Citizen Science/Communicating Citizen Science

Like all research, the value of contributions in citizen science are greatest when communicated effectively. Further, citizen science in particular stands to benefit from the opportunities and affordances of openness, both in terms of open access (broadcast) and open collaboration (feedback). Digital and network technologies, especially the web, enable many substantive opportunities to practice and communicate citizen science.

Blogging

General Science

http://scienceblogs.com/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/
http://arstechnica.com/author/john-timmer/
http://blogs.plos.org/citizensci/

Life Sciences
http://www.xconomy.com/life-sciences/
http://scienceblogs.com/channel/life-science/
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/mo-costandi
http://www.bamh1.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/author/maryn/
http://scienceblogs.com/channel/medicine/
http://www.upwell.us/blog
http://www.thestreet.com/topic/45381/adam-feuersteins-biotech-blog.html
http://www.genengnews.com/blog-biotech
http://lifescivc.com/
http://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/
http://invivoblog.blogspot.com/

Social Sciences
http://citizensocialscience.wordpress.com/

Physical Sciences
http://scienceblogs.com/channel/life-science/

Technology
http://scienceblogs.com/channel/technology/
http://io9.com/

DIY Bio

Hackteria blog & Hakcteria wiki

Projects

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=1664

Zooniverse http://www.zooniverse.org

OpenScientist
http://www.openscientist.org/2013/09/announcing-new-citizen-science.html

Citizen Social Science

Wiki list of projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projects

Journals

• Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• http://www.esajournals.org/toc/fron/10/6
• BioOne
• http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1641/B580303
• International Journal of Zoology
• http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijz/2012/349630/
• https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
• http://www.openjournalproject.org/
• http://jmlr.org/
• http://arxiv.org/
• https://www.plos.org/
• http://elifesciences.org/

Organizations promoting open science

http://mozillascience.org/
http://software-carpentry.org/
http://science.okfn.org/

Crowdfunding

• eg. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wemu-a-revolution-in-epilepsy-monitoring-and-diagnosis - epilepsy monitoring clothing on indiegogo
• kickstarter/indiegogo doesn't provide any verification that the thing can actually be developed, scientific evaluation
• better:
  • http://www.sciencestarter.de/home.html
  • https://experiment.com/
  • people based, not project based: https://www.gittip.com/

Document Writing

• http://sharelatex.com
• http://authorea.com

Collaborative Reading/Annotation

• http://peerlibrary.org
• http://openannotation.org/
• https://hypothes.is/

Connecting with engaged people/resources for getting started

Post to a list on http://lists.okfn.org, find help from some engaged people.

https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science (see also country-specific variations)

If local, recruit from the community.

Hacker spaces (for software): http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/

Organize/Promote through Science Hack Day.

http://scistarter.org

http://scienceonline.com #scio14 #scicomm