Dr. Hans Dijkstra is a researcher studying molecular evolution at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science at the Fujita Health University in Japan. When reading a recent publication in Science he noticed several flaws in a study on a long noncoding RNA. Dijkstra explains why he started a discussion on this report on Inc-DC RNA…
Science policy from the highest level affects everyone, not least the newest draftees to academic research. Graduates and postdocs will ultimately have their career paths carved out for them from the higher echelons of decision making, so surely it makes sense that tomorrow’s researchers should have a say about what direction these paths should be…
Last month, we launched a video competition for F1000 Specialists. The competition is open until the end of the month, so I’ve rallied in Outreach Coordinator and F1000 Specialists Manager Antonia Desmond to create her own short video about her journey from PhD to F1000. This short video is all that’s needed to enter the…
This past Wednesday, August 6th, we hosted the latest installment of the #F1000Talks tweetchats; we discussed Open Science Advocacy as an Early Career Researcher. We had a fantastic turnout and a fast-paced discussion, full of great testimonials and advice on transforming Open Science from the exception to the norm. Couldn’t make it to the tweetchat?…
To launch F1000Research’s new Elasmobranch Biology & Conservation Article Collection, our Outreach Director for the Americas, César Berríos-Otero, hosted a Google Hangout with David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter), Vicky Vasquez (@VickyV_TeamORF) and Christie Wilcox (@NerdyChristie) in order to talk elasmobranchs, conservation, Sharknado, Shark Week and more. The talk was streamed live on August 7th, but if you…
Erin McKiernan is a researcher in experimental and computational neuroscience. You can follow her on Twitter @emckiernan13 F1000Research is the first journal that goes beyond open access, by practicing both open data sharing and open peer review. Sharing information in an open manner leads to a better scholarly environment by, among other things, promoting collaborations…
Today F1000Research is very excited to announce the launch of the Cytoscape App Collection which consists of 16 new articles and an overarching editorial. Building upon the success of the BioJS Collection published earlier this year, our latest collection is a collaboration with Cytoscape, the open source software platform for visualizing complex networks. The collection…
A few weeks ago we published Prof. Kenneth Lee and his research group’s attempt to replicate the now infamous STAP cell work published in January of this year. Ken’s groups article has proven to be very popular with the scientific community having received over 5000 views in its first two weeks of being online, and…
Last week on Twitter we had a very interesting conversation that discussed archiving research before publication in preprint servers and other repositories as part of Faculty of 1000′s #F1000Talks series of discussions around topics relevant to researchers. Our special guests for the discussion were Mark Hahnel and Ethan White. It was an engaging discussion, which…
Following on from the success of our recent Diversity in Research and Reproducibility in Research tweetchats, the next instalment of the #F1000Talks running on the @F1000Research Twitter account will cover the topic of “archiving research before publication”. The Tweetchat will take place on Tuesday 6th of May at 1pm (EST), 6pm (BST). It is widely…
