Category: Events

The video of the 9/23 New Tools breakfast seminar, The Illusion of Average: An Open Science Approach to Research, is now available. The Illusion of Average: An Open Science Approach to Research from SFIS @ ASU on Vimeo. If you missed the first talk in the series, watch the full video here: http://cspo.org/gallery/the-illusion-of-average-implications-for-scientists/ Please join […]

The ASU Citizen Science Maker Summit 2016 is a two-day event, hosted by Arizona State University in partnership with SciStarter, designed to explore the crossroads of citizen science and the maker movement. The summit is scheduled for October 26 (evening), 27 & 28, 2016 in downtown Chandler, Arizona at the ASU Chandler Innovation Center. Registration […]

Join practitioners and researchers from across the field of citizen science from May 17-20 in Saint Paul, Minnesota for the 2017  Citizen Science Association conference. Sessions will span disciplines and sectors, with a focus on making citizen science relevant and useful to more communities. The conference will feature keynote speakers, concurrent sessions and poster presentations, a citizen […]

We all know that scientific research is done in sterile labs by nerds in white lab coats, the results of which eventually makes its way to the public through government agencies or mega corporations who own the ‘science’.  If you’ve not paid your dues in academia to get the appropriate science degrees, your capacity to […]

Consider submitting abstracts to two exciting education sessions being offered at the Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting in San Francisco, December 12-16, 2016 (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/). Abstracts may be submitted at http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/. The deadline for abstract submission is August 3, 2016 at 23:59 EDT. If you are not a member of AGU, an AGU member may sponsor you to submit an […]

by Nohra Murad It’s that exciting time of year again: it’s National Moth Week! But not just any National Moth Week. NMW 2016 marks the fifth year that the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission has run National Moth Week (NMW), a time for citizen scientists to go out moth-ing in their community. This […]

Opportunity to sponsor first-of-its-kind summit to unite Citizen Science and Maker communities! Your support can increase the success of our efforts to develop a robust Citizen Science Maker community – one that can respond to the national need of bridging the demand for low-cost instruments so that citizens can contribute to scientific data and discovery. […]

On June 7, 2016, the American Chemical Society Science & the Congress Project, co-organized a Capitol Hill briefing about Citizen Science, with the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University. Honorary Co-Hosts Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE). Check out the talks by moderator Jamie Vernon (Sigma Xi, American […]

Princeton ACS Science Café Thursday, June 16, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Princeton University, Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Taylor Commons How highly do you value science? In what ways is science important to society? What is our collective scientific IQ? How can we improve scientific literacy? Join us for an informal café-style discussion of the role of […]

Join us at the Special Libraries Association’s annual conference. Citizen Science: How Communities, Scientists, and Libraries Can Engage Together in Scientific Discovery Tue. June 14| 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Philadelphia, PA Convention Center, Room 204-A Citizen science is scientific research conducted by amateur or non-professional scientists. Learn about how the general public is […]