SfN 2014 highlights

So that’s it! SfN is over and done with for another year. We’ve loved meeting all of you who visited our booth, we’ve given away F1000 and F1000Research #SfNswag and we had a fantastic time at #SfNBanter, which we sponsored this year.

F1000 Specialists’ video competition: winner announced!

Many thanks to our three entrants for their superb video entries! The competition is now closed and we’re pleased to announce the winner. We hope all our voters enjoyed learning about ongoing research in Prof Brain’s lab at KCL, investigations into the cell biology of osteoarthritis at Manchester University and the study of congenital nevi…

F1000 Specialists' video competition: Vote for your favourite!

We’ve received two more great videos from F1000 Specialists Fiona Russell and Rosie Griffiths for the F1000 Specialists’ video competition (view below). Fiona talks about her research at Professor Brain’s lab (yes, he’s really called that) looking at the reasons why arthritis pain gets worse in cold conditions, and Rosie describes her PhD in the…

Patient advocacy: access to scientific information and expert advice

Our latest #F1000talks live chat discussed how patient advocates find scientific information and expert advice. We had a great turnout of patients, patient advocates, research scientists and clinicians, and we were delighted to hear their ideas and questions. We have summed up the discussion with a Storify. We hope you enjoy our monthly tweet chats,…

A focus on NYC

Last week, we held a focus group with local scientists at our New York City office to discuss their experiences with reference management systems and give them a preview of F1000’s newest features in development. Here is a Storify of how the evening went down. Thanks to everyone who attended!

F1000 on the go – #F1000Tour

Since our last #f1000tour update in January, we’ve planned a number of trips this summer/autumn. With our reference management tool under development and user testing commencing soon, the UK and US outreach team are visiting a number of institutes and conferences to engage life scientists with Faculty of 1000’s services and future products. You’ll find…

Announcing the 200th F1000 Specialist

It’s nearly a year since we launched our F1000 Specialists community programme. Today we celebrate our 200th Specialist – congratulations Vinod Saladi. Vinod is a Medical Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School working on the mechanism by which epigenetic factors mediate the transcriptional reprogramming in squamous cell cancers. Vinod joined the Specialists programme after following…