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EdiUni CitSci Crowds

@EdUniCSCS

Interdisciplinary network of colleagues with a shared interest in public participation, Citizen Science (CS), the Crowdsourcing of Evidence in all fields

 Edinburgh, Scotland
citsci.ed.ac.uk
Joined May 2015
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James Stewart@jamesks12 Mar 2018
#JOB developing Edinburgh Living Lab, Edinburgh Futures Institute & research, learning, data use between University, City & region @UoE_EFI @uoessps @UoE_ISSTI @UoE_STIS @uoebusiness @Edinburgh_CC @EdiLivingLab @DesignInf @DataLabScotland @InfAtEd vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/coreh…
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Citizen Scientists Discover Five-Planet System caltech.edu/news/citizen-sci…
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Ed Hawkins@ed_hawkins31 Dec 2017
Thinking about a New Year's resolution to help science? Become a 'citizen scientist'! 1) Transcribe lost weather observations: weatherrescue.org 2) Track solar storms: zooniverse.org/projects/shan… 3) Count seals: zooniverse.org/projects/slg0… & many more: zooniverse.org
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James Stewart@jamesks18 Oct 2017
We are advertising a new lectureship post to work with me on #STS #data&society #experientiallearning jobs.ac.uk/job/BEZ176/lectur… @UoE_ISSTI
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Gianfranco Gliozzo PhD@ggliozzo13 Sep 2016
I just uploaded 'Patterns of contribution to citizen science biodiversity projects increase underst…' to @academia! academia.edu/28451496/Patter…

Patterns of contribution to citizen science biodiversity projects increase understanding of...

The often opportunistic nature of biological recording via citizen science leads to taxonomic, spatial and temporal biases which add uncertainty to biodiversity estimates. However, such biases may...

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Check out "CSCS Network: Final event" eventbrite.co.uk/e/cscs-netw… @EventbriteUK
26 May: Crowdsourcing MRI annotation in neuroscience research: eventbrite.co.uk/e/cscs-netw…
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Check out "CSCS Network: Crowdsourcing MRI annotation in neuroscience research" eventbrite.co.uk/e/cscs-netw… @EventbriteUK
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Open Air Labs (OPAL)@OPALnature2 May 2016
Exciting new #pollination #citizenscience @OPALnature survey launching today! opalexplorenature.org/polli-…
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The emerging @EdinburghUni infrastructure for using the city as learning resource is meeting for input next Tuesday edinburghcityscope.org/
One of the main successes of @iSpotnature is quality of verification and acceptance by experts. @JWSilvertown #biodiversity
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.@JWSilvertown et al latest paper on @iSpotnature static1.squarespace.com/stat…
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.@JWSilvertown @iSpotnature managed to create a virtuous circle of new users gaining expertise in identification of observations
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. @JWSilvertown running a long term #citizenscience project raises new questions as it goes along.
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.@iSpotnature cost £1m to kick off. Now has 613k observations. Problem is high drop-off in participation. @JWSilvertown
.@iSpotnature biodiversity observatory is now 10 years old! @JWSilvertown gives lessons on running citizen science projects and platforms.
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.@TheBotanics herbarium joins with Les Herbonautes mission-based #citizenscience platform lesherbonautes.mnhn.fr
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Using crowdsourced citizen science in your PhD - Albert Phillimore and Christine Tansey @TrackATree
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Christine Johnston on new Atlas of Living Scotland @AoLScot open data collection & sharing service on biodiversity
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