Colleagues, Jai Ranganathan at NCEAS and I are about to launch the third round of the science engagement and crowd funding event known as #SciFund. For those unfamiliar with the effort, we've run two rounds previously where we've not only brought in about 175K for science, contributing funds to a number of different ecological & evolutionary research projects (as well as a number of other disciplines!), but we've also provided training in engagement and outreach via video and social media.
We're back for round 3 (http://scifundchallenge.org ) this time partnering with a professional video production company, Lost Nomad Media, to help you learn more about the tools available for outreach and engagement, and earn some money for research projects. If you're interested in signing up - which will include a month of proposal prep in collaboration with us and other participants, and then roughly a month of running your crowd funding proposal on Rockethub, go to http://scifundchallenge.org/sign-up/ If you want to know more, see http://scifundchallenge.org/ or view old projects at http://scifund.rockethub.com Please don't hesitate to email me with any questions or comments. Thanks for being the community that has really helped to get #SciFund off the ground! -Jarrett ---------------------------------------- Jarrett Byrnes Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125 617-287-3145 http://jarrettbyrnes.info b: http://imachordata.com t: @jebyrnes g+: http://gplus.to/jebyrnes
