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Reclaiming scientific publishing: Our duty to make science freely accessible to all

and June 2, 2026
Reclaiming scientific publishing: Our duty to make science freely accessible to all
Photo by Eldem Ozdemir. Source: Unsplash

When we (Camille Thomas and Romain Vaucher speaking) entered academia as graduate students in France and Switzerland, we were enthusiastic about the vast amount of research available with a simple click on our university computers. However, we also quickly felt disheartened by the significant amount of research work we couldn’t access when wrapping up our theses from home. Luckily, pirates existed ...[Read More]

Regarding Flowing Waters – The Science and Art of Hydrology

May 22, 2026
Regarding Flowing Waters – The Science and Art of Hydrology
La Sionne, Valais, Switzerland

About a decade ago, I formally retired from Lancaster University (albeit retaining an emeritus position and still producing the occasional paper).   In that time, I have been able to pursue my interests in the history of hydrology but also devote more time to my other passion which is landscape photography, especially images of water. As a hydrologist, I do understand that to spend my spare time p ...[Read More]

Improve your chances in hiring processes and proposal evaluations: curate your ORCID

March 19, 2026
Improve your chances in hiring processes and proposal evaluations: curate your ORCID

Today – while preparing my latest Sience – CV (SciCV) version for a proposal submission – I noticed that I will soon celebrate my 20th net-academic-age birthday* (see below). No worries, my editorial is not about looking back on my career, but about offering some hints on how to keep up with evolving research evaluation practices. One of the things that is evolving quickly (for academi ...[Read More]

How to include AI methods in your next proposal

and June 19, 2025
How to include AI methods in your next proposal

For all those of us who write research funding proposals, the massive avenue of powerful AI methods poses a serious challenge: how can we appropriately include such methods in our next research project? Is it mandatory, or can we happily focus on our field, lab or numerical methods that we used to always work with? For proposal evaluators, on the other hand, there is this feeling that many proposa ...[Read More]