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Academia has often been reactive and discreet about animal research. Not so anymore: they are now pledging to communicate proactively and openly. I wrote about this for Universitas, the magazine of the University of Fribourg.

How to best communicate uncertainty? I gave a few possible answers in a short chapter published in an open-access book summarizing 50 tips on science communication.

Horizons published my portrait of Edy Portmann, a computer scientist who promotes fuzzy logic in his work at the University of Fribourg. He is a clever, endearing self-doubter with a penchant for philosophy.

I have written 10 pieces exploring the science of time from physics to biology, linguistics and psychology. The series has been published in the watchmaking industry magazine Europastar.

New children's hospitals will open in Zurich, Lausanne, Saint-Gall, Chur, Lucerne and Geneva in the next few years. They follow a new paradigm: making children feel comfortable and integrating their families as therapy partners. I have looked at projects in Lausanne and Geneva for the Bulletin des médecins suisses

Medical influencers active on Tiktok, Instagram or Youtube, explain diseases, talk about treatments, and report on the daily life as a doctor or a nurse. Most deliver serious content, others are less thorough. I have written about these “medfluencers” for the Bulletin des médecins suisses.

How do scientists perform PeerReview, this essential cog in the workings of science? Here are the insights of three researchers that I have gathered for Horizons, the magazine of the SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

Precision medicine is well established and is going more and more beyond oncology, especially in pharmacology. I report on a few current research projects in Switzerland for the Bulletin des médecins suisses, published by the FMH.

My article on psychedelic therapies published by the Bulletin des Médecins suisses was reprinted in “Ausgesucht”, the magazine of Basel’s health department

Cryptofinance could disrupt traditional markets by removing intermediaries. But is it really decentralized, anonymous and efficient? Not always, explains the report on decentralized finance that I wrote for Center for Digital Trust at EPFL.

Two large national research programmes are investigating biomedical and social aspects of Covid-19. I wrote a double interview for the Bulletin des Médecins suisses.

Switzerland has a largely fragmented system to detect scientific misconduct, make investigations and impose sanctions. This is what I found out writing an article for Horizons, the magazine of the SNSF and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.