#FuturePub – Citizen Science, Open Science & scientific publications

Posted on Wednesday 11 May 2016 by mukih

Thanks to an invitation from John Hammersley of OverLeaf I gave a talk at #FuturePub 7 event, which was dedicated to “New Developments in Scientific Collaboration Tech”.

The evening was structured around 7 very short talks (about 5 minutes) so my slides are a very short introduction to citizen science (in this event, I would say that about 10 or the 60 people that participated said that they haven’t heard the term), a note to the societal and technical aspects of the field, few examples that might be of interest to the audience, and finally pointers to why there are links between open science and citizen science, as well as the relationships between field and the current state of scientific publication.

Some of the relevant tweets from the event about this talk:

#CitizenScience contributes to science.Contributions motivate citizen scientists#OpenScience is the link #FuturePub https://t.co/9SXqdLiIzZ

— RIO Journal (@RIOJournal) May 11, 2016

As always, the data quality and reliability question came along:

Q: Can you trust the data from citizens? @mhaklay says Can you trust data from scientists?! Citizens no worse. #futurepub

— Anna Sharman (@sharmanedit) May 10, 2016

Laura Harvey asked me what will be the citizen science project of my dream, for which I replied that the European Research Council project is probably answering:

.@mhaklay is currently conducting the #citizenscience project of his dreams #Futurepub

— Laura Harvey (@lharvey_stm) May 10, 2016

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