Separating the facts from fiction – It is time to silence the myths and shine a light on the truth about data sharing. In this piece, we cover all angles on the forms and types that data exists as; show you that help is available and who you can turn to for information and guidance; and how data sharing actually establishes and confirms ownership of your data via authorship.
Code Ocean compute capsules are the perfect match for Software Tool Articles on F1000Research. Embedded within the article itself, these widgets use cloud-based Docker technology to allow readers to run (and re-run) your code, right there in the body of the article. We spoke to Simon Adar, CEO of Code Ocean, about all things software, code, and reproducibility.
Dr Kiyuka uses virtual reality technology to engage and immerse secondary school students in science. In this blog, she discusses how a virtual tour of a laboratory, showing the researchers at work in different departments, could help students learn about science and increase their understanding of research. She hopes this will inspire young scholars to consider science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers.
As serious as the COVID-19 pandemic is, it could be an opportunity for science, says Benedikt Fecher.
Dr Sophie Uyoga, an IDeAL fellow, is working on the first comprehensive study on donor blood in Africa. Sophie explains why this is important and how it can improve how this limited resource is managed and shape better policies for blood transfusion in future.
Lisa Corrigan, an HRB funded SPHeRE PhD scholar in Trinity College Dublin, is completing research into the effectiveness of pregnancy yoga for maternal health and birth outcomes. Using her own experience as a mother and as a practising yogi, she and a team of researchers from University of Dublin, Ireland, sought to guide the development of pregnancy yoga programmes to optimise and ensure the safety of mother and baby.
In her latest blog recently published on Elephant in the Lab, Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director of F1000 Research Ltd, discusses how we need to learn from, and harness, the new approaches employed during the COVID-19 pandemic to shape the ‘new normal’ of scholarly communication.
The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) is implementing the African Science Technology and Innovation Priority Setting programme. In this blog, Dr Moses Alobo and Colette Adhiambo, detail the process for setting R&D priorities for maternal, neonatal and child health and why these are important for Africa.
Abstracts of scientific articles offer a lot of valuable information, but many articles are not openly available. In this blog, Aaron Tay, Bianca Kramer and Ludo Waltman discuss why openly available abstracts are important and give an overview of the current state of affairs.
In this blog, Emily MacLean, McGill University, discusses the TB landscape and the barriers to the adoption of diagnostic tests for TB. She talks about her and fellow researchers’ recent study, finding a gap between country-level policy and real-world use of the Alere-LAM lateral flow urine test, shining a spotlight on the critical need for cheap and reliable diagnostic tests for population health.
