The Conversation: Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers − here’s how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes

Posted on December 8, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

The Conversation: Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers − here’s how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes. “Recruiting participants for a citizen science project produced a more diverse group when people were signed up through partner organizations, such as schools and faith-based organizations, than when they joined on their own. We used this approach to recruit volunteers for Crowd the Tap, a citizen science initiative that crowdsources the locations of lead plumbing in homes.”

Business Insider: Elon Musk’s biggest fans on X love Community Notes — until it comes for them

Posted on December 8, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Business Insider: Elon Musk’s biggest fans on X love Community Notes — until it comes for them. “Some may argue that the fact that no X user, including Musk himself, is immune to a correction from Community Notes is a testament to the feature’s capability, but critics have repeatedly pointed out the flaws of the system behind the feature.”

Radio Prague International: New project turns schoolchildren into field linguists to try to preserve endangered Czech dialects

Posted on December 6, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Radio Prague International: New project turns schoolchildren into field linguists to try to preserve endangered Czech dialects . “The Czech Academy of Sciences has launched a campaign using bold comic-book style graphics under the heading ‘Become a superdialectologist!’ to try to get young people involved in a new project. The aim: to capture the current landscape of Czech dialects as they are spoken today, before they disappear.”

Northern Arizona University: Capturing language, one conversation at a time

Posted on December 4, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Northern Arizona University: Capturing language, one conversation at a time . “Conversational American English is a constantly shifting collection of billions of words, and the words we choose, the order we use them and how we pronounce them communicates as much as what we actually are saying. To better understand it, a team of linguists in the College of Arts and Letters are leading the effort to create the largest recorded collection of conversational American English ever made. The database, or corpus, of conversational American English will include recordings of everyday conversations from people of different ethnic groups, ages, professions and genders from throughout the United States.”

Edinburgh Reporter: Pioneering project captures stories of LGBTQ+ youth

Posted on November 24, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Edinburgh Reporter: Pioneering project captures stories of LGBTQ+ youth. “LGBTQ+ young people across Scotland have lent their voices to a first-of-its-kind social history project that will preserve their experiences, stories and hopes for the future. This is part of LGBT Youth Scotland’s (Un)Seen, (Un)Heard initiative, which is capturing, collating and conserving the stories of LGBTQ+ young people to create a new permanent archive within the National Library of Scotland and increase visibility, provide connection across generations, strengthen communities and inform policymakers.”

Government of British Columbia: Public engagement begins for new South Asian Canadian museum

Posted on November 23, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Government of British Columbia: Public engagement begins for new South Asian Canadian museum. “A new website will provide British Columbians with opportunities to share their vision for a new museum to highlight the history, culture and contributions to B.C. from Canadians of diverse South Asian heritages.”

Cornell Chronicle: Crowdsourced fact-checking fights misinformation in Taiwan

Posted on November 22, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Cornell Chronicle: Crowdsourced fact-checking fights misinformation in Taiwan. “In a new study, Andy Zhao, a doctoral candidate in information science based at Cornell Tech, compared professional fact-checking articles to posts on Cofacts, a community-sourced fact-checking platform in Taiwan. He found that the crowdsourced site often responded to queries more rapidly than professionals and handled a different range of issues across platforms.”

The Canberra Times: Frog call database hopping towards million milestone

Posted on November 4, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

The Canberra Times: Frog call database hopping towards million milestone. “Citizen scientists have been called on to help Australian researchers make the leap past a million frog croak recordings. FrogID is a one-of-a-kind portable project developed by scientist Jodi Rowley and Australian Museum director Kim McKay in 2017.”

Cornell Chronicle: Add new types of data for the 37th season of Project FeederWatch

Posted on October 19, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Cornell Chronicle: Add new types of data for the 37th season of Project FeederWatch. “The prime directive for Project FeederWatch has been and continues to be gathering data about how bird populations and distributions are changing across the United States and Canada—vital information for conservation. For the 37th season of this project, participants can enter some brand-new kinds of data—and finally get a chance to tell tales about squirrels, deer, raccoons, bears, or other mammals they see at their count sites in winter—in addition to the birds.”

Fordham University: Crowd-Sourced History Project Seeks to Humanize the Incarcerated

Posted on September 29, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Fordham University: Crowd-Sourced History Project Seeks to Humanize the Incarcerated . “From 1865 to 1925, nearly 50,000 people passed through the gates of Sing Sing prison, just 20 miles north of New York City. Very little is known about who they were. Shadows on Stone, a new crowd-sourced digital history project that began in a Fordham history class, seeks to fill in that gap and, in doing so, help restore the humanity of a group of people who have historically been dismissed as irredeemable.”

The Guardian: X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information

Posted on September 27, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

The Guardian: X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information. “X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has removed the ability for people to report a tweet for containing misleading information just weeks before a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament in Australia.”

Yale Insights: A Better Algorithm Can Bring Volunteers to More Organizations

Posted on September 26, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Yale Insights: A Better Algorithm Can Bring Volunteers to More Organizations . “An online platform was connecting millions of volunteers with opportunities—but many organizations were not finding any volunteers at all. Yale SOM’s Vahideh Manshadi and her collaborators found that the platform was steering volunteers toward a small group of opportunities. By building equity into the algorithm, they were able to help more organizations find the volunteers they need.”

TechCrunch: Google wants to map more of the world’s roads with expansion of ‘Road Mapper’ volunteer community

Posted on September 23, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

TechCrunch: Google wants to map more of the world’s roads with expansion of ‘Road Mapper’ volunteer community . “Google announced today that it is opening access to more contributors to participate in Road Mapper, a tool where you can add missing roads to Google Maps in areas of the world that need it most.” Thinking about this in relation to the recent Google Maps driving directions lawsuit is kind of 😬.

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