Here are our most popular tweets, as well as some other interesting picks, from the past week on the @F1000 Twitter feed
The Royal Society is the national academy of science for the UK and one of the oldest learned societies operating today. Each year the Royal Society elects new Fellows, Foreign Members, Honorary Fellows and Royal Fellows through a peer-review process from a pool of candidates suggested by the existing Fellowship. This year’s election results were…
Congratulations to Julian Davies, Head of Faculty in Microbiology and based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on receiving the 2013 American Society of Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award! The award is bestowed upon those who make “sustained contributions to the microbiological sciences”, and it is not necessarily an annual honor. As part of…
Even though we just recently launched our campaign to encourage you to submit your negative results to F1000Research, we have a few papers with negative results in the journal already. One of these papers was Dianna Bartel’s work on taste nerve injury, which she performed in Thomas Finger’s lab at the University of Colorado Denver…
It’s the @F1000 Twitter weekly round up, including other interesting stories from the Twitterweb.
We at F1000Research have a strong belief in transparency: transparency in peer review; transparency in research that is published, through the release and publication of all the underlying data; and transparency in publication, through acceptance of both positive and the ’unexciting’ negative and null findings to reduce the current positive publication bias. Most scientists we…
One of the main aims of F1000Researchis to have the raw data behind every research and data article we publish on display (we are the only life sciences journal that does this systematically). But publishing data is just the first step; we also want this data to be easy to discover and easy to use.…
Diabetes & Endocrinology Faculty Member Peter Ebeling on his research into osteoporosis and vitamin D.
Diabetes & Endocrinology Head of Faculty Willis Samson and Physiology Faculty Member Gina Yosten on their research into hormones and receptors.
Last week the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) launched, with Faculty of 1000 as one of the original 75 scientific organizations to sign the Declaration. DORA is a laudable initiative and anyone with an interest in improving the way we assess the quality and impact of research should read and, if you agree…
