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Presentation opportunities still open for CitSci2019
The call for abstracts for individual presentations, lightning talks, and posters for CitSci2019 has been extended until 5 October 2018. For more details, please see the official Call for Individual Presentations. […]
What’s Happening with the CSA Ethics Working Group?
Post by Chris Santos-Lang, Co-Chair, CSA Ethics Working Group Have you noticed the risk of reinventing the wheel, wasting precious resources to solve problems that other scientists have already solved? Have […]
On Showing up and Standing up: Holding the CitSci2019 Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina
Post by Jennifer Shirk, Caren Cooper, and Anne Bowser The CSA is returning to North Carolina for our 2019 Conference after a 2017 boycott of discriminatory laws. Returning is complicated, both […]
