We’ll be at EB 2015 AND we’re holding a Boston meet-up!
Bruce Alberts, a member of F1000’s International Advisory Board, has received the 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Hauge Abelson prize. Alberts is president emeritus of the National Academy of Sciences, professor emeritus in the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and former editor in chief…
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 Referee Report Since our refereeing is open and transparent, we can feature some of the great comments we get. This is a quote from a referee report…
The most popular article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
It was a busy week for Open Science, so these are just some of the highlights we came across. What drives academic data sharing? An article by researchers from Berlin concludes that “research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress” Henry Chesbrough, who…
Earlier this week I attended (and spoke at) a workshop about publication bias, organised by NC3Rs – the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research. This group is interested in the publication bias issue because using animals in research adds an extra responsibility to publish all of the results of…
David Tilman, Community Ecology & Biodiversity Section Head in the Ecology Faculty, has taken the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology for scientifically demonstrating how biodiversity makes ecosystems more stable, productive and resilient. Tilman, Regents professor at the University of Minnesota who also won a Balzan prize last year, published…
We are pleased to be able to say that Immunology Head of Faculty Philippa Marrack has jointly won the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine – a prestigious prize that recognises scientists at the top of their field. Marrack, from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center (NJMRC) in Denver, Colorado, shares the prize with two…
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 Strain-specific and pooled genome sequences for populations of Drosophila melanogaster from three continents. [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/515] Casey M. Bergman, Penelope R. Haddrill This data note…
The most popular article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
