The importance of elasmobranchs, the group comprising sharks, skates and rays, is indisputable – several play essential roles as marine apex predators, many are of commercial value and some are key models in biomedical research. Overfishing to feed an incessant appetite for shark fin soup has led to the killing of ~100 million sharks every year…
What was new in open science this week? A few days ago Neil Hall published this paper on Genome Biology calling for a new index to measure social media impact of scientists. What he didn’t expect was that his comment would spawn #AlternateScienceMetrics. Have a look at fellow F1000 Specialist Graham Steel’s excellent Storify. We recently published…
Erin McKiernan is a researcher in experimental and computational neuroscience. You can follow her on Twitter @emckiernan13 F1000Research is the first journal that goes beyond open access, by practicing both open data sharing and open peer review. Sharing information in an open manner leads to a better scholarly environment by, among other things, promoting collaborations…
We have all heard people repeatedly pointing out that scholarly publishing has hardly changed since the first scientific journal article in 1665 and is still done largely within the constraints of a printing press. This is true on many levels including the humble figure. The latest article published in F1000Research by Björn Brembs and colleagues…
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: Epiphyte response to drought and experimental warming in an Andean cloud forest [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3le] Previously titled: Epiphyte response to drought and experimental warming PUBLISHED: 06 June 2014 Joshua M. Rapp,…
What was new in open science this week? Hack your PhD has produced a series of flyers representing various individuals who benefit from open science. See the PhD student image below, and all the rest (including journalist, citizen, librarian, etc.) on their website. If you missed the F1000Research/Harvard open science event in Boston last week,…
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: Colonoscopic polyp detection rate is stable throughout the workday including evening colonoscopy sessions [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3cf] David Thurtle, Michael Pullinger, Jordan Tsigarides, Iris McIntosh , Carla Steytler ,…
What was new in open science this week? Let’s admit it, as scientists we will “hack” anything in order to get the job done! Check out what Prof. Joshua Pearce (Michigan Tech) is doing with 3D printers! Have a “hack” of your own? Submit it to the F1000Specialists video competition! F1000Research Advisory Board Member, and F1000 Specialist Bjorn Brembs presents…
To mark our first anniversary we’re running a special competition. We invite all our F1000 Specialists to submit a short video describing the research carried out in their lab. The video can be quirky, serious – whatever sums up the research in your lab – we want to hear about it. Every video posted will…
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: Abnormal hemostatic function one year after orthotopic liver transplantation can be fully attributed to endothelial cell activation [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3ah] Freeha Arshad, Jelle Adelmeijer, Hans Blokzijl, Aad van den…
