#citizen-science — Public Fediverse posts

Blick auf die Stadtkirche Stolpen, Hintergrund: Felder
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Stolpen
Autor: Hans-Lothar Kölling
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2682

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

#CitizenScience afficionados, #Euclid scientists would like to again solicit your input for classifying #GravitationalLensing systems. We need a sprint finish before the science analysis can be completed. 18000 galaxies that are maybe acting as lenses are waiting for your eyes and brains.

Do you want to join?

All the background is here:

https://blog.spacewarps.org/2026/09/11/space-warps-classify-complete-sprint-finish-on-space-warps-refine/

#ESA #ESAEuclid #gravity #astronomy #space

Zooniverse has published the first-ever AI Ethics Framework for citizen science. A year in the making, built on 4 workshops and volunteer surveys with over 1,000 responses. It sets out key principles, a "5 Ws" approach for describing AI/ML use in a project, and recommendations for research teams. Nearly a third of Zooniverse projects now use AI or ML. Open data policy stays.

📅 9 Sep 2026
🔗 https://blog.zooniverse.org/2026/09/09/a-new-ai-ethics-framework-for-zooniverse/

#CitizenScience #DataScience #Science #Astronomy

Blick vom Bubenik nach Kottmar
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Löbau
Autor: Hans-Werner Otto
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2936

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

https://heisseluft.org/

Sehr cool gestaltete #interaktiveKarte zum Thema #Datacenter in Deutschland von einer #NGO, die sich diesem Thema widmet. Teils basierend auf #CitizenScience und natürlich mit #OpenStreetMap gemacht. (via @monoxyd, Aida Baghernejad bzw. @breitband)

#map #mapdesign #mapping #datavisualization #interactiveMap #rechenzentrum #opensource

#gefundenVonLukas

🚴‍♂️🌿 BioBlitz #karlsruhe Natur entdecken & mitforschen!
Heute radeln wir gemeinsam zu ökologischen Hotspots. Mit der App #obsidentify dokumentieren wir Pflanzen und Tiere und leisten so einen Beitrag zur Karlsruher Taxonomie-Initiative! Fachliche Begleitung: Dr. Judith Bieberich (Naturkundemuseum).
Start am Fahrradbüro, Welfenstraße 13
Freitag, 11.9. um 17 Uhr
(App vorher installieren & einrichten)
Infos: https://touren-termine.adfc.de/radveranstaltung/204109-bioblitz-karlsruhe-openflorafaunamap-mitgestalten

#ADFC #Karlsruhe #BioBlitz #CitizenScience #FediBikes_de

🐴🦥🐘🐪 #FossilFriday — Horse incisor & molar from Brown County

Brown County keeps delivering Ice Age finds — horse molars, mammoth tusk, and pelvis fragments from local gravels. Three New Ulm horse molars are already headed for radiocarbon dating, with more finds coming.

Lost Bones #7 is out this week and updates on Lost Bones #4 (the horse project) were previously posted:

https://marcusbrandel.substack.com

#Pleistocene #Equus #Mammoth #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating

🔭 The HOYS citizen science project (University of Kent) has published its milestone 400th "light curve of the week". It shows the variable star V908Per in the young cluster IC 348: half-magnitude swings on ever-changing timescales, larger amplitudes at shorter wavelengths – a textbook "Orion Variable". Amateur astronomers take the data; the archive is open.

📅 9 Sep 2026
🔗 https://hoys.space/lightcurve-of-the-week-400/

#CitizenScience #Astronomy #DataScience #Science

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 German #CitizenScience prize "Wissen der Vielen – Forschungspreis für Citizen Science": https://www.mitforschen.org/forschungspreis-preistraegerinnen

Blick ins Taubertal
Ort: Deutschland, Bayern, Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Autor: Hans-Lothar Kölling
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2631

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

Wir gratulieren den Wissen der Vielen-Preisträger*innen 2026 von mit:forschen!: Sinja Dittmann (🥇, Plastikverschmutzung @IPN_Kiel), Anna Eiser-Kösterfunke (🥈, Gesundheitsversorgung) und Christoph Koch (🥉, Bodenqualität) 🏆
ℹ️ https://www.mitforschen.org/forschungspreis/preistraegerinnen2026

#WissenDerVielen26 #Partizipation #CitizenScience #Wissenschaft #Forschung

I'm investigating whether MEMS microphones can be used for DIY monitoring of low-frequency sound and infrasound around hyperscale #DataCenters.

I'm considering a small run of breakout PCBs so the microphones can be tested sans SMT assembly. This could be useful to communities trying to independently characterize data-center noise.

https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=1240

#DataCenter #DataCenters #Infrasound #LowFrequencyNoise #NoisePollution #MEMS #ESP32 #Electronics #OpenHardware #CitizenScience #Acoustics

Learned today about Strandliners, a #citizenscience collective that dealt with #pollution by pellets ecaping onto Camber Sands due to an issue at its nearby wastewater site (reporting links are now closed)
https://strandliners.org/bio-beads-at-camber/

OMG! This is brilliant. The King of Citizen Science, @mhaklay.bsky.social, who catalyzed my idea for #UCLChemAirPoll is now bridged across to Mastodon. I strongly recommend you follow him if you are interested in harnessing people power to gather data to change the world. #citizenscience #crowdsourcing #learning #data

Blick von der Sandgrube Ebersbach
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Ebersbach
Autor: Bruno Häcker
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/1778

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

Follow-up: I went further down the data-center #Infrasound rabbit hole. A noise complaint 2.464 miles from a data center led me to explore a <$100 ESP32 + differential-pressure-sensor logger, calibration, wind filtering and raw spectral data--and I found others doing related field research.

https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=1223

#DataCenters #Noise #ESP32 #CitizenScience

I'm exploring a DIY instrument to measure infrasound (<20 Hz) and low-frequency emissions near data centers, to complement a Class 2 sound-level meter.

Thinking ESP32 + differential pressure sensor + wind filtering + raw spectral analysis. Interested in comparing designs, calibration methods, and field measurements. Anyone else working on this or interested in collaborating?

#DataCenters #Infrasound #LowFrequencyNoise #Acoustics #CitizenScience #ESP32 #Oregon

🔭 Citizen science in Czechia: on the morning of 8 Sep 2026, asteroid (712) Boliviana will occult star TYC 1348-00100-1 (10.9 mag) in Gemini for up to 3.5 s. The 132 km wide shadow path crosses the country from Šumava (02:38:29 UT) to the Beskydy mountains, 29° above the eastern horizon. Every timing — positive or negative — refines the asteroid's shape and orbit. (7 Sep 2026)

#CitizenScience #Astronomy #Space #Science
https://www.astro.cz/clanky/ukazy/zakryje-simon-jose-antonio-hvezdu.html

🌌 Open data: the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys have published Data Release 11 — the largest 2D map of the Universe so far. 5.6 trillion pixels, nearly 4 billion objects, 75% of the sky, 263,000 exposures merged in eight weeks of supercomputing. Free via the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer and Astro Data Lab, and open to citizen scientists hunting lenses and transients. (4 Sep 2026)

#DataScience #CitizenScience #Astronomy #Space
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-desi-legacy-imaging-survey-releases-the-largest-2-d-map-of-the-universe

Weiden und Felder bei Reichenbach
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Reichenbach O.L.
Autor: Hans-Lothar Kölling
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2425

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

Lost Bones #7 is now published!
In 1929, a nearly ten-pound mammoth molar was discovered west of New Ulm, Minnesota. It was donated to the University of Minnesota—and then effectively disappeared into nearly a century of museum transfers.

A Mighty Beast follows my seven-year search for the tooth, from a single entry in a 1945 paleontological survey to its eventual rediscovery in a museum collection.

Substack: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/lost-bones-7-a-mighty-beast

#CitizenScience #LostBones #Paleontology #MammothMonday

An den Quitzdorfer Teichen
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Quitzdorf am See
Autor: Bruno Häcker
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2745

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

🪐 A giant ten-sided jet stream wave encircles Saturn's south pole. Amateur astronomers spotted the first hints in images shared through the open PVOL archive run by the University of the Basque Country; Hubble's OPAL programme then traced it back to 2023. A neat case of worldwide observer data leading to a discovery. ESA/Hubble, 2 Sep 2026.

https://esahubble.org/news/heic2612/

#CitizenScience #Astronomy #ESA #Space

📡 Images from the Radio Galaxy Zoo citizen science project were used to pretrain very small vision models (~6M parameters) with LeJEPA. A University of Geneva team shows that self-supervised learning directly on radio astronomy data matches far larger models at radio galaxy morphology classification — cheaper and more scalable. Preprint, 31 Aug 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30594

#RadioAstronomy #CitizenScience #DataScience #Astronomy

🔭 The SNAD team shows how to pair machine learning with a domain expert in the loop. On top of public ZTF survey data they built Coniferest, an open-source active-learning library, the Transient Miner and the SNAD Viewer web portal. Result: 100+ new supernova candidates, red dwarf flares and young stellar objects. Overview published 31 Aug 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30477

#DataScience #CitizenScience #Astronomy #Science

📻 Radio meteors, August 2026: Felix Verbelen's monthly report of reflections recorded at Kampenhout (BE) on the VVS beacon frequency of 49.99 MHz. The Perseids peaked on 13 Aug; 52 reflections lasting over a minute were logged across the month. Raw hourly counts are published as CSV, ready for your own analysis.

📅 4 Sep 2026
🔗 https://www.emeteornews.net/2026/09/04/radio-meteors-august-2026/

#RadioAstronomy #CitizenScience #DataScience #Science