On 15th November, Faculty of 1000’s outreach team will be running a 3-hour workshop at the University of Oxford’s Medical Science Division on how to ‘Embrace information overload and understand research impact’. The course aims to demonstrate how the internet is continuing to improve the ways in which life scientists and clinical researchers can access,…
“Does anyone know any life scientists or clinicians in Antarctica interested in publishing innovation?” we found ourselves wondering last week. It’s the only continent on which we have not appointed an F1000 Specialist – yet (although given the overwhelming response so far, we remain optimistic). In July we received more than 60 applications to join…
The response to our recently-launched community outreach project has been excellent and today we are publicly welcoming the first F1000 Specialists. This first group of F1000 Specialists are located in 14 countries, across several continents. The complete list, at the time of writing, is below. These F1000 Specialists include some of our existing Faculty Members…
Today we are launching a project that will greatly improve how life scientists and clinicians connect with F1000 services globally – and locally – and will give scientists interested in scholarly communication some exciting new opportunities and recognition. This initiative, called F1000 Specialists, will allow enthusiastic users of F1000 services to become official, local representatives…
How exactly do you mend a broken heart? We’ve been looking at the British Heart Foundation’s ‘Mending Broken Hearts‘ campaign recently, with videos from the legend Desmond Julian, and a BHF-funded Fellow, Paul Riley.
While Faculty of 1000 is the go-to website for all life science and medicine researchers, we don’t really cater for high school or college students. This is the nature of the enterprise: our F1000 Members select research papers for their relevance to other working researchers, to keep abreast with what’s new or exciting (or both)…
If you’ve been keeping up with us on Facebook and Twitter, you might have seen a discussion on the concept of ecosystem-based fishery management, which includes a dissent from Nando Boero and response from the original evaluator, Chris Kennedy.
