Es begann mit einer Idee: Können Pflanzen als „lebende Umweltsensoren“ dienen?
80 Millionen Datenpunkte später ist klar: Ja. Die neue Studie unserer Arbeitsgruppe zeigt, dass Beobachtungen – v.a. aus Flora Incognita – detaillierte Klima- und Bodenbedingungen in 326 europ. Städten widerspiegeln.

S. Tautenhahn et al. (2026) Nature Cities
„Urbanization signatures on climate and soils uncovered by crowd-sensed plants“
DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00378-9

#FloraIncognita #CitizenScience #UrbanEcology

Es begann mit einer Idee: Können Pflanzen als „lebende Umweltsensoren“ dienen?
80 Millionen Datenpunkte später ist klar: Ja. Die neue Studie unserer Arbeitsgruppe zeigt, dass Beobachtungen – v.a. aus Flora Incognita – detaillierte Klima- und Bodenbedingungen in 326 europ. Städten widerspiegeln.

S. Tautenhahn et al. (2026) Nature Cities
„Urbanization signatures on climate and soils uncovered by crowd-sensed plants“
DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00378-9

#FloraIncognita #CitizenScience #UrbanEcology

Wow, iNaturalist co-founder @kueda goes into detail why he quit the project he started. The tl;dr is that the leadership and governance seem ill-equipped for the task at hand.

https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/

#inaturalist #citizenscience

@rnzbot_nz “A close inspection revealed a spider she had never seen before. She took photos and, with the permission of the landowners, uploaded them to nature identification app iNaturalistNZ.” “Te Papa PhD student Shaun Thompson contacted her, identifying the spider as a potential new species.”

#iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ #spiders #discovery #NewSpecies #CitizenScience

@rnzbot_nz “A close inspection revealed a spider she had never seen before. She took photos and, with the permission of the landowners, uploaded them to nature identification app iNaturalistNZ.” “Te Papa PhD student Shaun Thompson contacted her, identifying the spider as a potential new species.”

#iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ #spiders #discovery #NewSpecies #CitizenScience

Wow, iNaturalist co-founder @kueda goes into detail why he quit the project he started. The tl;dr is that the leadership and governance seem ill-equipped for the task at hand.

https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/

#inaturalist #citizenscience

A long overdue #Introduction.

I take #CreativeCommons photographs (Mostly of #Nature) which I contribute to #WikimediaCommons and when appropriate also to #iNaturalist. I've uploaded over 20,000 photos to #Wikimedia and over 12,000 observations to #iNat (of more than 3,000 species).

I only post my own photos on this account (all of which are #CCBYSA) and make occasional posts about Wikimedia and iNat.

#Photographer #Photography #CitizenScience #Vegan #Naturalist

A long overdue #Introduction.

I take #CreativeCommons photographs (Mostly of #Nature) which I contribute to #WikimediaCommons and when appropriate also to #iNaturalist. I've uploaded over 20,000 photos to #Wikimedia and over 12,000 observations to #iNat (of more than 3,000 species).

I only post my own photos on this account (all of which are #CCBYSA) and make occasional posts about Wikimedia and iNat.

#Photographer #Photography #CitizenScience #Vegan #Naturalist

🐴 For #FossilFriday the Eocene “dawn horse” Protorohippus venticolus (cast), housed at the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal, UT.

The original specimen—now in a private collection—is about 33cm (13 in) tall at the shoulder. It is one of two known specimens from the Fossil Butte Member at Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming.

I’ll be posting more about North American equids in the Midwest the next few months.

#Eocene #equus #palaeontology #citizenscience

https://www.nps.gov/fobu/learn/nature/fossil-mammals.htm

You know how years ago it seemed everyone was playing #sudoku during bits of "off time"? And these days it seems everyone is #knitting?

It got me curious and made me wonder: Is knitting more populair than sudoku?

As I regularly travel by train this seemed a good setting to investigate this question.

For about half a year (jun25-dec25) I collected data during train journeys (methodology & data disclosure in the thread).

I now have an answer. ->

#SciComm #citizenScience #dorkScience #trains

You know how years ago it seemed everyone was playing #sudoku during bits of "off time"? And these days it seems everyone is #knitting?

It got me curious and made me wonder: Is knitting more populair than sudoku?

As I regularly travel by train this seemed a good setting to investigate this question.

For about half a year (jun25-dec25) I collected data during train journeys (methodology & data disclosure in the thread).

I now have an answer. ->

#SciComm #citizenScience #dorkScience #trains

@tibosl @julsfld @slubdresden Bitte fangt bei Euch selbst an: Welche Fragen und Forschungsinteressen haben die Kolleginnen und Kollegen – als Bürger:innen, die mglw. privat forschen (recherchieren) & entwickeln!

#OpenCitizenScience #CitizenScience #vBIB25

"Earthquake shakes homes in north-west England" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjn8wg53q7o 176km away gave my raspberry shake a bit of a wiggle.

#Earthquake recorded on the #RaspberryShake #CitizenScience seismic network. #ShakeNet

With AlpsWatch, Tyrolean experts present a digital tool that makes alpine hazards visible and thus provides crucial support to mountaineers and communities.

https://www.meinbezirk.at/tirol/c-lokales/tiroler-initiative-staerkt-wissen-zu-alpinen-gefahren_a7847693#gallery=null

#alpswatch #naturalhazards #earthobservation #citizenscience #geography @uniinnsbruck

Woon je in Zeeland of Zuid-Limburg op een rustige plek met weinig verkeer? 🌿
En wil je helpen met meten van stikstofdioxide (NO₂)? Je vervangt dan maandelijks een meetbuisje.

We zoeken nieuwe meetlocaties in Kamperland, ’s-Gravenpolder en Eijsden, of daar in de buurt.

Het meetpunt wordt waardevoller als je voor langere tijd meedoet.

Wil je meedoen? Laat het weten! 💨

https://www.samenmeten.nl/nieuws/gezocht-no2-buisjes-vrijwilligers-in-zeeland-en-zuid-limburg

#luchtkwaliteit #NO2 #Zeeland #ZuidLimburg #CitizenScience

With AlpsWatch, Tyrolean experts present a digital tool that makes alpine hazards visible and thus provides crucial support to mountaineers and communities.

https://www.meinbezirk.at/tirol/c-lokales/tiroler-initiative-staerkt-wissen-zu-alpinen-gefahren_a7847693#gallery=null

#alpswatch #naturalhazards #earthobservation #citizenscience #geography @uniinnsbruck

Woon je in Zeeland of Zuid-Limburg op een rustige plek met weinig verkeer? 🌿
En wil je helpen met meten van stikstofdioxide (NO₂)? Je vervangt dan maandelijks een meetbuisje.

We zoeken nieuwe meetlocaties in Kamperland, ’s-Gravenpolder en Eijsden, of daar in de buurt.

Het meetpunt wordt waardevoller als je voor langere tijd meedoet.

Wil je meedoen? Laat het weten! 💨

https://www.samenmeten.nl/nieuws/gezocht-no2-buisjes-vrijwilligers-in-zeeland-en-zuid-limburg

#luchtkwaliteit #NO2 #Zeeland #ZuidLimburg #CitizenScience