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do-you-know-this-play · 4 days

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#citizen scientist #christina quintana #theatre #theater #plays #tumblr polls

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dusk82 · 2 years

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Late post for 20th June, but we went out to the mudflats to collect data on the mangrove horseshoe crabs of Singapore, on International Horseshoe Crab Awareness Day, and it was a fine fine day. The smol babies were most satisfying to see and we were careful where we tread.

#horseshoe crab #mangroves #mudflats #research #citizen scientist #marine biology #marine biodiversity #marine ecology #moulting #data collection #connections

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troncelliti · 7 months

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#in thought #thinking #citizen scientist #really #no but

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delicatelysublimeforester · 1 year

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Unleash the Power of Teamwork and Nature Identification: Join the Saskatoon and Area iNaturalist City Nature Challenge 2023!

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haylanmakesstuff · 2 years

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Day 24

After moving campsites to Big Creek, all the hiking finally caught up to me. I felt dazed and tired all day, and everything below the belly button went on strike. What I’ve noticed when I use my cane is that I disappear when I look around a room. Everyone’s gaze carefully avoids me as if I am a ghost. What Husband see’s is very different, he says. While I’m looking away, people are staring, looking me up and down, staring at the cane and compression sock combo.

I trudged around all day, as Husband made all my meals and snacks, letting me take is as easy as possible. I have had major FOMO with my declining health. What things will I never get to see and do simply because my body doesn’t have the mobility, energy, or strength to take me there? I made myself walk around the park a bit so I felt like I still got to experience it.

I particularly liked this photo in an exhibit at the Longmire Museum:

“On August 10, 1890, twenty-year-old Fay Fuller became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Rainier. The climbing outfit worn by Miss Fuller was considered quite scandalous at the time. The above photo shows Miss Fully shorty after her return from the summit”

Really puts history into perspective. That and a line that you could see the faces of women reacting to nearby, a line that read, “...in 1914, women were finally allowed to drive in the park”.

Scandalous.

We completed Citizen Ranger, a Junior Ranger Quest-like program for older kids and adults.

This badge is dedicated to my Aunt Toni, an adventurer and world traveler. We may not have always gotten to see each other as much as either of us would have liked while I was growing up, and you probably don’t know even know that you are in a few of my most compassionate memories of showing sympathy, empathy, and artistic inspiration. Thank you for those memories, and I hope we can make more!

After this brief trip to Paradise (literally, it’s called that!) I was pretty sure I had died and gone to Hogsmeade. We headed back to camp and got a giant screw in the tire on the way. I’m so glad to have company right now, because although I have changed my own tire more than once, I definitely didn’t have the spoons to deal with it today. Husband let me hammock and read books while he worked on the car. Did I marry up, or what?

I generally don’t take a lot of selfies, but I did today. This is a good example of the Devil’s Confusion, as Toni Morrison would call it. This is how I can look so normal and have such a rotten feeling day. I hope people become more sensitive to invisible illness, because this is what it looks like; often totally normal.

Haylan

#road trip for a cause #ehlers danlos awareness #ehlers danlos life #ehlers danlos society #ehlers danlos syndrome #ehlers danlos #hypermobility spectrum disorder #hypermobility #chronic illness #disabled hikers #mount rainier #mt. rainier #mt. rainier national park #national park #junior ranger #citizen scientist #paradise

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littlejourneyseverywhere · 2 years

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Identifying Corals With NASA!!

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#2022 #AI #citizen science #citizen scientist #coral #games #learning #NASA #reefs #science

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wachinyeya · 1 month

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From water-testing polluted rivers to measuring radiation levels, ordinary people are taking environmental research into their own hands.

#good news #environmentalism #science #citizen science #science is too important to be left to the scientists #environment #nature #water #clean water #water is life #conservation #environmental movement #direct action

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specialagentartemis · 4 months

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Citizen Science and Contributing To Scientific Endeavor When You're Not "A Scientist"

Comments on some of my posts about science and misinformation express frustration with scientific establishments, and want to see more accessibility and attention given to amateurs participating in the scientific process and having their scientific voices heard.

If being involved in the creation of knowledge and discovery is something important to you, that's something I strongly encourage! It's absolutely possible. Amateur researchers with a passion and an eye for detail have made some fantastic discoveries - but what is often glossed over in stories like these are the years of work, the patient dedication, and the collaboration with university researchers that often underlie such discoveries.

The search for truth and information and the passion for science is present in a lot of people who aren't official "scientists" - curiosity is natural! And if participation in scientific observation, hypothesizing, experimentation, and discovering new things about the world is important to you, there are lots of ways to go about contributing - and the new year is a great time to start.

What are you interested in?

Ecology

Observing the world around you is for everybody. Getting invested in the environment of your hometown is for everybody. And, as the Mythbusters famously said,

Some ideas for a local ecology project:

Record the temperature outside every day at the same time - at sunrise, or noon, or sunset, or midnight. Depending on where you are, the local weather recording station may be miles away or on top of a mountain - measure the temperature yourself and compare it each day to what your app says. When is it accurate? When isn't it?

Record the weather every day. How much precipitation? What time of day? What kind?

Record what animals you see every day, where, when, and how many. Or choose a specific animal, like birds, or bees on flowers, or turtles or frogs in a local pond, or whiptail lizards vs. invasive house geckos, and record the numbers you see each day.

Record when in the year you see the first, or last, of a plant or animal. When the crocuses sprout, when the buds appear on the maple trees, when you see the first clover flowers or prickly pear flowers, when the first robin comes out or the first lizards come out of hibernation.

If you have an outdoor cat or a free-roaming dog, attach a GoPro or similar small camera to its collar to see where it goes and what it does.

Identify the plants growing in your neighborhood, and check in on it regularly to keep track of how each one fares in different weather conditions, or if any animals particularly like or don't like to eat it.

Bulk order some test strips, then take a small sample of soil from a local park or water from a local waterway each weekend and test them for PH, lead, chemicals, or whatever. See if it changes over the year, or after a heavy rainfall, or during drought.

Take a photo of the same spot every day for a year.

Linguistics

The study of how people use language! Everybody uses language in some capacity.

Do you have any small children near you? Talk to them! Record how they pronounce things and what they call new (or even familiar) concepts. Look for patterns.

Ask people you know if "dog" and "blog" rhyme, or if "Alohop" is a good pun for a pineapple beer. My family gets ENDLESS amounts of mileage out of this one with each other. Ask people you know questions about how they pronounce things, or what they call things. Make maps of dialectical differences between generations, neighborhoods, etc. Track linguistic shifts in the modern world.

History

Everyone and everywhere has a history, and accurate history is pressingly relevant always.

See if you have a local historical society, library archive, or history museum that is looking for volunteers to transcribe or translate collections.

Get elbow-deep in local archives. You likely have some sort of local archive near you that has not been fully digitized. Go in with a topic you want to learn about - Black families, Jewish communities, how your hometown transferred from Indigenous hands to settler ones, women who owned their own businesses, immigration, inter-racial relationships, sports, ice harvesting, farming practices, contemporary opinions on a major world history event that now seems so inevitable, sports and people's reactions to sports - and read everything in newspapers, wills, deeds, photographs, or other available records about your topic of choice. See if you can find connections that you haven't seen anyone else talking about.

These are just some things that occur to me immediately as something that anyone can do, if you're sufficiently interested in a question and want to discover more about it. The more local your topic, the less likely anyone has a solid answer to whatever you're wondering - and the more immediately relevant to the people around you your discoveries may be!

Combining it with a New Year's Resolution can also get you more motivated to do the things you want to do. Is your resolution to get more exercise? Take a brisk walk each morning and take a picture of the same area every day for a year. Take a walk every weekend down to the lake and count the turtles and frogs you see. Is your resolution to keep a daily diary For Real This Time? If nothing else, resolve to write down the weather and precipitation each day! Do you want to volunteer more or meet new people? Look for citizen science or local history groups! Feeling like you're working toward something Real is a great motivator.

Henry David Thoreau's detailed descriptions of the nature each day around Walden Pond in the 1840s provides a valuable benchmark for modern ecologists to compare environmental and climatic changes since then on a granular level. Silly rhyming poems and idiosyncratic spellings in letters and diaries help linguists track dialectical and pronunciation changes across time. Amateur science is great and valuable! We all can have a part in understanding and paying deeper attention to the world around us, if we want to.

#been sitting on this one for a while ever since I kept getting comments on my post about misinformation about how scientists are all #ivory tower eggheads who don't allow real normal people to Contribute to Science #Please contribute to science! I think everyone who wants to should!!!#science #citizen science

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mindblowingscience · 5 months

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James Cook University researcher Matthew Connors has discovered two new praying mantis species with the help of citizen scientists. The finds have been published in Zootaxa. One of these new mantises is not just a new species but an entirely new genus—the classification level above species—and was discovered thanks to citizen scientist Glenda Walter. "We have named the new species Inimia nat—I. nat for short—as it was discovered thanks to the citizen science platform iNaturalist—also iNat for short. "It's a tribute to a new way of doing natural science. With a far greater number of people able to survey a much broader span of both time and space, citizen scientists can provide a wealth of data that would not otherwise be feasible," said Connors. He said if someone were to go outside and find three different insects, there's a good chance that at least one of them would be a new species.

#Science #Ecology #Mantis #Bugs #Insects #Australia #Citizen Scientists

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cheriboms · 6 months

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doctober day 28: metallic

local old man doesnt "get" the youths, pt 1/??

#back to the future #bttf #doctober #doctober 2023 #marty mcfly #doc brown #emmett brown #christopher lloyd #michael j fox #my arts #my sketchy wip arts #im not saying marty definitely had braces... but im saying marty definitely had braces #basing it all on that scene in bttf3 where bufords gang randomly talks about martys teeth. thats my proof !!!#plus apparently average amt of time to have them is like a year so like its POSSIBLE. (i had them for like 3+ years so go off i guess 😒)#anyway this isnt late B) but it almost is bc i was still debating TODAY what to even do >_>;#but here we are so yeah <3 #the generational difference of 'polite/goody two shoes' vs 'degenerate/badass' being seen as good and bad things respectively #docs thoughts: hooligan bad!! respectable citizen good :) -> martys thoughts: im not a nerd PLEASE GOD IM COOL I SWEAR #ps tell me marty WOULDNT ask the local disgraced scientist hes known for like 3 months to do literal surgery on him. theyre ride or die PLS #< for all the trans!marty truthers that also applies to u. i think we can all agree hes not above just straight up asking. king

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papakhan · 15 days

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I feel like a lot of people forget/don't realise that the citizens of the NCR don't have positive opinions of the Followers of the Apocalypse

#Txt #Not a dig on anyone specifically just something I've noticed in a lot of analysises of them #Both here and on YouTube #If you have arcade as a companion you get a few voicelines from ncr civilians talking shit about the Followers #Troopers I don't think have any but citizens for sure #And the Followers themselves talk about being hated by the NCR #Angela Williams specifically has a lot of bad things to say about the Followers and she's just a random scientist #who is actually otherwise pretty nice

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this-should-do · 3 months

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god i am obsessed eith the tonal shift between ahlf life 1 and 2 in regard to the sense of success at ur accomplisments

in 1, nothing you do ever gives u a sense of success or accomplishment, u killed people, u killed aleins but u have so much more to do. its an empty feeling, oh u killed the tentacles? cool go down the hole, dog urself deeper into this mess. oh you killed the gargantua and turned on the railway? go down deeper into the water and blood deeper into the bowels of the beast you created of the facility. you kill the nihilanth and u look up at the fireworks knoeing you are going to die, you cannot escape the explosion and the mess youve created. ur pulled from the mess and you are told you have guranteed urself a future of killing and endless battles or a battle u can never win. mothing you do matter none of it is worth anything. you are cold and alone and soaked in blood and people are only getting more scared

but in 2 the mood shifts, the smallest battles give people hope for a future. you can kill even a few soldiers and even if you do have to go deeper, the people around you cheer, if only for a moment, theyre alive and breathing and so are you. so many things yo do youre asked to do them again and again and each time these people are excited, thwyre grasping for a semblance of hope til thwir nails bleed and they cheer becuz they are alive and in the sun and watching their breath freeze as they cheer in the cold air of the mountains. the grass is green and growing and its more life than uve seen since before you moved to the middle of a desert to work in a concrete prison far from the warmth of the sun where it bakes all that it touches.

do you think gordon feels the happiness of the rebels? feels a sense of accomolishment in even the smallest thing he does? is he satisfied or fullfilled for helpjng these people? can he feel the sun warm the skin of his face and the bite of eastern european chill on his nose the way the rebels do? does he relish in that he is alive still? is he coming back? or do you think he still feels dull as he sinks deeper and deeper into the recesses of his mind and the concrete cage of balck mesa where his old life died?

#judt thinking about how often citizens and rebels in half life 2 cheer at wven pulling down a sign ir killing a robot #and how joyous and gleeful they sound at the smallest accomplisment #compared to how the guards and scientists get more and more grim the longer the game goes on in half life 1 #things get worse and worse in both games in the forces they face but the world seems brighter in 2 #maybe its becuz things in hl1 can only get worse when ur in the middle of losing ur way of life #vs things can only get better when uve got nothing to lose and every small win is more than uve had for the last 20 years #but its still just so beautiful and tangible #and i love to think about how gordon fits into it all #hes a relic of a different time a different battle where nothing he did mattered #the whole time was a battle against a derivative of nihilism a foreshadow of torment to come from the combine #and he coukdnt win that battle withiur self destructung #is it a sign of whats to come #has he changed? will he change? cna he survuve or is he stuck in a loop of the same battle over and over again #killing himself with everylife he takes as punishment for dooming hjmanity #iwillspeakincessantly #sorry #thinking

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troncelliti · 1 year

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@nessyhill @braincraft

#science friday #sci fi show #new scientist #citizen scientist #nova #pbs #pbs digital studios #pbs voices #pbs space time #braincraft #nessy hill likes bean burritos #imma bean burrito

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kaija-rayne-author · 9 months

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Second Monarch caterpillars post. If you want to read the first, it's here.

We went out to get fresh leaves for them today. We found 3 more potential eggs. The desk now has 4 containers with monarchs or possible monarchs in them.

I guess I'd better hope I don't need to bake anything any time soon 😂.

This first laying season is coming to its end. The next will be the methuselah generation and starts roughly in August.

Here's Hannibal (our cannibalistic caterpillar).

Video shows a yellow, black, and white caterpiller eating ravenously in the typical round pattern they use.

Here's some pics of the second batch of eggs. They're probably 2nd instar? Maybe 3rd. Hannibal is 3rd, maybe 4th. Soon we'll have to move them to the netted butterfly containers so they can make their crysalides.

I'm grateful we have 2, because Hannibal is definitely a cannibal and I don't know when that stops. So it'll need solitary confinement until we release them.

We also had two of the eggs hatch, one so recently it was still eating its case.

Here's a couple pics. I've circled the caterpillars because they're so tiny.

The newest is so new it's still translucent.

Had to take these last ones on super zoom with my phone so not sure how they'll show up.

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#monarch butterfly #monarch caterpillar #citizen science #citizen scientist #butterfly rescue #butterflies #endangered species #nature

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aquamarineglow · 8 months

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