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* Maximize your impact at CAPS
# Maximize your impact at CAPS
! By Reanna PutnamOn December 20, 2024December 20, 2024
Are you a community leader who is leveraging community-led scientific research to address local priorities?  Then the Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences (CAPS) is the perfect place to share about your work and find connections and inspiration that can boost your impact. CAPS, May 27-30, Portland, Oregon, offers a supportive environment to talk about the challenges and opportunities you encounter in this work with colleagues from across the US and beyond.
### **At CAPS you can…**
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North Carolina community leader, Sala Faruq, presenting on a community led initiative, Nature Justice, at the 2019 conference. Photo ©Marilu Lopez Fretts.
* **Find collaborators who are as committed to the issues as you are.** This event uniquely brings together all of the people and perspectives needed for projects to thrive. That includes community leaders and change makers, program managers, librarians, academics from all disciplines, data managers, tech designers, students, and more.
* **Share your stories of success** (or challenges) from on the ground experience with others engaged in this work from communities across the US and beyond. Published research is not a prerequisite for presenting at CAPS.
* **Engage in sessions focused on impact and action.** Talks will be grouped by themes relevant to your work including: coalition building, influencing policy, interdisciplinary collaborations and community-based partnerships, among others–.
* **Get the support you need** to plan your submission and presentation. We’ve got an easy to follow planning guide to help you with your submissions, and a presenter toolkit to help you prepare your talk or poster. Accepted presenters will also be invited to peer-review sessions and open office hours where you can get support and feedback on your presentation.
Conversations at CAPS 2025 open doors and change the field, and **there is still time to bring your ideas to this event**. The call for presentations for CAPS 2025 is open through January 15, 2025.
The  of symposia, workshops, and special events is now available for CAPS 2025, the premiere annual gathering of scholars, practitioners, and facilitators in this field. Discounted registration for community leaders are available. Don’t miss out on this event!
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**  Publication Ethics** – Refers to the best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing.
⚖️  **Social Justice Ethics** – Refers to fair and just relations between the individual and society as measured by the distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity, and social privileges. Social justice also encompasses inclusiveness and diversity.
**  Human Subject Ethics**  – Refers to rules of conduct in any research involving humans including biomedical research, social studies. Note that this goes beyond human subject ethics regulations as much of what goes on isn’t covered.
**🍃  Biodiversity & Environmental Ethics** – Refers to the improvement of the dynamics between humans and the myriad of species that combine to create the biosphere, which will ultimately benefit both humans and non-humans alike ]. This is a kind of ethics that is advancing rapidly in light of the current global crisis as many stakeholders know how critical biodiversity is to the human species (e.g., public health, women’s rights, social and environmental justice).
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🤝  **Community Partnership Ethics** – Refers to rules of engagement and respect of community members directly or directly involved or affected by any research study/project.
* Boost your career at CAPS
# Boost your career at CAPS
! By Reanna PutnamOn December 19, 2024December 20, 2024
*Are you looking for connections and inspiration to boost your career in the participatory sciences?* Then the Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences (CAPS) is for you.  CAPS 2025 in Portland, Oregon, is the premiere annual gathering of scholars, practitioners, and facilitators in this field with sessions designed for students, early career, and career transitioning people like you.
#### At CAPS you can…
Graduate student Deja Perkins sharing during a fishbowl symposium on co-developing a research agenda for the next 10 years at C\*Sci 2023.
1. **Connect with others who have shared interests, challenges, and aspirations**. There will be designated lunch meetups with other graduate students, early career professionals, and career transitioners, facilitated by the AAPS Early Career Working Group.
2. **Make your voice heard.** Present\* your emerging work, stories of lessons learned, or research outcomes as a talk or poster, or participate in interactive symposia. Interactive sessions, including fishbowls, gallery walks, and game-based workshops, welcome active participation from the audience (including you!) to share perspective on key considerations.
3. **Get feedback on your work in-progress.** Opportunities for feedback will occur at pre-conference peer-review sessions, at presentation/poster sessions, and during informal conversations throughout the event. CAPS 2025 fosters a great environment  for supportive feedback that will help take your work to the next level.
4. **Interact with thought leaders in this field**. Interactive session formats provide ample opportunities to meet the authors of papers you love and gain insights from perspectives you haven’t heard before. Network with prospective mentors who are ready and willing to engage with newcomers to participatory science throughout the conference.
5. **Attend sessions relevant for graduate students and early career** researchers including: a pre-conference workshop in a discussion game format to explore challenges and opportunities in citizen science; a full day workshop on developing a research proposal; or a symposium featuring all graduate student voices talking about Inclusive, Diverse, Large-Scale Participatory Science.
Conversations at CAPS 2025 open doors and change the field, and **there is still time to bring your ideas into this mix.** The call for individual presentations is open through January 15, 2025.
\* **First time presenting at one of our events?** We’ve got an easy to follow planning guide to help you with your submissions, and a presenter toolkit to help you prepare your talk or poster.