The word poacher is a horrible word. It carries with it images of slain rhinos, piles of ivory,…
Workshop on lessons learned from volunteers’ interactions with geographic citizen science applications, 27 April 2018, London
The Extreme Citizen Science group is organising the workshop on ‘Lessons learned from volunteers’ interactions with geographic citizen science applications:…
Reuniting people and maps: Participative Mapping 2017 at Cal Poly
Maps have changed the world. If you’ve visited Madrid’s Naval Museum, you will have seen a map drawn by an…
Being a jury member at LERU’s Citizen Science Summer School
(Reblogged from the DITOs website) Several years of running a thriving online citizen science community has turned out to bring many unexpected results a…
LERU Summer School – Citizen science and public participation in the digital age
When the words “Doctoral”, “summer”, and “school” are put together, there is little insight as to what someone might expect…
Ready, Set, Report! Five forest communities are showcasing a new style of conservation
We’re often told that we shouldn’t trust first impressions. In the case of Baka forest hunter-gatherer communities in Cameroon,…
Presenting the DITOS Logic Model at the Citizen Science Association Conference
I’ve just got back from the States, where Muki and I attended the Citizen Science Association Conference 2017 in St…
In Memory of Gill Conquest
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Gill Conquest on May 5, 2017. Gill was an…
Interview the Researchers: What was “Into the Night”?
In the following paragraphs, two PhD students – Gianfranco Gliozzo and Pen-Yuan Hsing – and I will tell you about…
A Citizen Science Training Day
On 2nd February, the “Into the Night” project organised a Citizen Science Training Day for early career researchers, particularly in ecology, to learn how to work with volunteers as part of their research.
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