Welcome, dear readers, to the most recent foray into the new, and very exciting*, world of crowdfunded science/research: Petridish. Launched in early March, the platform’s still pretty new. Currently, though, there are 9 projects up, primarily covering critter-related projects, but not exclusively. Examples include looking into preserving the culture(s) of climate refugees, helping to find […]
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Crowdsourcing science funding
Huzzah! I’ve been looking forward to this. SciFund is now live. YOU can help to fund science projects. Yup, that’s right. You. Not some funding agency. How does it work? Well, it’s kinda like KickStartr (or NZ’s version, PledgeMe), but for science. Very simply: scientists can put up a project, and then ask people for […]