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. Feature article: Strategies of the honeybee Apis mellifera during visual search for vertical targets presented at various heights: a role for spatial attention? [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3yb] Linde Morawetz, Lars Chittka,…
This week’s buzz in Open Science: Introducing OpenTrons: easy to use biotech tools that you can connect together to make a modular lab automation system so you can do more science than ever before! Looking for tips on how to write a winning grant? Check out these sample applications and summary statements provided by a…
Science policy from the highest level affects everyone, not least the newest draftees to academic research. Graduates and postdocs will ultimately have their career paths carved out for them from the higher echelons of decision making, so surely it makes sense that tomorrow’s researchers should have a say about what direction these paths should be…
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. Have you had a chance to check out what our scientists think about Immediate Publication, Transparent Refereeing, No Editorial Bias, and Data Inclusion? Head on over to our homepage and see what others like you have…
The European Commission is asking for feedback on their paper “‘Science 2.0’- Science in Transition”. They’re inviting residents of Europe to read the paper and send in their thoughts before September 30. After it came to light that the first round of review, at Science, of the controversial STAP study was overwhelmingly critical, Lenny Teytelman…
Are you a researcher at King’s College London? King’s has purchased a block of pre-paid Article Processing Charges (APCs) for F1000Research, allowing a number of researchers to publish with us at no cost to them. If you would like to utilise this, please contact the library team who support open access via openaccess@kcl.ac.uk to confirm…
Björn Brembs is a leading practitioner of Open Science, with a history of not only publishing openly, but also freely sharing the highly specialized research software generated by his lab. Björn’s collaborator, Julien Colomb began developing code to allow the lab to publish their data concomitantly with the analyses. Taking the sharing of data and…
A selection of new and featured content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured article collection The Elasmobranch Biology & Conservation Collection acts as a scholarly hub for original research, ecologically important observations, data sets, computational tools and commentaries relating to sharks,…
Some quick links from this week’s news in Open Science: A Creative Commons guide to sharing your science. By Puneet Kishor of Creative Commons. How being online changes how we think about the traditional research paper. By Shauna Gordon-McKeon on OpenSource.com US agency updates rules on sharing genomic data. By Richard van Noorden in Nature…
Did you know that F1000Research staff regularly attend conferences and visit universities? Our September schedule includes visits to institutes and meetings in Hong Kong/China, the UK, US, France, and Germany. Come say hello if you’re nearby! September 7-10: European Conference on Computational Biology, Strasbourg – Michaela Torkar (Editorial Director) September 8: Chinese University of Hong…
