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Citizen Science: Creating a culture of curiosity
Pilot Joe Kittinger once said, “You can’t get any real fun things unless you volunteer.” At the time, he was referring to things like voluntarily jumping out of planes at extremely high (and...
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Get out the data: making change through citizen science
Non-partisan campaigns to get out the vote occur before every election. It helps remind us of our rights and responsibilities to participate in a democratic society. But we all too often forget that...
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Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: Weekly Roundup
I’m motivated to begin a weekly roundup because there were at least four five cool scientific papers this week that relied on citizen science. I’m absolutely sure that there were more that did not...
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Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: What citizen science has told us
For this week’s roundup, there are two new papers that used data from Breeding Bird Atlas programs in order to spot trends in bird populations in relation to environmental changes. One study with Atlas...
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Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: Does citizen science get lost in translation?
I spent this week in Fiesole, Italy at the Vespucci Institute held at Fattoria di Maiano. I was vacationing helping facilitate a summer course about citizen science and VGI (which stands for...
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Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: Bird watchers have themselves to thank (and here is...
Like any parent, I get a lot of questions from my kids that only an encyclopedia could properly answer. I got away with being vague when they were young: “What plant is this?” they would ask, as if...
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Coop’s Scoop: Mind over Mainframe – next #CitSciChat discusses citizen...
The next time you get into an argument with your laptop or shake a fist at your computer, try to refrain from calling it “a stupid machine.” That would be gloating. We really are more intelligent than...
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Coop’s Scoop: Shark citizen science, on the next #CitSciChat
shark on Kronos Reef, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge; photo by Wyland After the blockbuster movie Jaws, two silly things happened: kids started calling me Hooper (instead of Cooper) and I was...
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Coop’s Scoop: What’s not counted when we count “Citizen Science”?
Citizen science is skyrocketing in popularity. Not just among participants (of which there are millions), but also in its visibility in academic journals. A new article in PLOS ONE by Ria Follett and...
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Citizen Science Day, presented by SciStarter and the Citizen Science Association, is an annual event to celebrate and promote all things citizen science: amazing discoveries, incredible volunteers,...
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