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What if music could help diagnose heart disease? 🎵🫀

ERC grantee Elaine Chew @KingsCollegeLon uses maths and AI to study how music influences heart rate and stress levels, opening new possibilities for personalised “music medicine”.

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#FrontierResearch

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Muki Haklay May 15

SellaTheChemist May 14

For your delight this evening as I fail to get any serious writing done, an astonishing pervertimento of Henry Purcell's Crown the Altar from his Ode to Queen Mary's Birthday that surely must be an infinite loop.

Axelle Verner has a voice to die for. And she evokes memories of a film I've not seen often enough Peter Greenaway's "The Draughtsman's Contract", that impenetrable multilayered masterpiece of religion, architecture, gardening, politics, and class war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ql0JSnSbA

Celebrate this Festival, Z. 321 (Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday) : Crown the Altar (Arr....

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Muki Haklay May 13

Review of Gwen Ottinger "The Science of Repair" - another great book, full of insights for researchers who ware doing #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryResearch or #CitizenScience

https://povesham.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/gwen-ottingers-the-science-of-repair/

Gwen Ottinger’s “The Science of Repair”

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 res…

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Muki Haklay May 12

The text extruding machines are making regular academic interactions difficult. You now recieve LLM generated rubish such as
"Your work is foundational to our research. ... you have shaped the academic understanding of citizen science and scientific crowdsourcing more than almost anyone else in the field. Your framework distinguishing levels of citizen science participation... is central to how we are structuring our SWOT analysis..."
It's the worst way to start even a fleeting ask. 😠

Muki Haklay May 11

SK53 May 11

Another #DigitaHumanities corpus which seems to have disappeared: WWII Bomb Map of Britain : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50056395
RT @nfgusedautoparts @ohm

UK World War Two bombing sites revealed in online map

The online map uses intelligence reports of German air raids held in the National Archive.

BBC News

Muki Haklay May 6

Maintaining the Introduction to citizen science and scientific crowdsourcing course - now updated and functioning again... #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #SciComm #ParticipatoryResearch

https://povesham.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/introduction-to-citizen-science-and-scientific-crowdsourcing-course-digital-housekeeping-and-the-complexity-of-online-training/

Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing course (digital housekeeping and the complexity of online training)

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, i…

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Muki Haklay May 4

An Interview for the Poruguese Citizen Science Network. Thanks to Cristina Luis who asked four questions and organise the publication. #CitizenScience #ParticipatoryResearch #Portugal

https://povesham.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/an-interview-to-the-portuguese-citizen-science-network/

An interview to the Portuguese citizen science network

The Portuguese Citizen Science Network is carrying out regular interviews about citizen science as part of their monhtly newsletter. At you can find interviews with, Maria Fernanda Rollo, Karen Soa…

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Muki Haklay Apr 26

Unlocked a mini-acheivement this weekend: contributed to City Nature Challenge 2026 in three great cities: Brussels, Paris, and remotely in London. #CitizenScience #CNC2026 #Nature

https://povesham.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/three-cities-city-nature-challenge/

Three cities City Nature Challenge…

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 my…

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Muki Haklay Apr 10

Frshly published in the Community Science Journal - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025CSJ000154?campaign=woletoc The Baltimore Community Weather Station Network: Filling the Urban Measurement Desert. A partnership in Baltimore between universities and the Baltimore community is developing a community-based network of weather stations. This community-centered urban climate observatory provides data to map urban weather across the city and provides community engagement, education, and empowerment benefits.

Muki Haklay Mar 26

Stefano Volpe

Mar 23

If any PhD students are following your account, boosting would be appreciated.

Fellow PhD student: hello!

I hope you had a good Monday.

0) In which country are you pursuing your PhD?
1) What is the official duration of your PhD programme? Does it assume you already have a Master's?
2) How many academic credits (e.g., ECTS) are you required to get in order to complete your PhD?
3) If you are paid for TAing, can you estimate the number of teaching contact hours you need in order to supplement other sources of funding?

My union and Ph.D. committee have been asking for feedback, and I have a theory I'd like to test. Feel free to use private mentions if you want.

Edit: I am now using "academic credits" to make myself more understandable to non-EU people.

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