openscience

Know a HS student with a passion for science and computing?

The Computation Moonshot is a competition for HS students where they compete against other students/schools to donate computation cycles to medical research via !boinc . There are thousands of dollars in prizes being given out to students and schools including science gear like microscopes, gift cards, and more....

How to setup a BOINC server to process large scientific computational workloads for free (www.youtube.com)

BOINC is an open source server and protocol for volunteer computing. There are petaflops of free computational power to any scientist who wants it.

Interesting paper quantifying participation in citizen science projects over time by age, gender, project type, etc. (journals.plos.org)

Software Horror Game (nlesc.github.io)

Sheer stupidity is a threat to our scientific progress | Letters (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/742098...

The Democratization of Science: Analysis of the Voluntary Distributed Computing Platform BOINC (boinc.berkeley.edu)

Are you a scientist or researcher? What open source tools do you rely on? (community.opensource.science)

OSSCi (non-profit working on open source science tools) is working on a project that maps the OSS ecosystem, specifically tools that are used in science, and we’re starting with generative AI, machine learning, and materials science. Here’s a very very very minimal demo of the map:...