Ethan O. Perlstein
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The role of Twitter in our crowdfunding success
Here’s our super secret recipe for crowdfunding a science project. Keep in mind that crowdfunding is more like cooking than…
Twitter donor subgraphs
The demographics of science crowdfunders
Close to 400 donors supported Crowd4Discovery (C4D), our $25,000 basic research project to map the distribution of amphetamines in the…
You just crowdfunded a research meth lab!
On Saturday morning November 24th, our 52-day grassroots campaign to crowdfund basic biomedical research, which we dubbed Crowdsourcing Discovery, began…
The peanut gallery
Last week, scientist/atheist/blogger PZ Myers (@pzmyers) mentioned our crowdfunding project on his blog, Pharyngula. It was a short post; here’s…
Distribution and marketing
In my previous post on the genesis of Crowdsourcing Discovery, I wrote about the neurotransmitter-releasing effects of the class of…
Meth is a weak base, yo
[The above image was lifted from Mike Mitchell, and I added the chemistry bits] The idea for our…
Fall crowdfund drive
A few days ago, I published the first installment in a series of posts leading up to the formal debut…
Crowdfund my meth lab, yo
Preparations are now in full swing for our ambitious $25,000 science crowdfunding project, which will formally launch in the first…