This past Wednesday, August 6th, we hosted the latest installment of the #F1000Talks tweetchats; we discussed Open Science Advocacy as an Early Career Researcher. We had a fantastic turnout and a fast-paced discussion, full of great testimonials and advice on transforming Open Science from the exception to the norm. Couldn’t make it to the tweetchat?…
Recently, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the F1000 Specialists programme, we invited all Specialists to participate in a video competition, i.e. submit a short video of the research that goes on in their lab. We’re rewarding each video with a £10 Amazon voucher, with a further chance to win a £50 voucher for being…
If you’re looking for advice about giving talks or presenting a poster, the blog Reason I Am Here, by Bioinformatics PhD student and scientific storyteller Nacho Caballero, regularly features great tips in these areas. We asked Nacho to share some advice with F1000Research readers, and below is his advice on giving a memorable talk about…
Our congratulations to F1000 Section Head Tony Hunter, who has been awarded the 2014 Royal Medal for biological sciences by the Royal Society. Tony Hunter is director of Salk’s NCI-designated Cancer Center and has been on the F1000 Faculty since its conception in 2001*. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society and a…
To launch F1000Research’s new Elasmobranch Biology & Conservation Article Collection, our Outreach Director for the Americas, César Berríos-Otero, hosted a Google Hangout with David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter), Vicky Vasquez (@VickyV_TeamORF) and Christie Wilcox (@NerdyChristie) in order to talk elasmobranchs, conservation, Sharknado, Shark Week and more. The talk was streamed live on August 7th, but if you…
It’s Shark Week and to help raise awareness of the importance of elasmobranchs we have launched our open science article collection on Elasmobranch Biology & Conservation, a platform for scholarly articles on sharks, skates and rays (and chimaeras). The Guest Editors of the collection are David Shiffman (University of Miami) and Charles Bangley (East Carolina…
We are delighted to welcome Michael Eisen to F1000’s International Advisory Board. Michael Eisen initially joined F1000 in September 2001 as a Faculty Member in the Genomics & Genetics Faculty. Best known for being a co-founder of PLOS (Public Library of Science) in 2000, he is also a professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at…
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: Ecological implications of reduced pollen supply in the alpine: a case study using a dominant cushion plant species Anya Reid, Robyn Hooper, Olivia Molenda, Christopher J. Lortie Changes in temperature…
What was new in open science this week? F1000 Specialist extraordinaire Ross Mounce is at it again! Check out his interview at opensource.com on why Open Science is the future of scientific discovery. As divided as it is, even the US Congress is concerned about reproducibility in research! We might not all be (Isaac) Newtons…
The researcher stared at a writhing star-shaped mass of tentacle-like appendages, each with a mouth and teeth, and with a few of these severing themselves in half and carrying on individually … Readers would be forgiven for assuming this was the sighting of a cosmic entity at the end of a Lovecraft novella, except the…
