The Faculty of 1000 team had a great time attending the 2013 Charleston Conference. It was a pleasure to participate and meet lots of old and new faces at our vendor booth and cocktail hour. Iain H, our Outreach Director from London, flew over the pond to give two presentations. First, Iain talked about how…
Last Thursday 28th November, Eva Amsen (Outreach Director, F1000Research) and I visited the beautiful city of Heidelberg, Germany to connect with researchers, F1000 Specialists and Faculty in the local area. We first headed to DKFZ to support F1000 Specialist and post-doctoral drosophilist Jerome Korzelius with his talk on F1000Prime and how it helps him keep…
The first F1000 community meet-up in New York City was a success – F1000’s Cindy Chen has summed it up perfectly below with a Storify of how the night progressed. We can’t wait to do it again next year! Get in touch if you’d like to arrange a meet-up in your part of the world.
Here are this week’s most popular tweets from the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from Twitter…
We’ve introduced a new feature to F1000Trials – the ability to browse by clinical trial name using the trial registry number. To reduce bias and promote transparency in research, most medical journals require clinical trials to be registered in a trial registry, such as ClinicalTrials.Gov. Registered trials are given a trial name and a unique…
The latest update to F1000Prime makes the beta version of a major new feature, F1000Journal Clubs, available to all subscribers. This is the beginning of a significant expansion to the features of F1000Prime, which aims to make science communication more efficient and integrated with the workflow of life science researchers and clinicians. F1000Journal Clubs is…
A roundup of the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as some of the other interesting picks from the Twittersphere…
Jerome Korzelius, an F1000 Specialist, guest posts on his experience at EDRC 2013. To paraphrase EDRC co-organizer Jordi Casanova, it felt almost rebellious, all these scientists coming together to talk about fundamental research on the model organism Drosophila (aka the fruit fly) in times of scant funding and increased pressure on scientists to do more…
We’re pleased to be able to offer congrats to two of our Faculty Members that have been selected to join the network of EMBO Young Investigators. Well done to Kim Jensen – Faculty Member in Developmental Biology Sascha Martens – Faculty Member in Cell Biology The Young Investigators programme is for researchers under 40 years…
Here we have two more video interviews with the researchers and clinicians that make up the F1000Prime Faculty. This time we hear from Professor Ray Rodgers on ovarian physiology and Professor Pamela Flood on labour anaesthesia.