by ginger | Apr 18, 2018 | challenges, citizen science
Citizen Science Day was April 14th this year, and Mark2Cure partnered with the San Diego Public Library to host a local Citizen Science Expo. Of course, many of our wonderful contributors are not in San Diego and could not attend the event. For those of you who wish...
by ginger | Mar 30, 2018 | citizen science, events
San Diego Citizen Science Day Expo Citizen Science Day is on April 14th, this year and many citizen science organizations (including yours truly) are hosting citizen science events. Here in San Diego, we’ve teamed up with the San Diego Public Library and the Wet...
by ginger | Feb 26, 2018 | citizen science, Cochrane Crowd, events, EyesOnAlz, mark2cure, Rare Disease Day
It’s on! The CitSciMedblitz week of challenges have started! If you missed the webinar detailing the three biomedical/health citizen science research projects, it is available for viewing on youtube. You are welcome to participate in as many or as few of the...
by ginger | Feb 2, 2018 | citizen science, Cochrane Crowd, events, EyesOnAlz, mark2cure, Rare diseaes
It’s finally February which means it’s time to prepare for Rare Disease Day 2018 and CitSciMedBlitz! This year’s theme for Rare Disease Day continues off of last year’s theme–research. According to RareDiseaseDay.org, patients are not...
by ginger | Sep 8, 2017 | citizen science, GenBank, mark2cure
In case you haven’t heard, David Lipman and the GenBank team are in the running for the People’s Choice Award of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (#Sammies2017). Although Lipman and the GenBank team weren’t featured in Medium.com or...
by ginger | Aug 25, 2017 | biocuration, citizen science, information extraction, mark2cure, national park services
In our previous post, we asked readers, ‘What is your preferred moniker?’. Here is the response: Mark2Curator: 36% Citizen Scientist: 36% Contributor: 18% “Anything BUT volunpeer”: 10% Although it may seem a little strange that researchers have...
