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Now on the blog of the Software Sustainability Institute: My blog post on last year's #citizenscience for health conference #cs4h at the University of Twente. https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/software-co-design-citizen-science-4-health-conference

It's funny how no-one's ever suggested 'denizen science' as a term that avoids the awkwardness of citizen science.

I also enjoyed 'Dark citizen science' by James Riley and Will Mason-Wilkes, proposing the 'Five-Ps of citizen science' (Purpose, Process, Perceptibility, Power and Public Effect) and comparing Galaxy Zoo and reCAPTCHA.
Also they cover my minor obsession since 2014 or so: 'when projects are coupled with AI, citizen scientists may be clicking their active roles into the grave'

I also enjoyed 'Dark citizen science' by James Riley and Will Mason-Wilkes, proposing the 'Five-Ps of citizen science' (Purpose, Process, Perceptibility, Power and Public Effect) and comparing Galaxy Zoo and reCAPTCHA.
Also they cover my minor obsession since 2014 or so: 'when projects are coupled with AI, citizen scientists may be clicking their active roles into the grave'

The #ActiveAsteroids Citizen Science Program - Overview and First Results: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1de2 -> NASA Volunteers Find Fifteen Rare “Active Asteroids”: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/nasa-volunteers-find-fifteen-rare-active-asteroids/

Some extraordinary asteroids have “#activity”
—comet-like tails or envelopes of gas and dust. 
NASA’s #Active #Asteroids project announced the discovery of activity on fifteen asteroids, challenging conventional wisdom abo…

Fellow AutSPACEs team member Georgia & I wrote a blog post for the Software Sustainability Institute. We outline how we are approaching user testing for our co-designed #citizenscience platform on sensory processing and #autism.
It's great timing, as we're currently running the second round of tests after having (hopefully) improved the platform!
https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/user-testing-citizen-science-platform

#sts has a problem with #democracy. It follows from strong assumptions around democracy, e.g. through experts, citizen science, experimentalism, …
👊 Demokratiedämmerung

89 New Ultracool Dwarf Co-Moving Companions Identified With The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
Austin Rothermich, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Daniella Bardalez-Gagliuffi, Adam C. Schneider, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Aaron M. Meisner, Adam J. Burgasser, Mark Kuchner, Katelyn Allers, Jonathan Gagn\'e, Dan Caselden, Emily Calamari, Mark Popinchalk, Roman Gerasimov, Christian Aganze, Emma Softich, Chin-Chun Hsu, Preethi Karpoor, Christopher A. Theissen, Jon Rees, Rosario Cecil…

89 New Ultracool Dwarf Co-Moving Companions Identified With The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
We report the identification of 89 new systems containing ultracool dwarf companions to main sequence stars and white dwarfs, using the citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 and cross-reference between Gaia and CatWISE2020. Thirty-two of these companions and thirty-three host stars were followed up with spectroscopic observations, with companion spectral types ranging from M7-T9 and host spectral types ranging from G2-M9. These systems exhibit diverse characteristics, from young to …

Some extraordinary asteroids have “#activity”
—comet-like tails or envelopes of gas and dust. 
NASA’s #Active #Asteroids project announced the discovery of activity on fifteen asteroids, challenging conventional wisdom abo…

The Active Asteroids Citizen Science Program: Overview and First Results
Colin Orion Chandler, Chadwick A. Trujillo, William J. Oldroyd, Jay K. Kueny, William A. Burris, Henry H. Hsieh, Jarod A. DeSpain, Nima Sedaghat, Scott S. Sheppard, Kennedy A. Farrell, David E. Trilling, Annika Gustafsson, Mark Jesus Mendoza Magbanua, Michele T. Mazzucato, Milton K. D. Bosch, Tiffany Shaw-Diaz, Virgilio Gonano, Al Lamperti, Jos\'e A. da Silva Campos, Brian L. Goodwin, Ivan A. Terentev, Charles…

The Active Asteroids Citizen Science Program: Overview and First Results
We present the Citizen Science program Active Asteroids and describe discoveries stemming from our ongoing project. Our NASA Partner program is hosted on the Zooniverse online platform and launched on 2021 August 31, with the goal of engaging the community in the search for active asteroids -- asteroids with comet-like tails or comae. We also set out to identify other unusual active solar system objects, such as active Centaurs, active quasi-Hilda asteroids, and Jupiter-family comets (JFCs). Ac…

Citizen Science and Machine Learning for Research and Nature Conservation: The Case of Eurasian Lynx, Free-ranging Rodents and Insects
Kinga Skorupska, Rafa{\l} Stryjek, Izabela Wierzbowska, Piotr Bebas, Maciej Grzeszczuk, Piotr Gago, Jaros{\l}aw Kowalski, Maciej Krzywicki, Jagoda Lazarek, Wies{\l}aw Kope\'c
https://arxiv.or…

Citizen Science and Machine Learning for Research and Nature Conservation: The Case of Eurasian Lynx, Free-ranging Rodents and Insects
Technology is increasingly used in Nature Reserves and National Parks around the world to support conservation efforts. Endangered species, such as the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx), are monitored by a network of automatic photo traps. Yet, this method produces vast amounts of data, which needs to be prepared, analyzed and interpreted. Therefore, researchers working in this area increasingly need support to process this incoming information. One opportunity is to seek support from volunteer Citizen…

We've extended our survey to the end of the month as the response has been amazing. We want to encourage folk who weren't sure if they should take the survey to respond. Work in progress, 'failed' or incomplete projects, long-past projects - it's all helpful.
Our survey should take about 15 mins, closes April 30:
https://

Challenges for integrating volunteer and AI-enriched metadata into collections platforms
Update: we've extended the survey to April 30th to allow for more responses! What are we studying? There's a long history of crowdsourcing projects at cultural heritage institutions (GLAMS, or galleries, libraries, archives and museums; including citizen science and citizen history projects). More recently, GLAMs have experimented with machine learning or 'AI' to create, enrich or enhance data about collections. However, some projects struggle to integrate the data created or enriched by online…

MM: Different CS publication types:
- "doing CS”, e.g. using CS as a method but paper is describing findings from the project
- "science of citizen science", how is CS done?
- “Mix": presents both the research as well as the practice of CS
- “meta level": discuss CS in a larger context/academic fields
- “other”/“unclear”: Does not fit, or is it even related to CS?
Method: Search WoS (😭) for "citizen science", papers between 2010-22, at least one EU-based author: 1600 papers.

#ecsa2024

I have to say it:
No shit Sherlock?!!!?!??!!
"83% of English rivers have evidence of high pollution from sewage and agriculture" | Rivers | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/30/engl…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00089 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Defining Quantum Games
In this article, we survey the existing quantum physics related games and based on them propose a definition for the concept of quantum games. We define quantum games as any type of rule-based games that use the principles or reference the theory of quantum physics or quantum phenomena through any of three proposed dimensions: the perceivable dimension of quantum physics, the dimension of quantum technologies, and the dimension of scientific purposes like citizen science or education. We also d…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04592 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

89 New Ultracool Dwarf Co-Moving Companions Identified With The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
We report the identification of 89 new systems containing ultracool dwarf companions to main sequence stars and white dwarfs, using the citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 and cross-reference between Gaia and CatWISE2020. Thirty-two of these companions and thirty-three host stars were followed up with spectroscopic observations, with companion spectral types ranging from M7-T9 and host spectral types ranging from G2-M9. These systems exhibit diverse characteristics, from young to …

The #CitizenScience 4 Health working group (https://www.ecsa.ngo/working-groups/citizen-science-for-health/) met today to discuss the theme of our citizen science for health conference next year, our working methods as a group, and our external communication. Now for the main conference tomorrow!

Almost 30 responses already! Most recently from Australia, China, Wales.
Our survey should take about 15 mins, closes next week:
https://forms.gle/JgArpbL6VNM6W3Vk9
What happens after a project has gathered data enriched by crowdsourcing, machine learning/AI, or both? Does the data end up in a…

Challenges for integrating volunteer and AI-enriched metadata into collections platforms
What are we studying? There's a long history of crowdsourcing projects at cultural heritage institutions (GLAMS, or galleries, libraries, archives and museums; including citizen science and citizen history projects). More recently, GLAMs have experimented with machine learning or 'AI' to create, enrich or enhance data about collections. However, some projects struggle to integrate the data created or enriched by online volunteers and/or machine learning into collections management and discovery…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00089 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Defining Quantum Games
In this article, we survey the existing quantum physics related games and based on them propose a definition for the concept of quantum games. We define quantum games as any type of rule-based games that use the principles or reference the theory of quantum physics or quantum phenomena through any of three proposed dimensions: the perceivable dimension of quantum physics, the dimension of quantum technologies, and the dimension of scientific purposes like citizen science or education. We also d…

A survey for variable stars with small telescopes: IX - Evolution of Spot Properties on YSOs in IC5070
Carys Herbert, Dirk Froebrich, Siegfried Vanaverbeke, Aleks Scholz, Jochen Eisl\"offel, Thomas Urtly, Ivan L. Walton, Klaas Wiersema, Nick J. Quinn, Georg Piehler, Mario Morales Aimar, Rafael Castillo Garc\'ia, Tonny Vanmunster, Francisco C. Sold\'an Alfaro, Faustino Garc\'ia de la Cuesta, Domenico Licchelli, Alex Escartin Perez, Esteban Fern\'andez Ma\~nanes, Noe…

A survey for variable stars with small telescopes: IX - Evolution of Spot Properties on YSOs in IC5070
We present spot properties on 32 periodic young stellar objects in IC 5070. Long term, $\sim$5 yr, light curves in the $V$, $R$, and $I$-bands are obtained through the HOYS (Hunting Outbursting Young Stars) citizen science project. These are dissected into six months long slices, with 3 months oversampling, to measure 234 sets of amplitudes in all filters. We fit 180 of these with reliable spot solutions. Two thirds of spot solutions are cold spots, the lowest is 2150 K below the stellar temper…

MGA: People also focused on an idea of "science for all", being inclusive. Some people also think about "citizen science as an instrument to collect data”. #ecsa2024

MGA: Did semi-structured interviews with policy makers, only 1 out of 4 had heard of citizen science. People assumed that it was about “science of the community", i.e. science about how a given community does things. #ecsa2024

MGA: When it comes to trust into citizen science, majority of policy makers had inherent trust into CS-generated data. Have confidence in their own community members. #ecsa2024

Now: Mercy Gloria Ashepet on "Can citizen science-generated data induce policy changes? Insights from policy actors in Uganda“ #ecsa2024

Friederike Barkmann talking about a citizen science project with pupils on the impact of green roofs for buildings. A pupil's feedback: ”We were allowed to go on the roof of our school", which I think is a really fun way of transgressing 'school rules' as a fun side-effect/motivator. #ecsa2024

Moritz Müller presenting a bibliometric analysis of the CS literature to quantify the evolution of citizen science:
CS as a field is growing, but lack of recent bibliometric analyses, tries to fill that gap. Explore if/how CS publications track the increase of funding etc. Also looking at how types of CS publications have changed.
#ecsa2024

At the “The dynamics and perspectives of change of Citizen Science for Health” workshop, starting off with a brief into to the working group. #ecsa2024