Tag Archives: citizen science
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
In the data driven era, not only in research but in our day-to-day lives, people are creating more and more personal digitized data that enables human-participant research in social sciences and personalized medicine. However, with numerous data streams and types this raises concerns such as how to merge and share such data, as well as […]
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
GigaScience utilizes and promotes Open Science in all its forms, and one of the key areas in this ecosystem is Citizen Science – opening and democratising science to such an extent it is powered by public participation. Regular readers of this blog and journal will have seen our promotion of many crowdfunded and educational community […]
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.
Guest posting: Let’s crowdfund a fern genome that will blow your mind
Nicole Nogoy - June 16, 2014
Following our efforts encouraging open-science projects, such as the community funded “Peoples Parrot” and OpenAshDieback, today we have a guest posting from Fay-Wei Li and Kathleen Pryer from the Department of Biology at Duke University covering a crowdfunding effort to sequence the Azolla genome. They have already raised over $4,000 and have 25 days remaining until […]