It has not escaped our attention, here at F1000 Towers, that we’re approaching the tenth anniversary of the first ever F1000 evaluation.
Ever wondered just what the heck is going on? Elly Strammer had one of those moments reading the comments on an article first evaluated by Yehezkel Ben-Ari at the Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée, France. The article, Spontaneous network events driven by depolarizing GABA action in neonatal hippocampal slices are not attributable to deficient…
The XMRV/chronic fatigue syndrome controversy is still fresh in our minds. You might remember that I decried the effect the issue might have on patients. Another side to the tale is told by freelance journalist Nigel Hawkes, in a Feature article in last week’s BMJ, Dangers of research into chronic fatigue syndrome$. Hawkes highlights the…
You’ve probably heard by now of the plan, cooked up between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Wellcome Trust and the Max Planck Society, to launch a new, open access journal–as yet sans name, sans Editor-in-Chief and sans business plan. There seem to be more questions than answers surrounding the Journal With No Name, and…
We’re making a bit of a noise in various circles (even as far away as the University of Iowa), with our F1000 Posters project. F1000 Posters is, according to independent science writer Joachim Pietzsch, an “invaluable source for scientific information which I really can recommend.” Ivan Oransky, Executive Editor of Reuters Health (and, of course,…
Sadly, we have to mark the recent deaths of two F1000 Members. Neuroscience Section Head David Colman died unexpectedly on 1st June, after apparently beginning to recover from an illness. He was Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre. His interests were in the interactions…
…that children were being successfully inoculated for smallpox long before Edward Jenner was widely credited for the developed of a small pox vaccine? …or that one of the first popular health guides The Maintenance of Health, was written in the 11th Century, and was still widely studied and referred to until the 1600s?
We’re a smidgen the other side of the summer solstice; the days are long and bright and the air is thick with the scent of strawberries, chilled rose wine and barbeques… reason to be cheerful one would think?
Web of Stories has just released new footage of an interview with Marvin Minsky: Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, inventor of the confocal microscope, and co-founder of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (among other things).
Here at F1000 we’re big fans of John Ioannidis’s work. He continues to be a zealous (in the best sense) promoter of the basic tenets of the scientific method and the design, execution and reporting of clinical studies. His 2005 paper in PLoS Medicine is still the most viewed article on F1000 (and most viewed…
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