A guest post from Yajing Xu, a Neuroscience PhD student at UCL, funded by the Wellcome Trust Programme. Her research interests focus on the role of microglia in the postnatal development of the dorsal horn pain circuitries. She is keen to learn more about open science and how to improve the way we are doing science.
Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with what’s been happening in the world of open science! You’ve heard of the Protein Data Bank, but have you heard of Crystalium? This new open-source database, created by Nanoengineers at the University…
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.
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, we are delighted to announce that the 2nd Peer Review Week will be held from 19th to 25th September 2016. Peer Review Week is a global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality. The event brings together individuals, institutions, and organizations…
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…
The weather has decided to get warm just in time for June, and the F1000 crew is ready to enjoy some sunshine. We will be visiting Philadelphia in the Keystone State for the Special Libraries Association (SLA) meeting, as well as Boston in the Bay State, for the American Society for Microbiology conference – ASM Microbe. Then on to the Sunshine State, and more precisely Orlando, for the American Library Association’s (ALA) Annual Meeting.
I am delighted to have been selected to serve on the High-Level Advisory Group ‘Open Science Policy Platform’ (OSPP) at this important juncture in the EU’s vision on bringing open science to the way research across the EU is conducted and communicated. At the Dutch Presidency’s Open Science conference in Amsterdam in April, European Commissioner Carlos…
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…
