New on F1000Research – 1 September 2015

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 For universities in the Northern hemisphere, the start of September usually marks “back to school” season. If you’re about to teach a new cohort of undergraduates, have…

Open Science News – 28 August 2015

The big open science news this week was the publication of the summary report of the Center for Open Science’s Reproducibility Project, which replicated one hundred published studies in psychology, and found that more than half did not hold up. The entire project is itself open for anyone to reproduce in R and Ed Yong…

Antibiotic resistance, genetic sniff tests and anxiety disorders – Twitter roundup

Fighting the fear: introducing novelty facilitated extinction as a potential treatment for anxiety disorders https://t.co/na4ZmbrRLF — F1000 (@F1000) August 24, 2015 Too clean for our own good? Common use of biocides (disinfectants) may be worsening the antibiotic resistance crisis https://t.co/NBnAQgPmtZ — F1000 (@F1000) August 27, 2015 Perception is everything: a new test where a quick…

More Shark Week—More Elasmobranch Biology and Conservation

August 29th sees a new addition to Discovery’s Shark Week: ShWeekend. Because 1 week just isn’t enough. To coincide with the occasion, F1000Research has teamed up with the 19th Annual Scientific Conference of the European Elasmobranch Association. Attendees are invited to share and publish their academic posters and slides in our dedicated Elasmobranch Biology & Conservation…

Lynn Kamerlin and Klaudia Szeler

Biocatalysis Faculty Member Lynn Kamerlin and her Associate Faculty Member Klaudia Szeler came to visit us in the F1000 London office. Both are from Uppsala University, Sweden, where Lynn is an Associate Professor of Structural Biology. In the video below, Lynn and Klaudia talk about their research in computational biology, research that sits at the…

New on F1000Research – 24 August 2015

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 Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) recently launched their own channels on F1000Research. This will include articles from the field of neuroinformatics, as well as posters and…

Open Science News – 21 August 2015

Was the Ecological Society of America (ESA) too strict with their social media policy during their recent conference? Many attendees (and followers of the #ESA100 hash tag) were expecting the ESA to have a “tweet unless told not to” policy, but it was changed at the last moment to a policy allowing attendees to only…

World Mosquito Day

Today is World Mosquito Day, which is being celebrated at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. To mark the occasion, have a look at a selection of the great mosquito/malaria content on F1000Research!   Slides: De Wit M, Bil K, Siddiqui R et al. What is causing the rise in malaria cases in…