Tag: Citizen Science

• Technology and Research Mendeley Masterclass

  Last month we saw another edition of the global extravaganza that is Social Media Week. This time around there were over 1000 events and 25,000 attendees in 8 cities around the globe. The theme for this year was “Open & Connected” which is pretty much a perfect fit for the Mendeley philosophy. So we thought…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  October 10, 2013

  5–7 minutes

• How is Technology Changing Research? Let’s Find Out!

  Social Media Week London will soon be upon us and Mendeley is really excited to be hosting a Masterclass in the heart of Covent Garden. This year’s SMW theme is “Open and Connected” and  that’s literally what Mendeley is all about. So we thought we’d bring together a few like-minded people to talk about how…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  September 5, 2013

  3–5 minutes

• Top Tips for Crowdfunding Your Research

  We had a great response to our last blog post about crowdfunding for research, with lots of people joining our Mendeley Crowdfunding Group and emailing questions and comments. So yesterday I joined a live Google Hangout with the folks from Indiegogo to try and answer some of those questions and also give some general guidelines…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  August 28, 2013

  1–2 minutes

• Research Taps Into the Crowd

  There’s no denying that securing funding is a vital part of a researcher’s job. But although it has never been exactly easy to apply for and get money for scientific research, the on-going global economic crisis made things even more difficult, especially for early career researchers. Faced with cuts, universities and funding bodies have less…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  August 20, 2013

  2–3 minutes

• Facebook Game Uses Crowdsourcing to Tackle Ash Die Back Disease

  Britain’s estimated 80 million ash trees are under threat, with scientists fearing that the Chalara fungus – known ash ash die back disease – could prove as deadly to the UK’s woodlands as Dutch elm disease was in the 1970s, killing millions of trees. In Denmark, the impact of ash die back was devastating, with…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  August 16, 2013

  2–4 minutes