Jon Tennant is our “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. He recently finished his PhD on mass extinction at the end of the Jurassic at Imperial College London. Throughout his PhD, he has campaigned for better ‘open research’ practices and published an article justifying the reasons for open access. He is the Communications Director for ScienceOpen, part of the Open Leadership Cohort of the Mozilla Science Lab and the Open Knowledge Leadership team, a freelance science writer and consultant, and wrote the kids book Excavate Dinosaurs!
Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of open science!
DeepMind is a British company that was formed in 2010 with the aim of creating artificial general intelligence and using it to tackle some of society’s toughest challenges. They recently published two Study Protocols on applying machine learning to health conditions on F1000Research. In this blog post, they summarise both projects and talk about the collaboration with hospitals as well as the future application of those machine learning techniques.
Today is annual World AIDS Day: an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. We spoke to one of the Heads of our Infectious Diseases Faculty, Dr. Robert C. Gallo, who became world famous in 1984 for the co-discovery…
The phylogenetic ‘Tree of Life’, arguably the most elegant representation of the evolutionary process, perhaps of any biological process, is 150 years old this year. To commemorate this anniversary we have created a special collection of phylogenetics articles published on F1000Research.
Christopher Madan is our “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Alberta in Canada, studying the influence of rewards on memory and decision making. More generally, Chris studies factors that make some experiences more memorable than others, using approaches from cognitive psychology, neuroimaging, and computational modeling. Chris is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston College.
The IICARus study is seeking volunteers to help assess the impact of the ARRIVE guidelines on the quality of reporting of in vivo research. Contributors will be listed as authors on the resulting publications. If you are interested in helping you can sign up here. For research involving animals to be as scientifically and ethically…
The first articles have gone live on Wellcome Open Research today; 15 of them in total, with more submissions in the pipeline. The breadth of articles received so far starts to show just how broad these outputs can and should be (not just traditional narrative research articles). It also shows benefits of using such a platform for researchers across career stages, from those just starting out to more experienced and tenured researchers. This is a fantastic start!
Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of open science! It’s always refreshing to learn about young researchers’ perspectives on why open science is important for their careers. During Open Access Week…
It has been an excellent week for F1000Workspace! We’ve received news that we were named ‘Best New End User Product’ at this year’s Charleston Advisor Readers’ Choice Awards. The Readers’ Choice Awards – now in their fifteenth year – identify and honour the best digital products for libraries, and we are over the moon to…
