It’s all in the mind, you know. Blame it on my lack of a classical education, but it was only a couple of years ago I realized that the word ‘hysteria’ is a feminist issue. It comes via the Greek for ‘uterus’, hence υστερία. The ancients believed that psychological-based problems (as opposed to physical ailments) only…
Our good friends at The Scientist named those who will receive the National Medal of Science in the US next month and we are happy to report one of our colleagues made the grade. Biochemist JoAnne Stubbe from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who The Scientist recently profiled, is being honored for her work on…
Clive Cookson over at the Financial Times reports on Wednesday night’s tête–à-tête between Lord Drayson, the UK’s Science Minister, and writer/broadcaster/medical doctor Ben Goldacre. Goldacre is behind badscience.net and is somewhat outspoken in his opinions. I didn’t sign up to see the debate, seeing as I’d been invited to a movie: which I’m convinced was more…
We had a lot of welcome interest this morning on a press release, from the expected (New Scientist, LiveScience.com) to the unusual (Die Welt, Sueddeutsche Zeitung), which showed once again that a sexy title and the combination of money, pain and relationships still make attractive reading. What we always hope is that the message doesn’t…
As a follow-up to yesterday’s tweet about the Sense About Science’s sensibly titled Peer Review Survey, a few thoughts. Out of the press reports on the Elsevier-funded study I’ve scanned though, a common phrase seemed to “no one has come up with a better method than peer reviewing, so we’re stuck with it”. My colleague…
…what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause Thomson, in a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reckon there ain’t nowt wrong with the Journal Impact Factor: The impact factor has had success and utility as a journal metric due to its concentration on…
As mentioned, I’m the new PR Manager at f1000 and will working on some exciting promotions for the website and the company in general. To give some background, I shifted over from Australia last August and did a short stint in the wilds of local council in Dagenham before a much more interesting senior press…
The desk next to me was last week occupied by a new appointment. Yay! This is Stephen Pogonowski, who joins us from (most recently) the Medical Research Council, where he was Senior Press Officer. He’ll be handling our (whisper it softly) PR for us. And hopefully ramping up the content here and on Twitter. And…
I’ve been remiss. I should have talked a bit about the events of last Saturday: truth is I was struck by a stomach bug on Tuesday night and have been a little bit out of things. If you’re interested, there is a video of the ‘Fringe Frivolous‘ event of the Friday evening and lots and…
I’ve been struggling to get some ‘About’ pages in shape for the new site, and all of a sudden Broad has got four wickets, and things are looking a lot more exciting for England. But over the last few weeks we (that is F1000, not the England XI) have been getting some very flattering emails…
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