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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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Citizen Science in Disaster and Conflict Resilience [PDF]

, 2010
*Background/Question/Methods* Within the disaster and conflict response communities, concern about lack of effectiveness of outside responses has led to a debate about the role of local people in developing the capacity to prepare for ...
Keith G Tidball, Marianne Krasny
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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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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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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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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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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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Gender Imbalance and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Contributions to Citizen Science Projects: The Case of Zooniverse

Frontiers in Physics, 2021
Citizen Science is research undertaken by professional scientists and members of the public collaboratively. Despite numerous benefits of citizen science for both the advancement of science and the community of the citizen scientists, there is still no ...
Khairunnisa Ibrahim, Khairunnisa Ibrahim, Samuel Khodursky, Samuel Khodursky, Taha Yasseri, Taha Yasseri, Taha Yasseri, Taha Yasseri   +7 more
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'From women for women': A citizen science approach engaging women in the isolation and application of the vaginal health-associated bacterium Lactobacillus crispatus.

PLoS ONE
A vaginal microbiome rich in Lactobacillus crispatus is associated with good reproductive and sexual health outcomes. Dysbiosis, indicated by the loss of Lactobacillus crispatus, is a risk factor for urogenital infections, such as the clinical diagnosis ...
Shardelice Illidge, Remco Kort, Rosanne Hertzberger, Dutch crispatus Citizen Science Collective   +3 more
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Gravitational lens modelling in a citizen science context [PDF]

, 2015
We develop a method to enable collaborative modelling of gravitational lenses and lens candidates, that could be used by non-professional lens enthusiasts.
Baeten, Elisabeth, Coles, Jonathan, Cornen, Claude, Küng, Rafael, Macmillan, Christine, Marshall, Phil, More, Anupreeta, More, Surhud, Odermatt, Jonas, Saha, Prasenjit, Verma, Aprajita, Wilcox, Julianne K.   +11 more
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