Episode
iNaturalist
- Podcast
- Data Skeptic
- Published
- Jun 24, 2024
- Duration seconds
- 2273
- Processing state
failed- Canonical source
- https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2024/inaturalist
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/data-skeptic/episodes/inaturalist/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-skeptic/inaturalist.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Have you ever participated in citizen science? Do you want to? One of the most popular platforms for crowdsourcing biodiversity data is iNaturalist. In addition to being a great science tool, the iNaturalist app can help you identify the organisms you encounter every day. We talked to Executive Director Scott Laurie about how scientists use iNaturalist. We also got to discuss what makes iNaturalist's AI species recognition so good, and how citizen scientists are constantly providing high-quality training data. Listen in and learn how this fun-to-use tool works, where it's headed, and how you can get involved.