A guest blog by David C. Norris, who together with Andrew Wilson recently published ‘Early-childhood housing mobility and subsequent PTSD in adolescence: a Moving to Opportunity reanalysis’ in our Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel. In the 1990s, Congress mandated the ‘Moving To Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration’ (MTO)—a randomized, controlled social experiment. MTO…
In response to the widespread outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil, some health experts published an open letter in May, calling for the upcoming Olympics to be postponed or moved. Although the World Health Organization released a statement that the risk of Zika spreading by the Olympics would be low, some athletes have dropped out.…
In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion in the biology research community about the potential of preprints as a tool to accelerate the dissemination of scientific results and ideas. Preprints in biology While preprints are well-established in other fields of science (particularly physics, mathematics and computer science through arXiv), they are still a…
I am delighted to have been selected to serve on the High-Level Advisory Group ‘Open Science Policy Platform’ (OSPP) at this important juncture in the EU’s vision on bringing open science to the way research across the EU is conducted and communicated. At the Dutch Presidency’s Open Science conference in Amsterdam in April, European Commissioner Carlos…
Recently, we published a slide set that was presented during the International Zika Summit held at the Institut Pasteur, Paris on April 25-26 2016 which explores collaborative data sharing in outbreak situations. We reached out to the authors and are delighted to have them write a guest post for us to discuss a possible way…
Each month we scan our poster and slides submissions and feature one as our ‘poster/slide of the month’. April’s choice is: “The Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal: accelerating type 2 diabetes research through community access to human genetic information and tools”. It was presented by Maria Costanzo, from the Broad Institute, at the 9th International…
It’s Friday, so take a break to catch up with what’s new in open science this week! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 22nd of April, 2016” on Storify]
This guest post is contributed by Imma Subirats & Jenny Knighton, both of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Imma is the co-chair of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD), which is the subject of this post. She is also an advisor to the OKAD channel on F1000Research,…
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Conference season is fast approaching so we will be highlighting some of the interesting posters and slides that are submitted to us throughout the year. With the recent global outbreaks of Ebola and Zika, there is a need to strengthen surveillance of emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases. Earlier detection of fast spreading disease-related threats, will…
