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Want to help dogs live longer, healthier lives? Join the Dog Aging Project Pack at dogagingproject.org!

🐾Together, we can help dogs live longer, healthier lives.

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Save The Date! April 9th through the 12th, 2026 is just under 2 weeks away! Mobilize 1000's of biodiversity data records! Register your event. #communityscience, #scistarter, #ScienceForEveryone #OpenScienceForAll #EveryoneCanDoScience #globaltcn, #scistarter, #fieldmuseum, #zooniverse

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Join this year’s #CityNatureChallenge, April 24–27 & contribute to the world’s largest #CommunityScience event 🌍

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Announcement!!!!! The first cohort of my new course, Strategic Communication for Participatory Science Practitioners, launches April 17. (My birthday!)

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🔍 If you're getting ready for the CNC, or are interested in joining bioblitzes in your community this year, here is a simple guide on how to use inaturalist.

🤳 iNaturalist is a community science platform used to upload and identify nature observations. 

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@ConserveNassau (FL)☀️, connected #Haikubox and @iNaturalist data to create the Nassua Field Guide (www.conservenassau.org/field-guide) which documents the natural diversity of their community. It's regular folks understanding and preserving their local habitat.🌴

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⭐ A special thanks to Channel 6 News' Paul Giorgio for reporting on our monthly SpringsWatch event!

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Opee position: Editor-in-Chief, Community Science
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You'll see different birds during migration because of climate change. 🪽 Researchers are using community science to understand and project how climate change impacts the birds you'll see.🌸

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Indigenous Peoples and local communities report a consistent decline in the body mass of birds across three continents | Oryx | Cambridge Core Indigenous Peoples and local communities report a consistent decline in the body mass of birds across three continents

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Indigenous Peoples and local communities hold rich, place‑based ecological knowledge that can reveal patterns and changes often missed by conventional scientific methods.

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Responsible herping Every spring, thousands of amphibians embark on a perilous journey from their wintering grounds to breeding pools. This event is often referred to as the "Big Night." While they face many natural...

✨Amphibian migration has begun here in Rochester, NY 🐸

I drafted a guide on my website on how to “herp” responsibly from a conservation scientist’s perspective.

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Last day to register for the #ColumbusBotanicalGarden Naturalist Symposium Speaker Day, with keynote speaker Janisse Ray. I'll be starting the day to talk about #CommunityScience, @inaturalist.bsky.social , and noticing more nature wherever you are. 💚 www.columbusbotanicalgarden.org/naturalist-s...

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Heatmap of Felt It report data showing the epicenter near Boorowa, NSW, as a yellow pixel and fading out to lilac in Canberra and Sydney.

Legend for the Felt It report map from dark red Extreme to light blue Weak.

4.6 magnitude #Earthquake in #Canberra and #Sydney, #Australia at 7:09PM! (Epicenter in Boorowa, NSW.) Don't forget to fill out a Felt It report if you're local to the area to contribute #CommunityScience data.

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Our 2026 #CityNatureChallengeABQ Promo Video is out!

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ECSA 2026: cooler, bigger, and diverse The European Citizen Science Association 2026 conference is the sixth conference. The first conference was in 2016 in Berlin (see posts here), continued in 2018 in Geneva (see posts here), was supposed to be in Trieste for 2020, but then ended up pivoting online due to Covid-19, the 2022 edition was in Berlin again, with 2024 in Vienna (

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

ECSA 2026: cooler, bigger, and diverse The European Citizen Science Association 2026 conference is the sixth conference. The first conference was in 2016 in Berlin (see posts here), continued in 2018 in Geneva (see posts here), was supposed to be in Trieste for 2020, but then ended up pivoting online due to Covid-19, the 2022 edition was in Berlin again, with 2024 in Vienna (see posts here). I rejoined ECSA board in 2024, and when the conference was set to take place in Oulu, in the Arctic, in March, the thought by the organiser and the ECSA team was “let’s be realistic, and plan for 300-350 people”. Considering that about 400 came to Vienna, that sounded right. I’m so glad that we were wrong by 100%, but I can imagine the stress and effort that the conference organisers, Roger Norum and Thora Herrmann and their team experienced as they had to replan and organise everything. The end result was magnificent. * * * This was a week-long conference, with pre- and post- conference activities that provided experiences of the arctic, from tasting the food, encountering reindeer, to doing yoga in the snow. And a lot of art – films, poetry, performance sound and poetry and more… There are already several reflections and summaries that you can find. Here are some from Martin Brockelhurst, Gaston Remmers, Frederike Schmitz , Lucrina Stefanescu, and Thomas Kaarstad. Here are mine. The willingness of 650 researchers and practitioners to brave the journey to the Arctic and attend the conference shows the strength of the citizen science community in Europe. I had very intensive and engaging five days of citizen science (participatory research, community science – call it what you want!). The Oulu team have created a wonderful programme which attracted all the people to engage with each other. In my opening section of the conference, I’ve asked those who have been around for a long time (and participated in the first conference ten years ago) to stand up, and then the people who are joining ECSA for the first time to stand up – and for the two groups to start talking. Citizen science people are open and happy to engage with each other across languages, disciplines, and career stages. Throughout the conference, I’ve seen these conversations and meetings happening. I think that I met at least ten people that I haven’t met and engaged with before. I’ve also engaged with people who met me online. _We’re physical and social creatures – and for human connection and breaching awkward moments, we need to share spaces and be open to new engagements._ With all the regular online meetings that we got used to since Covid-19, there is something valuable in having a conference that is mostly face-to-face with only last resort online communication. This was valuable. As always, valuable discussions took place during lunch, coffee breaks, and in the corridors. The conference started with an **event for Early Career Researchers** , which was organised and run by Early Career Researchers. It was fantastic to see 35-40 people coming together and finding other people who are sharing their practices. The result is a shared document that calls for better support for this group, but you could see a network forming – I hope that it will continue and grow. It was also wonderful to see a group of undergraduate students from Konstanz presenting their project in sessions and in a poster. There was also a group of children from Nottingham that carried out research about engagement in the midst of the conference. It is good to **see citizen science integrated into all stages of education** and to have examples of it in the conference. We do have some issues of growth and the need to figure out how to keep on maximum engagement and participation. With over 110 posters and in some cases 11 parallel sessions, it feels like the conference is getting hard to grasp. I feel part of the problem. I have been involved in a poster, two sessions with Susanne Hecker, ECSA’s chair, and a session about the European Citizen Science Academy. In addition (and as part of the sponsorship of the AGU), I’ve coordinated the “meet the editors” session and run rapid review sessions. I was acutely aware at the conference about my own position in ECSA and in the field, and I wish I could have longer conversations and time to attend sessions. As the conference grows,**I think that we need to limit participation** , no matter who you are. We need to open up the space for Early Career Researchers and to those that we don’t hear from. Another noteworthy development of this conference is the presence of people from national research funders, senior staff from universities and research organisations, and project officers from the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency. I**t is fantastic to have champions of citizen science in these important positions** , and for them to value the conference and the information that is shared within it so they take the time to join it. It really part of the maturity of citizen science and its mainstreaming. It feels very different from the marginal position only 15 years ago. It is also impressive to learn about national networks in the area of participatory research and citizen science that are evolving around Europe, w**ith many countries establishing their own associations and organisations.** Some of them are very well established (such as the Austrian) but the new Italian network has shown presence, and the Portuguese network celebrated the hosting of the next conference. In addition, it is starting to look like **the calendar is filling up with citizen science activities** – and that it will be a good idea to start setting out the range of things that people can join at European and national levels. After all, the Special Eurobarometer surveys show us that the interest in joining a research project is bigger than the current number that participate. The presence of health citizen science is growing, and it was good to see how different institutions are addressing it. Sanni Helander description of the panel at the University of Turku was an example of setting up the infrastructure that will enable researchers to carry out more participatory research better. In the vision 2036 we had another example for health based engagement. With the growth of the citizen science in health conference, this is another area that is growing in citizen science. **The perennial question of “where are the citizen scientists?”** was not answered, as with all previous conferences. It is interesting for me to notice that the question comes up. It doesn’t come up in Geography conferences (though special guests are invited in participatory sessions). Also not in Science Communication conferences. ECSA conference always has a public event to engage locally. Standing around in a shopping centre in Oulu and talking about citizen science was supposed to be the answer. You could see in the conference, citizen scientists who cross the threshold and are organising projects and therefore want to get the latest knowledge. I don’t think that it’s a great idea to have participants on display, and I don’t know how to address this question. I’ve been involved in, maybe, 10 or more citizen science conferences, and haven’t seen a satisfying asnwer. There are also the topics that are appearing more and more (Artificial Intelligence, for example), but also aspects that used to be there, but have disappeared. For example, the whole low-cost sensors (apart from Air Quality) don’t feel prominent the way it used to be, and DIY biology is not to be seen, which is a shame. The ECSA conference was a corner of the world where people are trying to make things better, just a little. The environment of the snow and ice reminded us about our fragility and need to work together. It was a moment of engagement, reconnecting with all connections and starting new ones. 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Eliza Reid Keynote – Fish out of vatn Eliza wrote about her experience and particularly about becoming the first lady of Iceland - the idea of wanting to contribute and learning to trust that what one wants to say is worth it. It can be intimidating to talk in a conference about science, but she learned about citizen science and the connection between her experience and ours: pushing against the norms.

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

Eliza Reid Keynote – Fish out of vatn Eliza wrote about her experience and particularly about becoming the first lady of Iceland – the idea of wanting to contribute and learning to trust that what one wants to say is worth it. It can be intimidating to talk in a conference about science, but she learned about citizen science and the connection between her experience and ours: pushing against the norms. As a Canadian, who built her life in Iceland and it’s a storytelling nation. Her experience from a small town in Canada to being the spouse of a head of a different country. The story adds to a toolbox of experience that helps us to navigate life. We don’t necessarily work within the existing rules. One of the first rule in life is to follow the rules and read the manual. Even to school she was concern about being late on the first day of primary school. Know the lane that I should drive. In university, she tried debating and it was lighthearted and thought that she could do it wihtout a problem. Went to do a speach and it was cogent and it bombed. Even though it was clearly a flop, but had to go on for 5 minutes. That experience seard in her mind – the rule is: get back on the horse. Sometimes, you come across a bend in the road and find a way to push the rule. They talked about a guy from Iceland, and she linked. The men will draw a name from a cup to lead to: carpe diem. This lead to being a connection and engaged, and left England in 2003 to start life in Iceland. She started a journey of 100 day in Uzbekistan, they toasted to many things. Similar experience in Tokyo she also benefits from the kindness of strangers: she learned to persist – learned Icelandic and started running the Iceland Writers Retreat. Life was tiring or a full night sleep, but it was an experience while her husband was a professor at the University of Iceland. Then 10 months later, the Panama papers came out, which included a team from the Icelandic paper, and it implicated the prime minister and president of Iceland. Because her husband was on TV, he announced his participation in the election for president of Iceland. He took office in 2015 and she became the president’s wife. Suddenly, there are no rules and we need to make the rules. She needed to improvise – there is no official role for the spouse, no office or any staff linked. This is a challenging role in the way that it is an anti feminist role but she got the position because of her husband. If there is no rulebook, you can leverage opportunities – draw importance to important issues. She was a gentle sidekick – there are all sorts of things, like not expecting her to continue her work, but being a wife is not her main point. Clothing and appearance is not her strong side and it was a question about. The tension increased once she was in office. For example, using a charity shop, second hand closing – using a second-hand dress. Abroad, she tried to ware icelandic design. Later on, she started to give talks and speak in different occasions, and also in Iceland. It was important to speak with an accent. Lots of self doubt, that really – she didn’t belong. But the general response was positive. 2013, named as an ambassador of UN for sustainability. When Donaldtusk treated women as “light side” of G7, she wrote about the experience of first lady which is more than just joining her husband and put an article about it in the New York Times. We are interconnected than ever before, we bare responsibility to use our voices, to speak up about injustice, to call for more equitable world. The rule of Stretch Your Comfort Zone. In 2024, her husband decided to leave the job – but want to use the opportunity and continue to work with undefined paramers. Look for the Good – made her more of an optimist but came across many everyday acts that are making their communities a better place. You are creating new bonds and new ties. Your agency inspires others – we are all role models, you can still have a positive and lasting impact on the world. After craving a manual, by living life and showing persistence and curiosity, can make the most. The message from her talk: can be beauty in life’s uncertainty, in being an outsider. When we face a bend in the road, we should embrace it and we should help others to do that. You will make a difference – confound expectations. ### Share this: * Share on X (Opens in new window) X * Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * Print (Opens in new window) Print * Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram * Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp * Like Loading... ### _Related_

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