Scatter plots, statin dosage, and how to win a Nobel Prize

The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere. Eyes on the Prize: what to do to nail that Nobel you always wanted https://t.co/IYq8pYqaRR — F1000 (@F1000) June 16, 2015 Statins, not sorcery: greater education of physicians needed to ensure high-risk patients receive high-dose statins.…

Queen's birthday honours 2015

We are happy to be able to congratulate two F1000 Faculty Members on receiving Queen’s birthday honours. Professor Helen Cross, Faculty Member within the Neurological Disorders Faculty, receives an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to children with epilepsy. Professor Cross is Prince of Wales Chair of Childhood Epilepsy…

F1000 Specialists update

Did you know that we have a network of PhD students, postdocs, and others who help us reach out to their colleagues about F1000? The F1000 Specialists programme has been running since 2013, but we’re about to introduce a few changes. Starting next week, F1000 Specialists will receive a monthly newsletter with news about F1000,…

F1000Prime Reports is migrating!

Since January 2009, F1000 Faculty Members have expanded on the literature coverage of F1000Prime by writing concise, peer-reviewed reviews on emerging concepts and recent advances in biology and medicine. These articles were published in the open-access journal F1000Prime Reports until now. However, in order to enable these articles to benefit from the unique open-access, open…

EMBO announces 2015 new members

EMBO today announced its new members for 2015. EMBO is an organization that aims to promote excellence in the life sciences, with over 1700 leading researchers. Among the 58 researchers honoured as members today, we are pleased to say that eight of these are F1000 Faculty. Please join us in congratulating these Faculty Members and…