Year: 2015

Playing It Safe Online: NOVA Cybersecurity Lab Trains You to Carefully Navigate the Web

By Carolyn Graybeal, Mar 02, 2015

With our ever-increasing connectivity and reliance on the internet, cybersecurity is a growing concern. Despite all the cautionary warnings about cyber safety, individuals, companies and government agencies still fall victim to attack. So what does it take to stay safe? NOVA, in partnership with computer scientists and cybersecurity experts, created the Cybersecurity Lab, a digital … Read more “Playing It Safe Online: NOVA Cybersecurity Lab Trains You to Carefully Navigate the Web”

Categories: Citizen Science, Computers & Technology, Gaming

Coop’s Scoop: Mind over Mainframe – next #CitSciChat discusses citizen science games

By Caren Cooper, Feb 24, 2015

The next time you get into an argument with your laptop or shake a fist at your computer, try to refrain from calling it “a stupid machine.” That would be gloating. We really are more intelligent than our computers. Case in point, the human mind can solve some puzzles better than computers. On this principle, … Read more “Coop’s Scoop: Mind over Mainframe – next #CitSciChat discusses citizen science games”

Categories: Citizen Science

Nanocrafter: Playing a Game of Synthetic Biology

By Carolyn Graybeal, Feb 22, 2015

  On its surface, it looks like just another science puzzle game. In reality, the game is part of a broader goal to enable non-scientists to contribute to synthetic biology research. ‘It’ is Nanocrafter, a project created by researchers and game developers at the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington. They are … Read more “Nanocrafter: Playing a Game of Synthetic Biology”

Categories: Biology, Citizen Science

Reports from the Hackfest at the Citizen Science Association conference

By Darlene Cavalier, Feb 18, 2015

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Citizen Science Hackfest on 2/11 at the Citizen Science Association’s conference in San Jose, CA! This hands-on and discussion-driven meet-up was a wonderful opportunity for participants to  dream up AND build creative tools to improve the field of citizen science! . Once we settled into our digs (conveniently situated … Read more “Reports from the Hackfest at the Citizen Science Association conference”

Categories: Events, hackfest

And the winners of the #spacemicrobes Microbial Playoffs are…

By Arvind Suresh, Feb 11, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by David Coil a Project Scientist in the lab of Jonathan Eisen at UC Davis and a member of the Project MERCURRI team.  We’ve finished analyzing all the data from the “Microbial Playoffs” part of Project MERCCURI(described here).   Each microbe that was chosen to fly to the International Space … Read more “And the winners of the #spacemicrobes Microbial Playoffs are…”

Categories: Citizen Science

Capacity Crowd for Citizen Science 2015 Conference

By Darlene Cavalier, Feb 10, 2015

SAN JOSE, CA – A global audience is gathering this week, intent on changing the way science is done. Over 600 people from 25 countries will convene February 11 and 12, 2015, at the San Jose Convention Center for “Citizen Science 2015,” the inaugural conference of the Citizen Science Association (CSA). In citizen science, members … Read more “Capacity Crowd for Citizen Science 2015 Conference”

Categories: Events, hackfest

Propose or Join a Citizen Science Hackfest Project!

By Darlene Cavalier,

Propose or join a project or activity for the SciStarter Hackfest at the Citizen Science Association Conference! What: A hands-on and discussion-driven meet-up where everyone participates in dreaming up AND building creative tools to improve the field of citizen science! Where: Citizen Science 2015 Conference, San Jose, CA Who: The SciStarter team and YOU! Why: … Read more “Propose or Join a Citizen Science Hackfest Project!”

Categories: Citizen Science, Events