We’re sad to mark the death of Austin Hughes, who had been Faculty Member of the F1000 Immunology Faculty since 2003. Hughes was Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina, and a week before his death on October 31st, his department had just nominated him for the Governor’s Award for Scientific Excellence.…
With regret, we received notice of the death of Helmut Schwilden, Section Head for Technology & Monitoring in Anesthesiology. Schwilden was Professor Extraordinarius at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen-Nürnberg, and joined F1000 in 2008. In his obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine, his colleagues praise his intelligence and the innovations he brought to the field of anaesthesiology. We…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) is a not-for-profit organization of medical professionals dedicated to improving patient outcomes by advancing the development, science and application of…
An article in PLOS Biology, and discussed on The Scientist, revealed that, of a random sample of over 400 articles in the biomedical literature, none provided access to all the data! The article is part of a new PLOS Collection on Meta-Research. But why share? Is open science the way forward? Daniel P. Newman asks…
It was a great start to the new year for some of our Faculty, whose work was recognized by none other than Queen Elizabeth II or President Obama. Georgina Mace (Faculty Member in Conservation & Restoration Ecology) was named Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the UK’s New…
If you follow us on Twitter you’ll have seen our account unseasonably active over the holiday period, as we tweeted our favourite articles, posters, slides, channels and referee reports of the past year. It was a busy year for us, where we merged with F1000Posters, started publishing F1000 Faculty Reviews (formerly F1000Prime Reports), launched many…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The International Symposium on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ Motor Neurone Disease (ALS/MND) is the largest medical and scientific conference specific to MND. It is the premier event in…
2015 has been another exciting year at F1000. We launched F1000Workspace, the paper-writing and collaboration tool, in May and, by November, over 1 million references had already been uploaded onto the service. Rebecca Lawrence was announced Managing Director in November, Harold Varmus joined our International Advisory Board, and several F1000 Faculty won Lasker awards. We…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The Desert Fishes Council is a nonprofit organization of scientists, managers, and citizens dedicated to preserving the biological integrity of desert aquatic ecosystems and their associated biota.…
Can open science help with public engagement of science? “Mapping the hinterland: Data issues in open science“, an article in Public Understanding of Science, explores this question. Nature Communications will start publishing the peer review histories of articles from January onward, unless the authors opt-out. In response to the above news, Leonid Schneider blogged about…
