Throughout its history, the Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis (BMOS) has accompanied the transformation of organic chemistry in Brazil and worldwide. The 20th edition of the meeting, marking the 44th anniversary of the first gathering of organic chemists in Brazil, could offer us an opportunity to revisit the history of what is the largest meeting devoted to Organic Synthesis in Brazil. However, this has been very well documented recently! In addition, we, the editors, who received our academic training between the 2000s and the early 2010s, would be limiting ourselves to telling a story in the third person.

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When Professor Brenno A. D. Neto, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society (JBCS), invited me to write about what this journal has meant to women in our field, I said yes before I had fully worked out what I wanted to say. The invitation came just after my defense for full professorship at the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), on a committee of which he himself was a member. Twenty years into a life spent among molecules, models, and manuscripts, I am, if I am honest, far more practiced at describing a model or a binding pocket than at describing myself. But the invitation stayed with me, because the JBCS has, in fact, walked with me through my career at almost every stage of it, as a venue where a young researcher from Goiás State, far from the traditional São Paulo-Rio axis of Brazilian chemistry, could publish, be read, and be taken seriously on exactly the same terms as anyone else. That is not a small thing. For many of us, it has been the difference between a career and a false start.

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It is not our aim, in this editorial, to offer a final definition of research ethics or ethics in scientific publishing, especially at a time when we are increasingly connected and are still learning to deal with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI). It would be unreasonable to assume that readers are unfamiliar with the stages of research or with the ethical principles that should guide scientific work. Researchers can usually explain what they study, which methods they use, and how their collaborations are organized. They also know, at least in general terms, which rules must be followed. Yet knowing these elements does not remove the questions that arise during research or, by itself, ensure that every decision will be right.

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