The BBC News describes a promising new application for data collection via mobile phones in the article, Mobile app sees science go global.
The EpiCollect software collates data from certain mobiles – on topics such as disease spread or the occurrence of rare species – in a web-based database.
The data is statistically analysed and plotted on [...]
CureTogether, the volunteer collaboration project where participants report on their own medical symptoms, is reporting that they’ve confirmed a link between self-reported infertility and asthma. Here’s some excerpts from their press release:
Patients at CureTogether who report infertility are 1.9x more likely to report having asthma than patients who don’t report infertility.
This comes from [...]
The folks at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have been hard at work on their Citizen Science Central web site. Be sure to check it out!
Be sure to check out the Toolkit for folks wanting to get a citizen science project of their own started, and a new section devoted to global climate change [...]
