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.
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· Jul 11
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@mhaklay.bsky.social
· Jul 11
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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· Jun 26
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· Jun 18
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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@mhaklay.bsky.social
· Jun 13
‘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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· Jun 13
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· Jun 11
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· 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 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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Muki Haklay
@mhaklay.bsky.social
· Jun 5
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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· 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, 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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· May 28
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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