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资助科学一直以来都依赖于公众的支持。传统上,研究机构的科学家从政府机构,有时也从私人基金会获得资金。然而,来自政府机构的资金,如 NSF(国家科学基金会)NIH(国立卫生研究院),来源于纳税人的钱。因此,实际上是您在支付资金,以支持涵盖研究和工程领域的各种项目。但是,正如 #SciFund 的联合创始人之一 Jai Ranganathan 博士在 Sci-Am Network Central Blog 上写道:“科学的传统资金来源——政府机构和私人基金会——越来越难以获取。那么,科学家该怎么办呢?”

那么,为什么不让人们自己决定他们想看到哪些科学研究被完成呢!为了实现这一目标,#SciFund 使用众包方法进行资助。他们与 RocketHub 合作,发起了 #SciFund 挑战赛。这种合作关系允许科学家开展自己的众筹活动来资助他们的研究。科学家们发布他们的提案,并尽一切努力让人们像他们一样对此感到兴奋。这产生了一种独特的效果,即创建了一个吸引普通大众而非科学专家小组的科学提案。因此,成功的提案者需要使其引人入胜并具有相关性,从而创造出大量有趣的提案,使用视频、图像、色彩丰富的文本,并为不同捐赠级别的捐赠者提供研究周边产品和其他奖励。这个系统的伟大之处在于,科学家可以像非营利组织一样接受小额支付,并逐步实现他们的研究目标。

#SciFund 挑战赛包含 49 个精彩的研究项目,涵盖了广泛的主题。您可以滚动浏览所有项目并亲自查看,但以下是具有进化焦点的项目


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About Kevin Zelnio

Kevin has a M.Sc. degree in biology from Penn State, a B.Sc. in Evolution and Ecology from University of California, Davis, and has worked at as a researcher at several major marine science institutions. His broad academic research interests have encompassed population genetics, biodiversity, community ecology, food webs and systematics of invertebrates at deep-sea chemosynthetic environments and elsewhere. Kevin has described several new species of anemones and shrimp. He is now a freelance writer, independent scientist and science communications consultant living near the Baltic coast of Sweden in a small, idyllic village.

Kevin is also the assistant editor and webmaster for Deep Sea News, where he contributes articles on marine science. His award-winning writing has been appeared in Seed Magazine, The Open Lab: Best Writing on Science Blogs (2007, 2009, 2010), Discovery Channel, ScienceBlogs, and Environmental Law Review among others. He spends most of his time enjoying the company of his wife and two kids, hiking, supporting local breweries, raising awareness for open access, playing guitar and songwriting. You can read up more about Kevin and listen to his music at his homepage, where you can also view his CV and Résumé, and follow him twitter and Google +.

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