I was nosing around Google Analytics yesterday, seeing if our Faculty Daily section is attracting any interest to the F1000 main site. [Update: that’s the F1000 Biology site. Medicine is different, but not interestingly so.] And I saw a very strange thing. First, look at the browsers hitting https://f1000biology.com. Firefox has 3% more share than…

I was nosing around Google Analytics yesterday, seeing if our Faculty Daily section is attracting any interest to the F1000 main site. [Update: that’s the F1000 Biology site. Medicine is different, but not interestingly so.] And I saw a very strange thing. First, look at the browsers hitting https://f1000biology.com. Firefox has 3% more share than…

Busman’s Holiday Faculty of 1000 published 1472 evaluations last month. This is a world record! And it should help you predict when we’re going to hit 90,000. Remember, we’re running a competition: simply twitter the date and time you think we’ll make 90,000 evaluations with the hashtag #F90K for a chance to win some F1000…

Busman’s Holiday Faculty of 1000 published 1472 evaluations last month. This is a world record! And it should help you predict when we’re going to hit 90,000. Remember, we’re running a competition: simply twitter the date and time you think we’ll make 90,000 evaluations with the hashtag #F90K for a chance to win some F1000…

Apparently, the two self-proclaimed ‘top’ scientific journals, Nature and Science, have ended their hundreds of years-old feud and teamed up to launch a new journal, to be called either Scientific Nature or Natural Science, depending on the result of a text-message vote by the scientific community. Sounds good? Well, not really. We’re a bit upset…

Apparently, the two self-proclaimed ‘top’ scientific journals, Nature and Science, have ended their hundreds of years-old feud and teamed up to launch a new journal, to be called either Scientific Nature or Natural Science, depending on the result of a text-message vote by the scientific community. Sounds good? Well, not really. We’re a bit upset…

Three’s a crowd Who would have thought that plants could teach us about deafness? Or single-celled yeast about blood vessel development? Orthologous genes in different species can have totally different effects, and a statistical data-mining technique has thrown up not a few surprising models for human disease. The paper is free at PNAS and reviewed…

Three’s a crowd Who would have thought that plants could teach us about deafness? Or single-celled yeast about blood vessel development? Orthologous genes in different species can have totally different effects, and a statistical data-mining technique has thrown up not a few surprising models for human disease. The paper is free at PNAS and reviewed…

Whenever Richard Lipton releases a new migraine study I always receive it with interest. Partly because his work is pretty cutting edge and and he leads an excellent team, but partly because migraine science can sometimes sound like an encounter of the third kind in a science fiction novel. Migraines are typically defined as one…

Last week we talked a little bit about science as art; or at least, I claimed that the certain scientific imagery could be classed as art, and it is in any event very pretty. A commenter reminded me of the DNA 11 (‘From life comes art’) website, which is actually set up to commercialize scientific…