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Here are our most popular tweets, as well as some other interesting picks, from the past week on the @F1000 Twitter feed

The Royal Society is the national academy of science for the UK and one of the oldest learned societies operating today. Each year the Royal Society elects new Fellows, Foreign Members, Honorary Fellows and Royal Fellows through a peer-review process from a pool of candidates suggested by the existing Fellowship. This year’s election results were…

Congratulations to Julian Davies, Head of Faculty in Microbiology and based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on receiving the 2013 American Society of Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award! The award is bestowed upon those who make “sustained contributions to the microbiological sciences”, and it is not necessarily an annual honor. As part of…

It’s the @F1000 Twitter weekly round up, including other interesting stories from the Twitterweb.

Diabetes & Endocrinology Faculty Member Peter Ebeling on his research into osteoporosis and vitamin D.

Diabetes & Endocrinology Head of Faculty Willis Samson and Physiology Faculty Member Gina Yosten on their research into hormones and receptors.

Last week the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) launched, with Faculty of 1000 as one of the original 75 scientific organizations to sign the Declaration. DORA is a laudable initiative and anyone with an interest in improving the way we assess the quality and impact of research should read and, if you agree…

Here are our most popular tweets, as well as some other interesting picks, from the past week on the @F1000 Twitter feed

Genomics & Genetics Head of Faculty Rudolf Jaenisch on his research into reprogramming somatic cells

Head of Faculty for Immunology Frederick Alt on his lab’s interests in the immune system and the genome.