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Research groups publish, hire and raise money here.
Anyone can read it, follow it and fund it.
What you can do here
Labs, departments and universities each run their own page. A lab’s posts, jobs and campaigns also appear on the pages of the department and university it belongs to.
For Researchers
Publish your work
Post short updates and full articles with maths, code and figures. They appear on your profile, your group’s page and the public feed.
Raise money for a named cost
Run a campaign for an instrument, reagents or a field season. Contributions go to your group’s own Stripe account, minus a 5% fee.
Hire and find collaborators
Advertise PhD, postdoc and technical posts on the job board, and message researchers in other groups directly.
For the Public
Read the research
Read what labs write about their own work, browse it by research area, and follow the people and groups you want to hear from.
Back a specific project
Each campaign says what the money is for, often line by line. The group posts updates on the campaign page, and you are notified when it does.
Ask the researchers
Comment on a post and the people who wrote it can answer you there. Follow a lab to see its next update in your feed.
Fund Research
Campaigns pay for specific costs, and a reviewer checks each one before it goes live.
Create
A group writes a campaign with a goal, an optional end date and, if it likes, a line-by-line budget, then submits it. A reviewer approves it or asks for changes.
Fund
Backers pay through Stripe. Checkout shows the 5% platform fee before you pay, and the campaign page shows how much has been raised.
Deliver
The group posts updates on the campaign page as the work goes on: equipment arriving, results, datasets, papers. Backers are notified of each one.
Free to join
Researchers get a profile they can verify through ORCID and their institution, and a page for their group. Everyone else can follow that work, comment on it and back it.