Welcome, @Dan_Ford ! I'm Alex from the WILDLABS community team. We're so happy to have you here. 

I definitely recommend sharing that job opening on WILDLABS as a career opportunity, that way it will show up in our biweekly digest and get seen by more people! To do that, just click +Post in the top right corner, then click "Careers" and fill in all the relevant information! We'd be happy to share the opening on our socials as well. 

I've also gone ahead and created a page for Landscape on The Inventory, our wiki-style database of conservation tech information. It would be great if you could take a look and add any missing information--I've gone ahead and given you editing access.  Also, you can connect your WILDLABS profile to Landscape's page so that people know to contact you with any questions about the organisation! To do this, go to your profile and select “Settings” on your side-bar, and then select the “About you” tab. Search and select your organisation name in the “Organisations(s)” section and click save.

Let me know if you have any questions :) 

Thanks for your insights Kim!

But the use of the browser password manager should make it no big deal for people even if they got logged out once a day. Which I’m sure is not the case for the wildlabs site.'

"Big deal" is very subjective...

I use firefox on linux and have tabs unloaded when not in use for ~30 minutes. After 24-48 hrs if I click on the wildlabs tab I'm logged out. I then have to click on login and have my password manager fill out the form. Then it brings me to my profile page (why? why doesn't it go back to where I was which is where I wanted to be, just logged in?), then I have to click on the feed page, which displays the global feed which is also not of my interest. Finally I get to click on my feed. Is is a "big deal"? I can't claim it is. Does it keep me from checking wildlabs? Definitely!  I participate in a dozen forums/discords and wildlabs is the most annoying to check in for a quick "oh, let's see whether there's something interesting".

It's still a choice to close your tabs. Closing all your tabs tends to get you to have to login again.

However.... Despite the expiry date on the cookie. linkedin.com logs in without ever having to re-enter your password. So I guess there is a way in principle to make it so you don't have to log back in. Such would a way then also work with your auto tab closer.

However, that's not something that I'm going to investigate. If someone wanted to, the clue would be in the cookies and the final answer would be available from the wildlabs site developer. Myself, I would never have guessed that so many people would find this annoying. But everyone is different.

Hi Emma,

Thank you for your outline. Feel free to send me an outline ( I sent you my email in a private WildLabs message ), but from your description I would like to give two comments already,

1) Besides learning about these technologies, the course should in my view also include learning the skills of finding out about new technologies and assessing them. The list of technologies that you are giving seems state of the art, but in the course of the students career it is likely to change completely a couple of times over. Much of what is on the list would not be there ten years ago. Even only three years ago AI (as we now think of it ) would probably not be on the list, but ML would.

2) Perhaps you were planning this already, but when it comes to 'correct use and validation', in my mind, that should definitely include the social/societal aspects of these technologies, no matter if it is about use in the global North or global South. What I am after is Technology Assessment.

Hopefully, this is of use to you

cheers

Frank

Building on Frank's comments, I'd also think about including some conversation about the ethical use of technology - Trishant's talk at Tech Tutors a little while ago sparked a really important conversation here in our community, one that would be valueable to have with your students.