Edge Citizen Science: An Online Symposium

Three-minute match-ups will be hosted by the Airmeet platform. Come early and start the event having already met up to 10 new people.

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James will summarize his inaugural editorial from the March 2022 issue of the JSE. There he explained the rationale for the JSE to begin actively promoting and publishing research that features “participatory team” and citizen” science. Indeed, topics in anomalistics and frontier science are inherently complex challenges that are especially amenable to team approaches with cross-disciplinary perspectives. 

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The discovery of anomalies in astronomy has historically pushed the boundaries of research. From the discovery of quasars to pulsars to the modern fast radio bursts (FRBs), science seldom makes as fast jumps in progress as when a new phenomenon emerges. In this talk, I review how some previous “anomalies” over decades have become mainstream science, and how the searches for anomalies, and hopes of finding signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, serves as a driving force. In light of this, I will present the search for astronomical anomalies with the Vanishing  & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, that includes automated searches for anomalies as well as a citizen science project. I will present the current status and highlight the most interesting results.

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Brian will discuss his nearly fourteen years of experience educating and organizing both students and laypeople towards the successful preparation and implementation of citizen-science research projects in academic haunting research. Areas will include realistic and appropriate pedagogy for laypeople, realistic outcomes for assignments and projects, and logistic, ideological, and interpersonal issues researchers should prepare for. Examples from previous ISRAE fieldwork teams and current projects in citizenedgesceince.net will be discussed.

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Grab a cup and/or a bite and join fellow attendees in the social lounge for some midday conversation. If you are a university student or professor, consider joining the Aspiring Explorers Meeting (link TBA).

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This talk presents the transdisciplinary project REACT (from REsistance to ACTion, www.react-project.com) that links natural, social, and educational sciences with arts, technology, and non-academic partnerships to develop novel low-risk climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. We invite partners from all subdisciplines of parapsychology, including psi partitioners, to join the project and integrate extrasensory methods into the design and implementation of lab and on-site experiments that can serve as a proof of concept. By demonstrating the potential of a fusion between traditional and parapsychological approaches, we will consolidate our position as a highly interdisciplinary research team and ensure the support of more daring, large-scale experiments through national and international funding schemes.

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In a series of volunteer-run events that took place between December 2021 and January 2022, the Public Parapsychology Community provided a virtual space for academics and members of the public to explore the application of consciousness-based practices as change agents to help combat the global climate crisis. Three new initiatives emerged from this open online process, which began with a workshop and ideathon, and then ended in a collaborative sprint. We will give a short update on those projects, the successes and challenges of the workshop/ideathon/sprint formula for collaborative research, and how it might be implemented by others in the scientific community.

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Grab a seat at a table in the virtual social lounge and discuss you insights from the day.

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