Platforms for citizen science

A CRI-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle workshop: created by Anshu (CRI long term fellow) and Simon (MNHN), from a meeting at the Galaxy community in Freiburg. I joined the design process and it was structured so the museum and the CRI present the systems that are being developed, with a scope for a discussion about lessons …

Launching a citizen science course – week 1

Today, I gave the opening lectures of the new UCL course 'Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing'. In a way, it was more work than I originally thought, but I also thought that I'm underestimating the effort - so it's not completely unexpected. Although I am responsible for the first installation of Moodle, the …

Defining principles for mobile apps and platforms development in citizen science

In December 2016, ECSA and the Natural History Museum in Berlin organised a  workshop on analysing apps, platforms, and portals for citizen science projects. Now, the report from the workshop with an addition from a second workshop that was held in April 2017 has evolved into an open peer review paper on RIO Journal. The …

Into the night – training day on citizen science

Last December, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) awarded funding to UCL Extreme Citizen Science group and Earthwatch as part of their investment in public engagement. The projects are all short - they start from January to March and included public engagement and training to early career researchers. "Into the Night" highlights the importance of light …

Editorial in Human Computation Journal – Creativity and Learning in Citizen Cyberscience

As part of a special issue of the open access Human Computation Journal, I am the co-author of the editorial Creativity and Learning in Citizen Cyberscience – Lessons from the Citizen Cyberlab Summit. Following the summit (see blog post here), Egle Ramanauskaite took the blog posts and edited them with her notes, which led to a …

Opportunistic Citizen Science in central California

As I've noted in the earlier post, I've travelled through central California in August, from San Francisco, to Los Angeles. Reading 'Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction', made me think about citizen science, but this was my holiday - and for the past 4 years, as I finish setting the email away …

Reading ‘Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction’ in place

At the beginning of the year, I received an email from Mary Ellen Hannibal, asking for a clarification of the 'extreme citizen science' concept. Later on, Mary Ellen provided me with an early copy of 'Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction', and asked if I will be willing to recommend …

ECSA2016: Open Citizen Science – Day 3

After a busy first  days - Day 1 (morning and afternoon) and Day 2 (morning and afternoon), the third day was dedicated to engagement - through museums, games and story telling; responsibility - through frameworks of responsible research and innovation, proper data handling and making a scientific impact, and finally to active engagement in discussion …

ECSA 2016: Open Citizen Science – Day 2 (Afternoon)

The afternoon started with a packed session that focused on Citizen science Studies – Engaging with the participatory turn in the co-production of science and society Elevator talks & interactive session organised by Dana Mahr (University of Geneva); Anett Richter (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ); Claudia Göbel (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin | ECSA); Alan Irwin (Copenhagen Business …

ECSA2016: Open Citizen Science – Day 2 (Morning)

After the opening day (see morning and afternoon posts) and the reception under the dinosaur at the museum, the second day started with an introduction and review of day 1 by Marisa Ponti (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): We want to reconnect to the first day. Particularly happy to hear the connection at the European Commission …