We encourage our membership to join us at the IUCr Congress in Melbourne in August 2023. This event is not-for-profit and any proceeds go directly back into supporting crystallography and structural science. We have been alerted to the fact that there is another crystallography meeting being advertised in April 2023 and held in the UAE.

The IUCr condemns the recent action of Iranian authorities that has led to violence on university campuses. We are also dismayed by the disciplinary actions taken by Iranian leaders against women, students and scientists for participating in protests or simply expressing their opinion in a peaceful way.

The Third Pan African Conference on Crystallography, currently taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, is providing a platform for crystallographers to call on African governments to provide proper infrastructure to support research into problems facing the continent, thereby stimulating economic growth.