We’d like to congratulate the new members and foreign associates of the US National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM). Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honours in the fields of health and medicine, and recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health…
News update Respected long-time medical and science publisher Jane Hunter has joined Faculty of 1000 as its new Managing Director. Faculty of 1000, which is a member of Science Navigation Group, is a unique online service that keeps scientists and clinicians informed of high-impact articles in biology and medicine. These key articles are selected and…
One of our freelancers wrote a great article about a recent review on the f1000 site, so I wanted to reproduce it here: How do scientists decide what to investigate? Often, they choose an area that is in high demand, hoping to get their work into the best journals as soon as possible. But according…
Cameron and Shirley have just published a paper on article level metrics, in our old favourite PLoS Biology. (Aside: why PLoS Biology? I guess no one would have found it in PLoS One…) They make the point that because of the sheer volume of scientific literature (PubMed alone, which covers just a subset of the…
Scientists can sometimes be unfairly labeled as not caring about anything apart from their lab, grant applications and drug patents. So it’s heartening that one of our important causes – offering free subscriptions to institutions in developing countries – gains such a positive response from Faculty Members and the recipients of free subscriptions. Faculty Members…
I often run updates on the news stories we put out from f1000 that are picked up in the media. Most of the time it’s good coverage, occasionally (as the mainstream news media is wont to do) they misinterpret the research and then some poor reporting is cut-and-pasted on blogs around the world. In the…
I finally conquered the beast that is Youtube this morning, managing to upload a Flash video that was rejected more than 20 times previously due to some unknown error and proved to be too large for our Vimeo or Metacafe channels to handle. It feels something close to winning £10 in the lottery after spending…
Michael Faraday, the British chemist and physicist who discovered electromagnetic induction, may have completed his historic findings in the 19th century but he had the same problem as many modern researchers: too many academic papers, not enough time to read them all. ‘It is certainly impossible for any person … to read all the books…
We have added more videos from the Society for Neuroscience meeting and anyone who heard about it would know it was in Chicago. Our dedicated camera crew of 1 managed to get some great footage which we’re still sorting through and, as previously mentioned, some of the videos just don’t seem to mesh with the…
In a previous post I mentioned the lovely Darlene Cavalier, the former cheerleader turned science boffin who, among many other projects, is bringing science concepts to the people in a way they can always understand, ie by having Philadelphia 76ers cheerleaders give sciency facts while looking pretty and shaking their pom poms. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6oDP7GYt4&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1] Darlene (also…
