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Pour la prochaine et dernière séance de notre séminaire de recherche en épistémologie sociale et formelle, nous sommes ravis d’accueillir Baptiste Bedessem (Université de Namur/Muséum national d’histoire naturelle) titre: “Producing epistemic communities through online interactions in biodiversity citizen science” *L’exposé sera en français.* Résumé et liens vers des lectures préparatoires ci-dessous. Date : Mardi 17 Mai 2022, 14:30 - 16:30 Visioconférence Merci de s’enregistrer ici : <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet1jhGafmc48Oln3W2kxGrCC4RIOHfpntKGrgdr3b6KpF4fw/viewform?usp=pp_url> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet1jhGafmc48Oln3W2kxGrCC4RIOHfpntKGrgdr3b6KpF4fw/viewform?usp=pp_url *Les étudiant(e)s sont particulièrement les bienvenu(e)s.* Si vous souhaitez être inscrits dans la liste des participants réguliers, merci d’écrire aux organisateurs. Les suggestions d’invité(e)s pour la saison 2022-2023 sont par ailleurs ouvertes ! En espérant vous y voir nombreux, Les organisateurs (Anouk Barberousse, Thomas Boyer-Kassem, Isabelle Drouet, Cyrille Imbert, Cédric Paternotte, David Teira, David Waszek). Contact : david.waszek (at) posteo (point) net ; Cyrille.Imbert (at) univ-lorraine (point) fr ----- *Baptiste Bedessem (Université de Namur/Muséum national d’histoire naturelle)* titre: “Producing epistemic communities through online interactions in biodiversity citizen science” Résumé : Broadening citizen participation in knowledge production about biodiversity has become an explicit objective of national and supra-national institutions. For instance, the development of environmental citizen science projects gives to a growing number of lay citizens the possibility to take part in real-life research processes, most often by collecting data aiming to survey or monitor biodiversity. Out of their value for scientific research about biodiversity and the environment, these programs are also expected to promote public engagement towards conservation issues, and to foster public learning or public understanding of science. These outcomes of citizen science depend strongly on the ability of these programs to constitute stable epistemic communities of participants which learn and produce knowledge together. The constitution of these communities may be facilitated through (online and physical) interactions among citizen scientists. In this contribution, we present the content analysis of the 78500 comments posted in the Spipoll’s citizen science platform from 2010 to 2018. The Spipoll citizen science program (Photographic Survey of Flower Visitors, www.spipoll.org) was created in 2010 by the French Museum of Natural History to survey pollinator species assemblages in the whole French territory. From the beginning of the program, anyone registered on the Spipoll platform (volunteers and experts) was able to comment on each other’s collections through an online platform. The exploration of this online space of discussion shows that it favors exchanges and reflections about aesthetical, interpersonal, biological and methodological aspects, which together support the constitution of citizen scientists epistemic communities. It also figures out the aquisition of a variety of scientific skills (both scientific knowledge and procedural skills) by long-term participants. *Lectures préparatoires* - Bedessem, B., Gawrońska-Novak, B. and Lis, P. (2021). “Can Citizen Science Increase Trust in Research? A Case Study of Delineating Polish Metropolitan Areas”, in *Journal of Contemporary European Research *17 (2): 304-325. https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v17i2.1185 - Bedessem B, Julliard R, Montuschi E (2021) Measuring epistemic success of a biodiversity citizen science program: A citation study. *PLoS ONE* 16(10): e0258350. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258350 - Ana-Cristina Torres, Baptiste Bedessem, Nicolas Deguines & Colin Fontaine (2022): Online data sharing with virtual social interactions favor scientific and educational successes in a biodiversity citizen science project, *Journal of Responsible Innovation*, DOI: 10.1080/23299460.2021.2019970 ----- ***Programme: 2021-2022*** - May 17: Baptiste Bedessem (Université de Namur/Muséum national d’histoire naturelle) - September 28, 2021: David Chavalarias (CAMS, EHESS, Paris, France) https://videos.univ-lorraine.fr/video.php?id=15434 - October 12, 2021: Justin Bruner (University of Arizona) https://videos.ahp-numerique.fr/w/p/2UzpXdhJbGRSJtStzVWon9?playlistPosition=last - December 7, 2021: Maya Goldenberg (University of Guelph) https://videos.ahp-numerique.fr/videos/watch/playlist/0f7067fa-d01b-4acb-8bac-d0b18f99ed02 - January 11, 2022: Cailin O’Connor (University of California, Irvine), 8:30 pm, CET https://videos.ahp-numerique.fr/w/p/2UzpXdhJbGRSJtStzVWon9?playlistPosition=9&resume=true - February 1, 2022: Michael Strevens (New York University), 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm, CET https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/cassam/ -- https://www.vidal-rosset.net/mailing_list_educasupphilo.html