Here are the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
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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: Sub-strains of Drosophila Canton-S differ markedly in their locomotor behavior [v1; ref status: awaiting peer review, https://f1000r.es/3is] Julien Colomb, Björn Brembs This new article could redefine how we think about…
Who is ultimately responsible for the content of a research paper? Most of us would point at the authors: referees can assess what’s in the paper, but we have to trust that the authors present ‘real’ (not fabricated) data and that they report all results, not a cherry-picked selection. And yet, the expectation generally is…
The importance of elasmobranchs, the group comprising sharks, skates and rays, is indisputable – several play essential roles as marine apex predators, many are of commercial value and some are key models in biomedical research. Overfishing to feed an incessant appetite for shark fin soup has led to the killing of ~100 million sharks every year…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
What was new in open science this week? A few days ago Neil Hall published this paper on Genome Biology calling for a new index to measure social media impact of scientists. What he didn’t expect was that his comment would spawn #AlternateScienceMetrics. Have a look at fellow F1000 Specialist Graham Steel’s excellent Storify. We recently published…
Erin McKiernan is a researcher in experimental and computational neuroscience. You can follow her on Twitter @emckiernan13 F1000Research is the first journal that goes beyond open access, by practicing both open data sharing and open peer review. Sharing information in an open manner leads to a better scholarly environment by, among other things, promoting collaborations…
We have all heard people repeatedly pointing out that scholarly publishing has hardly changed since the first scientific journal article in 1665 and is still done largely within the constraints of a printing press. This is true on many levels including the humble figure. The latest article published in F1000Research by Björn Brembs and colleagues…
Our latest #F1000talks live chat discussed how patient advocates find scientific information and expert advice. We had a great turnout of patients, patient advocates, research scientists and clinicians, and we were delighted to hear their ideas and questions. We have summed up the discussion with a Storify. We hope you enjoy our monthly tweet chats,…
