The image shows a pair of hands interacting with a display board covered in colorful stickers.

A group of three people in casual clothing crouching on grass and examining plants in an outdoor setting.

#CitizenScienceMonth
Whether you are a project leader looking to scale your impact or a curious participant ready to dive deeper, knowledge is your most powerful tool.

Explore the variety of courses at the 𝐄𝐂𝐒 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲:
🔗 https://moodle.citizenscience.eu/course/index.php

Snail-Borne Diseases in Central Africa: Lessons from Citizen Science - Eos The ATRAP project in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda provides insights to the factors that shape citizen science practice in low- and medium-income countries (LMIC).

Snail-Borne Diseases in Central Africa: Lessons from Citizen Science eos.org/editor-highl...

Community Science in Ecology This book introduces ecological community science programs in Japan, covering monitoring methods of observation, specimens, photographs, sounds, and eDNA.

You might try to reach to the people who are running citizen science in Japan - you can find names and emails in this book link.springer.com/book/10.1007... - probably mentioning this project, too.

(4/4) Explore platforms like @ecsa.ngo to join a research team and make a difference: eu-citizen.science

If this year you pass by Kiel, Brest or Split, check the Science Comes to Town programme offering engaging scientific activities with citizens and municipalities: sciencecomestotown.eu

(2/4) The EU funds initiatives that advance public participation in science by, for instance, creating better infrastructures, inspiring others & enabling the participation of neurodivergent people in science:

➡️ concept.riecs.eu
➡️ crops-cs.eu/champions
➡️ impetus4cs.eu/neurominorit...

(1/4) Public participation in science leads to better research & healthier democracies.

When citizens take part in science:

- Innovations truly work on the ground
- Policies improve
- Trust in science increases
- Participatory culture grows

Discover EU #CitizenScience initiatives 🧪

#SciComm

Citational Politics - CLEAR - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research How do we cite types and sources of knowledge beyond the usual suspects when citational expectations, infrastructure, and norms make that difficult?

This might be interesting for this question: Citational Politics - CLEAR - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research share.google/zWDJQ94TBoBc...

📢 📢 📢 REMINDER!! The @livingmaps.bsky.social Call for Contributions for our 2026 Conference is still open. Submit your abstract for a presentation, to run a workshop or add to our exhibition/installation space ASAP #maps
Find everything you need to know here! 👇
www.livingmaps.org/livingmaps-c...

𝗔 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁

Join a session to know more, to contribute to finalising this first version of a citizen science competency framework.

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You don't even need to be an academic! I didn't sign up for years because I didn't think my publications would count, but they do!

A illustrated birthday graphic reading "This weekend is iNaturalist's 18th Birthday!" with the iNaturalist logo and cartoon balloons, cake, and snake popping out of a gift box. Text at the bottom invites people to join the Birthday Project and make observations March 20–23.

🥳 The party is happening! iNaturalist turns 18 this weekend. Join the Birthday Project, head outside March 20–23, and make an observation of a local species you love: tr.ee/XzVUC8Z0C2

Screenshot of an email from Google asking me to set an institutional email even though I'm an independent researcher

I don't HAVE an institutional email. I'm an INDEPENDENT researcher! *sigh* 🙄

Cover page of a journal Community Science

Opee position: Editor-in-Chief, Community Science
View position description www.agu.org/publications...
Applications for Editor-in-Chief, Community Science forms.monday.com/forms/f7e6b4... #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryResearch

𝗔 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁

Join a session to know more, to contribute to finalising this first version of a citizen science competency framework.

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

many-kinds-of-rock-star and my dear friend Dr. Gwen Ottinger just published an impossibly timely book, The Science of Repair: How People Who Believe in Facts Can Build a Better Future:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

So cool to see these young people recognized as the “children as researchers delegation” at this week’s #ECSA2026 meeting. Good luck with your research!

#ECSA2026 reflections on the conference in Oulu. Cooler, bigger, and diverse conference, but how to keep the spirit and openness? #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryResearch

Notes from #ECSA2026 Final keynote by Eliza Reid on how to use accidental opportunities to make the world a better place #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryResearch

Notes from #ECSA2026 conference session on the European Citizen Science Academy. #CitizenScience #ParticipatoryResearch

Stories from the River Lea: community voices shaping understanding of environmental change Environmental crises are often monitored through technical indicators, datasets, and institutional reporting. Yet they are also lived, sensed, and negotiated through everyday experience, in how peo…

Stories from the River Lea 🌊
Community voices shaping how we understand environmental #crisis and river pollution.
We share reflections from our UCLEast workshop with River Lea communities. @uclgeography.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social
uclexcites.blog/2026/03/05/s... #riverlea #dirtywater

#ECSA2026 ending with a keynote from Eliza Reid on her lived experience, with her 10 rules that are also useful for researchers in #citizenScience.

#ECSA2026 roundtable on #citizenScience and #participatoryResearch vision for 2036. Discussion got quickly to epistemology and worldviews

Andrea Sforzi bring a suggestion for national biodiversity sampling week, timed for the international day of biodiversity in may. Opportunity to engage people in bioblitzes and other ways. A #citizenScience project that can be scaled.

Results from two years of data collection #citizenScience with identifications and participation in different tiers.

NHM London's Nature Overheard included an escalator engagement, with different tiers and different numbers of participants. Used zooniverse with flyTunes to classify data #citizenScience #communityScience

Notes from the keynote of #ECSA2026 by Camilla Brattland & Bente Sundsvold, exploring local and indigenous knowledge in the arctic

Roger Norum #citizenScience awkward moments are spaces for thinking together. Ask awkward question and reach out to people that you don't know. Thora Herrmann sharing the importance of bridging centre and periphery #ECSA2026

The opening of the #ECSA2026 conference in Oulu, Finland, with 650 participants. Very big #citizenScience and #participatoryScience conference. There is also sauna, of course....

ECR workshop #ECSA2026 exploring language barriers, working with friends, working with bilingual volunteers who are willing to help coordinate, but in any case important to speak in local language #citizenScience

#ECSA2026 preconference workshop for Early Career Researchers in #CitizenScience learning about citsci in eDNA studies. Maximilian Schrade see citsci in planning, sampling and community assessment.