It’s firefly season!🪲

Peak activity of fireflys is usually in the third week of June.
Fireflies are highly threatened by habitat destruction, artificial light (light pollution), and pesticides.

Upload your sightings to Citizen Science Apps like #NatureSpots, BOB, spot-a-bee, Nature's Calendar and — if you live in Vienna — https://www.umweltberatung.at/gluehwuermchen-meldung

🔍 You can find all #CitSci Apps on the SPOTTERON platform here: https://www.spotteron.net/apps

Let’s work together to protect these magical insects!

The Horizon Europe Cluster HORIZON-CL6-2025-01 has opened! The call for proposals is active, and consortium formation is underway.

Find all the details on how the SPOTTERON #CitizenScience App Platform can support as a consortium partner in our latest blog post:

👉 https://www.spotteron.net/blog-and-news/the-horizon-europe-cluster-horizon-cl6-2025-01-has-opened-the-call-for-proposals-forming-of-consortiums-has-started

#CitizenScienceApps #HorizonEU #CitSci #ScienceCommunication

Final Release of the BOB Citizen Science App on the @spotteron #CitizenScience Platform! 🐞

The BOB (Behavioural Observations in Beetles) #CitSci App has now completed its prototype phase and, after some final updates, is officially available for download in the App stores. Hurray!!

➡ Learn about the project and the App in our recent blog post: https://www.spotteron.net/blog-and-news/final-release-of-the-bob-citizen-science-app-behavioural-observations-in-beetles

BOB is a project by CREA, Università di Parma, the National Biodiversity Future Center, and Parchi del Ducato

Today -20% on organic #CitizenScience Wear! 🦋

For everyone who loves to wear their favorite animals on a T-Shirt, there are -20% reduction today on all products in our @spotteron #CitSci Store! Find organic T-Shirts and more: https://www.spotteron.net/citizen-science-store-eu#!/

@pathunstrom i remember when citsci2017 made the difficult (from a logistics point of view) decision to move their conference due to discriminatory laws passed in NC. they were ahead of the curve (nearly a decade), given the situation today.

i applaud that decision then and submit it as inspiration to other conferences to hopefully make the right decision now.

https://participatorysciences.org/2016/07/13/citsci2017-may-17-20th-in-saint-paul-minnesota/

#citsci #participatoryscience #aaps

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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

#CitSci #NZ

@albertcardona It's an extraordinary milestone by #iNaturalist. So *many* species!

I've been looking at what % of NZ's species have been observed on #iNaturalistNZ. We've observed 23,522 so far. The NZ Organisms Register lists 69,018 known species. The Ministry for the Environment estimates around 80,000 native species in NZ but only 30,000 of those have scientific names.

So, using NZOR, folk on iNat NZ have so far found about 34% of all of NZ's named species (and climbing!).

#CitSci #NZ

Here's a weird thing. It's a manawa, NZ mangrove, but not in the upper North Island. Brett Robinson on #iNaturalistNZ found one in an estuary in Collingwood, in the upper South Island. That's about 450 km south of its natural distribution limit.

#iNaturalist people have reported manawa seeds, sometimes germinating, on lower North Island beaches. Maybe they're liking the warming waters to the south.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/254931416

#mangroves #botany #LatitudinalShift #ClimateChange #nature #CitSci

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/

#TeamGull #CitSci #Gulls #Seabirds #CitizenScience

#LinkMeToHealth #CitSci App for citizen health in progress! Release coming soon 🙌

This #CitizenScience App provides up-to-date information on nearby health and wellbeing services contributed and verified by local communities.

Project by Springfield community, Queensland (Australia) in partnership with The University of Queensland, Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing.

Exciting! First paper now in press where I contributed as a citizen scientist! Very excited to share soon. Hint: it's a short 🦗 paper in German! Stay tuned!

#biodiversity #artenvielfalt
#insects #insekten
#citsci #CitizenScience

#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

On October 18th, 2024, Science Day at @BOKUvienna focused on "Gesunder Boden" (Healthy Soil). We were excited to see a poster showcasing the #CitizenScience #SoilPlastic App by @HorizonEU @MinagrisEU, running on the @spotteron Platform. Learn more about the project on our website: https://www.spotteron.net/apps/horizon-2020-horizon-europe/minagris-micro-nanoplastics-in-agricultural-soils

#CitSci #PlasticPollution

#OpenSource Internet of Things (#IoT)-based #air #pollution #monitoring system with protective case for tropical environments:

-#Arduino-controlled
-#3Dprinted
-incl. #WeatherStation

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2024.e00560
#DIYtech #CitSci #lab #instruments #environment #sensor #weather

#CitizenScience: Development of a low-cost #magnetometer system for a coordinated #space #weather monitoring:

-#RaspberryPi-based
-cost: ~$250

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2024.e00580
#DIY #DIYtech #CitSci #instruments #lab #education #MINT #STEM #ionosphere #HamSCI #Raspi #HF

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

📣 #DresdenConcept, #UNUFLORES und #SLUB laden zum ersten Dresden-weiten #CitizenScience-Workshop ein. Angesprochen sind in erster Linie Institutionen, die mit Bürgerwissenschaftler:innen zusammenarbeiten.

Im Workshop werden Erfahrungen ausgetauscht. Es gibt auch die Möglichkeit sich gemeinsam zu organisieren in Form von Arbeitsgruppe, Task Force oder Community of Practice.

#SLUBdresden #Bürgerwissenschaften #Workshop #OpenScience #OpenScienceLab #citsci #science #Wissenschaft

#CitSci Wear: For the next 6 days, enjoy 15% off on organic textiles featuring #CitizenScience designs. Explore your favorites here: https://www.spotteron.net/citizen-science-store-eu#!/

When you're in Poland and your coffee mug is almost shaped like the @spotteron Spot! ☕️ #CitizenScience #CitSci