Galaxy Zoo 10th Anniversary

Not sure I'll be elligible for the Monday, but I can try! I guess they might need a Wikipedia citizen science correspondent ... That's my pitch anyway. Something I'd love to be at. GZ has changed my life since September 2007 and has led to so much.

Posted June 30, 2017 12:16 PM

I can see that I'll be getting up very early for three days that week! 😃

Has it been suggested that we GZooites can submit questions ahead of time, to specific presenters or in general?

Also, what are the "Unconference/Hack n" events?

Posted June 30, 2017 3:15 PM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to Rick_Nowell's comment.

Sorry, but I'll not be there ! I really don't want to spend all that money on a night at the pub !

Posted July 1, 2017 11:09 PM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to JeanTate's comment.

Yes, I think I saw somewhere that you can post your questions ahead of time. Don't really recall where. Must do some digging ! 😄

Posted July 1, 2017 11:11 PM

Couldn't get a freebie... A £125 day rate to see the speakers is too expensive for me... Guess I won't see you there!

Posted July 4, 2017 10:32 AM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to ElisabethB's comment.

Sorry, must have misread something as I can't seem to find anything about getting your questions in ahead of time.

Posted July 4, 2017 2:15 PM

https://daily.zooniverse.org/2017/06/27/celebrating-10-years-of-galaxy-zoo/

Maybe it's what's implied in this, from the GZ blog post?

but the good news is that all of the talks from the meeting will be interactively live-streamed so that anyone can join in the discussion!

"interactively" and "anyone can join in" suggest that those of us who will be remote have a chance to ask questions ... just not submit them ahead of time.

Or maybe there'll be something about 'ahead of time questions' later?

Details of how to join the live stream will be released closer to the event.

Posted July 5, 2017 11:58 AM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to JeanTate's comment.

Must be something like that ! 😄

Also, this is a GZ Ten (years) conference . So, I don't think they will be taking questions about the Zooniverse in general. (But I am in no way involved, so I could be wrong).

Posted July 5, 2017 4:59 PM

by Budgieye moderator

Does anyone know how to access the live video streaming of the meeting?

This is the info that I have.

Details of how to join the live stream will be released closer to the
event.

https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2017/06/30/galaxy-zoos-10th-anniversary/

https://www.facebook.com/thegalaxyzoo/?ref=br_rs

https://twitter.com/galaxyzoo

https://twitter.com/the_zooniverse

EDIT

https://twitter.com/hashtag/gzoo10?src=hash

Posted July 9, 2017 8:57 AM

by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

My guess would be here: https://livestream.com/accounts/2754207/zooniverse

Posted July 9, 2017 11:15 AM

by Budgieye moderator

Thank you Ghost Sheep.

Posted July 9, 2017 1:01 PM

by Budgieye moderator

Do we have to pay to watch the Galaxy Zoo conference? Or will we be given a password?

Posted July 9, 2017 1:26 PM

by Ghost_Sheep_SWR in response to JeanTate's comment.

How did you find that, GSS?

I clicked on all the buttons, but none really told me how to join the livestream (other than one which asked for $$).

Sure would be nice to have more detailed info, especially considering it's supposed to go live in under 24 hours ...

Posted July 9, 2017 2:45 PM

I googled 'Galaxy Zoo ten years live stream' 😃 First hit.

But that's all I know really. Indeed strange they haven't put out a message yet, perhaps they can't handle large numbers of people watching the live stream? Maybe you have to register on that site to watch? Can't imagine people would be charged to follow the live stream.

But I won't be able to watch it live anyway so this is all the info I can share.

Posted July 9, 2017 2:54 PM

by Budgieye moderator

I signed up for LiveStream, and it didn't ask me for money. Maybe this is what to do? Maybe?

Posted July 9, 2017 9:24 PM

by zoob1172

https://livestream.com/oxuni

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40558759 11/7/2017

Posted July 9, 2017 9:51 PM

by JeanTate in response to zoob1172's comment.

That seems to be a good link; thanks zoob1172! 😃

Still nothing new in the GZ blog ... 😦

Posted July 10, 2017 12:58 AM

by Ghost_Sheep_SWR in response to JeanTate's comment.

😂 that's the exact same link I provided, click on the Galaxy Zoo live stream.

Posted July 10, 2017 5:34 AM

by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

https://mobile.twitter.com/KarenLMasters/status/884292483114467328

Posted July 10, 2017 7:29 AM

by Budgieye moderator

https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse is waiting to go live

Zooniverse Blog: Welcome to #GZoo10 : Day 1 July 10, 2017
by chrislintott https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2017/07/10/welcome-to-gzoo10-day-1/

The link to the Livestreaming is hotlinked in the here .

You can ask questions using the #GZoo10 hashtag on Twitter

EDIT:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GZoo10 &src=typd

Posted July 10, 2017 9:37 AM

by JeanTate in response to Budgieye's comment.

New GZ blog post: Welcome to #GZoo10 : Day 1. From that:

Because it’s Galaxy Zoo, we’re inviting any of you who are interested to follow along online. [...] All the talks will be available via Oxford’ LiveStream account here.

The two links are the same, and give the same screen as both GSS' and zoob1172's, "Waiting for event to go live." (as I type this).

Also:

You can ask us questions using the #GZoo10 hashtag on Twitter – we will make sure someone in the audience at each session is watching so comments online make it into the room.

I guess it's just too bad if you don't have a Twitter account ... 😦

Posted July 10, 2017 9:42 AM

You beat me to it!

waiting to go live

I guess we don't get to see the "Welcome and Introductions" ... 😉

Posted July 10, 2017 9:45 AM

by JeanTate in response to Budgieye's comment.

If you click on the "More" link, in the livestream page, you get this:

Celebrating 10 Years of Galaxy Zoo
Mon, Jul 10 at 4:30am - Wed, Jul 12 at 7:44am EST Science & Technology

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Galaxy Zoo, we are hosting a workshop on galaxy morphology. The focus is on the extragalactic astrophysics derived from morphological labelling, rather than the techniques of citizen science themselves, with major themes including morphological evolution, quenching, and the effect of bars. Forthcoming and ongoing projects which look beyond the optical, consider morphology within simulations and plan for human-machine collaboration for the vast surveys planned in the coming decades will be discussed. Connections to large IFU surveys such as MaNGA will also be discussed. The format will be short talks in the morning, with collaborative working time in the afternoon. A public event to celebrate the 10th Birthday of Galaxy Zoo will also take place on Monday 10th July at 7pm at St. Aldates Tavern.

That's pretty cool (or creepy)! It knows which time zone I'm in! 😃

Posted July 10, 2017 9:49 AM

by Budgieye moderator

Is now live. EDIT

Question and comments can be made on

at the end of Zooniverse blog https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2017/07/10/welcome-to-gzoo10-day-1/

Twitter https://twitter.com/galaxyzoo

During LiveStream https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse

Galaxy Zoo Discussion (what you are looking at right now

PowerPoint slides are being shown on Twitter https://twitter.com/galaxyzoo

enter image description here

Day 1

Zooniverse blog summary https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2017/07/10/welcome-to-gzoo10-day-1/ Summary of talks, tweets, with images.

Session 1

10am : Chris Lintott (Oxford)

10.20am: Lee Kelvin (Liverpool John Moores)

Recording of Session 1 Monday 10-10:40 https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159615487

Session 2

11am: Steven Bamford (Nottingham)

11.20am: Lucy Newnham (Portsmouth)

11.40am: Sandor Kruk (Oxford)

12 noon: Bill Keel (Alabama)

Recording of Session 2 Monday 11-12:30 https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159616744

Day 2

Zooniverse blog summary https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2017/07/11/gzoo10-day-2-happy-birthday-to-us/

Session 3

9.40am: Karen Masters (Portsmouth)

10.00am: Lucy Fortson (Minnesota)

10.20am: Hugh Dickinson (Minnesota)

Recording of session 3 https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159661232

Session 4

11.00am: Sam Penny (Portsmouth)

11.20am: Becky Smethurst (Nottingham)

11.40am: Ross Hart (Nottingham)

12 noon: Seb Turner (Liverpool John Moores)

12.20pm: Peter McGill (Oxford).

Recording of session 4 https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159662759

Day 3

Zoovinverse Blog summary #GZoo10 Day 3 https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2017/07/12/gzoo10-day-3/

09:30 Alice Sheppard (Forum Moderator 2007-2012)

10:00 Brooke Simmons (UCSD)

recording of session 6 https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159700998

10:20 Nic Bonne (Portsmouth)

11:00 Coleman Krawczyk (Portsmouth)

11:20 Mike Walmsley (Edinburgh)

11:40 Carie Cardamone (Wheelock)

12:00 Karen Masters: Summary (Portsmouth)

recording of session 7 https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159702284

Posted July 10, 2017 10:03 AM

by JeanTate in response to vrooje's comment.

Good quality as well! Can't hang round though- happy ten years zooites! Just wondering where Kevin S. is in all this. It was him that started it all... It would be nice to hear from him in some way.

Posted July 10, 2017 11:04 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist

Hi all, I'll try to monitor here for questions, and I'm also trying to monitor the live stream comments, but actually Twitter or the blog comments might be better if you have questions or things you'd like discussed!

Posted July 10, 2017 11:57 AM

Thanks Brooke.

I'll try to make my main questions in blog comments ...

Posted July 10, 2017 12:05 PM

So Day One is now over, for us 'remote participants'! What did you all think of it?

Posted July 10, 2017 12:47 PM

by johnfairweather

Not sure if Day 1 is over, as according to the schedule, Grant Miller is speaking at 17:00 hours.

Posted July 10, 2017 1:58 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist

The unconferences are basically impossible to live stream unless you have quite a big AV budget (we don't), but we're going to summarize them later and also (I believe) blog about them.

Posted July 10, 2017 3:42 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

Hey GSS !

You got a major shout out from Bill Keel ! 😄

Congrats.

Posted July 10, 2017 5:50 PM

https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159615487

Reposted Hear so all together

10th Anniversary Event

Part 1

Part 2

https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159616744

Posted July 10, 2017 6:55 PM

by Ghost_Sheep_SWR in response to ElisabethB's comment.

YEAH just watched thanks! And ofcourse the original Voorwerp finders (incl. you and Budgieye) and all the other hundreds of thousands volunteers 😃

But definitely felt a surge of pride! And excitement because I didn't know the second candidate would be in that presentation slide! Fingers crossed 😄

VERY cool, increases the Voorwerp Fever.

Small sidenote: I haven't added any volunteer names to the candidates I posted in the Voorwerp thread so should be checked in the comments of the subjects if necessary, but I'm sure you always check that properly 😃

@Blackprojects: thanks for posting the archived videos!

Posted July 10, 2017 7:18 PM

by JeanTate in response to Ghost_Sheep_SWR's comment.

Very good questions and comments, in the blog, Budgieye! 😃

Posted July 11, 2017 10:17 AM

Small sidenote: I haven't added any volunteer names to the candidates I posted in the Voorwerp thread so should be checked in the comments of the subjects if necessary

Yes, I think it's very important, and as the 'owner' of that thread, I think the task falls on your head ... 😉

Posted July 11, 2017 10:21 AM

by Ghost_Sheep_SWR in response to JeanTate's comment.

HA! 'Owner'.... Hmm it's 'public property...?'

OOOOH the burden! I'm buckling! 😉

But will retrace and add later,

Cheers

Posted July 11, 2017 11:25 AM

Galaxyzoo10 session 3
https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159661232

Posted July 11, 2017 11:43 AM

Livestream part of Day 2 is now over.

What did you all think of it (apart from problems with hearing questions, and speakers who don't like to speak very loudly)?

Posted July 11, 2017 12:45 PM

https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159662759

Session 4 Galaxyzoo 10

Posted July 11, 2017 12:47 PM

by JeanTate in response to JeanTate's comment.

It was interesting the audio was quite good for part 3 part 4 so far the mike keeps fading out

Posted July 11, 2017 12:50 PM

So good I think they're worth repeating. First one:

I would like to encourage the scientists to participate more on Talk. For myself, it is a difficult and discouraging task to inspire enthusiasm and scientific curiosity when there is little or no feedback from scientists whose galaxies we are classifying, especially if there are no databases I can consult.

Second:

I want a Zooniverse Sky Map, where any discussions can be pinned.. When an object in the sky is discussed in any of the astronomy groups in Zooniverse, a placemark can be placed on the object. So at a glance, users can see if an object has been discussed in other zoos, or discussed using different identifications or slightly different locations. So I can see what has been said about this object already, and not do the basic research again or search different versions of Galaxy Zoo under many IDs.

To which Chris Lintott replied:

Talking about talk is important – we’re talking about ways to make sure the science team pay more attention. And I like the cross-zoo idea, too – that should be possible given the current system. Will do some digging…

Third comment:

Will Galaxy Zoo Talk be updated soon? If it can’t, can the arrangement subject area be changed. When a newbie finishes a classification and clicks on “Would you like to discuss this object?”, the galaxy image on Talk pops up. Unfortunately, the previous comments are hidden and needs to be scrolled up to see them. Can the comments be raised to the top of the page, and collections and tags put under the image? example this “supernova” post https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/subjects/AGZ000d9vc
Even this one change would be greatly appreciated.

Posted July 11, 2017 1:21 PM

by Budgieye moderator in response to JeanTate's comment.

Thank you, Jean Tate. 😃

Posted July 11, 2017 2:41 PM

by Budgieye moderator in response to JeanTate's comment.

I found many of the talks hard to understand. The lecture was aimed at the scientist level. There were lots of graphs, they came very fast, and they were a bit dim and fuzzy, and the scientist talked at the same time. I assume the scientists have seen most of it before, so it would be a review for them. But the conference was for scientists, not for the citizen science volunteers.

It would take me a long time to understand all of what was said, understand its significance and realize where the research should lead.

I wonder how long the recorded videos will be available? Time for me to do a little catch-up?

Posted July 11, 2017 3:01 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

Hi science team !

I can see at least 9 people from the science team here on Talk. Must be a world record ! 😄

Posted July 11, 2017 4:19 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist

Budgieye, was the live blogging helpful in understanding the talks?

This was indeed intended as a normal science team meeting (or at least that was my understanding), which are common among science teams but which GZ hasn't had many of. Science talks often go by fast (and have fuzzy plots, etc) even for the scientists in the room!

The idea was that the tweets and live blogging would accompany that and give further explanation. How are the blog posts reading?

Posted July 11, 2017 4:21 PM

by vrooje admin, scientist in response to ElisabethB's comment.

Hahah, we've just had an unconference session about Talk! 😃 😃

Posted July 11, 2017 4:21 PM

by ccardamone scientist in response to ElisabethB's comment.

We're so glad to see how interested everyone is in the science talks! It's really great to see some names / people I remember meeting back in 2008 (last time I was in England!).

Posted July 11, 2017 4:24 PM

by JeanTate in response to Budgieye's comment.

You are most welcome! 😃

I found all three both very pertinent and succinct. To add my few poor words:

I find the participation of scientists - whether on a project's Science Team or not - in Talk to be puzzling. There seems to be a lot of involvement at the beginning, but it quickly tapers off. It seems that some scientists (Ivy Wong of RGZ, for example) do try to drop by regularly, and engage in discussions, post links about new developments, etc ... but otherwise it's feast (like now!) or famine
I was a little bit surprised by Lee Kelvin's comments, in his presentation (Day 1); he said he enjoyed dropping in to Talk and engaging in discussions ...
Bill Keel's comment about being kept notified (by mods) of interesting objects (this goes to the question of why serendipitous discoveries have all but dried up) is good ... except that, in my experience, even he can be too tied up with other stuff to respond (and it seems he now has no one to turn to)
your cross-project Sky Map idea is a great one! 😄 As you well know, there are several people who do try to do cross-matches (especially you), but it can be hit-and-miss and is certainly time-consuming. The resources to have a capability like Sky Map surely already exist ... they just need to be stitched together ...
Talk has been a sore spot ever since it was introduced (and the old GZ Forum shut down). The Panoptes Talks are certainly better than this Ouroboros one (a Search function which actually works, for example), but IMHO they are still far short of the ease of use etc of the GZ Forum. I feel it's particularly unfortunate that the excellent summary material you (in particular) prepare is all-too-often invisible, and even difficult to reference when replying to a newbie's inquiry (totally unlike in the GZ Forum, of course).

Posted July 11, 2017 5:24 PM

by Budgieye moderator in response to vrooje's comment.

The blog will be extremely useful, thank you. I just couldn't do both at the same time, so I will have to do homework.

Posted July 11, 2017 5:24 PM

by JeanTate in response to ElisabethB's comment.

Well, they're gone now ... 😦

Posted July 11, 2017 5:24 PM

by Budgieye moderator in response to JeanTate's comment.

Yep!

Posted July 11, 2017 7:04 PM

by Budgieye moderator in response to vrooje's comment.

I hope you had a good talk about Talk 😃

Posted July 11, 2017 7:18 PM

Am wondering where the PUB Lectures / Chats are as Chris said they was being uploaded soon to John Fairweather on Twitter and NADA?!?

Posted July 12, 2017 12:32 AM

by vrooje admin, scientist in response to Blackprojects's comment.

The pub talks were done in partnership with a local organisation who do these events regularly, and I believe they're the ones who recorded the presentations. I'm not directly involved in that bit (I only presented) but my guess is that we don't have direct control over when the recordings are published, but the other org has a good history of reliably doing so.

Posted July 12, 2017 9:42 AM

https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse/videos/159700998

Alice"s Talk Part 5

Posted July 12, 2017 10:37 AM

Interesting numbering: Sessions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 ... what happened to Session 5?

Posted July 12, 2017 12:39 PM

by Budgieye moderator

Yeah, I wondered about that too. Is it a numbering mistake, or will something else be posted

Posted July 12, 2017 1:03 PM

https://livestream.com/oxuni/zooniverse

it has since been re numbered so no need to get Excited

Posted July 13, 2017 12:53 AM

by Ghost_Sheep_SWR in response to JeanTate's comment.

So I'm watching the recorded livestreams, and at ~1h32m in Session 2 (2nd morning session of day 1), Chris L walks past a whiteboard that's on the right hand side of the room. There's a word on it "COVFEFE" ! 😃 It's an event, apparently, which took place between 15:15 and 15:30 ....

Posted July 13, 2017 1:56 PM

Many have tried to find out what it is, all have failed.

Posted July 13, 2017 2:42 PM

by Budgieye moderator

There are only 5 talks up there now. Is there a time limit on watching them?

Posted July 14, 2017 12:31 PM

by ElisabethB moderator in response to Budgieye's comment.

Don't know about the time limit. But I can still see 6 talks.

Posted July 14, 2017 12:45 PM

by Budgieye moderator

Thank you, you are correct. I couldn't see the slider bar.

Posted July 14, 2017 1:18 PM

by Budgieye moderator

New post on Daily Zooniverse

Galaxy Zoo in the Pub
by The Zooniverse
Many fantastic discussions take place in pubs. In fact, depending on who you listen to, the original idea to build Galaxy Zoo came from a discussion in a pub! So what better way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project than to host an evening of talks and discussions in the pub?

That's exactly what we did last Monday, with the help of Oxford SciBar. There were seven speakers in total and you can watch all of their talk on YouTube via the this link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2hREI-x4WI&list=PLchXp2IKn1Ne3ktFGqG3getPfulOJsTrK

NOTE: The are in seven separate parts, and the video above is only part 1. The talk schedule is as follows:

Part 1 - Intro from Grant Miller, and Bill Keel talking about Hanny's Voorwerp

Part 2 - Brooke Simmons talking about black holes

Part 3 - Sandor Kruk talking about galaxy bars

Part 4 - Alice Shepherd talking about irregular galaxies and the community

Part 5 - Becky Smethurst talking about blue elliptical galaxies

Part 6 - Karen Masters talking about red spiral galaxies

Part 7 - Chris Lintott talking about dust, and other interesting stuff.

https://daily.zooniverse.org/2017/07/18/galaxy-zoo-in-the-pub/

Posted July 20, 2017 5:42 AM