A framework for contextualizing social‐ecological biases in contributory science data

EJ Carlen, CO Estien, T Caspi, D Perkins… - People and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Contributory science—including citizen and community science—allows scientists to
leverage participant‐generated data while providing an opportunity for engaging with local …

An Evolutionary Perspective on Dog Behavioral Genetics

KA Lord, FL Chen, EK Karlsson - Annual Review of Animal …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Dogs have played an outsized role in the field of behavioral genetics since its earliest days.
Their unique evolutionary history and ubiquity in the modern world make them a potentially …

To be policy-relevant, future climate research must include the noncontiguous United States

S Basile, CW Avery, A Grade, AR Crimmins - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
The research community devotes a lot of time and resources toward monitoring historic
climate changes, tracking current impacts, and modeling future risks in the United States. But …

Social justice, community engagement, and undergraduate STEM education: participatory science as a teaching tool

HD Vance-Chalcraft, KC Smith, J Allen… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2024 - lifescied.org
Social justice is increasingly being seen as relevant to the science curriculum. We examine
the intersection of participatory science, social justice, and higher education in the United …

Citizen science: pathways to impact and why participant diversity matters

RM Pateman, SE West - Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2023 - pure.york.ac.uk
Citizen science has a problem with engaging diverse participants, with a growing number of
studies showing those most marginalised in society, who could benefit most from citizen …

Imaginaries of democratization and the value of open environmental data: Analysis of Microsoft's planetary computer

PM Lukacz - Big Data & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The proliferation of environmentally oriented programs within the tech industry, and the
industry's coinciding efforts toward data and technology democratization, generate concerns …

Toward a fourth generation critical GIS: Extraordinary politics

S Elwood - ACME: An International Journal for Critical …, 2022 - acme-journal.org
This collection illustrates diverse trajectories of critical GIS praxis that advance social and
spatial justice in the current conjuncture. Justice-seeking politics rendered with spatial data …

Challenges, strategies, and impacts of doing citizen science with marginalised and indigenous communities: reflections from project coordinators.

P Benyei, A Skarlatidou, D Argyriou, R Hall, I Theilade… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Citizen science is growing and increasingly realizing its potential in terms of benefiting
science and society. However, there are significant barriers to engaging participants in non …

Facilitator organizations enhance learning and action through citizen science: a case study of Girl Scouts' Think Like a Citizen Scientist journey on SciStarter

HE Smith, CB Cooper, KC Busch, S Harper… - Environmental …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Engagement in citizen science can result in participant outcomes including increased
science and environmental literacy and civic action. One factor which may increase the …

Demographics of public participation in science: A meta-analytic approach

JK Waugh, JK Lindsey… - Citizen …, 2023 - account.theoryandpractice …
Citizen science, defined here as the voluntary participation of the public in scientific
research, has been proposed as a method of increasing diversity in science. However, it is …