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: Immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry identify non-cell autonomous Otx2 homeoprotein in the granular and supragranular layers of mouse visual cortex Namsuk Kim, Dario Acampora, Florent Dingli, Damarys Loew, Antonio Simeone,…
What was new in open science this week? Rumours surfaced that Google is working on “Google Science”, but there doesn’t seem to be any more evidence than a single document of unknown source. Notes from yesterday’s Mozilla Science call are up. The big news is that next week is the deadline to submit proposals for…
This past Wednesday, August 6th, we hosted the latest installment of the #F1000Talks tweetchats; we discussed Open Science Advocacy as an Early Career Researcher. We had a fantastic turnout and a fast-paced discussion, full of great testimonials and advice on transforming Open Science from the exception to the norm. Couldn’t make it to the tweetchat?…
If you’re looking for advice about giving talks or presenting a poster, the blog Reason I Am Here, by Bioinformatics PhD student and scientific storyteller Nacho Caballero, regularly features great tips in these areas. We asked Nacho to share some advice with F1000Research readers, and below is his advice on giving a memorable talk about…
To launch F1000Research’s new Elasmobranch Biology & Conservation Article Collection, our Outreach Director for the Americas, César Berríos-Otero, hosted a Google Hangout with David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter), Vicky Vasquez (@VickyV_TeamORF) and Christie Wilcox (@NerdyChristie) in order to talk elasmobranchs, conservation, Sharknado, Shark Week and more. The talk was streamed live on August 7th, but if you…
It’s Shark Week and to help raise awareness of the importance of elasmobranchs we have launched our open science article collection on Elasmobranch Biology & Conservation, a platform for scholarly articles on sharks, skates and rays (and chimaeras). The Guest Editors of the collection are David Shiffman (University of Miami) and Charles Bangley (East Carolina…
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: Ecological implications of reduced pollen supply in the alpine: a case study using a dominant cushion plant species Anya Reid, Robyn Hooper, Olivia Molenda, Christopher J. Lortie Changes in temperature…
What was new in open science this week? F1000 Specialist extraordinaire Ross Mounce is at it again! Check out his interview at opensource.com on why Open Science is the future of scientific discovery. As divided as it is, even the US Congress is concerned about reproducibility in research! We might not all be (Isaac) Newtons…
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: Sub-strains of Drosophila Canton-S differ markedly in their locomotor behavior [v1; ref status: awaiting peer review, https://f1000r.es/3is] Julien Colomb, Björn Brembs This new article could redefine how we think about…
Who is ultimately responsible for the content of a research paper? Most of us would point at the authors: referees can assess what’s in the paper, but we have to trust that the authors present ‘real’ (not fabricated) data and that they report all results, not a cherry-picked selection. And yet, the expectation generally is…
