Among our topics: digital #naturalism, #CitizenScience, custom glue, DIY dynamos, collaboration with local & nomadic groups at locations around the planet, contextual crafting, and open-source documentation... plus a sweet "BrailleRAP" machine at the end! (That's the thing featured in the thumbnail.) 🤩✨

Among our topics: digital #naturalism, #CitizenScience, custom glue, DIY dynamos, collaboration with local & nomadic groups at locations around the planet, contextual crafting, and open-source documentation... plus a sweet "BrailleRAP" machine at the end! (That's the thing featured in the thumbnail.) 🤩✨

An article that highlights the annual ‘wasp watch’ survey in the UK and why it is important. A good

It may be the last thing on your mind as the wasp lands on your picnic. But before you swipe it away, scientists would like you to make a note of exactly what it is eating.

http://archive.today/2025.08.02-141644/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/why-scientists-want-you-to-snoop-on-the-wasp-in-your-garden-tkjbp69fk (archive)

https://www.bigwaspsurvey.org/

#Wasp#Survey#CitizenScience#BigWaspSurvey#UK#UCL#UoG

An article that highlights the annual ‘wasp watch’ survey in the UK and why it is important. A good

It may be the last thing on your mind as the wasp lands on your picnic. But before you swipe it away, scientists would like you to make a note of exactly what it is eating.

http://archive.today/2025.08.02-141644/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/why-scientists-want-you-to-snoop-on-the-wasp-in-your-garden-tkjbp69fk (archive)

https://www.bigwaspsurvey.org/

#Wasp#Survey#CitizenScience#BigWaspSurvey#UK#UCL#UoG

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

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

That's what motivated our #Nachtlichter project. In 2019, the @association issued a call to Helmholtz Centres for #CitizenScience projects. In addition to running a citizen science experiment, the projects had to involve at least two different centres.

Together with colleagues from @DLR and @ufz, we submitted a project idea called Nachtlicht-BüHNE: https://nachtlicht-buehne.de/

The name in English means: "Citizen Helmholtz network for research into nocturnal light phenomena".

The project had two parts: DLR (the German space agency) would create and app for reporting Fireballs: https://meteor.nachtlicht-buehne.de/

And our group would create an app for studying outdoor lights: https://lichter.nachtlicht-buehne.de/#l=14.7/49.57249/10.89506

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In 2021, hundreds of citizen scientists walked a distance of 600 km, counting up and classifying all of the outdoor lights they could see while they did it. The results of their observations have just been published in the journal Nature Cities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00239-5

Find out why they did it, and what they found out in this thread 👇

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#CitizenScience#LightPollution#OpenAccess#NighttimeLights #RemoteSensing #Nachtlichter