Month: May 2025

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

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 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 … Continue reading CAPS25 – Responsible, ethical, and trustworthy use of AI in participatory sciences →

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AI, citizen science, Conference, ethics

CAPS25 – respectful and reciprocal callaboration with indigenous communities

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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. In contrast, cultural burn was an intergenerational element and some of the safety aspects are blocking learning. … Continue reading CAPS25 – respectful and reciprocal callaboration with indigenous communities →

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AAPS, CAPS25, citizen science, Collaboration, CSA, indigenous knowledge

CAPS25 conference – iNatuarlist keynote

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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 … Continue reading CAPS25 conference – iNatuarlist keynote →

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CAPS25, citizen science, Conference, Environmental information, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information