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It’s competition time!

You might have noticed that we have a shiny new F1000 homepage. We’re hoping that this new look will make it more clear what we do to the casual browser, without losing the functionality you’ve all come to know, love and expect.

All our Faculties are right there on the homepage so you can go directly to your specialty. The rolling list of evaluations is still available–just select “Evaluated Articles” on the top left. From that menu bar, which persists across all areas of the site, you can also get to our Rankings to find out what’s popular, Reports (our short state-of-the-art reviews), Posters, Faculty and of course, here.

We’re constantly working on improving the site, and the next major change you might notice will be to the actual evaluation pages. We’re aiming, as ever, to make them clearer and easier to use.

There are two further things I’d like to mention. First, you’ll notice a ‘QUOTED’ section on the right hand side. Myself and a team of crack quote-spotters will be trawling the site to bring you interesting and provocative comments from all over the site, whether it be from F1000 Members in evaluations and dissents, scientists and authors in Posters, Reports or comments, or blog commenters.

Finally, we’ve created twitter lists of Faculty Members and Associates that feed into our ‘Tweet-Life‘ list. The latest two tweets from that list appear on our front page under ‘Faculty Tweets’. We’ve had to pad it out a bit because, despite having over 10,000 F1000 Members, it’s been a little bit challenging to find them on twitter.

So to the competition: I have three copies of Sydney Brenner’s “My Life in Science” to give away. Here’s how to get in with a chance of getting your paws on one: follow @F1000 on twitter and between now and next Wednesday (15 June) send a tweet saying “I’m an F1000 Member! #f1000”. I’ll choose three lucky tweeps at random.

Good luck!