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You, Scientist

12.16.13

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Main Article

Popular Science [3]

Read “Popular Science” from the January-February 2014 issue.  [4]

PLATFORMS

Zooniverse
https://www.zooniverse.org/
[5]The citizen-science platform began with a single project, Galaxy Zoo, in 2007; it now hosts projects from all disciplines, from classification of whale calls to the transcription of old ship logs.

 

Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/
[6]The general-audience science magazine maintains a detailed project listing for various disciplines, from evolution to space.

 

BOINC
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
[7]The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing allows citizen scientists to donate idle computer time to projects ranging from protein-folding to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

 

Curio
http://www.crowdcurio.com/ [8] (launches early 2014)
A general crowdsourcing platform for citizen science; the three inaugural projects will draw from botany, medieval history, and organic chemistry.

 

ASTRONOMY

[email protected] [9]
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
[10]Donate idle computer time to search for pulsars. Hosted by BOINC.

 

Galaxy Zoo
http://zoo1.galaxyzoo.org/
[11]Classify telescope images of galaxies by shape. Hosted by Zooniverse.

 

Be a Martian
http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/
[12]Tag and analyze photos from Mars. Hosted by NASA [13].

 

BIOLOGY

Foldit
http://fold.it/
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Compete to find stable structures for medically relevant proteins.

 

eteRNA
http://eterna.cmu.edu/web/
[15]Design molecules of RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA.

 

Phylo
http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/
[16]Compare DNA sequences to help determine the tree of life.

 

Eyewire
https://eyewire.org/
[17]Analyze images to map connections in the human brain.

 

 ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

 

eBird

eBird
http://ebird.org [18]
[19]Share bird sightings to help map migration patterns. (For the holiday season, consider the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count [20].)

 

Nature’s Notebook
https://www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook
[21]Track backyard flora and fauna to contribute data on climate change.

 

Project Lab
http://publiclab.org/
[22]Learn to collect and analyze your own environmental data.

 

HEALTH

Cell Slider
www.cellslider.net
[23]Analyze microscope images of tumor samples. Hosted by Zooniverse.

 

Personal Genome Project
http://www.personalgenomes.org/
[24]Donate your genome and health data to scientific research.

 

 

American Gut Project

American Gut Project
http://americangut.org/
[25]Donate samples of the bacteria living in your gut.

 

HUMANITIES

Valley of the Khans
http://exploration.nationalgeographic.com/
[26]Analyze satellite images to search for the tomb of Genghis Khan.

 

Curarium
http://www.curarium.com/ [27] (launches 2014)
View and analyze digitized museum collections from around the world.

 

Ancient Lives
https://www.zooniverse.org/project/ancientlives
[28]Help digitize ancient Greek and Latin papyri manuscripts. Hosted by Zooniverse.

 

PSYCHOLOGY

Test My Brain
http://www.testmybrain.org/
[29]Take behavioral-psychology tests and receive personal feedback.

 

Games With Words
http://www.gameswithwords.org/
[30]Participate in experiments on the nature of language, with performance feedback.

 

Lab in the Wild
http://labinthewild.org/
[31]Contribute to research on cultural variance in design aesthetics.

 

Project Implicit
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
[32]Assess unconscious biases and perceptions.

 

Main Article

Popular Science [3]

Read “Popular Science” from the January-February 2014 issue.  [4]


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Links
[1] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/print/43572?page=all
[2] https://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=300
[3] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/node/43528
[4] http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/01/popular-science
[5] https://www.zooniverse.org/
[6] http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/
[7] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
[8] http://www.crowdcurio.com/
[9] mailto:[email protected]
[10] http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
[11] http://zoo1.galaxyzoo.org/Default.aspx
[12] http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/
[13] http://science.nasa.gov/citizen-scientists/
[14] http://fold.it/
[15] http://eterna.cmu.edu/web/
[16] http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/
[17] https://eyewire.org/
[18] http://ebird.org
[19] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/ebird.org
[20] http://birds.audubon.org/christmas-bird-count
[21] https://www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook
[22] http://publiclab.org/
[23] http://www.cellslider.net
[24] http://www.personalgenomes.org/
[25] http://americangut.org/
[26] http://exploration.nationalgeographic.com/
[27] http://www.curarium.com/
[28] https://www.zooniverse.org/project/ancientlives
[29] http://www.testmybrain.org/
[30] http://www.gameswithwords.org/
[31] http://labinthewild.org/
[32] https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/