The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
Authorea released the workflow, data and working draft of an important Ebola article that was published recently in Cell. For outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola it is especially critical that information is available to researchers and healthcare workers. (F1000Research has waived article processing charges on any submissions to the Ebola channel, which also…
Erica Shaddock, Univerity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has been an Associate Faculty Member in the Respiratory Disorders Faculty since 2008. She works with Faculty Member Charles Feldman to write article recommendations in the Respiratory Diseases Section. Recently, Erica visited us at the F1000 offices in London. Here she tells Publisher Kathleen Wets about her work…
We are delighted to welcome eminent neurobiologist Professor Mu-ming Poo to the F1000 International Advisory Board. Mu-ming Poo is Director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai and the Director of the CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology. He is also the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor…
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 article Design and conduct of Xtreme Everest 2: An observational cohort study of Sherpa and lowlander responses to graduated hypobaric hypoxia [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/57m] Edward Gilbert-Kawai,…
The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is currently underway in Geneva. You can follow along on Twitter with the #OAI9 hashtag. Euroscientist interviewed Jan Velterop about the next steps towards open science. The Web will either kill science journals or save them, says Wired. We’re mentioned as one of the positive changes. As…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere. Eyes on the Prize: what to do to nail that Nobel you always wanted https://t.co/IYq8pYqaRR — F1000 (@F1000) June 16, 2015 Statins, not sorcery: greater education of physicians needed to ensure high-risk patients receive high-dose statins.…
Hot on the heels of announcing our first society channel with the ISCB, we are equally as delighted to reveal we will be partnering with the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) to publish a new channel called the INCF Community journal, which will launch in August [See press release]. Now becoming an established field that…
We are happy to be able to congratulate two F1000 Faculty Members on receiving Queen’s birthday honours. Professor Helen Cross, Faculty Member within the Neurological Disorders Faculty, receives an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to children with epilepsy. Professor Cross is Prince of Wales Chair of Childhood Epilepsy…
Associate Faculty Member and F1000 Specialist Jeffrey Hannah recently attended a meeting at the New York Academy of Sciences on emerging approaches to cancer immunotherapy. In this guest post, he tells us what he learned about the latest developments in this emerging field.
