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Nadrian ‘Ned’ Seeman, professor of chemistry at New York University and Section Head of F1000’s Biomimetic Chemistry Section has won the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry. The Franklin Institutue has the aim of preserving Benjamin Franklin’s legacy by recognizing outstanding achievements in science, technology, and industry around the world. Professor Seeman was awarded the…

Shang Su is the F1000 Specialist Contact at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has found a number of ways to reach out to the research community there, which you can read about in the interview below. If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign…

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 Technologies such as Docker are now establishing themselves as a lightweight solution to packaging applications together with their dependencies, solving a range of problems from reproducible research…

The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 social media feeds this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.

OpenCon is almost upon us! If you’re not attending the main event in Brussels, check the site for a local event near you, or watch the livestream this weekend. You can find some of us at the London satellite event next week! Mendeley launched Mendeley Data, a new place where you can share your research…

We’re pleased to announce that Nobel Laureate and former NIH Director Harold Varmus has been appointed as Chairman of F1000’s International Advisory Board. The International Advisory Board advises F1000 on broad policy issues and on our development of new products and services, and assists in selecting the Heads of Faculty who oversee each of the…

Another guest post by Fiona Murphy about the previously mentioned project to give researchers credit for their data. Over the past few weeks, our project, ‘Giving Researchers Credit for their Data’ has continued to take shape. We held a meeting with key partners (Elsevier and ORCID) at the Jisc Headquarters and came away with some…

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 gateway University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands, and they have a gateway on F1000Research to showcase their research output. Research…

The entire editorial board of a top linguistics journal quits in protest of Elsevier policies, and is starting a new open access journal. This weekend, keep an eye on the #MozOpenSci tag on Twitter. It’s the hashtag for the Open Science Track of the annual Mozilla Festival. The week after that is OpenCon, which will…