SciFund Success and Social Media

SciFund results and data were discussed partly by Zen Faulkes, who also led a succesfully funded project, at http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/12/sayonara-scifund.html and in social media such as in this comment, "Funding was correlated to likes on Facebook" in https://twitter.com/#!/DoctorZen/status/169213149759807488. Data were shared via a Google Document at the link below and had been compiled from public sources. About SciFund: The #SciFund Challenge raised over $75,000 for science, from 1440 contributors! What? Can scientists raise money for their research by convincing the general public to open their wallets for small-amount donations? The process is called crowdfunding. Who? Forty-nine scientists from a wide variety of disciplines (ecology to computer science to applied math) in five countries signed on to crowdfund their research. When? November 1-December 15, 2011. Where? The #SciFund Challenge was run through RocketHub, http://www.rockethub.com/projects/scifund a major crowdfunding platform on the Internet. A blog was the community hub for the Challenge, http://scifund.wordpress.com/.

SciFund的研究结果与数据曾由Zen Faulkes部分阐述，他本人亦主导过一项成功获批的科研资助项目，相关内容发布于博客站点http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/12/sayonara-scifund.html，以及社交媒体平台——例如这条推文下的评论"资助金额与Facebook点赞数相关"，其链接为https://twitter.com/#!/DoctorZen/status/169213149759807488。

相关数据通过下方链接的谷歌文档共享，所有数据均来自公开数据源。

关于#SciFund挑战赛（#SciFund Challenge）：该活动共为科研项目募集超75000美元善款，共有1440位捐赠者参与！试问：科学家能否通过说服普通大众以小额捐款的方式为自身研究募集资金？这一募资模式即众筹（crowdfunding）。

参与主体：来自5个国家、覆盖多学科领域（从生态学、计算机科学到应用数学）的49位科学家参与了本次众筹科研项目。

活动时间：2011年11月1日至2011年12月15日。

活动平台：#SciFund挑战赛依托国际主流众筹平台RocketHub开展，该平台的对应项目链接为http://www.rockethub.com/projects/scifund；该挑战赛的社区枢纽为博客站点http://scifund.wordpress.com/。