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Academic publishing can be useful in helping to shape your career trajectory, especially in the early stages of research. This presentation offers a practical and strategic overview of how publishing can enhance visibility, credibility, and your professional opportunities. It will explore how to successfully promote your work through social media, academic networks, and institutional platforms as well as how to ensure it reaches the right audiences and has meaningful impact. The session will also highlight the benefits of joining editorial boards, and how to make the most of the opportunities that journal editorial boards provide, such as networking and increasing your personal recognition in the field. Publishing can also impact your career negatively, so we will cover research integrity issues that the field is facing at the moment, what to avoid, what to look for and how you can look out for issues in things you are reading and citing. The publishing landscape is also changing quite rapidly. With large language models and AI on the rise, we will discuss how best to use this to enhance your work, but also what to avoid to ensure your work is adhering to journals ethical policies. Whether you're preparing your first manuscript or planning your longer term publishing strategy for your first big grant, this session will give you an overview of all the things you can keep in mind whilst trying to publish effectively.