In the midst of the action, yet at a scholarly distance: The latest issue of Horizons reveals how personal involvement can shape the scientific process, and the role objectivity plays in it. 👉

In 1888, Bertha Benz bought 3 litres of gasoline, starting the history of the filling station. Today, mobility finds itself at another turning point. We hear what researchers from @EMPA_ch, @ZHAW and @bfh_hesb can tell us about the future of fuels.👇

🕷️🕸️ Spiders aren’t too fond of competition. Tom Ratz of the University of Zurich has been investigating what happens when well-fed and hungry black widows meet up.👇

Rita Sarkis, a Lebanese researcher in AI for tumour diagnosis, points to the obstacles facing non-European scientists in Switzerland: “Restrictions in Switzerland make it difficult to integrate technological advances into hospital environments”.👇

😱🧐.What, you’re researching a topic that affects you personally?.In fact, this can work out well, finds @tschudi77, joint Editor-in-Chief of Horizons. But you must utilise one of the core competencies of science: #transparent self-reflection.👇

#urbex explores itself. The aerial view of a vortex-like ruin submitted to the 2025 SNSF Scientific Images competition by the geographer Aude Le Gallou offers a glimpse of research conducted literally off the beaten track.👇 .

I’ve experienced this myself and now it’s the topic of my research!.🧐🧐🧐.How can this be done objectively?.🤔🤔🤔.For our photo series, Angelika Annen has captured the resultant balancing act between #selfreflection and bewilderment.👇 .

⛵🔬 Margot Camus-Romelli has set up a 14-month #lowtech scientific expedition on a sailing boat in the Atlantic and dreams of becoming an ICRC member. She is 22, an EPFL student, and involved in life sciences, freediving, sailing, writing and management.

How methods and #objectivity arrived in #science, from the early alchemists to the randomised, controlled, blind study. 👇.@UZH_en .

“I consider this onslaught against science terrible and illegal, but I also understand where it is coming from”, says Claudia Brühwiler, a professor of political theory at the University of St. Gallen. Read the full interview 👇 .

🧐🧠🧐🧠🧐🧠.Don’t #science and #scholarship have to be #objective?.Jan Sprenger, a philosopher of science, explains why this is a highly complicated topic, and why subjectivity also has its place.👇.@RuitenZeven.@tschudi77 .

In the 15th century, glass beads were used as currency by European traders in West Africa. A systematic characterisation sheds light on this part of history.👇 .

#Feminists who research into gender. Foreigners who investigate #racism. Being personally involved doesn’t necessarily make you prejudiced. We look at how researchers deal with autoethnography. 👇.

✂️⛰️📜✂️⛰️📜.Who’s suited to working in the #police? And who’s best able to predict the behaviour of others? In the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, the #game rock, paper, scissors is helping researchers to find answers. @Unispital_USZ .

She has a #blood disease and is investigating how to treat it; he was a gang member and is today examining the dynamics of #gangs. Five insiders and people affected by their own research here talk about how to deal with distance and proximity.👇.

In late 2025, the main science programme of Radio SRF 2 will be cancelled, says the SRG. Otfried Jarren, a professor of communication science at @uzh_ikmz, says this is a bad idea. 👇.#srfwissen @ScientoSkop .

“Truth and trust are fundamental to scientific practice”, says Yves Flückiger, president of @academies_ch. He adds that scientists need to learn how to simplify complex ideas.👇 .

Horticulture was established in Oceania 2,800 years ago, according to the findings of a team from @EawagResearch und @ETH 👇 .

What happens to your academic self when your access to statistics programs and scholarly literature ceases after #retirement? Annette Tettenborn @tetti1968 is researching into this transitional period in the career of academics.👇

#Recycling isn’t always a good idea, according to a study of #pvcflooring by @Empa_CH and @eth_en 👇. @ZhanyunWang .