After a particularly cold and brutal winter, this past 26th March, F1000 invited local life scientists and clinicians to Cambridge’s (MA) FIRE + ICE for an evening of networking and talking publishing and science We kicked off the event with a short presentation on the new F1000 Workspace, followed by a second presentation on F1000Research’s…
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 The culture of scientific research [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/53j] Catherine Joynson, Ottoline Leyser “In 2014, the UK-based Nuffield Council on Bioethics carried out a series of…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
Are you in New York City? There’s an Open Science meetup next week. Last week’s webinar about getting tenure with open science, with Titus Brown, is now viewable on YouTube. The US Government has released datasets to help study the health impacts of climate change. Erin McKiernan has collected examples of collaborations resulting from open…
F1000 Specialist Kirsten KyungWha Lee will be hosting the #F1000talks tweet chat on @F1000 next week. Kirsten is a neuroscientist at the City University of New York, currently investigating glutamate transporter-mediated synaptic clearance. She is a beginner cyclist and a foursquare super user. You can connect with her on Twitter (@ScienceJobNYC) and LinkedIn.
Back in November 2014, BioMed Central discovered about 50 manuscripts in their editorial system that involved fake peer reviewers. Following a detailed investigation, they have now started the process of retracting 43 papers that had been published on the basis of reviews from made-up reviewers. Some of these papers were from the original 50 but…
Below is a selection of newly indexed and published articles on F1000Research. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts New channel: Our newest channel is on Oxygen-binding and sensing proteins, with guest editor Robert Poole. It includes a snapshot of the work presented at a meeting on…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
April is F1000 awards season: yesterday we announced the winners of the AFM Travel Grants, and today, we are thrilled to announce the winners of the ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ awards and ‘Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year‘ awards – these awards allow us to celebrate the hard work of our Faculty Members. Every…
A day early this week because of the bank holiday tomorrow, but there was still plenty of news from the open science community. This Friday (April 3) you can tune in to a webinar on “Gaining Tenure as an Open Scientist”, hosted by OpenCon with Titus Brown as guest. One of the fears people often…
