The Center for Open Science has grants available for developers to help connect various open science services. In other news about connecting resources, the EU is planning to set up a unified “science cloud” to provide access to all European research data. Don’t forget the open science meetup in Berlin, on Friday August 14. It’s…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The sports cardiology channel discusses issues relating to myocardial hypertrophy and injury due to different sport activities such as endurance sport, strength/power sport (e.g. bodybuilding, weight lifting)…
This week, Adam Becker is tweeting from rotation Twitter account @astrotweeps and one of the things he’s talking about is open science. If you want an introduction, from an astrophysics point of view, head on over there! The account changes host every week. If you’re in Berlin on August 14, you can join this open…
We have some fun things planned for August! UCL pub night First of all, if you’re based at University College London, we’re hosting a pub night just for you on August 19. See the Naturally Selected blog for more information, and make sure to let us know on Eventbrite if you’re coming. There’ll be free…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The BioJS channel is one of the oldest F1000Research channels. It originally only included articles, but since the F1000Research platform update earlier this month the editors…
The Sydney Conference on Scholarly Communication Beyond Paywalls took place this week, and you can find lots of tweets under the #sydconf15 hashtag, and a summary video on their YouTube channel. A new resource on opensource.com: What is open science? There are just a few weeks left to apply for the Mozilla Fellowship for Science.…
As you know, we’re one of the sponsors for Sense About Science’s “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops, aimed at graduate students. The next one is in Glasgow, on September 17. Information from Sense About Science on how to register is below, and you can read the experiences of a participant at a previous workshop…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel Ever worked with an antibody that just doesn’t do what it promised to do? Or managed to get an antibody optimized to detect a mouse protein…
Earlier this year we published a pocket-sized research article describing the effect of capsaicin on vascular smooth muscle growth (and this post arguing in favour of short reports). Support for this idea is gaining pace as prominent neuroscientist Professor William Mobley, Chair of the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California San Diego has…
Today and tomorrow the Future of Research meeting is taking place in San Francisco. You can find a report from their first meeting in F1000Research. Ron Vale has written a great preprint about the need for preprints. “Our analysis suggests that publication practices have changed considerably in the life sciences over the past thirty years.…
