We are sad to mark the death of Renal Pharmacology Section Head Russell Chesney. Dr Chesney was a pediatric nephrologist at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee, as well as president of the American Pediatric Society and chairman of the American Board of Pediatrics. He joined F1000 as a Section Head in March…
As you know, we’re one of the sponsors for Sense About Science’s “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops, aimed at graduate students. The next one is in Glasgow, on September 17. Information from Sense About Science on how to register is below, and you can read the experiences of a participant at a previous workshop…
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 Ever worked with an antibody that just doesn’t do what it promised to do? Or managed to get an antibody optimized to detect a mouse protein…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
Earlier this year we published a pocket-sized research article describing the effect of capsaicin on vascular smooth muscle growth (and this post arguing in favour of short reports). Support for this idea is gaining pace as prominent neuroscientist Professor William Mobley, Chair of the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California San Diego has…
Today and tomorrow the Future of Research meeting is taking place in San Francisco. You can find a report from their first meeting in F1000Research. Ron Vale has written a great preprint about the need for preprints. “Our analysis suggests that publication practices have changed considerably in the life sciences over the past thirty years.…
This is a guest post by Microbiology Associate Faculty Member Michelle Leach, University of Toronto, who recently spent a few weeks interning at the BBC Science department. Here, she tells us about her experience and what she learned about disseminating science to a broad lay audience.
Hunting for references while you’re writing? Save time with F1000Workspace. Our Word plug-in allows you to find relevant citations without even leaving Word. Whilst you’re writing, simply open up the ‘F1000’ tab in Word. From here, you can directly search PubMed, all F1000Prime article recommendations, and your own saved references or projects on F1000Workspace. F1000Workspace…
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 F1000Research gateways are personalized portals for institutions or organizations that have multiple channels, with links to featured content and other resources. The International Society for Computational…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
