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Counting Down to 1 Billion Classifications on Zooniverse
We’re approaching an incredible milestone on Zooniverse: 1 BILLION classifications. Every classification, transcription, drawing, tag and click made by more than 3 million volunteers across Zooniverse projects has helped researchers answer questions that would otherwise be impossible to answer at this scale. Watch the countdown To celebrate the countdown, we’ve created a live classification…
Zooniverse’s Samantha Blickhan appointed Executive Council member of the Association for Computers and the Humanities
We’re delighted to share that Zooniverse Co-Director Dr Samantha Blickhan has been elected to serve on the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). ACH is a professional society founded in 1978. Their activities “center on cultivating and strengthening the field of digital humanities, and providing guidance and support to those entering the field.” In addition…
In Memory of Candice Hansen-Koharcheck
We are saddened to share the passing of Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, a pioneering planetary scientist and an inspiration for and one of the leads of the Planet Four projects on Zooniverse. She was also a contributing researcher to the Jovian Vortex Hunter project on Zooniverse. Candy’s warmth, generosity, and passion for solar system exploration inspired countless collaborators and volunteers…
Zooniverse in Conversation: Astronomers Without Borders
We recently joined Astronomers Without Borders for a live conversation during Global Astronomy Month with Andrew Fazekas and Laura Trouille, Zooniverse Principal Investigator and VP of Science Engagement at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, highlighting the breadth and impact of Zooniverse’s astronomy projects. The session explored everything from current discoveries and active projects to…
LOVE LETTERS TO ZOONIVERSE: Celebrating 90,000 Classifications in a College Classroom in China
From individual volunteers working on their own devices to students gaining hands-on research experience, the messages we receive often reveal how citizen science fits into very different lives and contexts. In this series, we are sharing a few of those stories. You can also read about a student’s work-experience journey in Kenya and a young asteroid hunter from India in our previous posts. This…
LOVE LETTERS TO ZOONIVERSE: Hunting asteroids from India
Every so often, a message arrives that reminds us what citizen science looks like from the other side of the screen. Not from a dashboard or a dataset, but from someone who has just discovered the thrill of contributing to real research. In this series, we’re sharing a few of those messages from volunteers around the world. You can also read about Daisy Obwaso’s work-experience story from…
LOVE LETTERS TO ZOONIVERSE: Developing Data Analysis Skills in Kenya
Sometimes, alongside the everyday flow of questions and bug reports, the Zooniverse team receives an unexpected “love letter.” A thank you.A story.A message from someone, somewhere in the world, telling us what Zooniverse has meant to them. This February, with permission from the authors, we’re sharing a small selection of those messages. They come from different continents, age groups, and…
Getting familiar with our campus critters: Engaging non-science students in biology through wildlife
Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) is nestled in eastern Los Angeles County, California surrounded by hillsides and large mountain ranges to the north and to the south. Aside from the typical college campus environment you would find, CPP is unique to have a mosaic of agricultural lands and a preserve right outside our building doors. With those open spaces, comes wildlife. In the project CPP Wild, students…
Communities in the Loop: AI for Cultures and Contexts in Multimodal Archives
We are excited to announce that Zooniverse has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) award from Schmidt Sciences. HAVI supports groundbreaking work at the intersection of AI and the humanities, and you can read the announcement here, and learn more about each of the 23 projects awarded here. The Zooniverse team, led by project co-PI Dr. Samantha Blickhan (Zooniverse…
Find out how the Zooniverse volunteers help researchers from the Synapse Safari team at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London.
Not Just Scientists: How And Why Ordinary People Are Saving The Italian Hydrological Data
Imagine old dusty books filled with tables and numbers. These tables record how much water flowed in Italian rivers every day, over many years. As you can imagine, these measurements are very useful for scientists who study water, floods, and the climate. But this information is hard to use because the data is only on paper. That’s why the SIREN project asked Zooniverse volunteers to help turn…
Royal Astronomical Society Article Celebrates Citizen Science
Many Zooniverse-themed papers have been published in the pages of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) over the years. A recent article in Astronomy & Geophysics (A&G), the RAS Members magazine, celebrates this connection between the RAS and citizen scientists.The article highlights, in their own words, the views of various authors on how they got involved in their Zooniverse…
"Citizen Science In Biology"
Citizen Science in Biology is a new book by Wilson Wall and David Morgan which celebrates the contribution that volunteers have made to the advancement of the natural sciences. It charts the historical development of citizen science, from its earliest days with amateur individuals working on their own, to the modern incarnation which often sees large numbers of people cooperating on environmental…
Learn about the "yellowballs"' role in star formation and how Zooniverse projects have been used to engage different communities, such as seminaries, youth, and interfaith groups, in participatory (“people-powered”) science.
Zooniverse Volunteers Accurately Count Endangered Galápagos Marine Iguanas from Above
A new study in Nature’s Scientific Reports shows that citizen scientists can reliably count endangered Galápagos marine iguanas from drone images, offering a fast and cost-effective tool for wildlife monitoring. Figure 1. Drone image from the project “Iguanas from Above”, taken at Cabo Douglas, Fernandina Island, Galápagos, Ecuador. Through the online project “Iguanas from Above”, hosted on the…
Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes: new publication in Nature!
Cover photo subject (via Talk). Congratulations are due to the research team behind Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes, who have a new publication out in Nature: Community science helps digitize 78 years of fish and habitat data for thousands of lakes in Michigan, USA. Thanks especially to the 3,000+ Zooniverse volunteers who contributed more than 450,000 classifications to this project between…
Transcription Tool Evaluation - Project Results
This post is a follow-up to our January 2024 post, “Zooniverse Receives NEH Grant to Evaluate Transcription Tools,” which you can read here. In January 2024, we received a Level I Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to allow Zooniverse team members to carry out an evaluative study of the underlying code, functionality, and user interface of our…