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Muki Haklay

@mhaklay.bsky.social

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Professor at UCL, London; Team Lead at the Learning Planet Institute. Interested in public access, use, and creation of environmental information; citizen science, community science, scientific crowdsourcing or whatever you like to call it. .. more

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Muki Haklay FAcSS is Professor of Geographical Information Science at the Department of Geography in University College London (UCL).

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · 4d

By the way, one of the most poignant examples of maps in the wild is the new memorial garden in central Paris fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_...

Jardin du 13 Novembre 2015 — Wikipédia

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 24d

The data is from our global citizen science Big Toilet Project where we are collecting data on toilet training and nappy use: www.bigtoiletproject.org

Home - Big Toilet Project

Are you a parent or adult responsible for toilet training a child? We need your help to understand toilet training better! Get involved with the Big Toilet Project to be part of the world’s biggest...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Jul 27

Tom Lehrer was a genius. It wasn’t his most important role, but he was an excellent connection between my Dad’s thing (satirical song), and my own (the sociology of science). A thread of some sociology of science bangers…

Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · Jul 27

Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · Jul 27

Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jan 16

As part of the European Citizen Science Academy and ECSA - European Citizen Science Association, we are developing a Citizen Science Competency framework for citizen science researchers and practitioners through participatory approaches with and for the beneficiaries. More details here […]

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · Jul 22

For Map Wizardry at last week's #EsriUC2025, inspired by a map in an old Sports Illustrated, I made "Golf of America" - a pictorial map of all the golf courses in the contiguous US with an appropriately positioned title. Feel free to download a copy.

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madimn.bsky.social @madimn.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hi! My name is Madina, I’m a current masters student. For my dissertation, I’m exploring how effective citizen science is in raising awareness on air pollution in BAME communities in London. I’ve created a short anon survey. Only takes a few minutes to complete! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Citizen science - air quality

This form aims to understand participants awareness on air quality in London and understanding participation Air Quality Science Projects. This study aims to explores what motivates or prevents peopl...

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 16

🌼 Got 10 mins to spend near flowers? Why not contribute to the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme with a Flower-Insect Timed (FIT) Count!

Watch flowers + insects in warm, dry weather (Apr–Sept).
Every FIT Count helps science.

Find out more: ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts

#CitizenScience #BeesNeeds

Hand holding a mobile phone with the FIT Count app on screen, in front of knapweed flowers

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jul 11

@uclouvain.bsky.social @circleu.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @scivil.bsky.social

Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jul 11

UCLouvain summer school on #CitizenScience - summary and reflection. A fantastic week of immersive #ParticipatoryScience in Louvain-la-Neuve

PReCISE (Promoting Citizen Science Expertise) summer school – summary and lessons

These are notes from the first day of the summer school at Université de Louvain (UCLouvain) on 7-11 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve, and funded by Circle-U university alliance. The course included teachers from the University of Amsterdam, Aarhus University, University Paris Cité, University of Vienna, and UCLouvain. Jaqui Goldin provided the first talk, exploring the ethics and practice of citizen science - and the principles of doing citizen science.

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jul 9

The PReCISE summer school is progressing at @uclouvain.bsky.social, and Gitte Kragh helping students to consider the experience of participants in #CitizenScience projects. Part of @circleu.bsky.social cross university collaboration www.circle-u.eu/open-campus/... #ParticipatoryResearch

Classroom, a few students are sitting and a female lecturer behind a podium

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jun 26

Find this book here books.fupress.com/catalogue/ic... #CommunityScience #Italy #CitizenScience

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jun 25

As if I needed more reasons to be horrified by the practices and pollution of LLM companies. Destroying millions of books, most will be unimportant, but maybe some rare (e.g. acadmic short print runs)? I guess that you'll get 90-9-1 with popular books? arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · Jun 18

We find that people want good to last 10 years+. But they could last longer in a new economy that prioritises repair www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...

Frontiers | A systems approach to growing the UK electronics and appliance repair economy

The UK has a growing problem in the fast and unsustainable accumulation of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE and EEE as defined by HM Governmen...

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jun 13

I thought that I came across it among the post-normal science papers, but while searching for it, I came across this, which seems to fit your requirement? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

‘Better than numbers…’ a gentle critique of evidence‐based medicine

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has achieved cult status in the last 10 years or so. It is an altogether admirable movement in medicine, capable of a great deal of good. Its privileged status, however,...

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jun 13

If you know of other #EuFunded or nationally funded #CitizenScience from Europe, with <5 min video, and on YouTube, let me know and I'll add it. #HorizonEurope #Horizon2020 #CitizenObservatories 2/2

Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jun 13

With help from a lot of people, I've created a #YouTube playlist of 30 clips/promos/teasers of European #CitizenScience projects - covering more or less the last decade, including the one with @colombewarin.bsky.social & the science bus, and many more... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRt... 1/2

Citizen Science: Opening up science to society

YouTube video by EU Science & Innovation

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jun 11

Have a lovely celebrtaion and well done and thank you to everyone at @uclpress.bsky.social

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jun 6

Tomorrow, 2-6, come and hear about #CitizenScience and #ParticipatoryResearch at the #GoetheInstitute London. Part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival. We will share lessons from the @ecs.ngo project and from Doing It Together Science! #GERF2025 www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/st...

Drop-In Presentation: GERF 2025 - Science for everyone, with everyone: experiencing citizen science - Goethe-Institut United Kingdom

Sat, 07.06.2025 – UCL in cooperation with the European Comission

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jun 6

Circle-U. UCLouvain – Citizen science: rethinking research with and for society

Notes from a seminar that was held on June 5, World Environment Day. It is part of the Circle U. Climate Day 2025. It was organised as a hybrid event. Caroline Michellier, Université catholique de Louvain led the…

Circle-U. UCLouvain – Citizen science: rethinking research with and for society

Notes from a seminar that was held on June 5, World Environment Day. It is part of the Circle U. Climate Day 2025. It was organised as a hybrid event. Caroline Michellier, Université catholique de Louvain led the organisation of the seminar, and it was integrated into a series of transdisciplinary seminars. It explored how citizen science can enrich research and enhance our understanding of key challenges, particularly environmental ones.

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EU Delegation to the UK @euinuk.bsky.social · Jun 6

📣We’re heading to the Great Exhibition Road Festival over the weekend!

This year Imperial College’s Eureka Zone showcases Imperial-EU R&I collaborations, most of which are funded by #HorizonEurope 🔬🌍

Join us on 7–8 June to celebrate science, innovation & European cooperation in research.

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · Jun 5

The participatory science conference in Portland, OR - thoughts from the conference #CitizenScience #ParticipatoryResearch #CommunityScience

CAPS 2025 – uncertain or resiliant future for USA participatory science?

CAPS 2025, like the previous conferences of the Association for Advancing Participatory Science (AAPS, formerly the Citizen Science Association), was an opportunity to learn about the state of citizen science in the USA. The conference took place in Portland, Oregon, where 13 years ago the first conference of what will become the CSA took place. At that time, the term…

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European Citizen Science project @ecs.ngo · Jun 5

The June issue of our digital magazine the "Citizen Science Lighthouse" is now published. It focuses on the future of #citizenscience, a topic that urgently needs our collective reflection.

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · May 31

Getting my copy of #theAICon at the end of #caps25. Talked about a version of it in the conference. How come scientists suspect data quality from #citizenScience but happily run into using data and results from #AI? It's the CS-AI paradox...

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · May 28

CAPS25 – Responsible, ethical, and trustworthy use of AI in participatory sciences

Convener: Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham and Responsible AI UK Speakers: Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota and Zooniverse; Sarah Huebner, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Luigi Ceccaroni,…

CAPS25 – Responsible, ethical, and trustworthy use of AI in participatory sciences

Convener: Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham and Responsible AI UK Speakers: Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota and Zooniverse; Sarah Huebner, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Luigi Ceccaroni, Earthwatch Europe; Andrea Grover, University of Nebraska at Omaha AI is a lot of things - machine learning, NLP, computer vision, genAI and LLM but it is getting capabilities and impact. The questions are the opportunities and drawbacks to using AI in cit sci?

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · May 28

Notes from #CAPS25 on collaboration with indigenous communities #CitizenScience #ParticipatoryScience

CAPS25 – respectful and reciprocal callaboration with indigenous communities

Jeremy FiveCrows (Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission) Gabe Sheoships Friends of Tryon Creek State Park, director Lili Yazzie (Diné) Friends of Tryon Creek State Park, Green Leaders Workforce Coordinator. Darius Yaw (PSU) Indigenous Traditional Ecological & Cultural Knowledge Lu Whitebear (Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies, Oregon State University) and Tim Hecox (World Forestry Center) Examples of partnerships - the issue of supporting fire that is done by bringing cultural fire and considering how to do a controlled burn, but it is also done in understanding the landscape and learning about the fire.

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · May 28

Notes for the keynote of #CAPS25 conference (AAPS) #CitizenScience #ParticipatoryScience #CommunityScience

CAPS25 conference – iNatuarlist keynote

This week it's the Association for Advancing Participatory Science conference (27-30 May 2025). The opening keynote was given by iNaturalist Scott Loarie, the executive director of iNaturalist. Scott covered 5 lessons from iNat. It started as an MSc project, and has been going in for 17 years. It’s growing over time, about 8m observation. Seasonality of the northern hemisphere.

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Open Environmental Data Project @openenvirodata.bsky.social · May 27

Are you attending the Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences' #CAPS25 Conference in Portland today?

OEDP's Research & Policy Manager Emelia Williams will be there discussing our Community Data Playbook. Join them at the Ethical Considerations talk session today at 3:45 pm PT 💫

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Scivil @scivil.bsky.social · May 23

On June 5, UCLouvain organises a seminar on #citizenscience and environmental research: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... including:

- @mhaklay.bsky.social‬ , professor at UCL
- our very own @anneliesduerinckx.bsky.social‬ , coordinator of Scivil
- and two case studies from UCLouvain.

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Muki Haklay @mhaklay.bsky.social · May 21

Have you ever wanted 15 minutes to talk with an editor about your future paper?

If you’re going to #CAPS2025 in Portland, come to the Editor Rapid Reviews! Get advice on how to turn your ideas into a paper.
#citizenscience #participatoryscience

Sign up for a slot lnkd.in/grkQn726
#AGUPubs

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