If you’re a fan of sex and dirt (and who isn’t, these days?), and happen to be within striking distance of the Euston Road tomorrow evening, check out this free event at the Wellcome Collection, The thing is…Lister’s legacy, 15 June 2011, 19.00 – 20.00. This is a discussion with “Quentin Cooper, Hugh Pennington and…
The first ever* Twitter journal club (Monday’s NS) was a huge success. Natalie Silvey has now posted a summary of last Sunday’s chat. She draws out five headline discussion points: Randomized control trials and the issue of written informed consent Methodology, particularly blinding The importance of a (misleading) headline result The effect of single-centre studies…
Twitter, what is it good for? Yesterday evening, a good fifty or so scientists, clinicians, students, journal editors and other interested parties took part in a twitter journal club–as far as I know, the first of its kind. The Twitter Journal Club, or #TwitJC, is the brainchild of Fi Douglas and Natalie Silvey; a Cambridge…
As well as the usual crop of interesting evaluations this week (see our Facebook page for some free links) there have been a couple of comments about papers and their evaluations. David Enard of Stanford University responds to an evaluation of his own paper, Human and non-human primate genomes share hotspots of positive selection10.1371/journal.pgen.1000840. In…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be your first stop for ‘credible, reliable’ health information. It’s good to see that they’ve finally woken up to a very real yet often overlooked threat, and have a blog post detailing the things you should get ready in case of a zombie apocalypse. Of course, it’s…
Time for a quick roundup of some of the conversations happening regarding F1000-evaluated papers. All evaluations in this post are free to access without a subscription. First, Oscar Marin from Alicante points out that a paper in Nature that he selected and evaluated has some potential irregularities in the figures. The paper in question purports…
Last night I had the pleasure and privilege to be at the London Zoo for BioMed Central’s Fifth Annual Research Awards, hobnobbing with Strix uralensis and watching wallabies.
O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. –William Blake Peter Lawrence has weighed into the debate on the state of research in an article for Lab Times, boldly…
The problem of the under-representation of women at the higher levels of science is a thorny one. Despite the biological sciences at least churning out roughly equal numbers of male and female PhDs, there are still far fewer women in senior positions than might be expected.
F1000 is pleased to be able to sponsor this month’s stem cell-themed blog contest from Science 3.0. Get writing for a chance to win a bag full of F1000 swag!
