Radio interview on Science Friday, Adam Gazzaley and Zoran Popovic

May 11, 2014

Radio interview on Science Friday, a weekly radio show and website covering science, technology and other cool stuff. For the game Neuroracer: Adam Gazzaley, an associate professor of neurology, physiology and psychiatry at the University […]

Gaming for social good is more than an ethical diversion

April 22, 2014

Gaming for social good is more than an ethical diversion Marigo Raftopoulos, RMIT University Most of us are only too aware of the seemingly intractable problems we’re facing within healthcare, education, community building, environmental sustainability […]

How should citizen science be published? A debate at Citizen Cyberscience Summit 2014

February 19, 2014

Citizen science – the public participation in gathering data for scientific studies – is certainly not new, but facilitated by the ease of sharing information online, the opportunities for the public to engage in scientific […]

Hope springs Eterna? Citizen science comes to BMC Biochemistry

October 24, 2013

What can the general public contribute to scientific research? Quite a lot as it turns out… Imagine how many hours are spent worldwide every day playing Bejeweled, or Angry Birds, or Candy Crush. We’d hesitate […]

Power to the people: Does Eterna signal the arrival of a new wave of crowd-sourced projects?

October 23, 2013

This editorial was written by Thomas A Rowles for BMC Biochemistry – See page 4 for more details http://bmcbiochem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2091-14-26 Introduction What constitutes a scientist, and do you have to be a professional researcher to perform […]

Open-Phylo: give science back to the people

October 23, 2013

It seems that scientific research in the last two hundred years or so has made a full conceptual circle. In the good old days of the nineteenth century, any Englishman with a vaguely middle-class background, […]

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