With regret, we note the death of Ali Akoum, Faculty Member in Women’s Health since 2007 and Professor in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at Laval University, Quebec. Dr Akoum passed away suddenly whilst on vacation with his family in Lebanon. His colleagues and peers left heartfelt tributes for him on his obituary on the…
The most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from Twitter.
We are very sad to note the passing of Professor Maurice Sabelis, Ecology Faculty Member from 2004. Dr Sabelis was a professor at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He passed away on 7th January this year, after a two-year illness. IBED reports that he was “scientifically…
Toby Maher has been an F1000 Faculty Member in the Respiratory Diseases Faculty since 2011. Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited him at the Royal Brompton hospital in London, where Maher is a clinician-scientist. During Kathleen’s visit, she bumped into Prince Charles, who just happened to be making an official visit as the same time!…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
This week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from Twitter.
Our Faculty write really engaging and interesting articles – here are the best lines from 2014.
This is a cross-post from F1000Research, written by Eva Amsen. For the past few weeks, the F1000 Outreach Directors have looked at lists of all of your past activities to figure out who deserved to be crowned this year’s F1000 Specialist of the Year. The decision was much harder than last year because so many…
Last week, F1000Research’s managing director, Rebecca Lawrence, attended a meeting with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics to discuss the culture of science research and the drivers behind it. Rebecca represented science publishers, alongside Dame Nancy Rothwell (President and Vice-Chancellor, Uni of Manchester) who represented UK research institutions, and Steven Hill (Head of Research Policy, Higher…
Chilly mice: does it matter that rodents used as preclinical models for translational research are cold? https://t.co/Qk497pulvr — F1000 (@F1000) December 5, 2014 Save the museums! For taxonomy's sake, we need to preserve the relics of species in our "cathedrals of biodiversity" https://t.co/fL77lcQkHc — F1000 (@F1000) December 9, 2014 Always have a plan B: a…
