Hello-
I have a solid survey task as part of a workflow where people would be identifying birds, then I'm asking them followup questions about those birds. However, there are plenty of times where there are no birds visible and I'd like to allow them to skip ahead to the next classification without having to answer another question. Right now, if they select the "empty" classification from the survey matrix, they don't get any additional questions within the survey task (using the "T") but they will still be led to the another question after that before I can bounce them to the next classification because there's no way for me to know whether they saw anything before asking it. (still with me?)

I saw checkbox fields outside fo the filter matrix on some projects (e.g. Snapshot Ruaha that allow data entry without selecting something from the matrix, enabling a bypass of any other questions. Can anyone explain how this is possible in project builder? Thanks!

Hi everyone!

Highlights

• With support from the Kavli Foundation, the Zooniverse team is launching a project to help us develop a set of recommendations for running AI-engaged projects on the Zooniverse platform.
• The project will bring together subject matter experts, Zooniverse leadership, and platform participants in a series of workshops and working sessions.
• The project deepens partnerships among Zooniverse and its participant community, as well as the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, UC-Berkeley Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, and the SkAI AI Astro Institute.
• Zooniverse participants have an opportunity to get involved and follow along in a number of ways, starting with a short survey!

Developing recommendations for AI projects on Zooniverse

As AI has become more prevalent—now in about ⅓ of Zooniverse projects—it has sparked a range of reactions on the Talk message boards within the participant community, reflecting broader societal discourse. Zooniverse participants have surfaced concerns and insights on issues like ownership, agency, transparency, and trust. It is crucial to address the risks, opportunities, challenges, and broader ethical questions. In response, we developed a project to create a set of recommendations for running AI-engaged projects on the Zooniverse platform. In this project we will explore the tensions of integrating AI within online public-engaged research. We hope that these recommendations will also be useful for related fields incorporating AI in public-engaged research processes.

Collaborative workshops

With funding from The Kavli Foundation, this project will bring together Zooniverse leadership, platform participants, researchers, and experts in topics like communications, ethics, law, and AI in a series of workshops and working sessions. The project deepens partnerships among Zooniverse and its participant community, as well as the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, UC-Berkeley Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, and the SkAI AI Astro Institute. Workshop themes cover topics raised by Zooniverse participants and project research teams as well as gaps in existing knowledge, resources, and guidance.

Workshop 1 (June) will focus on Transparency and Communication Best Practices. It will inform guidelines that will support researchers in effectively communicating with participants when integrating ML into their public-engaged research projects.

Workshop 2 (July) will cover Ethical Approaches to AI. It will invite discussions that explore and identify foundational elements of an ethical approach to AI-focused public-engaged research, addressing risks while leveraging opportunities.

Workshop 3 (August) will focus on Deepening Contextual Understanding. It will expand on the ethical considerations raised in Workshop 2 by examining a matrix of factors including disciplinary differences, task type affordances, and the varied needs of stakeholders (e.g., researchers, participants, platform maintainers). We anticipate that ethical principles may at times conflict within this matrix, making it essential to foster a shared understanding of how, why, and when we will draw from different elements as we develop these recommendations.

Workshop 4 (September) will consider Downstream Data Protection. It will inform recommendations for licensing frameworks to use with public-engaged research data outputs that align with platform values, particularly in relation to projects that incorporate AI.

Call to action: We want you to participate!

Zooniverse participants have an opportunity to get involved and follow along in a number of ways:

1. Help shape the future of AI and public-engaged research. Options include:

• Complete four short surveys throughout the duration of the project, starting with this one.
• Survey responses will be considered as we draft the recommendations for running AI-engaged projects on the Zooniverse platform.
• We’ll also be reaching out to a subset of our community about participating in the workshops.

2. Follow along:

• We’ll be posting updates on Talk and on our Zooniverse blog during the process, and project results will be shared broadly.
• You can opt in to receive project updates by completing the first survey here.

Who is running this study? The Project Director is Dr. Samantha Blickhan, Zooniverse Co-Director and Digital Humanities Lead.
Who is funding this research? This research is funded by the Kavli Foundation.
How can I contact the team? Questions can be addressed to hillary@zooniverse.org or samantha@zooniverse.org

Over the years, every time a new Zooniverse project comes on-line, I set up a Notifications E-Mail link for this project - I now have 14 pages of these links, 20 notifications per page, as you can see below - about 280 projects, though there has been 327 projects over the years.
My query is:- Is there any way you could publish all these links on one page, say in a matrix type layout, so I don't have to go through these 14 pages (of links) to find a new one?

Project
Western Montana Wildlife
Whale Chat
Whales as Individuals
Where are my body organs?
Wild Gabon
Wild Mont-Blanc
Wild Wolf Watch
WildCam Darién
WildCam Gorongosa
Wildwatch Burrowing Owl
Wildwatch Kenya
World Architecture Unlocked
Worlds of Wonder
Yooper Wildlife Watch
Zen of Dragons
Zwicky's Quirky Transients
Zwicky Chemical Factory
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