At the end of April, the National Academy of Sciences announced 84 new members and 21 foreign associates to join the ranks of its current members, individuals who are recognized for their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”. We are delighted to congratulate the following F1000Prime members on their election to this prestigious group…
Here are our most popular tweets, as well as some other interesting picks, from the past week on the @F1000 Twitter feed
Many thanks to all our Twitter followers who indulged us on Friday and sent in their best science-related jokes. Having laughed (and groaned) our way through the entries, we’ve now picked our favourites. The winners will be notified on Twitter, and will each receive a tin of luxury biscuits from Fortnum & Mason – biscuits…
A round up of the week’s most popular Tweets from @F1000, as well as our picks from the rest of Twitter…
Sadly, we note the death of Dr Daniel Traber, former Faculty Member in Critical Care & Emergency Medicine, who passed away in September last year. Dr Traber worked for over 50 years at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) as a professor and research scientist of anaesthesiology and neuroscience, and joined the Metabolic Disorders…
Here are this week’s top picks from the @F1000 feed over the past week, and few other stories we spotted on Twitter…
We’re delighted to be able to congratulate Ed Boyden, Faculty Member in Neuroscience, on recently being awarded the prestigious ‘Brain Prize’. The €1 million Brain Prize is awarded by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation in Copenhagen in recognition of highly influential and original work on brain research. Ed and his co-recipients Ernst Bamberg,…
This is a guest post from Dawn Sweeney, an Associate Faculty Member from the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York. She works with Faculty Member Suzanne Karan, and they are members of the ‘Airway/Respiratory Physiology’ Section in Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Here, Dawn tells us about a poem published in Anesthesiology that makes her…
F1000Research, one of a number of major open access journal launches in 2012, has been fortunate to have support from the life science community – for submitting papers and reviewing them. We’ve been thinking about the best ways to show our appreciation to the early adopters of F1000Research’s Open Science approach to publishing papers, data,…
In the next few weeks, F1000 staff and guest speakers will be presenting our various products in different cities in the UK and US and attending a number of conferences. As usual, you can expect to see some of our staff exhibiting at major scientific conferences, but we have a few extra events planned as…
