Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
Due to a small technical issue, we missed last week’s round-up of open science news, so this one is a bit longer. It’s also a very busy time of year for open science, with both Open Access Week and MozFest just days away! Read on for this, and more news. Next week is Open Access…
The National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation are the highest awards the US gives to leaders in the fields of science and technology. This month, US President Barack Obama announced a new group of recipients, and we’re delighted to congratulate F1000 International Advisory Board Member Bruce Alberts and Section Head…
Featured article The effects of extremes of pH on the growth and transcriptomic profiles of three haloarchaea [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/48e] Aida Moran-Reyna, James A. Coker To find life outside of Earth, we need to know under what sort of extreme conditions organisms are still able to thrive. When it comes to halophilic archaea,…
Next week is International Open Access Week, and this year we have planned several events for you. Most of them are online events, so you can attend from anywhere in the world, and we hope to (virtually) meet many of you during our Google Hangout, web demo, and Reddit Science AMA. Google Hangout: The…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
F1000 Section Head David Tilman has been announced as the recipient of the 2014 Balzan Prize. Aiming to “promote culture, the sciences and the most meritorious initiatives in the cause of humanity, peace and fraternity among peoples throughout the world” this prestigious award was created from the inheritance Lina Balzan to honor the memory of…
Kathleen Wets, Publisher for F1000, today visited F1000 Faculty Member Hugo Spiers at the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL, London, and video-recorded him talking about his research into spatial cognition. Spiers used to work in Nobel Prize winner John O’Keefe’s lab, and his research on spatial memory, cognition and how we navigate through space follows…
As you know, we’re supporting the Sense About Science “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops that are regularly held in the UK. The next one will be on November 21st at the University of St Andrews. If you’re an early career researcher in Scotland or the North of England, this is well worth an afternoon…
The October issue of the open-access review journal F1000Prime Reports is now out, and for this month’s feature, we thought we’d put cardiac metabolism in the spotlight.