What was new in open science this week? CGIAR is running a competition “to find new, enticing and innovative online ways to present CGIAR research facts, figures and open data sources”. After the Open Source Pharma conference, attendees launched a Thunderclap to draw more attention to the need for open source drug development. The CASRAI…
A round up of the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of the Twitterverse…
Head of Faculty Philip Ingham has been awarded the 2014 Waddington medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB). Ingham is the Toh Kian Chui Distinguished Professor and Vice Dean research at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, and has been with F1000 since its birth in 2011. The Waddington medal is…
As I posted earlier this year, I have been co-chairing the CASRAI Peer Review Services Working Group together with Laura Paglione (Technical Director, ORCID) to look at the best way to recognise referee reports as a formal output in for example an ORCID profile. This project has looked at the peer review of a wide…
Last month, we launched a video competition for F1000 Specialists. The competition is open until the end of the month, so I’ve rallied in Outreach Coordinator and F1000 Specialists Manager Antonia Desmond to create her own short video about her journey from PhD to F1000. This short video is all that’s needed to enter the…
Do you create and present posters at scientific conferences? We thought so. Posters are one of the key ways early research is disseminated. Academic Editor, Researcher and F1000 Specialist Nicholas Rowe explains the important role posters play and why we need to pay more attention to them. In our professional and academic roles, we often…
We are looking forward to the BioConference Live Genetics and Genomics virtual event on August 20th and 21st. Our booth will be open around the clock, but if you drop by between 11-12PM or 2-3PM EST, our resident scientists will be in attendance to answer your questions. Come learn about how F1000 can help you…
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: Immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry identify non-cell autonomous Otx2 homeoprotein in the granular and supragranular layers of mouse visual cortex Namsuk Kim, Dario Acampora, Florent Dingli, Damarys Loew, Antonio Simeone,…
What was new in open science this week? Rumours surfaced that Google is working on “Google Science”, but there doesn’t seem to be any more evidence than a single document of unknown source. Notes from yesterday’s Mozilla Science call are up. The big news is that next week is the deadline to submit proposals for…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
