Three Dutch Universities (Radboud University, Wageningen University and University of Twente) developed a large Citizen Science project, “Proeftuin” Citizen Science, by opening their labs to the mobile sensor industry [1]. It seems to be a smart solution that responds to the needs of collaboration between industry and academia, that was possible with European funding (ERDF..
Citizen science of crowdsourcing Nadat de wetenschap institutionaliseerde in de 19e eeuw ontstond er een scheiding tussen ‘de wetenschapper’ en ‘de burger’. De twee leefden in zeer gescheiden werelden en hadden weinig met elkaar te maken. Oorspronkelijk werd wetenschap echter juist door burgers beoefend: hoe zit dat met die maan en die zon? Kom, laat..
Washington Post tells us: “Three superplayers of an addictive online puzzle game have done something that Stanford University Medical School believes is unprecedented: They’ve become the first authors on a paper published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal based on their discoveries in playing the large-scale, online video game EteRNA.” The Journal of Molecular Biology is..