It’s F1000 award season once again, and up first are the winners of the 2014 AFM travel grants – a chance for us to show our appreciation for the invaluable contributions of our Associate Faculty Members (AFMs). We started the AFM travel grant fund in 2011 – for each recommendation added to F1000Prime in the…
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 Interpretation of mRNA splicing mutations in genetic disease: review of the literature and guidelines for information-theoretical analysis [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/54y] Natasha G. Caminsky, Eliseos J.…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
Lots of meeting notes from Open Science meeting in this week’s roundup! Meeting report from last week’s Open Science meeting at the Center for Open Science, by Amye Kenall. When Data Sharing Gets Close to 100%: What Human Paleogenetics Can Teach the Open Science Movement. Article in PLOS One Notes from the Science 2.0 Conference…
As you might know, we’re partnered with Sense About Science to support their “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops in the UK. We recently published a report by Anna Cupani who attended the previous workshop at St Andrews University. The next workshop has now been announced and will take place in London on May 29.…
Getting a new research grant is hard. You have to write a proposal about things you haven’t even done yet, and convince a panel that your work is important and likely to succeed. And because you haven’t done the work yet (because you need grant money first) you don’t have published articles to support your…
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 Guiding Ebola patients to suitable health facilities: an SMS-based approach [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/51l] Mohamad-Ali Trad, Raja Jurdak, Rajib Rana “We propose building a recommendation system…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
Amanda Rodewald writes on The Hill about recent bills considered in the US, and discusses whether they are in sync with the ideal of Open Science. Lots of tweets from the Open Science meeting at the Center for Open Science on #opensci15 An interesting workshop for graduate school administrators “from Engineering, Marine and Biosciences Doctoral…
Gillian Murphy is professor emeritus of cancer cell biology at Cambridge University. She visited F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets at the F1000 offices last week. In this video, she tells us about her new role as joint Section Head of Cartilage Disorders and Osteoarthritis at F1000, and explains her previous research in extracellular matrix and proteinases…
