In all the Christmas festivities, snow-induced transport chaos, knicker-bombers and New Year-induced academic slackness you might have missed a new report on a forgotten but important conflict in Sumatra (published in Cambridge University Press’s Oryx; your Athens login should get you in). Turns out that humans and pachyderms are locked in a deadly struggle for…
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It doesn’t seem so long ago we celebrated our 80,000th evaluation here at f1000. Today we hit 85k, with an article by David Borsook of Harvard Medical School, talking about changes in the brain on chronic brain pain treatment—no less than an increase in grey matter! The evaluation is free at the f1000 website. Enjoy!
With most of the science media, green movement and world leader attention focused on Copenhagen and climate change right now, it would be remiss of us not to mention a new evaluation which looks at one of numerous papers promising new ways to tackle the greenhouse effect. The reviewer, Robie Macdonald, from the Institute of…
Benoit’s comment on Jenny’s blog reminds me of the time that I was scooped, but not because my boss was carefree with data. I’ll tell you about that some other time, though, because there’s an another issue he mentions that’s recently become very pertinent. One of the issues that crops up occasionally at the day…
Oh joy. What I missed this morning was Alistair Darling’s pledge to reduce HE and science and research budgets by £600 million. As Roger Highfield says, a dark day for British science. In a new analysis, Dusic reports that that the UK is spending less on research today than in 1986, when Margaret Thatcher was prime…
Vitek Tracz, chairman of the Science Navigation Group (of which f1000 is a member), is a fan of compatriot Polish artist Andrzej Krauze, who is known for his humorous calendars and cartoons in the New York Times, New Scientist and Sunday Telegraph. Krauze amused our leader with this cartoon, which Vitek has had reproduced in…
We’ve published an interesting review (aren’t they all though?) on a study that discussed the lack of association between marijuana and suicide risk, in what our reviewer Wayne Hall from the University of Queensland, Australia, described as “the largest and best controlled prospective study of the relationship to date“. It’s a tough topic to tackle,…
I visited the cavernous confines of Olympia Grand Hall in west London yesterday, totally unprepared for the mammoth event that is the Online Information Conference (#online09 on Twitter). Not sure what I was expecting: maybe a few stands with bored sales reps handing out flyers on data management and XML development (they had some of…
