Welcome to the Blackwell’s Virtual Festival. Today we have the pleasure of hearing from @chrislintott on his fascinating book ‘The Crowd and the Cosmos’
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@chrislintott is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford. As Principal Investigator of @the_zooniverse , he leads a team who run the world& #39;s most successful citizen science projects, allowing more than a million people to discover planets, or explore the Serengeti

For this work he has received awards from the Royal Society, American Astronomical Society and Institute of Physics amongst others. Chris is best known as co-presenter of the BBC& #39;s long running Sky at Night program @BBCStargazing

& #39;The Crowds and the Cosmos& #39; is a fascinating, personal account of the hugely popular web-based Zooniverse project, and he’s here with us virtually today to tell us all about it and then answer your questions. @chrislintott over to you. https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780198842224">https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/...