It’s Friday, so take a break to catch up with what’s new in open science this week! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 22nd of April, 2016” on Storify]
Nihal Okan is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. As F1000 Specialist he has helped organize meet-ups, invited the F1000 Outreach team to his institute, and much more. Here he tells about his experience. If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign up…
This guest post is contributed by Imma Subirats & Jenny Knighton, both of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Imma is the co-chair of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD), which is the subject of this post. She is also an advisor to the OKAD channel on F1000Research,…
The quality assurance and confidence in commercially available antibodies is something researchers naturally expect. Antibodies are a mainstay reagent in laboratories globally, but despite their abundant use they’re often the source of experimental torment. Inconsistencies in antibody catalogues and batch-to-batch variability means sometimes researchers are unable to reliably provide expected results and this uncertainty ultimately…
I recently attended the EU Presidency Conference on Open Science in Amsterdam. Refreshingly (and speedily), on the day after the conference, a draft Call for Action was issued. The challenge is for the various working groups being convened by the EC to turn the Call into action.
I recently attended the EU Presidency Conference on Open Science in Amsterdam. Refreshingly (and speedily), on the day after the conference, a draft Call for Action was issued. The challenge is for the various working groups being convened by the EC to turn the Call into action. Open science is often talked about as a…
Last month, we were delighted to announce the winners of the AFM Travel Grants for 2015. This month we are celebrating the hard work of our Faculty Members in recommending articles of merit by announcing the winners of our ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ awards and ‘Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year’ awards.
The internet has given us access to vast resources of knowledge; we have an ever-growing number of journals, publications and blogs at our disposal. Keeping up with this endless stream of exceptional supply of information can be tough, how many times you find something interesting to read, but don’t have time to read it right…
This year is the 40th anniversary of S, the ancestor of R – the open source language that has become an indispensable tool to the life sciences. It is also the 15th anniversary of Bioconductor, the software project focussing on the analysis of high-throughput genomic data, which is built on R. To mark these occasions…
It’s Friday, so treat yourself to a 10 minute break from what you are meant to be doing and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of open science this week! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 4th…
