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Volunteer contributions to Wikipedia increased during COVID-19 mobility restrictions

Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia ever created, is a global initiative driven by volunteer contributions. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and mobility restrictions ensued across the globe, it was unclear whether contributions to Wikipedia would decr ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Demonstration of Roteco - the robotic teacher community: An informative, collaborative platform with a unique community ecosystem

Melissa Anne Skweres, Sophia Reyes Mury

Today the digital society in which we live requires the acquisition of new computer-related skills, such as computational thinking or coding skills, as well as cross-curricular skills, such as communication, collaboration and creativity. Preparing and insp ...

ACM2021

Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science

Jérôme Baudry

Over the past two decades, a number of digital platforms have been developed with the aim of engaging citizens in scientific research projects. The success of these platforms depends in no small part on their ability to attract and retain participants, tur ...

2022

Clusters of science and health related Twitter users become more isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic

Marcel Salathé, Martin Mathias Müller

COVID-19 represents the most severe global crisis to date whose public conversation can be studied in real time. To do so, we use a data set of over 350 million tweets and retweets posted by over 26 million English speaking Twitter users from January 13 to ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Group testing for connected communities

Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, Pavlos Nikolopoulos

In this paper, we propose algorithms that leverage a known community structure to make group testing more efficient. We consider a population organized in disjoint communities: each individual participates in a community, and its infection probability depe ...

MICROTOME PUBLISHING2021

A kernel‐based change detection method to map shifts in phytoplankton communities measured by flow cytometry

Automated, ship-board flow cytometers provide high-resolution maps of phytoplankton composition over large swaths of the world's oceans. They therefore pave the way for understanding how environmental conditions shape community structure. Identification of ...

2021