The big news this week is the preview launch of the new F1000 website. As you may know, Faculty of 1000 has existed as two separate services since F1000 Medicine was launched about five years ago, but now we’re bringing them back together and adding some new functionality. (By the way, this was the project…
One of the things that came out of Liz Allen’s paper on expert review and bibliometrics in PLoS ONE last year was that we at F1000 often ‘miss’ highly-cited papers. Some people appear to think that this means “post-publication peer review” (PPPR) is spotty and unreliable, and while we may indeed miss some papers, especially…
When you say ‘Everglades’ to me I immediately think of hovercrafts, James Bond and alligators. Of course there’s more than that, not least because it’s an interesting system from an ecological point of view. It has been a mystery, for example, how stable patterns of ridges and sloughs parallel to the flow of water form.…
The late summer holiday has been and gone, and there’s definitely a hint of autumn in the air, here in London. Like the ever-changing seasons science marches on, and so does progress at Faculty of 1000: rumours of the new website launch are circulating, and I’ve been promised a peek at the internal beta this…
Biology would be a lot easier if we could see what we were doing. This maybe isn’t so much a problem for ecologists, but for many of the rest of us our objects of attraction are not just very, very small, but also pretty similar to everything else around them. We have to use fancy…
Rather than the familiar adaptive immune system based on immunoglobulin domains and major histocompatibility complex antigens common to mammals and most other vertebrates, jawless vertebrates such as lampreys and hagfish use modular units of leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins called “variable lymphocyte receptors” (VLRs) A and B.
If you were designing a train, would you seek input from car manufacturers? No? Maybe when building a hospital, you’d consult Heckler & Koch? Possibly not? So why would anybody involve drinks manufacturers in formulating governmental alcohol policies?
A week in the life of post publication peer review: the changing landscape of scientific publishing, scientific spin doctors, the evolution of spite and public health concerns
You are what you eat. Or maybe, the way you behave depends on what’s happening in your gut. These goes beyond chocolate, or bananas, making you feel happy: chronic gastric inflammation makes mice anxious, through measurable biochemical changes. An interesting implication is that clinical treatment of intestinal disorders could improve behavioural abnormalities (Bercik et al.…
