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Ten years ago, in May 2016, I wrote a blog post about the experience of securing funding. It looked at 21 funding applications that I was involved in between the middle of 2014 and early 2016 (about 2 years). In the post, I was looking at the experience of leading a growing research group which Continue reading Research funding applications, 10 years on
The summer university Sentir, penser, agir dans la polyphonie du vivant (Feeling, thinking and acting within the polyphony of life) ran between 12 and 18 July 2026 at the Moulin des Baronnies, Sarlabous (In the Pyrenees). It was organised by a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional team, which included the regional authority of the Lannemezan Plateau; The Continue reading Reflections summer…
I very much like the work of Gwen Ottinger, who is a professor at Drexel University. Gwen is a Science, Technology, and Society (STS) researcher, and among a group of researchers in STS who are researching community-led science, such as the Bucket Brigade. Her work is particularly important in the context of environmental justice (EJ), Continue reading Gwen Ottinger s The Science of Repair
The online course Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing was launched in January 2018, about 8.5 years ago(!). It was set as a hybrid course for the students at UCL, it was set as an MSc level module, with all the material shared openly for anyone to use and learn. So far, the Continue reading Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing course (digital…
The Portuguese Citizen Science Network is carrying out regular interviews about citizen science as part of their monhtly newsletter. At https://www.cienciacidada.pt/resources you can find interviews with, Maria Fernanda Rollo, Karen Soacha, Alan Irwing, an Carolina Doran. The interviews are published in Portuguese and English. I was invited to contribute to this series, and answered four Continue…
Academic life involves a lot of travel. Now that I m based part of the time in Paris, journeys to Brussels are easy only an hour and a half by train. In the last two weeks, I found myself visiting Brussels three times: first, for the PATTERN project final event on 14-15 April, where the Continue reading Three cities City Nature Challenge
The European Citizen Science Association 2026 conference is the sixth conference. The first conference was in 2016 in Berlin (see posts here), continued in 2018 in Geneva (see posts here), was supposed to be in Trieste for 2020, but then ended up pivoting online due to Covid-19, the 2022 edition was in Berlin again, with Continue reading ECSA 2026: cooler, bigger, and diverse
Eliza wrote about her experience and particularly about becoming the first lady of Iceland the idea of wanting to contribute and learning to trust that what one wants to say is worth it. It can be intimidating to talk in a conference about science, but she learned about citizen science and the connection between Continue reading Eliza Reid Keynote Fish out of vatn
These are notes from a session dedicated to the European Citizen Science Academy (ECS Academy) and to the Citizen Science Competency Framework (CitSciComp) at the ECSA 2026 conference in Oulu. Cléa Montanari started the session with an overview of the ECS Academy. The ECS academy started by creating a network of educators and trainers with Continue reading The European Citizen Science Academy and…
Camilla Brattland carrying out collaborative research projects into salmon fishing culture and linking indigenous knowledge and scientific knowledge. Strong commitment to community and participation. Knowledge is something that we share and care. Bente Sundsvold played a central role in engaged filmmaking, and more than human approach in social science. Looking at local knowledge Continue reading…