First up, congratulations to Blake Stacey for winning the Name that drug competition. Blake, let me have a mailing address and I’ll put the swag in the post. For this week’s dose of Friday fun, what’s the cleverest or funniest article title you’ve come across? Ian has suggested this 2011 article from Lester Lau of…
Last week I promised to name a winner of our Name that drug! competition. Well, I’m sorry. It’s too difficult. I’m going to let you decide instead. Tell me who you think should win this lovely bag of F1000-flavoured swag, including the much-coveted Naturally Selected sweatshirt. The shortlist is Blake Stacey: Groupselectitol, for when you…
“Pandemrix” The word might not mean anything to you now, but if I were to tell you it was a drug–or a vaccination–you’d probably guess right away what it was for. Pandemrix is an adjuvanted anti-flu vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline, targetted against the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. And it has a great name. Another great name is…
It has not escaped our attention, here at F1000 Towers, that we’re approaching the tenth anniversary of the first ever F1000 evaluation.
It’s competition time! You might have noticed that we have a shiny new F1000 homepage. We’re hoping that this new look will make it more clear what we do to the casual browser, without losing the functionality you’ve all come to know, love and expect.
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!
Here at F1000 Towers we’re big fans of Nikon’s Small World competition. We took a look at last year’s winners at Naturally Selected, and we’re more than happy to note the 2011 competition. But this year, Nikon are straying into another hobby of mine. For the first time there’ll be a video category, Small World…
Faculty Member Etienne Joly has been busy lately, evaluating everything from a classic text on evolution to the adjuvant effect of laser light. I sent him a Naturally Selected sweatshirt for other bits of material he provided for The Scientist and this blog, and here he is, wearing it (keep reading for your chance to…
Nikon has announced the winners of this year’s International Small World Competition — the 36-year-old contest that pits the world’s research laboratories against each other to crown the rulers of microscopy — and the results are stunning. Jonas King, a graduate student in the Vanderbilt University lab of biologist Julián Hillyer, took home the prize…
Inspired by a question from genegeek, last week I ran a competition to define ‘evolution’ in twitter format. After collecting entries, I came up with a shortlist, which I opened up to you for voting. And 330 votes later, it’s time to announce the winners! (FX: drumroll) A copy of “My life in science” by…
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