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I just noticed this repository and think that its existence is long overdue. I actually started a citizen science list of my own a couple days ago based off the (currently uneditable) wiki at openhatch.org. One thing that I noticed about the approach that you've taken with this list vs the approach that I've started to take is that this list is much more focused on tools, whereas my idea was to focus on scientific disciplines themselves and then further divide them into 3 categories: data collection, grid computing, and human computation. My approach, however, might be seriously lacking in the philosophy department. Also, did we go to college together?

In response to the following question:

Ethics in research are often overseen by federal agencies or institutional review boards (IRBs). Is there a bottom-up, citizen-driven alternative to this?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by a "bottom-up" alternative, but for institutions that don't have their own IRB, private IRBs can fill this need (see: http://www.consortiumofirb.org/faq/).

It would be worth putting in things like RLang resources, Python and NumPy, and Jupyter Notebooks and the like! Programming is very important, and there are lots of free statistical programming languages and libraries out there.