I often run updates on the news stories we put out from f1000 that are picked up in the media. Most of the time it’s good coverage, occasionally (as the mainstream news media is wont to do) they misinterpret the research and then some poor reporting is cut-and-pasted on blogs around the world. In the…
I’m reposting an article sent to me by the Americans for Medical Progress (AMP), who essentially fight for equal rights for scientists in the animal research debate (previously mentioned on our blog) which is often dominated by PETA and headline-grabbing extremist groups. AMP, like their UK cousins Understanding Animal Research and Pro-Test, face difficulties even…
Videos and highlights keep flooding through to me from the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago last week, so it would be remiss of me not to post a few of them. Jon Pierce Shimomura, an assistant professor at the University of Texas (Austin), spoke to F1000 on how nervous systems work together to execute…
We had a lot of love from the media this morning, courtesy of a fascinating article by Lutz Jäncke on brain plasticity and the correlation with musical talent and intelligence. Daily Telegraph, Mail online, Metro and others interviewed Jäncke yesterday and there’s been a flood of requests for more words from the Professor. One strange…
We had a nice mention on the BBC News website today, in a great article by Jason Palmer on science and Web 2.0 and the various methods researchers are using to meet each other, look for relevant information and maybe also meet potential partners (I doubt labs would ban match.com, would they?) Here’s the relevant…
My spies over at BioMed Central brought my attention to an Opinion piece in J. Biol by Arthur Lander at UCI, published on Monday. So newsworthy, they press-released it just in time for Stem Cell Awareness Day, which was yesterday. Oh well—we at f1000 have never claimed to bring you the latest research; rather just the best, no matter where it’s…
As a follow-up to yesterday’s tweet about the Sense About Science’s sensibly titled Peer Review Survey, a few thoughts. Out of the press reports on the Elsevier-funded study I’ve scanned though, a common phrase seemed to “no one has come up with a better method than peer reviewing, so we’re stuck with it”. My colleague…
You’ve probably seen all the fuss over Wyeth and the ghost-writing of medical articles, along with the associated smugness of certain commentators. According to my contacts in the medical comms industry, the practice as such is nothing new, and there are very, very strong guidelines. The creative outrage we’re seeing is really rather misplaced: Well,…
