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Do Ecological or Molecular Biological Citizen Science Projects Affect the Perceptions of Undergraduate Students Toward Pursuing Future Citizen Science?

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2021
Science literacy, including intrinsic motivation to participate in science outside of STEM careers, is an important goal of introductory biology courses aimed at non-majors.
Kristin Bedell, Terry Gates
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Mapping species distributions: A comparison of skilled naturalist and lay citizen science recording [PDF]

, 2015
To assess the ability of traditional biological recording schemes and lay citizen science approaches to gather data on species distributions and changes therein, we examined bumblebee records from the UK’s national repository (National Biodiversity ...
A Lawrence, A Lawrence, Advaith Siddharthan, AIT Tulloch, AM Miller-Rushing, Annie Robinson, Ben Darvill, BL Sullivan, C Kremen, C Mackechnie, Chris Mellish, CL Catlin-Groves, D Goulson, D Goulson, DB Lindenmayer, DE Moerman, DEFRA, DEFRA, DS Schmeller, EH Boakes, GC Lye, GW Hopkins, HE Roy, HE Roy, Helen Anderson, J Beck, J Silvertown, JJD Greenwood, K Paul, LP Crowther, M Barbet-Massin, M Macdonald, MJO Pocock, Nirwan Sharma, NJB Isaac, R Ellis, R Ellis, René van der Wal, S Bell, S Goffredo, Stuart Roberts, UK National Ecosystem Assessment   +41 more
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Using citizen science to monitor pollination services [PDF]

, 2015
1. Pollination by insects is a vital ecosystem service and the need for its assessment is increasing in recognition and political pressure, but there are currently no large-scale systematic monitoring schemes in place to measure the direct provision of ...
Ahrné, Bateman, Costanza, Cussans, Dickinson, Dicks, Dougherty, Drayner, Free, Free, Gallai, Garratt, Ghazoul, Goulson, Goulson, Haines-Young, Hanna, Jauker, Kendall, Klein, Kremen, Kremen, Mackechnie, Oberhauser, Osborne, Owen, Potter, Samnegård, Schmeller, Silvertown, Smith, Steffan-Dewenter, Westphal, WHO, Winfree   +34 more
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How Does Policy Conceptualise Citizen Science? A Qualitative Content Analysis of International Policy Documents

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2019
Policy and science show great interest in citizen science as a means to public participation in research. To recognize how citizen science is perceived to foster joint working at the science-society-policy interface, a mutual understanding of the term ...
Susanne Hecker, Nina Wicke, Muki Haklay, Aletta Bonn   +3 more
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Citizen Scientists Are Not Just Quiz Takers: Information about Project Type Influences Data Disclosure in Online Psychological Surveys

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2022
Traditionally, citizen science has centred on giving lay people opportunities to learn about science by participating in it. Lately, psychological citizen science projects have increasingly aimed to attract participants by providing an opportunity for ...
Anna Rudnicka, Sandy Gould, Anna Cox
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Classifying the unknown: discovering novel gravitational-wave detector glitches using similarity learning [PDF]

, 2019
The observation of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences by LIGO and Virgo has begun a new era in astronomy. A critical challenge in making detections is determining whether loud transient features in the data are caused by gravitational ...
Allen, S, Areeda, J, Bahaadini, S, Berry, C P L, Coughlin, M W, Coughlin, S B, Crowston, K, Harandi, M, Jackson, C, Kalogera, V, Katsaggelos, A K, Lundgren, A, Noroozi, V, Osterlund, C, Patane, O, Rohani, N, Ruiz, P, Smith, J R, Trouille, L, Zevin, M   +19 more
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iSpot: a citizen science platform for inclusive learning and teaching [PDF]

, 2018
www.iSpotnature.org (iSpot) is an Open University (OU) citizen science platform launched in 2009, which uses the challenge of identifying nature to engage people as citizen scientists.
Ansine, Janice, Araya, Yoseph, Dodd, Michael, Robinson, David   +3 more
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The science of citizen science: a systematic literature review on educational and scientific outcomes

Frontiers in Education, 2023
Citizen Science is an ever-growing field of public engagement with science, and recent years have seen an increasing number of studies examining its potential.
Lena Finger, Vanessa van den Bogaert, Laura Schmidt, Jens Fleischer, Marc Stadtler, Katrin Sommer, Joachim Wirth   +6 more
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Citizen science as a new tool in dog cognition research [PDF]

, 2015
The work of Á.M. was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA 01 031).Family dogs and dog owners offer a potentially powerful way to conduct citizen science to answer questions about animal behavior that are difficult to answer with more ...
Call, Josep, Cohen, Eliot, Hare, Brian, Ivy, David, Kaminski, Juliane, Maclean, Evan L., McIntyre, Matthew, Miklósi, Ádám, Mukherjee, Sayan, Rodriguez, Kerri, Stewart, Laughlin, Woods, Vanessa, Wrangham, Richard W.   +12 more
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The promises of citizen science – fact or fake? [PDF]

ARPHA Proceedings
Despite its increasing popularity, not everybody is supportive of citizen science. Authors are critical of the promises that citizen science practitioners claim and challenge the role citizen science can play in the democratisation of science or in ...
Barbara Heinisch
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