Connecting scientific research and video games as a seamless gaming experience. Citizen Science for Serious Gamers

Switzerland
Joined December 2014
Borderlands Science is Live! Years of work had come to its fruition. A crazy day! mmos.ch/news/2019/04/07/bord… Huge thanks to all of our friends who made this happen!
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We're excited to announce a new panel for the upcoming #DICEReykjavík! Our panelists will discuss the story of how games and gaming communities can manifest themselves as a force for good through citizen science. Learn more: diceeurope.org/dice_speakers…
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Through the power of MMO gaming, MMOS are helping to save the world. And we're not even exaggerating. Check out the first in our series on the amazing Massively Multiplayer Online Science here 👉 bit.ly/mmogamesmmos1 #GamersUnite #ScienceTwitter #Scicomm
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0% Xbox 0% Playstation 0% Switch 0% PC 100% Borderlands Science
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Happy #FeelgoodFriday - especially to @EveOnline and @the_MMOS who landed the People's Voice Webby Award for Games: Public Service, Activism, and Social Impact. See why Project Discovery was a worthy winner here 👉 bit.ly/mmogamesevewebbywin @TheWebbyAwards #EVEOnline #TweetFleet
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#GeoTechCues | Don't miss @cordes_rj latest piece, where he details how gaming could be used (beyond entertainment) for "research, improving #AI, and simulating everything from pandemic and food security scenarios to regulatory impacts." #SeriousGames atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ge…
Huge congratulations Capsuleers worldwide and everyone else involved in EVE Online's #ProjectDiscovery winning Webby People’s Voice Award for Public Service, Activism, and Social Impact! Fly safe o7
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Celebrating 2 million players in the Borderlands Science #CitizenScience game. More amazing info about the 1st year of the project here: gearboxsoftware.com/press_re… A huge thanks to all the players and our partners at @GearboxOfficial @GearboxQuebec @mcgillu @microsetta
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Happy anniversary! In one year, two millions gamers participated #Borderlands Science and generated more than 80 millions solutions. That's 184 years-worth of game time! More at: gearboxsoftware.com/press_re… @GearboxOfficial @GearboxQuebec @the_MMOS @microsetta #CitizenScience
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"How Gamers are Changing the World with Citizen Science" Honoured to be featured in this excellent documentary by the Flutter Brothers with @the_MMOS @GearboxOfficial @GearboxQuebec @EveOnline @microsetta @Foldit @waldispuhl ! youtube.com/watch?v=zoWIOEm4…
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A new documentary has just been released in the Off The Cuff series featuring several of our projects: youtube.com/watch?v=zoWIOEm4… A huge thanks to Harris Dirnberger and his team for this excellent film, to all our friends and partners and to the millions of players who contributed.
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Hi, I just published a 2200-word news-quasi-feature story @IGN and it’s the result of weeks of work, nearly an hour of interviews, transcriptions nearing 10,000 words, and it’s something I’m extremely proud of. I’d love if you gave it a read🥺 ign.com/articles/how-eve-onl…
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#EVEOnline #ProjectDiscovery is nominated for the Webby Awards: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicV… Thank you everyone for the many votes cast already!
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Thank you for inviting us to #CitSciChat It was a pleasure to share this hour with all of you and chat about citizen science!
A huge thanks to all of our panelists for their great insight into Citizen Science Games! They all have a lot of interesting work going on, so please visit their individual accounts and websites to learn more about their work. Find more info in the comments. #CitSciChat
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#CitSciChat A10, My hope is that several major players in the game industry will embrace this initiative and such CS projects will appear in more and more AAA games.
Q10) How would you like to see the use of citizen science gamification change or improve in the future? #CitSciChat
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