The Royal Colleges were furious, they said the didn’t need any help on bioethics from anybody, and the research councils were not too happy either. Following on from the announcement of the Lasker award winners, a video from Web of Stories featuring Sir David Weatherall. In this clip he talks about setting up, for the…
In this guest post, Stephen Curry calls for scientists in the UK to support the Science is Vital campaign. Thanks to the world-wide economic reverberations of the credit crunch, Britain’s deficit stands at around £160 billion, meaning that to run UK plc for the coming year the government will have to spend £160bn more than it…
Call for new ORI head The Department of Health and Human Services has posted the opening for the director of the Office of Research Integrity on usajobs.gov, more than a year after the departure of former director Chris Pascal. The job announcement was circulated within HHS on 23rd Sept., according to the monthly newsletter, Report…
In the second of three short clips featuring Elizabeth Blackburn, recorded at the recent EMBO 2010 meeting in Barcelona, Edyta Zielinska asks what is the link between telomere length and cardiovascular disease. Again, we had trouble with the pianist (not a problem normally associated with scientific research), so a synopsis of what Dr Blackburn said…
I think he sits at that strange table of Eddington’s, that is not a table at all, but nodes and molecules pushing against molecules and nodes; —from At It, R. S. Thomas It’s poetry time. A few weeks ago Boing Boing started an open thread for phylogenetic haiku, with the stated aimed that “if you…
Martin Fenner at PLoS Blogs wrote an open letter in response to Christian Specht’s analysis of “mutations” in citations of the famous paper describing SDS-PAGE by Uli Laemmli. Specht has now responded at The Scientist, with a thought-provoking conclusion: However, the fact that citation variants can be inherited may be an indication for a much…
Our intrepid reporters Kathleen and Edyta also managed to track down one of our Faculty Members at the EMBO Meeting in Barcelona. Fred Wittinghofer is head of the Department of Structural Biology at the Max Planck Institute in Dortmund. For 25 years he has worked on GTP-binding proteins. Here he talks about ciliary transport and…
The big news this week is the preview launch of the new F1000 website. As you may know, Faculty of 1000 has existed as two separate services since F1000 Medicine was launched about five years ago, but now we’re bringing them back together and adding some new functionality. (By the way, this was the project…
Elizabeth Blackburn, FRS, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009, and F1000 International Advisory Board Member, gave a Keynote Lecture at the recent EMBO 2010 meeting in Barcelona. Edyta Zielinska and Kathleen Wets were lucky enough to catch her briefly between engagements to hear about her current research. This is the first of three videos…
Post-publication review: The monologue Don’t expect a reply from the authors of that study you just publicly criticized by leaving a comment on the journal web page where it was published. A study conducted by BMJ found that of more than 100 studies published on the journal’s website that attracted substantive criticism, fewer than half…
