F1000 award season is upon us again! Each year, we celebrate the work of our Associate Faculty Members (AFMs) by picking the winners of our AFM Travel Grant Awards. These awards are our way of acknowledging the significant and valuable contribution AFMs make evaluating the literature for F1000Prime. Any AFM who has published six or…
This is a guest post by F1000 Faculty Member Ferdinando Boero. Dr. Boero’s post is a commentary on a previously published article, Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping Activities of Daily Living, Liu MJ, Xiong CH, Xiong L, Huang XL. PLoS ONE 2016; 11(1):e0146193.
Jorge Galindo-Villegas is a postdoc and the F1000 Specialist at the University of Murcia in Murcia, Spain. In the interview below, he tells about what aspects of being an F1000 Specialist he finds most rewarding. If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign up…
The Brain Prize, awarded annually by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, recognizes one or more scientists for their outstanding contribution to neuroscience, and is widely regarded as the equivalent for the Nobel Prize for neuroscientists. 2016’s Brain Prize is shared by three winners, and we’re delighted to congratulate F1000 Faculty Member Graham Collingridge,…
It’s been a long winter and although Mother Nature has started warming up this floating blue marble (for the northern hemisphere at least), we are eager to hit the road in search of a warmer climate, sans winter coats. In support of F1000Workspace – our exclusive user-friendly software that helps with writing, collaborating, reference management and manuscript preparation – we will be visiting the Los Angeles area in time for the 60th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
This blog post was co-written by Michael Markie (Associate Publisher at F1000Research) and Joao Peres (Product Manager at F1000).
We are very excited to announce that F1000Workspace is now compatible with Google Docs. This is something our development team have worked hard on implementing over the past few months and we believe it offers significant improvements for the efficiency and flow of writing scientific papers and grant proposals directly in the browser.
The Wolf Prize in Israel and the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in Germany are both prestigious awards that are sometimes used as indicators of potential future chances of a Nobel Prize. We’re therefore very proud to find F1000 Faculty among this year’s winners of both prizes! Stuart Schreiber, Head of Faculty for Chemical…
We’re sad to mark the death of Austin Hughes, who had been Faculty Member of the F1000 Immunology Faculty since 2003. Hughes was Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina, and a week before his death on October 31st, his department had just nominated him for the Governor’s Award for Scientific Excellence.…
It was a great start to the new year for some of our Faculty, whose work was recognized by none other than Queen Elizabeth II or President Obama. Georgina Mace (Faculty Member in Conservation & Restoration Ecology) was named Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the UK’s New…
2015 has been another exciting year at F1000. We launched F1000Workspace, the paper-writing and collaboration tool, in May and, by November, over 1 million references had already been uploaded onto the service. Rebecca Lawrence was announced Managing Director in November, Harold Varmus joined our International Advisory Board, and several F1000 Faculty won Lasker awards. We…
