As New Year’s resolutions fall by the wayside and 2010 begins to feel like a distant memory we take a look at the F1000 Posters Editor’s choice selection of the top three posters to grace the F1000 Posters site last year. Novel mechanism for long-term memory?
This probably wouldn’t work all that well as a lab timer, but it is a gorgeous piece of art: Every second runs round the dial This is a true mechanical clock. There’s a good description of the chronophage—visuals showing the levers of the escapement, and the vernier slit and lens system that actually displays the…
If you’re following the right people on Twitter you might notice a peculiar hashtag: #beyondthePDF. This refers to a workshop at UCSD, which has the goal to identify a set of requirements, and a group of willing participants to develop open source code to accelerate scientific knowledge sharing (H/T Martin Fenner).
It makes much more sense in fact to publish everything and filter after the fact so says our friend Cameron Neylon, a senior scientist at the Science & Technology Facilities Council. I’m not going to get into that argument here, but I am going to archly raise my eyebrow at the piece in Nature whence…
In case you missed it (what do you mean, you don’t read our press releases?), we’re delighted to announce that Gary Borisy has been promoted to Head of Faculty in F1000 Cell Biology, joining Alan Hall, Randy Schekman, Steve McKnight and Tony Pawson. Gary Borisy is currently Director and CEO at the Woods Hole Marine…
The Wakefield story rumbles on. Last week we linked to the BMJ editorial, signed by Fiona Godlee, Jane Smith and Harvey Marcovitch, introducing investigative journalist Brian Deer’s report on the extent of the autism/vaccine fraud. Yesterday, we linked to the first piece by Deer, in which he describes the scientific discrepancies: the details of the…
This week’s news includes a possible motivation for the autism-vaccine link scandal, a recommendation from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general regarding institutional conflicts of interest, a tragic reminder of the risks of field research in Colombia, good news for agriculture, scientists’ thoughts on open access, an update to Europe’s Scientific…
One of the less well-known things about F1000 is that we partner with HINARI, the Programme for Access to Health Research, to provide access to F1000 to institutions and researchers in developing countries. Institutions can apply for free or discounted access (depending on their gross national income—GNI), and regularly active Faculty Members are invited to…
On your marks…get set…fertilize!
We’ve not had any decent cell biology here for a while, but there’s a rather nice controversy that boiled up last year about the presence—or otherwise—of adherens junctions—focal contacts—in 3D cell cultures. A paper from Denis Wirtz’s lab made the rather striking claim that live cells migrating through a (more physiological) three-dimensional matrix do not…
