Here are this week’s most popular tweets from the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from Twitter…
On 13th June we commissioned our F1000 Specialists programme aimed at junior researchers who have a passion for scholarly communication. Today we celebrate our one-hundredth confirmed F1000 Specialist – congratulations to Vivek Misra. Vivek is a research fellow in the Department of Neurology, Voluntary Health Services Medical Centre, India and is a keen blogger. We have…
In September, the US National Institutes of Health announced the winners of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, a grant for future research aimed at “supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity, who propose pioneering – and possibly transforming – approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research”. We’re delighted that among the recipients this year…
Kim Barrett, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, is an epithelial biologist and member of the Gastroenterology & Hepatology Faculty of F1000Prime. In this video, Professor Barrett describes her work on host-pathogen interactions, specifically on how the bacteria Salmonella affect the molecular pathways of the epithelium and the pathophysiology of the…
Jerome Korzelius, a new F1000 Specialist, guest posts on his experience at EMBO 2013. The EMBO Meeting 2013 was held in the vibrant city of Amsterdam. This annual event covered the breadth of the life sciences in Europe. With a more general focus, instead of concentrating on a single field, the meeting is ideal for…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets from the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from Twitter…
Providing open access to data and software source code associated with F1000Research publications is a central feature of our journal. To further facilitate open access to software, we are pleased to announce we have created an F1000Research collection at Zenodo and an F1000Research space within GitHub. GitHub is a popular software repository used by a…
Analysis of methods for research assessment, particularly in light of the huge public investment in the current Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 exercise, is welcome. A new study published in PLOS Biology aiming to assess different methods of post-publication assessment of research, including an analysis of F1000Prime data from 2005, raises important questions – possibly…
Our F1000 Specialists programme continues to grow rapidly across the world. The most applications have been received from the USA, but a ground swell seems to be emerging in China with a number of applications and appointments in the region. Since the end of July, we have received more than 40 new applications in total…
There’s an app for everything, including for reading medical journals! Docwise shows you the latest articles from your favourite medical journals and the latest medical news in a magazine-like interface. They have a wide array of journals and websites included, and F1000Research is one of them. When you sign up for the app, which is…
