We have a flurry of announcements of interest to all scientists who create or use academic software as part of their research activities (so basically everyone): We recently strengthened our stance on software availability to better align with our Open Science principles. Now, the source code underlying any newly presented software must be made publically…
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 RPackage channel brings together all of the F1000Research articles describing new R packages that are applicable to the life sciences. R is the statistical language +…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 social media feeds this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
The schedule for the open science track of the Mozilla Festival is up. The festival will take place on November 6-8 in London, and tickets are still available (and give you access to all the other tracks as well, just in case three parallel streams of open science aren’t enough). Later in November, the 7th…
Many congratulations to Ecology Section Head David Karl, who recently a Balzan prize in Oceanography. Prof. Karl is the Professor of Oceanography at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, and Head of F1000’S Ecosystem Ecology Section. Karl won the Balzan Prize for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the…
We are sad to mark the passing of Nigel Clarke, Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and F1000 Faculty Member in the Neurological Disorders Faculty. Nigel was diagnosed with a brain tumour in June 2014 and, sadly, passed away on October 14th 2015. Russell Dale, Associate Dean at the University of Sydney described Nigel…
With regret, we mark the death of Michael Kilby, Faculty Member in the Infectious Diseases Faculty. Kilby was the chief of the Division for Infectious Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, and a renowned clinician in the field of HIV treatment. He passed away on the 10th August 2015. An obituary for Michael…
This is a guest post by Fiona Murphy, Project Manager for Giving Researchers Credit for their Data. “Researchers have too much to do, and too much of their work goes unrecognised. Tools like this will help to take the friction out of their daily lives and help them to share, improve and get credit for…
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 Biochemical Society exists for the advancement of the molecular and cellular biosciences, both as an academic discipline and to promote its impact on areas of science…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 social media feeds this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
