Muki Haklay
@mhaklay.bsky.social
Professor at UCL, London; Team Lead at the Learning Planet Institute. Interested in public access, use, and creation of environmental information; citizen science, community science, scientific crowdsourcing or whatever you like to call it.
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We are in UK Parliament today talking to MPs about the results of our citizen science experiment on nappy/diaper waste. We have clear policy recommendations which are zero cost to reduce the 300,000 nappies/diapers going into the environment every minute globally.
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We are in UK Parliament today talking to MPs about the results of our citizen science experiment on nappy/diaper waste. We have clear policy recommendations which are zero cost to reduce the 300,000 nappies/diapers going into the environment every minute globally.
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@ucl.ac.uk Geography is helping Ethiopian communities map food & water resources using satellite imagery, WhatsApp, and local knowledge.
A 4-year project led by Dr Marcos Moreu & Prof Muki Haklay shows how geospatial innovation can drive social impact.
#UCLGeography #Crowdmapping #FoodSecurity
A 4-year project led by Dr Marcos Moreu & Prof Muki Haklay shows how geospatial innovation can drive social impact.
#UCLGeography #Crowdmapping #FoodSecurity
UCL Geography leads innovative crowdmapping project for food security in Ethiopia
UCL Geography is advancing food security in Ethiopia through pioneering crowdmapping methods, led by Dr Marcos Moreu and Professor Muki Haklay.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
@ucl.ac.uk Geography is helping Ethiopian communities map food & water resources using satellite imagery, WhatsApp, and local knowledge.
A 4-year project led by Dr Marcos Moreu & Prof Muki Haklay shows how geospatial innovation can drive social impact.
#UCLGeography #Crowdmapping #FoodSecurity
A 4-year project led by Dr Marcos Moreu & Prof Muki Haklay shows how geospatial innovation can drive social impact.
#UCLGeography #Crowdmapping #FoodSecurity
Introductory workshop on citizen science by Gitte Kragh from Arhus University as part of the PATTEN project. Registration: aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SciComm #CitizenScience #CommunityScience
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Introductory workshop on citizen science by Gitte Kragh from Arhus University as part of the PATTEN project. Registration: aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SciComm #CitizenScience #CommunityScience
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📣#Survey shout-out!
What makes citizen science trustworthy?
Fill in the survey by AfricaMuseum, designed with IIASA:
🔍 Rate trustworthiness of hypothetical citizen science projects
✅Open to all! Regardless of previous experience with citizen science
The survey: conjointly.online/study/622299...
What makes citizen science trustworthy?
Fill in the survey by AfricaMuseum, designed with IIASA:
🔍 Rate trustworthiness of hypothetical citizen science projects
✅Open to all! Regardless of previous experience with citizen science
The survey: conjointly.online/study/622299...
October 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
📣#Survey shout-out!
What makes citizen science trustworthy?
Fill in the survey by AfricaMuseum, designed with IIASA:
🔍 Rate trustworthiness of hypothetical citizen science projects
✅Open to all! Regardless of previous experience with citizen science
The survey: conjointly.online/study/622299...
What makes citizen science trustworthy?
Fill in the survey by AfricaMuseum, designed with IIASA:
🔍 Rate trustworthiness of hypothetical citizen science projects
✅Open to all! Regardless of previous experience with citizen science
The survey: conjointly.online/study/622299...
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🚀 Just launched! UCL's Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report
Celebrating the work of researchers, innovators & partners from UCL and beyond, the report highlights how innovation can improve lives and benefit humanity.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4niclx3
Celebrating the work of researchers, innovators & partners from UCL and beyond, the report highlights how innovation can improve lives and benefit humanity.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4niclx3
Launch of the Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report
UCL Grand Challenges has launched the Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report, celebrating almost a decade of pioneering research and collaboration exploring how innovation and tech...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🚀 Just launched! UCL's Grand Challenge of Transformative Technology Impact Report
Celebrating the work of researchers, innovators & partners from UCL and beyond, the report highlights how innovation can improve lives and benefit humanity.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4niclx3
Celebrating the work of researchers, innovators & partners from UCL and beyond, the report highlights how innovation can improve lives and benefit humanity.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4niclx3
A call for papers for a special collection of #CitizenScience Theory and Practice - Citizen Science for Evidence-based Policy and Decision-Making. Deadline for abstracts of 250 words is 15 December. Do you have an example? participatorysciences.org/2025/10/15/c...
Call for Abstracts Policy and Decision-Making - Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences
CITIZEN SCIENCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE Special Collection: Citizen Science for Evidence-based Policy and Decision-Making Call for Abstracts Issue editors: Muki Haklay1,2, Smriti Safaya3,4, Jay Benforad...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A call for papers for a special collection of #CitizenScience Theory and Practice - Citizen Science for Evidence-based Policy and Decision-Making. Deadline for abstracts of 250 words is 15 December. Do you have an example? participatorysciences.org/2025/10/15/c...
Publishing Participatory Science: The Community Science Exchange eos.org/editors-vox/... #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #ParticipatoryResearch
Publishing Participatory Science: The Community Science Exchange - Eos
Our peer-reviewed journal and innovative editor-vetted Hub offer new ways to share research performed by, with, and for communities.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Publishing Participatory Science: The Community Science Exchange eos.org/editors-vox/... #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #ParticipatoryResearch
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The data is from our global citizen science Big Toilet Project where we are collecting data on toilet training and nappy use: www.bigtoiletproject.org
Home - Big Toilet Project
Are you a parent or adult responsible for toilet training a child? We need your help to understand toilet training better! Get involved with the Big Toilet Project to be part of the world’s biggest...
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September 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The data is from our global citizen science Big Toilet Project where we are collecting data on toilet training and nappy use: www.bigtoiletproject.org
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Tom Lehrer was a genius. It wasn’t his most important role, but he was an excellent connection between my Dad’s thing (satirical song), and my own (the sociology of science). A thread of some sociology of science bangers…
Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
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July 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Tom Lehrer was a genius. It wasn’t his most important role, but he was an excellent connection between my Dad’s thing (satirical song), and my own (the sociology of science). A thread of some sociology of science bangers…
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For Map Wizardry at last week's #EsriUC2025, inspired by a map in an old Sports Illustrated, I made "Golf of America" - a pictorial map of all the golf courses in the contiguous US with an appropriately positioned title. Feel free to download a copy.
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July 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
For Map Wizardry at last week's #EsriUC2025, inspired by a map in an old Sports Illustrated, I made "Golf of America" - a pictorial map of all the golf courses in the contiguous US with an appropriately positioned title. Feel free to download a copy.
carto.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...
carto.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...
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Hi! My name is Madina, I’m a current masters student. For my dissertation, I’m exploring how effective citizen science is in raising awareness on air pollution in BAME communities in London. I’ve created a short anon survey. Only takes a few minutes to complete! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Citizen science - air quality
This form aims to understand participants awareness on air quality in London and understanding participation Air Quality Science Projects.
This study aims to explores what motivates or prevents peopl...
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July 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hi! My name is Madina, I’m a current masters student. For my dissertation, I’m exploring how effective citizen science is in raising awareness on air pollution in BAME communities in London. I’ve created a short anon survey. Only takes a few minutes to complete! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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🌼 Got 10 mins to spend near flowers? Why not contribute to the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme with a Flower-Insect Timed (FIT) Count!
Watch flowers + insects in warm, dry weather (Apr–Sept).
Every FIT Count helps science.
Find out more: ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
#CitizenScience #BeesNeeds
Watch flowers + insects in warm, dry weather (Apr–Sept).
Every FIT Count helps science.
Find out more: ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
#CitizenScience #BeesNeeds
July 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🌼 Got 10 mins to spend near flowers? Why not contribute to the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme with a Flower-Insect Timed (FIT) Count!
Watch flowers + insects in warm, dry weather (Apr–Sept).
Every FIT Count helps science.
Find out more: ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
#CitizenScience #BeesNeeds
Watch flowers + insects in warm, dry weather (Apr–Sept).
Every FIT Count helps science.
Find out more: ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
#CitizenScience #BeesNeeds
UCLouvain summer school on #CitizenScience - summary and reflection. A fantastic week of immersive #ParticipatoryScience in Louvain-la-Neuve
PReCISE (Promoting Citizen Science Expertise) summer school – summary and lessons
These are notes from the first day of the summer school at Université de Louvain (UCLouvain) on 7-11 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve, and funded by Circle-U university alliance. The course included teachers from the University of Amsterdam, Aarhus University, University Paris Cité, University of Vienna, and UCLouvain. Jaqui Goldin provided the first talk, exploring the ethics and practice of citizen science - and the principles of doing citizen science.
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July 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
UCLouvain summer school on #CitizenScience - summary and reflection. A fantastic week of immersive #ParticipatoryScience in Louvain-la-Neuve
The PReCISE summer school is progressing at @uclouvain.bsky.social, and Gitte Kragh helping students to consider the experience of participants in #CitizenScience projects. Part of @circleu.bsky.social cross university collaboration www.circle-u.eu/open-campus/... #ParticipatoryResearch
July 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The PReCISE summer school is progressing at @uclouvain.bsky.social, and Gitte Kragh helping students to consider the experience of participants in #CitizenScience projects. Part of @circleu.bsky.social cross university collaboration www.circle-u.eu/open-campus/... #ParticipatoryResearch
June 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
As if I needed more reasons to be horrified by the practices and pollution of LLM companies. Destroying millions of books, most will be unimportant, but maybe some rare (e.g. acadmic short print runs)? I guess that you'll get 90-9-1 with popular books? arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…
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June 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
As if I needed more reasons to be horrified by the practices and pollution of LLM companies. Destroying millions of books, most will be unimportant, but maybe some rare (e.g. acadmic short print runs)? I guess that you'll get 90-9-1 with popular books? arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
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We find that people want good to last 10 years+. But they could last longer in a new economy that prioritises repair www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
Frontiers | A systems approach to growing the UK electronics and appliance repair economy
The UK has a growing problem in the fast and unsustainable accumulation of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE and EEE as defined by HM Governmen...
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June 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
We find that people want good to last 10 years+. But they could last longer in a new economy that prioritises repair www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
With help from a lot of people, I've created a #YouTube playlist of 30 clips/promos/teasers of European #CitizenScience projects - covering more or less the last decade, including the one with @colombewarin.bsky.social & the science bus, and many more... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRt... 1/2
Citizen Science: Opening up science to society
YouTube video by EU Science & Innovation
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June 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
With help from a lot of people, I've created a #YouTube playlist of 30 clips/promos/teasers of European #CitizenScience projects - covering more or less the last decade, including the one with @colombewarin.bsky.social & the science bus, and many more... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRt... 1/2
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📣We’re heading to the Great Exhibition Road Festival over the weekend!
This year Imperial College’s Eureka Zone showcases Imperial-EU R&I collaborations, most of which are funded by #HorizonEurope 🔬🌍
Join us on 7–8 June to celebrate science, innovation & European cooperation in research.
This year Imperial College’s Eureka Zone showcases Imperial-EU R&I collaborations, most of which are funded by #HorizonEurope 🔬🌍
Join us on 7–8 June to celebrate science, innovation & European cooperation in research.
June 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📣We’re heading to the Great Exhibition Road Festival over the weekend!
This year Imperial College’s Eureka Zone showcases Imperial-EU R&I collaborations, most of which are funded by #HorizonEurope 🔬🌍
Join us on 7–8 June to celebrate science, innovation & European cooperation in research.
This year Imperial College’s Eureka Zone showcases Imperial-EU R&I collaborations, most of which are funded by #HorizonEurope 🔬🌍
Join us on 7–8 June to celebrate science, innovation & European cooperation in research.
Tomorrow, 2-6, come and hear about #CitizenScience and #ParticipatoryResearch at the #GoetheInstitute London. Part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival. We will share lessons from the @ecs.ngo project and from Doing It Together Science! #GERF2025 www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/st...
Drop-In Presentation: GERF 2025 - Science for everyone, with everyone: experiencing citizen science - Goethe-Institut United Kingdom
Sat, 07.06.2025 – UCL in cooperation with the European Comission
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June 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Tomorrow, 2-6, come and hear about #CitizenScience and #ParticipatoryResearch at the #GoetheInstitute London. Part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival. We will share lessons from the @ecs.ngo project and from Doing It Together Science! #GERF2025 www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/st...
Circle-U. UCLouvain – Citizen science: rethinking research with and for society
Notes from a seminar that was held on June 5, World Environment Day. It is part of the Circle U. Climate Day 2025. It was organised as a hybrid event. Caroline Michellier, Université catholique de Louvain led the…
Notes from a seminar that was held on June 5, World Environment Day. It is part of the Circle U. Climate Day 2025. It was organised as a hybrid event. Caroline Michellier, Université catholique de Louvain led the…
Circle-U. UCLouvain – Citizen science: rethinking research with and for society
Notes from a seminar that was held on June 5, World Environment Day. It is part of the Circle U. Climate Day 2025. It was organised as a hybrid event. Caroline Michellier, Université catholique de Louvain led the organisation of the seminar, and it was integrated into a series of transdisciplinary seminars. It explored how citizen science can enrich research and enhance our understanding of key challenges, particularly environmental ones.
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June 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Circle-U. UCLouvain – Citizen science: rethinking research with and for society
Notes from a seminar that was held on June 5, World Environment Day. It is part of the Circle U. Climate Day 2025. It was organised as a hybrid event. Caroline Michellier, Université catholique de Louvain led the…
Notes from a seminar that was held on June 5, World Environment Day. It is part of the Circle U. Climate Day 2025. It was organised as a hybrid event. Caroline Michellier, Université catholique de Louvain led the…
The participatory science conference in Portland, OR - thoughts from the conference #CitizenScience #ParticipatoryResearch #CommunityScience
CAPS 2025 – uncertain or resiliant future for USA participatory science?
CAPS 2025, like the previous conferences of the Association for Advancing Participatory Science (AAPS, formerly the Citizen Science Association), was an opportunity to learn about the state of citizen science in the USA. The conference took place in Portland, Oregon, where 13 years ago the first conference of what will become the CSA took place. At that time, the term…
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June 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The participatory science conference in Portland, OR - thoughts from the conference #CitizenScience #ParticipatoryResearch #CommunityScience
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The June issue of our digital magazine the "Citizen Science Lighthouse" is now published. It focuses on the future of #citizenscience, a topic that urgently needs our collective reflection.
June 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The June issue of our digital magazine the "Citizen Science Lighthouse" is now published. It focuses on the future of #citizenscience, a topic that urgently needs our collective reflection.
Getting my copy of #theAICon at the end of #caps25. Talked about a version of it in the conference. How come scientists suspect data quality from #citizenScience but happily run into using data and results from #AI? It's the CS-AI paradox...
May 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Getting my copy of #theAICon at the end of #caps25. Talked about a version of it in the conference. How come scientists suspect data quality from #citizenScience but happily run into using data and results from #AI? It's the CS-AI paradox...
CAPS25 – Responsible, ethical, and trustworthy use of AI in participatory sciences
Convener: Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham and Responsible AI UK Speakers: Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota and Zooniverse; Sarah Huebner, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Luigi Ceccaroni,…
Convener: Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham and Responsible AI UK Speakers: Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota and Zooniverse; Sarah Huebner, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Luigi Ceccaroni,…
CAPS25 – Responsible, ethical, and trustworthy use of AI in participatory sciences
Convener: Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham and Responsible AI UK Speakers: Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota and Zooniverse; Sarah Huebner, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Luigi Ceccaroni, Earthwatch Europe; Andrea Grover, University of Nebraska at Omaha AI is a lot of things - machine learning, NLP, computer vision, genAI and LLM but it is getting capabilities and impact. The questions are the opportunities and drawbacks to using AI in cit sci?
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May 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
CAPS25 – Responsible, ethical, and trustworthy use of AI in participatory sciences
Convener: Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham and Responsible AI UK Speakers: Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota and Zooniverse; Sarah Huebner, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Luigi Ceccaroni,…
Convener: Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham and Responsible AI UK Speakers: Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota and Zooniverse; Sarah Huebner, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Luigi Ceccaroni,…