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05-26-2014, 03:40 PM
What Is Citizen Science, and How Can You Get Involved?
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You don't need to be a '90s-bred Bill Nye fan to k**w science rules. Just look at the state of the Internet in 2014 — we f*cking love (http://mashable.com/2013/09/11/elise-andrew-i-fucking-love-science/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) that sh*t
**w, thanks to an outpouring of crowdsourcing calls from scientists and universities across the world, "citizen scientists" — like you, me and our Ph.D.-challenged friends — can brainstorm and partake in the grunt work for big-scale scientific research. It's a win-win way to help out and get introduced to some of the top researchers in the biz
See also: 14 YouTube Tutorials for Science Experiments (http://mashable.com/2013/11/03/youtube-science-experiments/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
For years, scientists from a variety of fields have crowdsourced help from the public: retirees to advocates to former cheerleaders to inmates (http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112488). But active participants say the social media age has opened up all new doors for its (hopefully ongoing) potential. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/26/citizen-science/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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You don't need to be a '90s-bred Bill Nye fan to k**w science rules. Just look at the state of the Internet in 2014 — we f*cking love (http://mashable.com/2013/09/11/elise-andrew-i-fucking-love-science/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) that sh*t
**w, thanks to an outpouring of crowdsourcing calls from scientists and universities across the world, "citizen scientists" — like you, me and our Ph.D.-challenged friends — can brainstorm and partake in the grunt work for big-scale scientific research. It's a win-win way to help out and get introduced to some of the top researchers in the biz
See also: 14 YouTube Tutorials for Science Experiments (http://mashable.com/2013/11/03/youtube-science-experiments/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
For years, scientists from a variety of fields have crowdsourced help from the public: retirees to advocates to former cheerleaders to inmates (http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112488). But active participants say the social media age has opened up all new doors for its (hopefully ongoing) potential. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/26/citizen-science/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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