Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
Yesterday we talked about reproducibility on Twitter, as one of Faculty of 1000’s #F1000Talks series of discussions around topics relevant to researchers. Our guests for the reproducibility discussion were Ivan Oransky, Elizabeth Iorns and Christin Chong. It was an engaging discussion, which got even more lively as other people joined in. What I found especially…
The most comprehensive analysis to date finds that F1000Prime-recommended articles receive more citations compared to other articles, and that a higher F1000Prime score is associated with higher numbers of citations. Assuming these findings stand the test of peer review, now is the time to focus on new questions about how we assess the impact and…
Those who follow life sciences won’t have failed to pick up on the impact and controversy of two particular papers appearing in Nature at the end of January. The STAP (stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency) studies by Obokata et al. at the Japanese RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology suggested that a lowering of environmental pH, from…
Recently, Cesar Berrios hosted a very successful tweetchat about diversity among researchers. You can read the summary of that discussion here. Tomorrow we’re hosting another #F1000Talks tweetchat. This time, I will be running the @F1000Research Twitter account to talk about reproducibility in research. Reproducibility is an ongoing concern in the life sciences. Experimental results are…
Last Wednesday 26th March, F1000 invited local life scientists and clinicians to Cambridge’s Baroosh for an evening of talking publishing and science, as well as to learn how F1000 are striving to provide solutions to common problems in scholarly communication.
One of the things we’re working on behind the scenes is improving education about peer review. We’re talking to university staff and faculty involved in teaching graduate students about peer review, I’ve set up a group on Mendeley that collects good examples of open peer review reports, and we’re a partner of Sense About Science’s…
The Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences is an annual prize awarded by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), designed to honour outstanding achievement by a promising scientist age 52 or younger. Now in its second year, the $100,000 award was endowed by global philanthropist and biomedical research advocate Ann Lurie. This…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
We talk a lot about sharing data, but sharing materials is another important component of collaborative science. In this guest post, Dr Joanne Kamens of plasmid repository Addgene tells us what the most often shared plasmids are. Are you plasmid sharing these days? Addgene is a nonprofit plasmid repository helping scientists share plasmids internationally. Our…
