A guest post by Alberto Perez
Daylight savings gave us an extra hour recently, and I’m already short on time. We scientists never have enough minutes in the day to get everything done. If only we could clone ourselves, we’d be golden. As previously mentioned, before taking up the Outreach Director position at F1000Prime, I was a scientist at Stonybrook University…
Guest blogger Sheena Cowell recently completed her PhD thesis in Medicinal Chemistry at Imperial College London. In this guest post, she tells us about the daunting process of writing up and why it doesn’t have to be difficult.
Free food, drinks, and great conversation – our NYC networking meet-up for the F1000 community
All members of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) can claim full and free access to F1000Prime until the end of April 2014. This newly developed partnership with the Society gives six months free access to F1000Prime for current members, as a benefit of society membership. New members joining the ISCB before April 2014…
A little while ago I was doing something that often gets pushed into that time in the festive season, between December 24 and January 2, when email is a bit quieter than usual. That is, I started writing a paper I’d been meaning to get to for a while. Coincidentally, my wife, a practicing clinician,…
Starting next week we’ll be conducting live online demonstrations of F1000Prime to help newly registered users, librarians, and anyone else who wants to know more about the service, get the most of out of F1000Prime. Each event will be hosted by an F1000Prime product specialist, such as an Outreach Director, and attendees can ask questions…
I’d like to introduce myself – I’m Kinga Hosszu, and I‘ve recently joined as Outreach Director for the Americas. Before joining the F1000 staff, I was part of the F1000 Faculty for over two years. My love affair with F1000 started at Stony Brook University. While a graduate student and postdoc, I served as an…
On 13th June we commissioned our F1000 Specialists programme aimed at junior researchers who have a passion for scholarly communication. Today we celebrate our one-hundredth confirmed F1000 Specialist – congratulations to Vivek Misra. Vivek is a research fellow in the Department of Neurology, Voluntary Health Services Medical Centre, India and is a keen blogger. We have…
Jerome Korzelius, a new F1000 Specialist, guest posts on his experience at EMBO 2013. The EMBO Meeting 2013 was held in the vibrant city of Amsterdam. This annual event covered the breadth of the life sciences in Europe. With a more general focus, instead of concentrating on a single field, the meeting is ideal for…
