Episode #18 – Citizen Science and Open Source Beehives with Tristan Copley-Smith

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Open Source Beehives, Creative Commons, http://opensourcebeehives.net

In Episode 18, I talk with Tristan Copley-Smith of the OpenSource Beehives project. Open Source Beehives is a network of citizen scientists saving bees and tracking bee decline. Using open source fabrication, they allow everyday citizens to host their very own bee colony and with sensor enhanced beehives and data science, citizen scientists study honeybee colonies throughout the world. Want to start your very own beehive or get involved in saving these very important creatures? You can find out more about it at www.opensourcebeehives.net or on Twitter. Tristan’s background is as a documentary filmmaker, and he is now the communications director for Open Source Beehives. You can find Tristan on Twitter.

Open Source Beehives, Creative Commons, http://opensourcebeehives.net

Show Notes (During the show, Tristan mentioned…)

• Open Source Beehives Introduction
• Get Involved with Open Source Beehives
• Open Source Beehives – Colorado Top Bar
• Open Source Beehives – Barcelona Warre
• Open Source Ecology
• Open Source Hardware
• Open Source Hardware Association
• FarmBot
• Open Source Seed Initiative
• Open Farm – Learn How to Grow Anything
• OpenDesk
• Arduino
• Public Lab – a DIY CItizen Science Community (oh, and we interviewed Shannon Dosemagen of Public Lab here)

Cover Photo: Open Source Beehives, Creative Commons BY-SA, http://opensourcebeehives.net

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Alex Fink

Editor & Host at The OKCast

In addition to hosting the OKCast, I am a Ph.D. student in Youth Studies at the University of Minnesota. I study methods of making research to document injustice and resistance available to young people to create social change. My particular focus is on the political economy and ecology of data, including data collection, data use, data access/sharing, data economics, and the ideologies surrounding it.

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