In December, Dr Vikash Bhardwaj from Lovely Professional University in India published an article in F1000Research that showed that he was able to generate PCR products in a parallel (rather than antiparallel) direction. In this blog post he describes some of the opportunities and conversations that followed this publication, and introduces his opinion piece “Villain…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The channel on lupus nephritis and neuropsychiatric lupus, edited by Chaim Putterman, Richard Quigg and Beatrice Goilav, is a place for original research articles regarding the manifestations,…
Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) launched, and will start accepting submissions in November. Like F1000Research, they will publish articles in all stages of research, including hypotheses and proposals. They also allow versioned articles. Good to see others using this type of publication model, and expanding it to other fields! It was also a good week…
The Wikipedia Science Conference took place in London this week, and brought together scientists, Wikipedians, science communicators, programmers and others for a two-day discussion about those areas where Wikipedia and science overlap. There were talks about getting scientists to help edit Wikipedia, about the extent of the scientific information available on Wikipedia, and how we…
We’re extremely sad to report that Medical Genetics Faculty Member Sue Malcolm passed away in late August. Emeritus Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, Sue was an active Member of F1000 since its inception in 2001. In 2011, she won the F1000 Faculty Member of the Year Award…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel For universities in the Northern hemisphere, the start of September usually marks “back to school” season. If you’re about to teach a new cohort of undergraduates, have…
The big open science news this week was the publication of the summary report of the Center for Open Science’s Reproducibility Project, which replicated one hundred published studies in psychology, and found that more than half did not hold up. The entire project is itself open for anyone to reproduce in R and Ed Yong…
August 29th sees a new addition to Discovery’s Shark Week: ShWeekend. Because 1 week just isn’t enough. To coincide with the occasion, F1000Research has teamed up with the 19th Annual Scientific Conference of the European Elasmobranch Association. Attendees are invited to share and publish their academic posters and slides in our dedicated Elasmobranch Biology & Conservation…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) recently launched their own channels on F1000Research. This will include articles from the field of neuroinformatics, as well as posters and…
Was the Ecological Society of America (ESA) too strict with their social media policy during their recent conference? Many attendees (and followers of the #ESA100 hash tag) were expecting the ESA to have a “tweet unless told not to” policy, but it was changed at the last moment to a policy allowing attendees to only…
