Gary McDowell is August’s “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. He is the Executive Director of the Future of Research nonprofit and a resident at the Manylabs open science skunkworks in San Francisco, where he works to support junior scientists advocating for changes to the scientific system.
Vinodh Ilangovan is July’s “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. He currently works as a Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Genes and Behavior at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany. In addition to being an F1000 Specialist, he also acts as an Open Access Ambassador at the Max Planck Society.
Maria-Paz Ramos is June’s “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Einstein in NYC, working on stem cells and epigenetic transcriptional regulation. After living in the US for 8 years, she went back to Chile in order to contribute to the science progression in her country.
In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion in the biology research community about the potential of preprints as a tool to accelerate the dissemination of scientific results and ideas. Preprints in biology While preprints are well-established in other fields of science (particularly physics, mathematics and computer science through arXiv), they are still a…
Dr. Sylvia Samaniego is a Senior Scientist at LakePharma. As F1000 Specialist she has helped organize meet-ups and assisted F1000 at conferences, among many other things. Here we asked Sylvia about her experience. F1000 Specialists are PhD students, postdocs, clinicians and researchers who help their colleagues use F1000Prime, F1000Workspace and F1000Research, and spread the word…
Jerome Korzelius is a researcher at the DKFZ in Germany. As F1000 Specialist he has presented talks, helped organize meet-ups, wrote blog posts, and much more. Here he tells about his experience. If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign up here.
Earlier this month, the F1000 team (Cesar Berrios-Otero, Outreach Director, Melanie Goldate, Business Development Manager, and myself) headed to Los Angeles, CA for the 60th Annual Biophysical Society meeting. The event is the world’s largest meeting in the biophysics field, with an attendance of over 7000 international scientists. We were very excited to show the…
Jorge Galindo-Villegas is a postdoc and the F1000 Specialist at the University of Murcia in Murcia, Spain. In the interview below, he tells about what aspects of being an F1000 Specialist he finds most rewarding. If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign up…
This is a guest post by Dr Mehwaesh Islam, Policy Officer at the Academy of Medical Sciences, London, UK.
Note: the author has done extensive research and tested all methods below in the process of writing this blog. Therefore this blog actually made it out in February as opposed to some time later this year…
We are now well into the New Year. You may have started out with many good resolutions; maybe you have joined the gym, given up smoking, started running or cycling to the lab. You have probably told yourself that this year, you will give up procrastinating, and you will finish that paper/grant proposal/your thesis….
