We are looking for a Head of Outreach 🐝

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with proven experience in a leadership role to influence change and help more people and organisations become champions for bumblebees.

Full details: https://ow.ly/3IBj50YsKlY

A promotional image, title ECS Academy, then a dive into the citizen science competency frameowork and the dates.

𝗔 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁

Join a session to know more, to contribute to finalising this first version of a citizen science competency framework.

Four sessions - all the same, pick the one that […]

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Year 5 pupils have just presented to 70 academics at the University of Oulu on ‘How much nature do children need?’ They spoke confidently about their research through experiences in nature, questionnaires, observations and linking with pupils in Koli #ScienceatWelbeck #50ThingsatWelbeck @ecsa.ngo

Stories from the River Lea: community voices shaping understanding of environmental change Environmental crises are often monitored through technical indicators, datasets, and institutional reporting. Yet they are also lived, sensed, and negotiated through everyday experience, in how peo…

Stories from the River Lea 🌊
Community voices shaping how we understand environmental #crisis and river pollution.
We share reflections from our UCLEast workshop with River Lea communities. @uclgeography.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social
uclexcites.blog/2026/03/05/s... #riverlea #dirtywater

Stories from the River Lea – Workshop Registration Form Thank you for your interest in joining Stories from the River Lea: Mapping Environmental Risks and Community Experiences, a creative storytelling and mapping workshop at UCL East. This session brings ...

Do you know the #RiverLea, walk along it, or spend time nearby? We are hosting a workshop on 31 Jan 2026 at #UCLEast, exploring stories of pollution, change, care, and everyday experiences around the Lea.
More info and register here: forms.gle/6kLXd9vuf9vH...

So great to have you here @liminalwater.bsky.social !

A huge thank you to @jennywustenberg.bsky.social and Samantha Vaughn, #HERA and #AHRC for the wonderful event "Knowledge exchange for Hope"! Your work in bringing us together to support and celebrate our #crisis projects and humanities research was V inspiring! Grateful to be part of this community!

y mum was refused boarding today after honestly telling staff she sometimes faints (non-threatening, well-managed). Instead of showing care, the pilot chose exclusion. Grateful to everyone else who supported her - shame on the pilot for lacking basic humanity @easyjethelpdesk.bsky.social

@mhaklay.bsky.social @ecsa.ngo #airquality #participatorysciece #communityscience #inclusion

If you are a London-based #citizenscience volunteer consider filling in this survey or if you are a #citizenscience practitioner would be great if you could share this survey with your cs networks! #London #airquality #participatoryscience

Registration form Join us for the first meeting of the newly formed ECSA Working Group on Geographic and Place-Based Citizen Science. This working group brings together researchers, practitioners, educators, and citize...

Tomorrow is the first meeting of ECSA’s Working Group on Geographic and Place-Based Citizen Science; 10:00–11:30am BST.
Register here: tinyurl.com/nhftytvm
Join us as we kick off discussions and shape this new community of practice!
#CitizenScience #Geography #ECSA

CHRYSES: Mapping Environmental Health Crises – Public Understanding through Myths and Science A new AHRC-funded project, CHRYSES, brings together myth, science, and mapping to explore how societies understand and respond to environmental and health crises.

🗺️ CHRYSES: Myths, Science & Mapping Crises 🌍

AHRC-funded project exploring how myths and maps tackle crises. Learn more!

Read more: tinyurl.com/ucl-chryses

#CHRYSES #MappingCrisis #UCLGeography #EnvironmentalHealth #AHRC @ucl.ac.uk @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @ucc.ie @aalto.fi @sartemi.bsky.social

GLAM folk, got perspectives on 'Participatory Science' (or citizen history, citizen science, crowdsourcing) to share for a special edition of Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (CSTP) Journal?

Abstracts to forms.gle/tZmaSEPixgAU... - by February 28

More:
participatorysciences.org/2024/11/07/c...

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨

Exciting opportunity to join us as a Research Fellow in Cartography, Participatory Mapping and GIS for communicating environmental and health crises.

Work with @sartemi.bsky.social on impactful research!

🔗 Apply now

#Hiring #GIS #Cartography #ParticipatoryMapping #UCL

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Research fellow post at @uclgeography.bsky.social in the area of #Cartography #ParticipatoryMapping #GIS for communicating Environmental and Health Crises, with @sartemi.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Fabulous opportunity!

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

are you interested in #mapping #myths and #science for communicating environmental and health crises? If so apply for this post and come work with us in project Chryses shorturl.at/M2UsB

From the Assoc for the Advancement of #ParticipatorySciences: #Citizenscience and #artificialintelligence (#AI) have emerged as two powerful tools for tackling complex scientific challenges. While citizen science harnesses the collective work of volunteers […]

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Plenarno predavanje, Muki Haklay Muki Haklay, UCL London

My talk from the Slovenia Citizen Science day "Citizen Science – from the margins to the mainstream?" from early Dec is available online at video.arnes.si/watch/t7y8c0... and my slides are also shared at citizenscience.si/en/network/n... #CitizenScience #ScienceWithSociety #PublicEngagement

The collaborative power of AI and citizen science in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals Professor Muki Haklay joins IIASA researchers in exploring how the fusion of citizen science and artificial intelligence (AI) can drive progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (...

Professor @mhaklay.bsky.social teams up with @iiasa.ac.at researchers to explore how #AI and #CitizenScience can drive progress on the #SDGs.

Together, they’re tackling data gaps and making sustainable development goals more achievable.

#SustainableDevelopment #TechForGood

University tuition fees in England set to climb above £10,000 Announcement expected in next year’s spending review

University tuition fees in England set to climb above £10,000 on.ft.com/41E4fYr

AI-INTERVENE is now accepting applications for 26 PhD projects in AI and Biodiversity findaphd.com/phds/program.... Hosted by UCL and the University of Reading, in partnership with NHM, ZSL, Kew Gardens, and UKCEH. More details at ai-intervene.net
#biodiversity #AI #conservation

Funding Call Announcement: Strengthening Capacity Across the Science-Policy-Society Interface BioAgora, in partnership with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), announces a funding call for capacity development initiatives under the Science-Policy-Society Interface (SPSI). ...

𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲: BioAgora and NINA announce €350,000 in funding for innovative projects bridging science, policy, and society for biodiversity—deadline 27 January 2025!
For more information and to apply: bioagora.eu/news/funding...

How can bottom-up citizen science restore public trust in environmental governance and sciences? Recommendations from three case studies Citizen science is currently at the forefront of environmental scientific research and public policy for its potential to improve environmental govern…

another recent paper discussing how to improve #trust in environmental sciences and governance using bottom-up #citizenscience analysing case studies from Japan, Cameroon and the UK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Jo covering how special collections moved to integrate public history in UCL East memory workshop www.ucl.ac.uk/creative-cul... it is a form of Humanities #citizenScience and helps in reflecting on the practices of collecting and managing information.

"The Utilization of Maps in Geographic Citizen Science: A Preliminary Analysis of Usability and User Experience Issues and Opportunities"? A new paper by Artemis Skarlatidou, Marcos Moreau and me in the Annals of @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CitizenScience

The Utilization of Maps in Geographic Citizen Science: A Preliminary Analysis of Usability and User Experience Issues and Opportunities The rapid proliferation of geospatial technologies and the widespread utilization of Web and mobile maps by nonexpert audiences spurred new perspectives and research paradigms within geography. One...

New paper on how maps are utilised in geographic #citizenscience - evaluating 229 applications and applying UX methods to identify critical usability barriers and suggest amongst others how to better support visual thinking to leverage geographic knowledge www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Breathing Emotions & Stories: A different way of navigating Oral History We are pleased to welcome Dr Almila Akdag Salah (Utrecht University) for this 'Voices Unbound?' seminar.

Breathing Emotions & Stories: A different way of navigating Oral History
16 December 2024, 1:25m–2:45 pm
We are pleased to welcome Dr Almila Akdag Salah (Utrecht University) for this 'Voices Unbound?' seminar.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

This is a true 'once-in-a-lifetime shot.
A meteor and Milky Way galaxy in the same frame

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, Is flood forecasting failing? We find out how flooding is forecast – and ask what went wrong in the recent UK floods.

🌍 Was COP29 all talk, or did it deliver real climate action?

@profmarkmaslin.bsky.social gives his expert analysis on Inside Science. 🎙️

🎧 Tune in: tinyurl.com/ucl-insidecop

#COP29 #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability