading their posters to an online gallery, and online presenters can self-schedule video discussions with conference attendees, creating opportunities for remote interviews that would once have required travel. One limitation deserves emphasis for planning purposes: no part of the 2026 scientific program will be livestreamed. Reporters relying on remote coverage will therefore depend on the recorded sessions, the online poster gallery and the hybrid press conferences rather than real-time access to the scientific talks themselves. The full conference program will be available online in early October, giving media teams several weeks to build coverage plans before the December meeting.

The annual meeting is the flagship convening of an organization whose reach extends far beyond one week in December. AGU describes itself as a global community supporting more than half a million professionals and advocates in the Earth and space sciences. Its activities include serving as a scholarly publisher, convening virtual and in-person events, and providing career support for scientists at every stage. The organization frames its mission around advancing discovery and solution science that accelerates knowledge and produces solutions it characterizes as ethical, unbiased and respectful of communities and their values. That mission is reflected in institutional commitments, including a net zero energy renovated building in Washington, D.C., and an Ethics and Equity Center designed to foster a diverse and inclusive geoscience community and ensure responsible conduct across the field.

For science journalists, the practical takeaway is that preparation for AGU26 should begin well before December. Registration through the press portal is the essential first step, followed by a review of the eligibility and credentialing requirements published in the conference Press Center. Once the scientific program appears in early October, reporters can begin identifying sessions, named lectures and Union sessions most relevant to their beats, and once the press event schedule arrives in November, they can map out which press conferences and roundtables to attend in person or join remotely. Housing should be booked promptly given the 19 November closing date and the possibility that room blocks will fill earlier. With more than 24,000 researchers converging on San Francisco to present work ranging from ocean-floor processes to planetary exploration, the meeting promises a dense concentration of publishable science, and the press infrastructure, from the quiet interview rooms to the on-demand session recordings, is built to help reporters capture it.

Subject of Research: Press registration and media arrangements for the AGU 2026 annual meeting in Earth and space science

Article Title: Press registration open for 2026 AGU annual meeting

Article References: Press registration open for 2026 AGU annual meeting. (n.d.). Original publication

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Keywords: AGU, annual meeting, press registration, Earth science, space science, San Francisco, science journalism, climate, wildfires, earthquakes, El Niño, Arctic change