Open Science News – 7 August 2015

The Center for Open Science has grants available for developers to help connect various open science services. In other news about connecting resources, the EU is planning to set up a unified “science cloud” to provide access to all European research data. Don’t forget the open science meetup in Berlin, on Friday August 14. It’s…

New on F1000Research – 3 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 sports cardiology channel discusses issues relating to myocardial hypertrophy and injury due to different sport activities such as endurance sport, strength/power sport (e.g. bodybuilding, weight lifting)…

Open Science News – 31 July 2015

This week, Adam Becker is tweeting from rotation Twitter account @astrotweeps and one of the things he’s talking about is open science. If you want an introduction, from an astrophysics point of view, head on over there! The account changes host every week. If you’re in Berlin on August 14, you can join this open…

Online treasure hunt and offline meet-up

We have some fun things planned for August! UCL pub night First of all, if you’re based at University College London, we’re hosting a pub night just for you on August 19. See the Naturally Selected blog for more information, and make sure to let us know on Eventbrite if you’re coming. There’ll be free…

UCL meet-up August 19

Are you based at University College London? Join us on August 19 upstairs at Prince of Wales Feathers (near Warren Street station) for some free drinks and food, and to meet other F1000Prime, F1000Workspace and F1000Research users from UCL. We will start the evening at 6PM, and there will be a very short talk at…

Canada-Gairdner Award 2015

Lewis Cantley will receive the 2015 Canada-Gairdner Award in October, for his groundbreaking discovery of a family of enzymes that are fundamental to understanding cancer. Prof. Cantley has been a Section Head of the Cell Signalling Section since the beginnings of F1000 in 2001. He is the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer…

New on F1000Research – 27 July 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 BioJS channel is one of the oldest F1000Research channels. It originally only included articles, but since the F1000Research platform update earlier this month the editors…

Open Science News – 24 July 2015

The Sydney Conference on Scholarly Communication Beyond Paywalls took place this week, and you can find lots of tweets under the #sydconf15 hashtag, and a summary video on their YouTube channel. A new resource on opensource.com: What is open science? There are just a few weeks left to apply for the Mozilla Fellowship for Science.…