Today I chatted with Jesse Mulligan on #RNZ Afternoons, because #iNaturalistNZ is just a whisker (or an antenna or a hypha) away for *3 million observations*(!!).

Earlier in the week we were thinking we might pass the 3 million milestone on Christmas Eve, but now it’s looking like we’ll pass it tomorrow. At the moment we’re at 2,999,457 observations, of 23,518 species (about 30% of NZ’s named species), observed by 50,519 (not far off 1% of NZers).

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018969354/3-million-creepy-crawlies

Gulls Eating Things! Citsci project to record photographs of what gulls are eating and where. Submit your pics here
https://citsci.org/projects/gulls-eating-stuff/

#DIY #ParticleDetector: A mobile low-cost #OpenSource #spectrometer for measuring ionising #radiation like alpha particles & #electrons (energy range: 33 keV to 8 MeV):

-suitable for #CitSci & #education

https://github.com/ozel/DIY_particle_detector
#DIYtech #lab #sensor #instruments #radioactivity #STEM #MINT

A blog about transcriptions from the Smithsonian Transcription Center being used to replace the poor OCR of handwritten field notebooks in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. I helped transcribe many of these field books & am so thrilled about this reuse. #CitSci #volunpeer https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/09/power-of-community-science-how-smithsonian-volunpeers-transform-scientific-field-notes.html

RT impetus4cs
What will #citizenscience look like in 5 years?
That is what our partners from @nesta_uk were asking the @ArsElectronica festival-goers today!
from air pollution-detecting toys to integrated community smart apps, it was so much fun to think about the future of #citsci!

: https://n.respublicae.eu/impetus4cs/status/1699443465258479870

#CitizenScience vom Feinsten: Das #DistributedComputing Projekt '#Ramanujan Machine' liefert mal wieder bahnbrechende #Mathematik-Ergebnisse:

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11829
Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uk04gfIt8yM
Mitmachen via #BOINC: https://rnma.xyz/boinc/

#introduction #introductie
Hello everyone,

Since we are new here on Mastodon, we would like some help finding academics and other professionals with an interest in #citizenscience. So give us a boost, if you can. Thanks!

For those that don't know us yet: Scivil is the center for citizen science in Flanders (Belgium). We gather and spread #citsci knowledge, and bring actors and projects closer together.

We're also active beyond Flanders & within the EU, so we mainly 'toot' in English. Bye!

Transient Luminous Events (TLE) are brief, powerful light emissions, generated by thunderstorms, that occur high in the atmosphere.

How to submit an observation:
https://spritacular.org/tutorials