by ginger | May 3, 2016 | BioGPS, crowdsourcing, plugin
Last month, BioGPS held a plugin registration blitz in order to increase the number of external resources users would be able to add to their layouts. We think the ability to customize BioGPS to suit your needs irrespective of your specialty is a valuable feature;...
by ginger | Apr 22, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Although the San Diego Citizen Science Day expo was a bit of a last-minute event, it went rather well over all. An estimated hundred or so people showed up to the event and we got to meet and speak with a few Mark2Curators in person! A HUGE thanks to our Mark2Curators...
by ginger | Apr 18, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
We’ll put together a more detailed review of both the Mark2Curathon and the San Diego Citizen Science Day Expo towards the end of the week. In the mean time, here’s a quick breakdown of the event: Event started: April 15th, 2016 at 00:00 AM...
by ginger | Apr 15, 2016 | citizen science, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
It’s now April 15th, and the official start of the Mark2Curathon! Thanks to our Mark2Curators, two of our doc sets were completed before the start of the Mark2Curathon, so we will be opening TWO new doc sets–making more prizes available. The new doc sets...
by Jacob Bruggemann | Apr 12, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, cryo-em, Uncategorized, zooniverse
In a previous blog post, we asked for beta testers for our Zooniverse-hosted citizen science project Microscopy Masters. Thanks to the feedback we received from our initial testing run, the project was approved for a full launch by Zooniverse and is up and running on...
by ginger | Apr 8, 2016 | citizen science, conference, crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, mark2cure, wikipedia
Mark your calendars, the Mark2Curathon is coming! If you didn’t know, next week (April 10th to April 16th) is National Public Library (NPL) Week in the US. In addition to NPL week, April 15th is MicroVolunteering Day followed by Citizen Science Day on April 16th. This...
