Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific
domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non …

Indigenous and local peoples'(ILPs) role in cataloging life on Earth has been significant but
underappreciated. ILPs knowledge faces growing cultural and biological threats. Greater …

Field biology is an area of research that involves working directly with living organisms in
situ through a practice known as “fieldwork.” Conducting fieldwork often requires complex …

Assigning authorship and recognizing contributions to scholarly works is challenging on
many levels. Here we discuss ethical, social, and technical challenges to the concept of …

Worldwide, scientists are increasingly collaborating with the general public. Citizen science
methods are readily applicable to freshwater research, monitoring, and education. In …

Over the past 2 decades, digital photography has grown increasingly accessible. This has
ushered in a golden age of community science, where nonspecialists share natural history …

We created a set of resources to enable research based on openly-available diffusion MRI
(dMRI) data from the Healthy Brain Network (HBN) study. First, we curated the HBN dMRI …

Authorship should acknowledge and reward those deserving of such credit. Moreover, being
an author on a paper also means that one assumes ownership of the content. 2. Journals …

In citizen science, data stewards and data producers are often not the same people. When
those who have labored on data collection are not in control of the data, ethical problems …

The development of remotely sensed products such as land cover requires large amounts of
high-quality reference data, needed to train remote sensing classification algorithms and for …