Amanda Scott
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2,179 appearances
4 recordings
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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And that struck me as really powerful.
Good enough to try, safe enough for now.
And if you disagreed, you had to say why and propose something better.
And that, we got more done in an hour than we had done in the previous year.
It seems an incredibly powerful way of bypassing people's tendency to self-censor and give them permission to speak.
But also then, if you don't agree, you have to say why and produce something better.
It clears a lot of the deadwood.
So it has struck me as a really impressive way of organising things.
Right.
But somebody sat down and thought about it and made it work.
I made it into a system, which is fantastic.
So tell me about the citizen science, because this strikes me as one of the things that is really powerful about the whole of the network, not just in the UK, but across the world, is we have a lot of scientists in our communities who care about
about there being clean water in the rivers and actually who care about the quality of the water coming out of the tap, which is something we'll get to later.
They are often retired.
They often remember when everything was cleaner when they were younger, which is a useful metric because the shifting baseline syndrome is otherwise a really important and bad thing.
And they have the skills that we need to go out and establish the things that the sewage companies, water companies would prefer we not know.
So who are the citizen scientists for you and who are they around the world and how do they organise and how do we collate the data?
Tell us everything.
OK, let's dig a little bit more deeply into this because I'm looking at the CASCO website and it sounds really good.
It's got their principles and it says that they are collaborative.
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