#ecsa2024 — Public Fediverse posts

Software engineering transitioning from importer of metaphors to exporter of... check notes... disruption.

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Finally got around to look at the photos I made while in Vienna for #ECSA2024. #BelieveInFilm #AnalogPhotography

«Instead, the absolute “right” interpretation would be the thing itself, whole and observable. But that interpretation has long been lost to time, Brown said: “Right is washed down the stream a couple of hundred years ago. Right was never fossilized to begin with. Right got eaten by a scavenger.”»

This is about fossils, but at #ecsa2024 I had some good chats about how this (imho) applies analogously to any data and data set.

https://undark.org/2023/11/15/fossils-art/

Hello Fediverse! At #ecsa2024 our working group decided that we'd be trying to become more active here as well, to share what we're up to at the intersection of #health and #citizenscience.

ECSA 2024 reflections - sharing my impression for the European Citizen Science Association (#ECSA2024) conference. #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #SciPolicy #SciComm

https://povesham.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/ecsa-2024-reflections-policy-and-sts-attention-turbulent-futures-and-a-celebration/

My note from Katja Mayer keynote, closing #ECSA2024 on participatory turns in social science and what we can learn from them in #citizenScience #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryResearch #SocialScience

https://povesham.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/notes-from-ecsa-2024-katja-mayers-keynote-on-participatory-turns-in-the-social-sciences-and-lesson-to-citizen-science/

Final talk at #ECSA2024 is by @katjamat, who is an STS researcher.

The BOKU site that is hosting #ECSA2024 is very near to the Vienna Sternwarte.

Being here makes me miss Thomas Posch, who hosted several of us at the Sternwarte for a project meeting in 2015 or so.

Thomas was a really amazing person, one of the kindest and most thoughtful academics I've ever known. His obituary from the University of Vienna (in German) is here: https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/uni-intern/detailansicht/artikel/in-memoriam-thomas-posch-1974-2019/

This was the second talk that mentioned that you still occasionally observe DDT in the environment, even though it has been banned in Europe for years. I think the other talk that mentioned it was about small streams. #ECSA2024

One concern of beekeepers was that if they happen to be the only beekeeper in a (small) town, and the project reports that their bees had exceptionally high levels of pesticide in that area, that they would have trouble selling their honey.

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Another approach involves putting some sort of pad into the hive for them to walk on, or using "APIStrips" to test for pesticides.

Beekeepers were generally fine with their city and name being made public, but they much more often were not willing to share the exact GPS coordinates of the hives.

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They don't want to kill bees. Instead, they get bees to pass through pollen traps, and collect the pollen to do tests of DNA and pesticides.

Beekeepers don't have access to -80C deep freezers. The project has found other ways that allow the pollen to keep for several weeks.

Beekeepers had a big impact on the design of the pollen capturing system.

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Honeybees fly up to 3 km from their hive. They are exposed to environmental pollutants over that area, and bring the pollutants back to the hives.

Beekeepers can therefore help to monitor the pollution levels over large areas, and there are ~1 million beekeepers in Europe.

Brodschneider, #ECSA2024

So you've done some crowdsourcing/citizen science, machine learning/AI, or both, with museum, library or archive collections. What now? Does the data end up in a collections management system, or does it sit on a drive somewhere?

Share your experiences with enriched data. Our survey should take about 15 mins:
https://forms.gle/JgArpbL6VNM6W3Vk9

Please share to help us reach projects of different ages & in Europe, Asia and Africa!

#crowdsourcing #CitizenScience #CitizenHistory #AI4LAM #CitSciTC #ECSA2024

A speaker (finally) mentioned Mastodon 🎉

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I'm a bit disappointed that we've seen so few results presented at #ECSA2024. Most of the projects are either new or in the middle of their work.

I discussed why this might be withe some other participants, and one of the thoughts is that it's related to the project-based funding cycle. When someone finishes a project, they're likely off to another job, maybe no longer in CS, and no one comes to the conference to present the results.

Seems plausible, but it still surprises me.

10 schools were studied in Tirol, four in Innsbruck. Additional interventions included a 5 minute video, posters in schools, a CO2 indicator light (5 schools), or installed automatic ventilation systems (2 schools). #ÖCSK2024 #ECSA2024

The results aren't all in yet 😞

The CO2 levels in schools (measured before COVID) were typically well over 1000 ppm, and are often over 2000 ppm. Gabriel Rojas's project is looking into whether things changed post
COVID. #ECSA2024 #ÖCSK2024

#ECSA2024 it might be that we should aim at scaling down with local projects.

#ECSA2024 Also contributing to UNESCO Open Science recommendations https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/toolkit and also Mosquito Alert. There is a recognition of the UN WHO chief statistician of citizen science. It is data that is critical for achieving the SDG. There is an aim to change the attitude towards citizen science. CSGP is not diverse enough and there is a need to progress the activities of the partnership. Scaling might be through standards.

The CSGP is especially exploring north-south support in the area of citizen science. Doing advocacy, collaboration, networking, and advancement. Such activity is the YOMA that is supported by UNICEF and aimed at youth with a learning by earning and that includes citizen science. Another example is the air quality monitoring with a range of projects from different countries and methodologies. #ECSA2024 #CitizenScience

Rosi Mondardini and Francois Grey #ECSA2024 #citizenSciene #SDG - the citizen science global partnership. Providing an overview https://citizenscienceglobal.org/ - it includes the regional citizen science associations with different hubs, with the secretariat at IIASA. It's a group of individuals who communicate with the UN but want to know who to communication with - to have a common contact point and it is set for this purpose. Strategic coordination

Already done a user experience survey, mostly aimed at reporting after the fire happened and not reporting about active fire. They are using a moderator model to check for data quality and have active community engagement in Vietnam. #ECSA2024 considering features such as a chatbot

The Trung Hoang #ECSA2024 spotFIRE a citizen science app for forest fire in Vietnam - part of a PhD in BUKO. Using local knowledge for fire observation. Checking the ability of citizen science to record where forest fires happen. Using a mobile app developed by Spotteron in English German and Vietnamese. #CitizenScience #ForestFire #vietnam https://boku.ac.at/en/personen/person/AEC93C29D7ED6A2F

Mariana Varese and Gina Leite #ECSA2024 on Foster change in the Amazon waters alliance. at https://en.aguasamazonicas.org/ - started from scientific synthesis on Amazon basin connectivity of freshwater. Catfish are important bioindicators and food source. They are migratory - the range is huge and the synthesis resulted that there is lack of information.

#ECSA2024 there are also blueprints for #SciComm in citizen science https://newsera2020.eu/results/ and also looked into citizen science journalism - to make citizen's data to societal impact.

#ECSA2024 Rosa A there are different situations from a single researcher trying to do everything to places with a proper communication tool. They developed indicators for communication with different types of issues - Communication, Participation of stakeholders, and impact https://eu-citizen.science/resource/376

#ECSA2024 5 pilot projects that are providing CitSciComm labs with 39 projects, with identifying their needs of communication across the quadruple helix. Created a community of practice. https://newsera2020.eu/news/

I hadn't heard of Plug-in Solar before, seems interesting. A typical system costs €350-600, and you just plug the device into the power socket in your own house. It won't provide power to the grid, but it does provide power to your own house. I'm really curious as to how that (technically) works.

Rzepucha-Hlubek
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#ECSA2024 Rosa Arias covering the leveraging the impact of citizen science with innovative communication tools #CitizenScience #SciComm came out of a real need to help to improve communication with participants and that is a common problem across projects. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-5379-7_2

Now: Gaston Remmers giving a quick tour of the findings of our #CS4H survey. The results are in our preprint here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7tdx5 #ecsa2024

Now: Gaston Remmers giving a quick tour of the findings of our #CS4H survey. The results are in our preprint here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7tdx5 #ecsa2024

Now: Gaston Remmers giving a quick tour of the findings of our #CS4H survey. The results are in our preprint here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7tdx5 #ecsa2024

Ria Wolkorte giving a brief overview on the first #CS4H conference we had in November last year in Enschede, bringing together 150 people working in the space. #ecsa2024

Ria Wolkorte giving a brief overview on the first #CS4H conference we had in November last year in Enschede, bringing together 150 people working in the space. #ecsa2024

Ria Wolkorte giving a brief overview on the first #CS4H conference we had in November last year in Enschede, bringing together 150 people working in the space. #ecsa2024

#ECSA and Österreich Forscht are both celebrating their 10 year anniversaries at the #ECSA2024 conference.

10 years ago, Österreich Forscht (the Austrian #CitizenScience platform) had 9 projects on it. Today, it's over 100. A recent representative survey showed that nearly half of Austrians have heard of Österreich Forscht.