Bin dem Beispiel von @msiemund gefolgt und biete meine Erfahrungen mit #CitizenScience jetzt in einem eigenen Profil bei Mitforschen an, einer Plattform über dieses Thema von Museum für Naturkunde, @wissenschaftimdialog und @bmftr_bund.

Man darf ein Statement in SMS-Länge abgeben, meines lautet: "Forschung weltweit wird heute von autokratischen Maßnahmen bedroht - mit guter Citizen Science können wir Wissen retten und es zugänglich halten."
https://www.mitforschen.org/expert/lambert-heller

Noch bis morgen findet im IDS die Tagung „Sprachforschung und Citizen Science“ statt. Sie führt verschiedene Projekte und Bestrebungen an dieser Schnittstelle im deutschsprachigen Raum zusammen. Diverse Projekte aus Deutschland , Italien , Luxemburg , Österreich und der Schweiz stellen „Bürgerforschung“ in der Sprachwissenschaft vor.

https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2025/citizen-science/

Foto: © IDS

Citizen Science is All Fun and Games - You are probably familiar with initiatives like Seti@Home, where you donate unused... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/citizen-science-is-all-fun-and-games/ #citizenscience #science #cancer #games

A special back-to-our-roots #Minnesota #FossilFriday Terminonaris robusta (originally classified as Teleorhinus). A partial snout of Terminonaris was excavated in 1969 at the Hill Annex Mine - the same site where the claw of a dromaeosaur was found in 2015.

The excerpt here was published in a 1983 issue of Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. Vintage paleoart by Ken Sander.

#Cretaceous #Crocodile #Terminonarusrobusta #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

More #LostBones https://medium.com/@dbrake40

2025 könnte man ein Leitbild so formulieren: Mit @slubdresden finden und begleiten wir Open #CitizenScience oft in Community-getriebenen Erschließungsprojekten und Initiativen für offene Kultur- und Metadaten historischer sowie zeitgenössischer Dokumente und Fakten: Orte, Personen, Publikationen, Ereignisse, Institutionen und Zusammenhänge. Oder, kurz und knapp: Gemeinsam mehr Edits wagen! https://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/VBIB/vBIB25/Open_Citizen_Science Beitrag mit @julsfld und @m_munke eingereicht für die @vbib

Congratulations to our colleagues from the @CitSciLab (@MobileMaggie, Anouk Spelt, Jordy Janssen) at @universiteitleiden for being part of one of the five **#CitizenScience** hubs receiving a grant from @OpenScienceNL!

The Hub for Impactful and Engaged Research (HIER) is a collaboration between Erasmus University Rotterdam, Delft University of Technology, Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Center, Erasmus MC and (societal) partners.

More information https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/five-citizen-science-hubs-receive-funding

Die #Hummel-Challenge 2025 verzeichnet einen neuen Teilnahmerekord.

Rund 6.500 Menschen meldeten über 35.000 Beobachtungen aus ganz #Deutschland. Dabei wurden 25 #Hummelarten nachgewiesen, darunter auch seltene Arten wie die #Eisenhuthummel. Die Aktion trägt zur besseren Erfassung heimischer #Bestäuber bei und zeigt, wie wichtig #CitizenScience für das #Artenmonitoring ist.

https://www.thuenen.de/de/newsroom/detail/hummel-challenge-auf-rekordkurs

Polar Tourists Give Positive Reviews to NASA Citizen Science in Antarctica https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/polar-tourists-give-positive-reviews-to-nasa-citizen-science-in-antarctica/ #NASA #CitizenScience #EarthScience #EarthScienceDivision #IceGlaciers

A bird with black feathers and a long beak has one name in Koripako, and another—more expansive—in Baniwa. This bilingual dictionary, created with the Medzeniakonai community, shows how languages map the world differently.
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N3.ID788
#CitizenScience #linguistics

Ausicht vom Brand über bewaldetes Sandsteingebirge und Felder
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen,
Autor: Hans-Lothar Kölling
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2491
Wo genau wurde dieses Foto aufgenommen? Helfen Sie mit Ihrem Wissen!
#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

Citizen science led by Indigenous researchers shows how language documentation can support education and cultural vitality. Cadernos de Linguística publishes work that values diversity in knowledge production. #CitizenScience #linguistics https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N3.ID788

#LostBones #FossilFriday An in-person, eye-to-orbit visit is always best! This is the Scheirel bison skeleton, currently on display at the Paynesville Area Historical Society. It was reconstructed by William Scheirel after a dredging operation on his property in October 1975.

Originally displayed at Zapf's Leather Shop in Paynesville, the skeleton was donated to the historical society in the mid-1990s.

https://paynesvillehistorical.org

A star with a weird color - Nova Lupi 2025 (V462 Lupi)

1st photo is not annotated. Can you find the nova?

2nd photo is annotated.

3rd photo was deliberately mis-focused so that stars were larger disks instead of small points. This makes it easier to see the color.

Note that there are plenty of orange stars and plenty of blue stars...but the nova has a unique color. To my eye it's a pale purple.

Why does the nova have a weird color?

4th image was taken from https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1771205990440705&set=pcb.10056320127790102 it's a spectrum of the nova. Most stars have a blackbody radiation distribution, but novae (that's the Latin form, plural) have strong emission lines at discrete colors. That can make a weird color compared to most stars.

Image taken with a camera on a fixed tripod.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V462_Lupi

Want to photograph another nova? (Southern hemisphere only.)

V572 Velorum might be naked eye visible if you have good eyes, are in a dark sky...although the first quarter moon may thwart that.

It should be easy in binoculars or a camera on a fixed tripod. A newer cellphone camera might also capture it.

The attached graphic shows the location of the nova as seen from Wellington as evening twilight ends...fairly high in the southwest.

https://earthsky.org/tonight/nova-or-new-star-visible-in-vela/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V572_Velorum

Slides from #GLAM #citizenscience workshop at LIBER2025 conference 'Open Museum Guidebooks: A Citizen Science Experience' made with students of #HochschuleHannover Bachelors Information Management + @tibhannover @tibosl @nfdi4culture See: https://zenodo.org/records/15799977 #LIBER2025 - A prototype for how museum visitors could make favurites list to share online - IF museums made two #LOD data streams 1. exhbition schedule 2. Exhibition contents | Prototype publication https://nfdi4culture.github.io/open-museum/

Humans are natural problem solvers, which is why so many people love gaming. Jeff Yoshimi, author of "Gaming Cancer," argues that building and playing video games could help advance scientific discovery — and that it's already happening. "An EteRNA Eterna challenge (the “OpenVaccine Challenge”) from a few years ago asked game players to help design RNA molecules for Covid vaccines that do not require ultra-cold storage, allowing for easier storage and transport, which is especially crucial in developing parts of the world< he writes for MIT Press Reader. "Although attribution is tricky, the challenge was a success; vaccines today are more stable at room temperature than they were before."

https://flip.it/m6dNPp

#Science #VideoGames #Technology #Tech #CitizenScience #Books @bookstodon

iNaturalist really tries hard to just sit out any criticism regarding their "GenAI", in the meanwhile PZ Myers has some choice words on the matter too: Keep your AI slop out of my scientific tools!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/30/keep-your-ai-slop-out-of-my-scientific-tools/

This week’s CMOR photo is from Emery County, Utah.

“This year there has been very little rain compared to previous years. Range conditions are poor and very little to no spring growth has occurred.”

Submit your photos: https://go.unl.edu/cmor_drought

Want to photograph a supernova? (Southern hemisphere only.)

Here's a fairly bright one - magnitude 13. A long telephoto lens or small telescope should catch it, especially because it's about 30 arcseconds from the galaxy's core.

It's low in the east just before morning twilight, but it'll get higher in the sky day by day.

AT2025pht (= ASASSN-25cw), TNS discovered 2025/06/29.430 by All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN)
Found in NGC 1637 at R.A. = 04h41m28s.834, Decl. = -02°51'55".87
Located 9".7 east and 27".3 south of the center of NGC 1637
Mag 13.3:6/29, Type unknown (zhost=0.002392)

https://www.physics.purdue.edu/brightsupernovae/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1637

#Astronomy #Astrophysics #Supernova #Astrophotography #Photography #Science #CitizenScience @sundogplanets