New on F1000Research – 15 December 2014

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 Using Twitter to investigate opinions about multiple sclerosis treatments: a descriptive, exploratory study [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4bu] Sreeram Ramagopalan, Radek Wasiak, Andrew P. Cox “We present here, to…

Changing science culture: Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Last week, F1000Research’s managing director, Rebecca Lawrence, attended a meeting with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics to discuss the culture of science research and the drivers behind it. Rebecca represented science publishers, alongside Dame Nancy Rothwell (President and Vice-Chancellor, Uni of Manchester) who represented UK research institutions, and Steven Hill (Head of Research Policy, Higher…

Open Science News – 12 December 2014

This week every single item in our round-up is something that YOU can participate in. If you’re in North America or in the Northern part of South America (check the map) you can help out the Audubon Bird Count by counting birds near you between December 14 and January 5. Find out how to join…

Mice and museums

Chilly mice: does it matter that rodents used as preclinical models for translational research are cold? https://t.co/Qk497pulvr — F1000 (@F1000) December 5, 2014 Save the museums! For taxonomy's sake, we need to preserve the relics of species in our "cathedrals of biodiversity" https://t.co/fL77lcQkHc — F1000 (@F1000) December 9, 2014 Always have a plan B: a…

Dame Kay Davies on her lifetime's work in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited Dame Kay Davies in Oxford soon after she won the WISE Lifetime Achievement Award. The award celebrated her outstanding career in science, which inspired other women to follow in her footsteps. In Kathleen’s video, Dame Kay, an F1000 International Advisory Board Member, tells us about her almost 3 decades…

New on F1000Research – 8 December 2014

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 A common feature pharmacophore for FDA-approved drugs inhibiting the Ebola virus [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4qh] Sean Ekins, Joel S. Freundlich, Megan Coffee “We propose that these drugs identified to…

Nominate antibody companies for the CiteAb Awards

Are you happy with the commercial antibodies you’re using? If you are, you can now nominate your favourite antibody company in the “Researcher’s Choice” category of the first annual CiteAb Antibody Awards. CiteAb is partnering with F1000Research to launch the awards, which aim to celebrate the very best suppliers, reagents and individuals in the research…

New on F1000Research – 1 December 2014

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.   Articles welcoming your feedback As you know, you can always comment on any article in F1000Research, but there are two recent articles that should be of broad interest to many researchers,…