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With a bit of spare time, community labs and the power of the internet, anyone can do science on their own terms.

What beastly weather! In France, we are having a cold and rainy month of May. It’s the perfect occasion to stay home all weekend with MyScienceNew!, Watch our videos and read our latest articles to bring some sunshine into your day.

Citizen science is a research method that is growing rapidly. In its report “Collaborative participation as a mode of knowledge production”, the French association Fondation Sciences Citoyennes presented public participation in scientific research as a way to help science face societal challenges.

Involving members of the public can help science projects — but researchers should consider what they want to achieve.

Making sense of science at any age is an effort best created by the citizens who actively engage into science-doing.

We’re organising a special Science Hackday at the Centre for Creative Collaboration in London, on Saturday the 16th of March, 11:00 – 19:00

Our activities on the web, on our own time, can affect the work of epidemiologists—sometimes providing information, but also complicating matters by influencing our behavior. Analysis of search engine queries and communication via social networks could become standard tools of epidemiology.

 Grippenet, the French flu surveillance platform, tracks the illness through users’ self-reported symptoms. As epidemiologist Vittoria Colizza explains, involving citizens in this way yields unique and important information to complement data from traditional epidemic tracking systems.

As part of the NASA Open Government plan released on April 7 2010, Nasa announced more than 150 milestones related to integrating Open Government into the agencies programs and projects.

Guide to Citizen Science developping, implementing and evaluating citizen science to study biodiversity and the environment in the UK.