(This is part 4 of a series of posts featuring speakers from “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”, an evening of talks about peer review, data sharing, and open access. Previously: Lawrence Kane on rapid publication, Keith Flaherty on publishing negative results , Steven Hyman on sharing datasets ) Sue Griffin is is Dillard Professor…
At the end of April, the National Academy of Sciences announced 84 new members and 21 foreign associates to join the ranks of its current members, individuals who are recognized for their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”. We are delighted to congratulate the following F1000Prime members on their election to this prestigious group…
(This is part 3 of a series of posts featuring speakers from “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”, an evening of talks about peer review, data sharing, and open access. Previously: Lawrence Kane on rapid publication, Keith Flaherty on publishing negative results.) Steven Hyman is Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and…
Advice to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on data release from clinical trials, published last week, should ultimately help to improve healthcare but reveals widely divided opinion on exactly how data sharing should happen. The advice documents cover different aspects of clinical data sharing and reuse. Five advisory groups discussed: protecting patient confidentiality, data formats,…
(This is part 2 of a series of posts featuring speakers from “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”, an evening of talks about peer review, data sharing, and open access. Previously: Lawrence Kane on rapid publication.) Keith Flaherty is Director of Developmental Therapeutics at the Massachusetts Cancer Center. In his talk he addressed the benefits…
We recently hosted “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”, an evening of talks and discussion with several distinguished speakers. Each guest speaker focused on one particular aspect of publishing and peer review. We’ve recorded all the talks, and will be posting them one by one, starting today, and continuing throughout next week. The guest speaker…
Here are our most popular tweets, as well as some other interesting picks, from the past week on the @F1000 Twitter feed
Many thanks to all our Twitter followers who indulged us on Friday and sent in their best science-related jokes. Having laughed (and groaned) our way through the entries, we’ve now picked our favourites. The winners will be notified on Twitter, and will each receive a tin of luxury biscuits from Fortnum & Mason – biscuits…
A round up of the week’s most popular Tweets from @F1000, as well as our picks from the rest of Twitter…
We’ve just returned from the FASEB Experimental Biology meeting in Boston, where we hosted an evening of discussions about science publishing. We invited five prominent guest speakers to discuss the importance of rapid publication, publishing non-standard studies, open data, transparent peer review, and the influence of governments and funders on open access. All talks have…
