Featured article The effects of extremes of pH on the growth and transcriptomic profiles of three haloarchaea [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/48e] Aida Moran-Reyna, James A. Coker To find life outside of Earth, we need to know under what sort of extreme conditions organisms are still able to thrive. When it comes to halophilic archaea,…
Next week is International Open Access Week, and this year we have planned several events for you. Most of them are online events, so you can attend from anywhere in the world, and we hope to (virtually) meet many of you during our Google Hangout, web demo, and Reddit Science AMA. Google Hangout: The…
As you know, we’re supporting the Sense About Science “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops that are regularly held in the UK. The next one will be on November 21st at the University of St Andrews. If you’re an early career researcher in Scotland or the North of England, this is well worth an afternoon…
To continue our series of “What is…” posts, we’re focusing on open data. Previous posts in this series covered open access, open peer review and post-publication peer review. Open data in science “Open data” is a broad concept that doesn’t just apply to research data, but also to, for example, the opening up of…
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 peer review report Each week we feature a peer review report on the front page of our website. This week’s report, by Sam Schwarzkopf, is a critical report, but highlights…
This week’s news in Open Science A special issue of Learned Publishing is all about data publishing. We contributed one of the articles, but you should read them all, or at least this one from the British Ecological Society, about their experiences with mandated data archiving. Do you have the skills to fight Ebola? If…
Our latest #F1000Talks tweetchat, about rare disease research, was a great success. We heard from researchers, patient advocates, and others, got everyone’s thoughts on the Ice Bucket Challenge, saw new collaborations and ideas form on the spot, and learned that the best incentive for data sharing is….cake. Follow along with the tweets below, sorted…
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 article: Electrical maturation of neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/42n] Michael Telias, Menahem Segal, Ben-Yosef Dalit Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed a method to…
Dr. Hans Dijkstra is a researcher studying molecular evolution at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science at the Fujita Health University in Japan. When reading a recent publication in Science he noticed several flaws in a study on a long noncoding RNA. Dijkstra explains why he started a discussion on this report on Inc-DC RNA…
To mark the upcoming launch of our Rare Diseases article collection, we will be talking with three researchers in a special rare disease themed tweetchat next week. Join us September 29 to discuss the challenges of rare disease research. We’ll start at 1PM EST. Follow the #F1000Talks hashtag, or our @F1000Research Twitter account to keep…
