Welcome to the December edition of the HSJ Digest, our bi-monthly synopsis of the latest news from Hydrological Sciences Journal. As 2024 draws to a close, we celebrate six consecutive months of record numbers of accepted articles, boosted in no small part by our current Special Issues (detailed later in this edition). Find links to Issues 13 and 14 of HSJ, including four Open Access papers, the Editors’ choice of Featured Articles and a further article of particular topical interest. And in our regular profile of HSJ people, meet Dr Stacey Archfield, one of the journal’s five Co-editors.