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The day after families across the country gathered to celebrate Father’s Day,
Francisco Romero huddled at dawn with 10 volunteers in a South Los Angeles parking lot.
🙏🏻The group was preparing to patrol the neighborhood for signs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity.
There was a heaviness in the atmosphere, despite the comradery and smiles.
During the group huddle, some reflected on the difficulty celebrating Father’s Day while families across the city were…

Trained Volunteers Patrol L.A. Streets as ICE Raids Intensify
Neighborhood groups monitor immigration enforcement amid rising fear and federal scrutiny.

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/human-cost-of-working-on-the-railways-revealed-in-database/

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database - The National Archives
A new public database listing records about railway accidents is being launched at The National Archives on Thursday 5 June to coincide with Volunteers Week. The Railway Work, Life & Death project makes accessible information about 4,500 railway staff killed or injured at work between 1911-1923. It has been made possible because volunteers at The […]

Katrina scoops LHVA award in Volunteers’ Week https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/katrina-scoops-lhva-award-in-volunteers-week/

Katrina scoops LHVA award in Volunteers' Week - The National Archives
Katrina holding framed LHVA award sits on a sofa next to the National Archives' CEO who holds a cup of coffee

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…

«Sometimes a charity where volunteers do all the work forgets who does all the work and that these are volunteers, not minions. If someone waves a bit of money at them.»
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/

Former Tennessee Volunteers football star Dont'e Thornton primed to make massive impact with Raiders https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/former-tennessee-volunteers-football…

I do not understand why the U.S. military accepts noncitizen volunteers. However, since the U.S. military does accept noncitizen volunteers, I really do not understand why those servicemembers aren't automatically granted citizenship with their honorable discharge.
https://www.military.net/veterans-facing-d

OpenStreetMap doesn't have as many streets documented as Google, but we can make it a killer app by mapping what Google won't! For an easy first destination, I propose we have a group of FOSS-loving volunteers commit ritual suicide and then map ring 2 of the 7th circle of Hell in accordance with Dante's Inferno

it's so obnoxious that corporations worth hundreds of billions of dollars send shit like this to literal volunteers

"FBi Radio is regarded by the industry as a cornerstone of the Australian music scene." FBi Radio is also home to some of Australia's great podcasts including *All The Best*, *Back Chat*, and *Race Matters* https://www.

Observation of Blood Flow in Major Neck Vessels Modulated 1 by Physiological Maneuvers
Gennadi Saiko, Timothy Burton, Faraz Sadrzadeh-Afsharazar, Shota Yamashita, Kenshin Shimono, Yasuyuki Kakihana, Alexandre Douplik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00231

Observation of Blood Flow in Major Neck Vessels Modulated 1 by Physiological Maneuvers
Large neck vessels (carotid artery and internal jugular vein, IJV) offer a unique opportunity to monitor hemodynamics non-invasively by optical means. The primary shortcoming of past work has been the focus on healthy volunteers in normal physiological conditions and well-controlled environments. To drive the technology closer to the bedside, testing is required under more re-alistic conditions, including in pathologies and real-world environments (e.g., similar toICU or emergency care settings…

"Libxml2’s solo maintainer drops embargoed security fixes, highlighting the burden on unpaid volunteers who keep critical open source software secure."
https://socket.dev/blog/libxml2-maintainer-ends-embargoed-vulnerability-reports

Examination of Eye-Tracking, Head-Gaze, and Controller-Based Ray-casting in TMT-VR: Performance and Usability Across Adulthood
Panagiotis Kourtesis, Evgenia Giatzoglou, Panagiotis Vorias, Katerina Alkisti Gounari, Eleni Orfanidou, Chrysanthi Nega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19519

Examination of Eye-Tracking, Head-Gaze, and Controller-Based Ray-casting in TMT-VR: Performance and Usability Across Adulthood
Virtual reality (VR) can enrich neuropsychological testing, yet the ergonomic trade-offs of its input modes remain under-examined. Seventy-seven healthy volunteers-young (19-29 y) and middle-aged (27-56 y)-completed a VR Trail-Making Test with three pointing methods: eye-tracking, head-gaze, and a six-degree-of-freedom hand controller. Completion time, spatial accuracy, and error counts for the simple (Trail A) and alternating (Trail B) sequences were analysed in 3 x 2 x 2 mixed-model ANOVAs; p…

"As I've mentioned before, I'm working (with a group of other volunteers) on producing a Local Place Plan for Auchencairn, and, in the process of doing that, we're using the Place Standard Tool. Data from the Place Standard Tool is delivered as an unwieldy CSV file with 53 columns, most of which contain narrative data.
This is pretty hard to analyse... so I've written a tool to automate summarising the data. And, actually, I'm quite pleased with it." -- m…

Place Standard Tool Summariser: Full Test Run

Last year I wrote a paper on how "GenAI" is a risk for #citizenscience (it being an academic paper it's still slowly dying in review). One of the points was that using "AI" devalues the contributions made by human volunteers, leading to contributors (rightfully) disengaging.
Yesterday, #inaturalist announced an "AI"-partnership with Google, and unsurprisingly that's exactly the backlash they got…
https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-inaturalist-receives-grant-to-improve-species-suggestions

“What’s happening in NYC is a loud message to those in the Dem establishment who still cling to old politics, recite focus-grouped talking points, and are too afraid to say what needs to be said.” It was a campaign that triangulated ground game, digital style and policy substance. Mamdani was a shoe leather candidate who put himself all over the city, talked to countless voters, projected optimism without sounding preachy and had thousands of volunteers knocking on doors.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-election-democrats?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Technical recommendation on multiplex MR elastography for tomographic mapping of abdominal stiffness with a focus on the pancreas and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Jakob Schattenfroh, Salma Almutawakel, Jan Bieling, Johannes Castelein, Melanie Estrella, Philippe Garteiser, Viktor Hartung, Karl H. Hillebrandt, Adrian T. Huber, Laura K\"orner, Thomas Kr\"oncke, Thomas Malinka, Hans-Jonas Meyer, Tom Meyer, Uwe Pelzer, Felix Pfister, Igor M. Sauer, Anna Speth, Bernard E. Van B…

Technical recommendation on multiplex MR elastography for tomographic mapping of abdominal stiffness with a focus on the pancreas and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Objectives: MR elastography (MRE) offers valuable mechanical tissue characterization, however, in deep abdominal organs like the pancreas conventional single-driver, single-frequency approaches often fail. This study evaluates whether multiplex MRE using multiple drivers and vibration frequencies can overcome these limitations. Methods: This study used single-shot spin-echo MRE in 18 healthy volunteers targeting the liver, pancreas, kidneys, and spleen. Each healthy volunteer underwent 16 MRE…