The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 social media feeds this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
Content from the former Open Science Stack Exchange has been moved to two locations where they might see more interaction. Old entries are now part of the Academia Stack Exchange (such as this question) as well as a new platform launched by Christian Pietsch. Stephen Curry shares his thoughts on peer review and preprints on…
In December, Dr Vikash Bhardwaj from Lovely Professional University in India published an article in F1000Research that showed that he was able to generate PCR products in a parallel (rather than antiparallel) direction. In this blog post he describes some of the opportunities and conversations that followed this publication, and introduces his opinion piece “Villain…
Termed the ‘pre-Nobels’ because 50% of award winners go on to win a Nobel Prize, the 2015 Lasker awards were announced yesterday. I am pleased to say that two F1000 Faculty are among the recipients! Professor Stephen Elledge from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s hospital, and an F1000 Faculty Member in…
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 channel on lupus nephritis and neuropsychiatric lupus, edited by Chaim Putterman, Richard Quigg and Beatrice Goilav, is a place for original research articles regarding the manifestations,…
Researchers in Paris – mark your calendars! On October 1st, we will be in your beautiful city to host an F1000 meet-up. This is an opportunity for you to find out a bit more about F1000, have some drinks and food on us, and meet other researchers from institutes in the area. We’ve previously held…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 social media feeds this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) launched, and will start accepting submissions in November. Like F1000Research, they will publish articles in all stages of research, including hypotheses and proposals. They also allow versioned articles. Good to see others using this type of publication model, and expanding it to other fields! It was also a good week…
The Wikipedia Science Conference took place in London this week, and brought together scientists, Wikipedians, science communicators, programmers and others for a two-day discussion about those areas where Wikipedia and science overlap. There were talks about getting scientists to help edit Wikipedia, about the extent of the scientific information available on Wikipedia, and how we…
We’re extremely sad to report that Medical Genetics Faculty Member Sue Malcolm passed away in late August. Emeritus Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, Sue was an active Member of F1000 since its inception in 2001. In 2011, she won the F1000 Faculty Member of the Year Award…
