Tag Archives: citizen science
Filling the Biodiversity Dark Spots: Announcing the Asia Nature Challenge
Scott Edmunds - October 3, 2024
GigaScience Press is helping CitizenScience.Asia mobilise Citizen Scientists Across Asia for a groundbreaking biodiversity initiative from October 18 to 27 2024. Regular readers will have seen our efforts to promote and amplify citizen science projects, citizen science being a key driver of “Open Engagement of Societal Actors”, which was highlighted by UNESCO as one of […]
Publishing Citizen Science Data: Q&A with the Hong Kong Jellyfish Project
Scott Edmunds - May 20, 2024
Today we publish a new Data Release presenting a dataset of jellyfish sightings collected by citizen scientists from 2021 through 2023 within Hong Kong waters. This is the first example where our curation team have worked with a Citizen Science project to share their observations in the GBIF biodiversity database. Here we have a Q&A […]
Citizen Scientists can see the wood for the trees
Hans Zauner - March 6, 2024
Few countries have a biodiversity that’s comparable to Brazil’s, including plant-based food sources that are little known elsewhere. Even in big cities you may pick all kinds of fruit directly from the tree, which can be both tasty and also interesting for the botanist. The Citizen Science project “Pomar Urbano” collects data on urban fruit-bearing […]
Cell Biology in Washington DC: GigaScience at ASCB/EMBO Cell Bio 2022
Chris Armit - January 29, 2023
Write-up of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) 2022 Meeting
Publishing Citizen Science data to fight against mosquito borne diseases
Scott Edmunds - May 31, 2022
Citizen Scientists share and publish Mosquito Alert data as part of our GigaByte (& GBIF & TDR supported) series on vector-borne diseases.
Power to the People and Their Data – The Open Humans Way. Q&A with Bastian Greshake Tzovaras and Mad Price Ball
Nicole Nogoy - June 27, 2019
Read more about Open Humans from Bastian Greshake Tzovaras & Mad Price Ball, a community-based data sharing platform for ethical participant led research.
Citizen Science goes mainstream. Back at the UN with the Citizen Science Global Partnership.
Scott Edmunds - March 29, 2019
Citizen Science at UNEA4 As GigaScience has the aim of opening and democratising science as far as it can go, we even work towards the involvement of non-professional “citizen scientists” in the scientific process. Regular readers of this blog and journal will have seen the many crowdfunded and educational community genome projects we have promoted […]
Citizen Smith goes to Nairobi. Taking Citizen Science to the UN
Scott Edmunds - December 15, 2017
Taking Citizen Science to the UN, with the launch of CitizenScience.Asia at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi
Community Genomes on GigaTV
Scott Edmunds - December 10, 2015
GigaScience helped organise the Community Genomes track covering crowdfunding and citizen use of genomics data at the 10th International Conference on Genomics in Shenzhen. Read more and watch the talks in this write up.
Community Microbiomes: Chatting Cat Scat with Kittybiome’s Holly Ganz
Scott Edmunds - May 26, 2015
All Cats (Microbiomes) are Grey? Regular readers will have seen our interest in “community genome” projects, supported by crowdfunding and alternative means (fashion shows in case of the “peoples parrot”), and we’ve been pleased to see the Azolla fern and Cactus genome projects that we published guest GigaBlog postings from both achieve their funding targets. […]