We are very sad to note the passing of Professor Maurice Sabelis, Ecology Faculty Member from 2004. Dr Sabelis was a professor at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He passed away on 7th January this year, after a two-year illness. IBED reports that he was “scientifically…
Today, we are very pleased to highlight some exciting new data with regards to genome sequencing. We have just published a short research paper from the Bader lab at the University of Toronto providing the first public example of the Oxford MinION nanopore sequencer being evaluated for utility in the clinic. For those not familiar…
Toby Maher has been an F1000 Faculty Member in the Respiratory Diseases Faculty since 2011. Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited him at the Royal Brompton hospital in London, where Maher is a clinician-scientist. During Kathleen’s visit, she bumped into Prince Charles, who just happened to be making an official visit as the same time!…
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 Shaping the Future of Research: a perspective from junior scientists [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yc] Gary S. McDowell, Kearney T. W. Gunsalus, Drew C. MacKellar, Sarah A. Mazzilli, Vaibhav P.…
Three topics jumped out in Open Science news this week: open peer review, calls for conference posters, and FORCE2015 meeting summaries. Open Review A new version of the Open Science Peer Review Oath is now up. Based on reviewers’ and commenters’ feedback, the new version is much more succinct. Related: Daniel Katz blogged about open…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
F1000Research is one of the partners of Sense About Science’s “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops. Below is a report from the most recent workshop, written by Anna Cupani. Anna is working on her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College, London in a joint collaboration with a Belgian research institute, VITO. She is interested…
In our birthday week, we published a lot of new articles and referee reports. Some of the most recently peer reviewed and published articles are below, but make sure to subscribe to the table of contents alert emails if you want to receive all updates. You can also track individual articles to be notified when…
This week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from Twitter.
We’re starting 2015 off with lots of open science news. Here’s a summary: Next week is the FORCE2015 meeting in Oxford, about innovations in research communication. If you’re not able to attend, you can follow the conference online on their site or via Twitter at #FORCE2015 Two open science communities have community calls next week.…
