🆕 Kelp Quest (Seattle Aquarium) is now on SciStarter! 🌿🌊 Help identify algae, seafloor habitats, and marine life in underwater images on Zooniverse. Add your Zooniverse username to your SciStarter account settings to earn credit for every classification! @seattleaquarium.bsky.social

🦈 Shark Week starts TODAY! But you don’t need a wetsuit to get closer to shark science. The latest SciStarter newsletter features ways to help researchers better understand marine life and protect our oceans. Dive into the newsletter and find a project: conta.cc/4fxmAf3

OpenKnot Round 9 features secondary structures designed by players to create compact, pseudoknotted RNA using 240 bases. GenAI teams also will be testing whether their methods can perform as well as the expert players at a longer length. Check out the puzzle at: eternagame.org/labs/14343053

Move over, butterflies... it's Moth Week! Turn on a porch light, hang a white sheet, and see who shows up after dark. Read the full SciStarter newsletter to learn more: conta.cc/4wOmrea

Celebrate @america250.bsky.social with #CitizenScience! You can follow in the footsteps of the USA's scientifically-minded Founding Fathers by joining real research projects that help us better understand Earth, history, galaxies, and the communities we call home. Learn more: conta.cc/440Rrvi

This Father’s Day, we’re celebrating the dads and role models who taught us to be curious. Whether you’re spending time with Dad, remembering him, or carrying forward a tradition he inspired, you can honor that curiosity by contributing to citizen science. Read the newsletter: conta.cc/4fVOtPV

Thanks, Dad, for Inspiring Curiosity

Email from SciStarter Foundation Celebrate the Joy of Discovery, Together View as Webpage SciStarter Newsletter − June 2026 This Father’s Day, we’re celebrating the dads and role models who taught us

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Summer is a great time to explore, but it can also bring the “summer slide,” when students lose some of the reading, math, and academic skills they built during the school year. Citizen science helps keep learning going. Learn more in our latest newsletter: conta.cc/4uthdmE #CitizenScience

Explore the latest SciStarter newsletter, featuring citizen science projects you can join from your backyard, community garden, local park, or favorite outdoor space. Read the newsletter: conta.cc/4ul70JR

Big news! 🎉 We’re teaming up with the Museum of Science, Boston to help turn curiosity into real-world action. Explore projects and get involved: scistarter.org/go/mos-mos?u... #CitizenScience

SciStarter’s special Mother’s Day newsletter features citizen science projects you can explore together, from studying planets beyond our solar system to listening to soundscapes, documenting biodiversity, watching rare space clouds, and mapping the places we call home: conta.cc/3OXVLHT

🌍 355,911 #ActsofScience from Europe. 4,060,359 worldwide. We aimed for 50,000 - you gave us seven times that. 💪 Thank you, our #citizenscience community, thank you @scistarter.bsky.social for making this #CitizenScienceMonth extraordinary. Science belongs to all of us!

✨ Thank you for an incredible Citizen Science Month. Together, you made over 10 million Zooniverse classifications in April alone. Next: 1 billion this summer? @scistarter.bsky.social

New publication out now 📚 “Embedding Citizen Science in Libraries: A SciStarter and Arizona State University Case Study of Adoption, Scaling, and Sustaining Participation” is live in Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. Read it here: doi.org/10.5334/cstp...

Embedding Citizen Science in Libraries: A SciStarter and Arizona State University Case Study of Adoption, Scaling, and Sustaining Participation | Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

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Do NASA Science on a Zoom call with scientists and maybe discover a comet! April 29, 6pm and 9pm ET. pages.scistarter.org/nasa-live/ #astronomy #citizenscience #astrophotography

April 2026 is Citizen Science Month! This initiative coordinated by @scistarter.bsky.social invites everyone to take part in science projects. 🌐 Discover more: scistarter.org/citizenscien... 📡 Learn more about how we will improve #6G connectivity: 6greference.eu #CitSciMonth #ActsofScience

On April 29, you can help discover a comet. Join us live with astronomers from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and take part in Rubin Comet Catchers, a brand-new NASA citizen science project. Save your spot: bit.ly/comets-in-ap...

Just 22 days into April, you made it happen. In celebration of America’s 250th birthday, we set an ambitious goal of 2.50 Million Acts of Science for Citizen Science Month, and citizen scientists around the world didn’t just meet it. You surpassed it. Learn more: citizensciencemonth.org

We loved joining @scistarter.bsky.social’s #ActsofScience with @fathomverse.bsky.social FathomVerse is a free mobile game where you identify and classify marine life from real underwater images. Join today: scistarter.org/fathomverse Learn more about #CitSciMonth: citizensciencemonth.org

It’s like playing iSpy for Science! Join us live on Zoom from wherever you are and dive into Snapshot Wisconsin — a wildlife monitoring project powered by trail cameras from across Wisconsin. Make Earth Day count. Let’s discover wildlife together. Register today: bit.ly/wild-in-april

Last night, we annotated 16,500+ blood vessels; triple the daily average for Stall Catchers, an Alzheimer's project. Join the movement! RSVP for our next event on Earth Day (April 22): scistarter.org/connected. Find more projects & opportunities in our newsletter: conta.cc/4cMu51u #ActsofScience

#Tbt 🌊🔬 Last summer, Chesapeake Water Watch volunteers collected 86 samples across 26 rivers—helping scientists improve satellite-based water monitoring 💧 Real impact, powered by people. Join in: https://scistarter.org/go/cww #CitizenScienceMonth #ActsofScience #CommunityScience #WaterQuality

WeDigBio starts today! Comment and like if you are participating! #wedigbio #biodiversity #communityscience #communityscientist #naturalhistory #science #scienceforall #scistarter #scienceforeveryone #scienceforeveryone #scistarter #zooniverse Participate: scistarter.org/citizenscien...

#CitizenScienceMonth highlights real #impact across Europe. 📡 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐅𝐚𝐧 https://www.schoolfan.eu/ 🌱 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤​ https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/ 🧭 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 📖 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒 https://shorturl.at/qon3A 🍂 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚 @ritmenatura.cat #ActsofScience​

#CitizenScienceMonth Focus: 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Science doesn’t have to stay in the classroom! These initiatives bring #CitizenScience into schools and universities: 🔬 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dQK_Tybj 🌿 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d4SbZytp 🌱 𝐒𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dbD-rTaC #ActsofScience

In 2023, #FlatironCCB researchers used AI-powered tools to map proteins in the human gut microbiome, ultimately challenging the traditional view of the relationship between protein sequence, structure and function: https://bit.ly/4bTIzwi #CitizenScienceMonth #science #biology #ActsofScience

Cutting-Edge Computational Study Provides ‘Gut Check’ to How We Thought Proteins Function

Cutting-Edge Computational Study Provides ‘Gut Check’ to How We Thought Proteins Function on Simons Foundation

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April is Citizen Science Month! Help Achieve 2.5 Million Acts of Science! Showcase your participation! Use #ActsofScience and tag @SciStarter

#𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 This year, ECSA has structured April around 3 thematic weeks, each dedicated to a priority we believe matters most for #citizenscience in Europe right now. Help us reach our European #ActsofScience: citizensciencemonth.org/report-actso...

"#Codesign is not just enjoyable for me, it's absolutely essential for making sure that our research is relevant to people's lives." This #CitizenScienceMonth, researchers from SEI York's #InclusiveCitSci group are sharing their expertise. First is @sarahwestsei.bsky.social: youtu.be/9xnGiJRBJX0

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For Citizen Science Month, members of SEI York's Inclusive Citizen Science group have spoken about what citizen science means to them and their work. In this video, Sarah West shares her experiences…

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🐞 This is no April Fools… Bugs Matter starts today – a month early 👀 April is #CitizenScienceMonth, so it’s the perfect time to get involved. Record insect splats on your journeys and help gather vital data. Keep going all summer! kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/get-involved/our-projects/bugs-matter