The most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from Twitter.
This week, some literal “open science news” as open science hit the media: Open science was mentioned on Canadian TV this week, in TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Wall Street journal blog Pharmalot discusses issues with sharing older clinical trial data. Science Careers discusses various aspects of open science, from open notebooks to open…
(cross-posted from the F1000 Naturally Selected blog) Are you based in Oxford, UK? We’re having a meet-up there on February 10 – everyone is welcome! F1000 meet-ups are a chance for researchers to meet others working in the same city, and to talk to F1000 and F1000Research staff, or meet their local F1000 Specialists. At…
Are you based in Oxford, UK? We’re having a meet-up there on February 10 – everyone is welcome! F1000 meet-ups are a chance for researchers to meet others working in the same city, and to talk to F1000 and F1000Research staff, or meet their local F1000 Specialists. At this Oxford meet-up, you’ll also get to…
Brendan Crabb, F1000 Section Head in Microbiology, has been awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) as part of the Australia day honours. The award recognises his contributions to medical research and global health. Crabb is the Director and CEO of the Burnet institute, and past president of the Association of Australian Medical…
The Vilcek Prize for biomedical science recognizes major contributions to science made by immigrants to America. We are pleased to be able to say that Cell Biology Section Head Peter Walter has received the 2015 prize! Prof. Walter is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California San Francisco and has been…
With regret, we note the death of Ali Akoum, Faculty Member in Women’s Health since 2007 and Professor in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department at Laval University, Quebec. Dr Akoum passed away suddenly whilst on vacation with his family in Lebanon. His colleagues and peers left heartfelt tributes for him on his obituary on 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 Binding of a fluorescence reporter and a ligand to an odorant-binding protein of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yp ] Gabriel…
Interesting sites Looking at open science through the prism of a social dilemma. The open science movement is itself the subject of scholarly research. Very interesting stuff! “[O]pen science can be looked at through the prism of a social dilemma: what is in the collective best interest is not necessarily in the best interest of…
The most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from Twitter.
