Apr 15, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Annelli Janssen – DRIFT How do you meet your citizens during the COVID19 crisis? Physical distancing does not (need to) mean social distancing – but how do you manage your online connections in an effective and meaningful way? In this illustrated summary,...
Apr 6, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Virginia de Pablo and Esteban González – The Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) The Citizen Science Month, held for a couple of years, has gone from a couple of events developed in the National Library of Medicine at Arizona State University and the Citizen...
Apr 5, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
By Roy van Grunsven – Dutch Butterfly Conservation Monitoring how species are doing in nature is largely dependent on citizen scientists going out and counting birds, plants, butterflies, dragonflies or other organisms. In many countries this is currently not...
Mar 30, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
To speed up the development of drugs to combat coronavirus, researchers at the University of Washington are calling citizen scientists to play a free online game called Foldit. Citizen scientist can help designing and identifying proteins that may be able to bind to...
Mar 24, 2020 | News on Citizen Science
On the 23 of March 2020, the Italian National Research Council (CNR – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) launched a Citizen Science initiative on light pollution for mapping light intensity in Italy. By exploiting the forced lockdown caused by COVID-19, the CNR...
Mar 18, 2020 | News from ACTION
How do you make Citizen Science more inclusive and rigorous? What common challenges do Citizen Science projects share? We work with on-the-ground citizen science projects that address pollution as part of the H2020 funded ACTION project. Last week, eleven ACTION...
