Nihal Okan is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. As F1000 Specialist he has helped organize meet-ups, invited the F1000 Outreach team to his institute, and much more. Here he tells about his experience. If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign up…
The quality assurance and confidence in commercially available antibodies is something researchers naturally expect. Antibodies are a mainstay reagent in laboratories globally, but despite their abundant use they’re often the source of experimental torment. Inconsistencies in antibody catalogues and batch-to-batch variability means sometimes researchers are unable to reliably provide expected results and this uncertainty ultimately…
I recently attended the EU Presidency Conference on Open Science in Amsterdam. Refreshingly (and speedily), on the day after the conference, a draft Call for Action was issued. The challenge is for the various working groups being convened by the EC to turn the Call into action. Open science is often talked about as a…
It’s Friday, so treat yourself to a 10 minute break from what you are meant to be doing and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of open science this week! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 4th…
We are currently working with a wide range of life science societies and individual conferences to help them increase the visibility of their posters and slide presentations (International Society of Computational Biology, Ecological Society of America and the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping to name but a few). Some of our collaborators have their poster…
There is a sense amongst a select group of individuals that the tide is turning with respect to how and when research should be made available. Last month our founder Vitek Tracz joined a mix of academics, publishers and funders who all convened at the well-publicised ASAPBio meeting to discuss the best ways in which…
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.
Conference season is fast approaching so we will be highlighting some of the interesting posters and slides that are submitted to us throughout the year. With the recent global outbreaks of Ebola and Zika, there is a need to strengthen surveillance of emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases. Earlier detection of fast spreading disease-related threats, will…
This week we have cobbled together an easily digestible edition of our Open Science News in the Storify below; perfect to have with your morning cup of coffee. ENJOY. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 15th of February, 2016” on Storify]
Original research articles with one author – particularly in the life sciences – are increasingly rare, and the concept of ‘authorship’ in science has become outdated. Adopting a simple taxonomy of terms to describe the contributions to a published work could enable a range of benefits to all the stakeholders in research – most particularly…
