(cross posted to the UCD Microbiome SRP blog) What do you get when you combine UC Davis alumni, tomato seeds, and citizen science? That would be Project GASP (“Germ”-ination Alumni Scienc...
https://microbe.net/2020/03/17/citizen-science-project-on-the-tomato-seed-microbiome/
I co-convened a session (with Holly Ganz) at the ASM Meeting last week on Participatory Science in Microbiology. And I captured some of the Tweets about the session in this Twitter moment. See ...
https://microbe.net/2019/06/29/tweets-from-participatory-science-session-at-asmicrobe/
Source: Opinion | Discovering the Great Indoors Definitely worth checking out this opinion piece in the NY Times bye Rob Dunn on “Discovering the Great Indoors”. It has a bit about Van Leeuwe...
I am compiling information on past, present and future “Citizen Microbiology” projects. Basically I am looking for examples of projects that could fit VERY BROADLY into the concept of citizen...
When I first saw the headline on this I groaned a little, thinking this was some completely bogus type of project. But actually, upon reading about it in more detail it sounds like a really goo...
This is definitely worth a read: Source: Could the Answer to the Antibiotic-Resistance Crisis Be Found on a Toilet Seat? – The Atlantic Or a listen to since there is an audio version of the sto...
There is a news story of interest from a few weeks ago in the NY Times: Are Pets the New Probiotic? – The New York Times It discusses the concept and some of the research on how animals and the...
https://microbe.net/2017/06/18/worth-a-look-are-pets-the-new-probiotic-in-the-ny-times/
Federico Lauro, Chris Mason and I (and a few others by now) are looking for editors for a Frontiers Special Topic on Citizen Science in Microbiology. It is important to us that we assemble a dive...
https://microbe.net/2017/05/01/recruiting-editors-citizen-science-in-microbiology/
Just found out about this new Citizen Microbiology project via Andrew Su on Twitter who retweeted a post of Jennifer Gardy’s A neat citizen science project launched today as part of the big TB...
Here is a great chance to participate in a microbiology of the built environment citizen science project on gutters. “Examining this water…I found floating therein divers earthy particles, a...