Have you ever wished your workplace would be a more social place? A place where, sure, you have to work hard, but you can also have a chat or a laugh with people you like being around? Below are several ideas to help you transform your lab into a nicer place to spend your time.…
Nihal Okan is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. As F1000 Specialist he has helped organize meet-ups, invited the F1000 Outreach team to his institute, 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…
I recently attended the EU Presidency Conference on Open Science in Amsterdam. Refreshingly (and speedily), on the day after the conference, a draft Call for Action was issued. The challenge is for the various working groups being convened by the EC to turn the Call into action.
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.
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….
Original research articles with one author – particularly in the life sciences – are increasingly rare, and the concept of ‘authorship’ in science has become outdated. Adopting a simple taxonomy of terms to describe the contributions to a published work could enable a range of benefits to all the stakeholders in research – most particularly…
We’re pleased to announce that Bev Acreman has been appointed Commercial Director of F1000. Bev, who will take up the post at the beginning of April, was formerly Vice President of Marketing & Sales, Open Research, at Springer Nature – a global research, educational and professional publisher. At Springer Nature, part of Bev’s role included…
It’s award season again! And that means it’s time to announce the F1000 Specialist of the Year 2015. Last year was extremely busy for many of our F1000 Specialists, which made the decision even harder than in 2014. After a long round of deliberations, we’re pleased to highlight the achievements of five F1000 Specialists, one…
