#CitizenScience Profile Rural villages are designing their own climate futures with PermaFuturos, a #permaculture-based citizen science project. #Citsci #ClimateResilience #CommunityScience impetus4cs.eu/permacommuni...
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We will co-create and find new funding schemes to boost the impact and value of citizen sciences and sustain them in time. Funded by HorizonEurope. https://impetus4cs.eu/
#Citizenscience Resource CUSP launches the Science Diplomacy Hub: a free, impartial space for the community to connect, share resources and collaborate. Join: lnkd.in/e9Db3xDn #ScienceDiplomacy
#CitizenScience Reading Club 62% of surveyed citizen science projects had no data management plan. Templates are built for experts, not volunteers. doi.org/10.5334/cstp... #datamanagement #citsci
🤟 #citizenscience profile - Acting4DHH II Deaf & hearing citizens in 🇵🇱🇸🇰🇺🇦🇬🇷 co-created videos on inclusion. Accessible science is science for all! impetus4cs.eu/acting4dhh-ii/ #CitSci #IMPETUS #DHH
#CitizenScience resource 🌱 Free online training on #ethics, sustainability & #environmentaljustice in citizen science. 28 Oct or 5 Nov, 13:00 CET. Register: lnkd.in/dtkK7D89 #citsci
#CitizenScience Reading Club "Talking Metadata" (Thuermer et al., 2023) finds that citizen scientists often don't realise what location/device data they're sharing and shows how better project design can close that privacy gap. sites.units.it/etica/2023_2... #Metadata #privacy
#Citizenscience profile 🌸 UNIQUE makes disabled citizens co-designers of city planning — creating accessible & tactile-Braille tools tested with 60+ people, zero barriers found. impetus4cs.eu/unique-unive... #CitSci #IMPETUS
🔧 How to build a relationship with your local MP — Repair Cafe Gosport's 3-stage approach to winning political support for repair. lnkd.in/e9jbMxgA #RepairCafe #CommunityRepair
#citizenscience reading club "When Data Meets Citizens" (Thuermer et al., 2024) finds that EU smart-city data projects rarely deliver on promised citizen benefits - and proposes "data justice plans" as a fix. 📄 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Citsci #data #policy #citizenengagement
#Citizenscience Profile - ASFOs from the ground 🌱 In Italy's Fiastra Valley, citizen scientists map abandoned land & test soil to help form the region's first AsFo—pooling plots to fight erosion & rebuild community. 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/asfos-from-the-ground/ #CitSci #landmanagement
#Citizenscience Resource 🌱 @cropscs.bsky.social : the Responsible Scaling Training Series for citizen science! Covering #governance, #ethics, #partnerships & #sustainability. Because scaling well matters more than scaling fast. 🔗https://www.crops-cs.eu/resources/training #citsci #training
#citizenscience Reading club "Rethinking Impact Assessment in Citizen Science" (Kieslinger et al.) uses design thinking to unpack 5 key challenges — methodology, ethics, time, stakeholders, and planning. ap.pensoft.net/article/1255... #impact #research
#citizenscience Profile - FoodWise How can everyday diaries fight food waste? 🍽️ 80 citizen scientists in Western Thessaloniki are logging what they buy & waste-turning kitchen choices into food-system evidence. #CitSci #IMPETUS #sustainability impetus4cs.eu/foodwise/
#citizenscience Resource 🎙️New ScienceUs Podcast ep! FLOW turns citizens into field researchers monitoring Germany's freshwater streams, led by @UFZ_de & @iDiv_Leipzig. 🎧 lnkd.in/dMBAQQ8J #water #conservation
📰 The latest ECSA newsletter is out! 📬 Read: mailchi.mp/b25507e239b5... #CitizenScience #CitSci #OpenScience
📰 The latest ECSA newsletter is out! Highlights: 📬 Read: mailchi.mp/b25507e239b5... #CitizenScience #CitSci #OpenScience
🏙️ City Layers: 500+ citizen scientists mapped Vienna's noise, safety & climate comfort — 2,000+ data points turning lived experience into urban planning data. 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/city-layers #CitSci
#CitizenScience Profile 🌱 Soil Sentinel trains Serbian farmers to sample their own soil, checked against lab data, to guide safe sludge reuse - cutting costs up to 50%. impetus4cs.eu/soil-sentinel/ #soilhealth #conservation
#CitizenScience Reading Club New study: Redlands Coast Koala Watch had 370+ volunteers but most never reported a sighting. Co-design with the community found the fix: simpler apps, real feedback, and social connection. 🐨 doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
UK public wants more science engagement. Researchers want to give it. So why the gap? The Royal Society's new Science for Society report says it's time to make public engagement core to research—not an extra. 🔬 royalsociety.org/news-resourc... #Science #PublicEngagement #Research
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#CitizenScience - Regenerative Tides: Sailing for Solutions (ReTISS) Citizens in France, the UK & Portugal mapped 77 abandoned fibreglass boats polluting our coasts 🚤🗺️. impetus4cs.eu/regenerative... #Conservation #Biodiversity #MarinePollution
#citizenscience reading club AI is contaminating citizen science databases: fake wildlife photos and "enhanced" images are fooling experts. 🐦 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI #ParticipatoryScience #biodiversity
The latest @ecsa.ngo is out - packed with new projects, community news and open calls from across the citizen science network 📰✨ mailchi.mp/d2608ea57704... #CitizenScience #ScienceForAll #CitSci #OpenScience
🌞 Aug 12 total solar eclipse! Help scientists: track shadow bands, snap Baily's Beads, measure sky darkness & more. 5 ways to get involved 👇 www.newscientist.com/article/2531... #CitizenScience #SolarEclipse2026
Coventry's River Sowe gets new citizen scientists 🌊 Underrepresented communities monitor water quality & litter with #IMPETUS support. Data ownership stays local. 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/empowering-u... #CitizenScience
#CitizenScience Reading Club New study: giving elementary teachers ready-to-use support materials (not just data protocols) sharply boosts classroom use of citizen science projects. Practical > dense content. doi.org/10.1080/0950... #ScienceEd
#CitizenScience profile FloraAtlas is turning Amazigh communities in Morocco's High Atlas into plant conservationists - using a WhatsApp tool to monitor endemic species. 🌿📱 impetus4cs.eu/floraatlas/ #conservation
#Citizenscience resource 🎙️ New RISE Podcast Ep. 11! Engineer Héloïse V. (Science For Change) discusses co-creation in engaged research & why collaboration matters. 🎧 lnkd.in/eKvG5Upj #RISEPodcast #CoCreation
New paper: #CitizenScience in #Psychology 🧠🔬 Why is it almost absent in cognitive psych? New 2D model + real examples (microdosing, air pollution, school studies) show how to fix the "researcher-subject paradox." 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s13428-026-03019-8
#CitizenScience Profile - Empowering older adults Older adults as co-researchers, not subjects. 59 conversations on ageing, loss & belonging are reshaping how we see vulnerability in later life. impetus4cs.eu/empowering-o... #inclusion #citsci #IMPETUS4CS