As our sister journal F1000Research publishes the full experimental results of Kenneth Lee’s attempts to replicate the notorious STAP cell research, we thought we’d chart the story so far…
Update: We have also interviewed Kenneth Lee, here. Many of you will have been following the STAP stem cell saga: In January, researchers from Japan announced in Nature that they had produced induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) by bathing somatic cells in acid. Other researchers were sceptical of these claims, and tried to reproduce…
When projects end, people move on, equipment may be re-homed, and funders may encourage the next phase of research to move in a different direction. Perhaps the data did not show the expected trend, or perhaps more work is required to fully analyse the dataset. This is a common experience in fields such as biochemistry,…
Following on from the success of our recent Diversity in Research and Reproducibility in Research tweetchats, the next instalment of the #F1000Talks running on the @F1000Research Twitter account will cover the topic of “archiving research before publication”. The Tweetchat will take place on Tuesday 6th of May at 1pm (EST), 6pm (BST). It is widely…
This is the first in a series of posts in which we go into more detail about some of the concepts that F1000Research is based on. In this first instalment, we look at open access. What is open access exactly? And what are some common misconceptions about open access? A short history of open access…
A key aim of the F1000Research approach to publishing is to clean up the peer review process – referees are still invited but this is done after publication (to remove the normal holdups in when the science is shared) and is done completely in the open (with names and referee reports published alongside the article).…
Yesterday we talked about reproducibility on Twitter, as one of Faculty of 1000’s #F1000Talks series of discussions around topics relevant to researchers. Our guests for the reproducibility discussion were Ivan Oransky, Elizabeth Iorns and Christin Chong. It was an engaging discussion, which got even more lively as other people joined in. What I found especially…
This past Wednesday, March 19th we had our third #F1000Talks tweet chat installment where we discussed science and researcher diversity. The discussion was a fast-paced one, full of great ideas and advice from all of our participants. Be sure to join us again in April for another exciting afternoon! We will announce the topic and special guests shortly. In the…
Take a look at your typical research laboratory and you are likely to see a small representation of UN-member countries. During my time as a graduate student studying vascular development in the lab of Dr Dan Turnbull, at NYU, there was a strong representation of researchers from Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Poland, Puerto Rico (technically…
As you know, at F1000Research we ask that all authors include all data with their publications. But why share data? What are the benefits? In one example, below, Michael R. Hunsaker shares his successful story of getting a publication based on data that were shared by another lab, after they first used his data. Do…
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