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EuroBirdPortal is a digital platform that provides live tracking of bird movements across Europe, featuring various species for observation and data collection.
The author critiques the uncritical desire to scale up projects, using J.B.S. Haldane's biological essay to argue that size changes require adaptation and prevent staying the same.
Scientists conducted a citizen science project where volunteers buried underpants and teabags to assess soil decomposition. The study found that land use was a key factor, with the underpants providing a visual measure of soil health comparable to traditional methods.
NASA highlights new school year opportunities including internships, student challenges, career events, citizen science projects, and the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch.
A new peer-reviewed study highlights a critical lack of legal and ethical guidance for using AI in citizen science, particularly regarding transparency about training data, and offers recommendations for addressing this gap.
NASA announces that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch soon to investigate potential life in the Milky Way, and invites the public to send their names on the mission.
Earthwatch Expeditions partners with biologist Richard Bodmer to involve tourists in participatory science in the Peruvian Amazon, collecting data that supports conservation and government protection of the region.
Researchers discovered a massive colony of over 5 million mining bees under a cemetery in Ithaca, New York, highlighting the importance of urban green spaces for biodiversity.
Simon Willison built a personal tool to view iNaturalist observations grouped by time and location, using Claude Code for web, a Python CLI for clumping observations, and Git scraping to host the data on GitHub.
Researchers from MIT and the Woodwell Climate Research Center published a paper on using computer vision to automate fish monitoring, improving upon traditional citizen science methods for river herring conservation.