Remembering Steven Keating
This last weekend I was saddened to hear about the passing of one of our Board of Directors – Steven Keating, an inspiring activist and advocate for access to health data. Steven Keating passed away on...
View ArticleMeet the newest projects on Open Humans
In the last few weeks our community has launched a plethora of new projects that you can join to collect more data about yourself as well as new research opportunities covering topics from the...
View ArticleNotes from our first Community Call
We held our first community call on December 10th – many thanks to the attendees and invited presenters, Karolina Alexiou and Rogier Koning! Future community calls will be held on the second Tuesday of...
View ArticleCollaborating on individual discovery
About the authors: Mad Price Ball and Bastian Greshake Tzovaras lead Open Humans as Executive Director and Director of Research, a nonprofit project dedicated to empowering individuals and communities...
View ArticleKeating Memorial Self Research
We want to share a new project we’re running in coming months: Keating Memorial Self Research – an invitation to collaborate in self-research! (Click here for extended details, including timeline. If...
View ArticleNotes & video from our self-research kickoff
In case you missed it: we took notes & recorded our kickoff webinar for the Keating Memorial Self Research activity last week! On Thursday we’ll have “open office hours” to offer free expert...
View Article“Self research” panel video, join next on Mar 10!
We wanted to share our recording of an excellent a panel we had on Monday, and invite you to our next one on March 10. As part of our Keating Memorial Self Research activity, we discussed how to get...
View ArticleLearn about Quantified Flu and our weekly community calls
Join Quantified Flu Do changes in physiological signals that are measured through wearables (such as body temperature and resting heart rate) precede consciously experienced symptoms (such as coughs,...
View ArticleDoing Personal Science together – in memory of Steven Keating
Whether you call it Personal Science, Self-Research or Quantified Self, many of us have questions about ourselves and try to find answers for them. It’s a process that can range from structured...
View ArticleFile upload &“data types”
Last week I finalized and publicly shared the File Uploader activity on Open Humans.1 This is a standard “activity” in Open Humans. Our structure is modular: in theory, anyone can use the APIs to...
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