Academics at eaze

First day at school in Grade 1 many years ago… Little blond girl that has just moved to a new house and changed schools, arrives in the new school ready to take over the world. She looks back at her mum and walks forward between all the other kids. Some other little girls approach her and one of them – the most beautiful blue eyes in the world – tells her “hey girl, you have the wrong school bag; in this school, we don’t carry this type of school bags” having her little hands around her little waist… Words matter. Words have power. Over the years, people have forgotten that words matter in all areas and aspects of our life, in academia even more. Whether it is getting into a class or a boardroom, being part of a debate and leaving the room, the discussion would “stay” there; if you were not there, you missed it. Academia and the scientific community were not like that in the previous centuries – letters and manuscripts were exchanged between scientists even if it took months to get a