The anecdotally reported benefits of psychedelics microdosing can be explained by the placebo effect.

A citizen science game reveals play interest patterns that could inform crowdsourcing experiment design.

A crowd of inexperienced volunteers can reproducibily and accurately measured how effective a panel of antibiotics are in treating a M. tuberculosis sample.

A citizen science approach to research has shown that the improvements in mood and cognition associated with psychedelic microdosing are likely due to a placebo effect.

Citizen science camera trapping showing suburban and wild areas maintain similar levels of mammalian diversity and relative abundance, challenging conventional thoughts about the impacts of urbanization on wildlife.

Mobile phones can accurately capture sound recordings from mosquito wingbeats with species-specific frequencies, together with metadata about the recording time, location and conditions, to enable rapid low-cost mosquito surveillance using a citizen-science approach.

A systems-level analysis of the biomedical workforce in the US shows that current strategies to enhance faculty diversity are unlikely to have a significant impact, and that there is a need to increase the number of PhDs from underrepresented minority backgrounds who move on to postdoctoral positions.

Across 63 large US cities, street tree communities are shaped by climate, clustered by species, and made more similar between cities due to the presence of introduced species.

The relentless expansion that threatens the sustainability of biomedical research in the US takes a heavy toll on young researchers.

Each stage of the scientific life cycle stands to benefit from the introduction of data science techniques.