Digital platforms allow anyone—from students to citizen scientists—to explore biodiversity, contribute observations, and better understand the natural world. #communityscience #scistarter #ScienceForEveryone #OpenScienceForAll #EveryoneCanDoScience #globaltcn #fieldmuseum #zooniverse

It's Citizen Science month! Citizen science is for everyone – you don’t need a PhD to make a difference, just curiosity and a willingness to get involved! Check out @scistarter.bsky.social @zooniverse.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social #CitizenScienceMonth #ScienceForAll #InclusionMatters

✨Happy April Fools from Zooniverse! www.youtube.com/shorts/tIEIZ...

#UMNProud of the @zooniverse.bsky.social team for earning the ARIS Impact Innovations Award!

Join Zooniverse and our friends at SciStarter for 2.50 million Acts of Science this April for Citizen Science Month!

Oh, things (and creatures) Zooniverse volunteers find! 😊 🫏

New Around the Zoo i out! youtube.com/shorts/KGy0o... View the collection here: clements.umich.edu/subject/tind...

In this edition of our Who's who in the Zoo series meet Kameswara, a Senior AI Research Scientist based at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Happy World Happiness Day from Zooniverse ✨ Become a registered user on zooniverse.org to see your personal stats, get a signed certificate, receive updates and, well, make us happy ☺️

It's ‘Week of the Volunteer’, and today we’re shining a light on #CitizenScientist Elisabeth Baeten 🙋‍♀️🔭 Elisabeth is a top contributor and moderator of Radio Meteor Zoo, a Zooniverse project where volunteers identify meteors 🌌 ➡️ The project: buff.ly/OykZ1GI @zooniverse.bsky.social

🚀 We’re excited to launch our new European Camera Trap Project, on @zooniverse.bsky.social No experience needed, just curiosity. Try it here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/wil... Every classification counts 🔬 @gbif.es @pmittelman.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social @nestorfdez.bsky.social

We recently launched a new citizen science project: www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr... Please help find #strong-lenses on the @zooniverse.bsky.social platform using images from the #euclid #telescope. Thanks to @ec-euclid.bsky.social

An amazing @zooniverse.bsky.social project where volunteers help correct text that will eventually be added to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social as the text file and used to help folk find data about species. www.zooniverse.org/projects/bg5... #HighlyRecommended #Zooniverse #ILoveBHL

🎉 Our last post marked TWO YEARS of the 'Will of the Month' series! 🎉 📜 We've now written about the wills of 25 people who lived and died between 1540-1790. You can find out more about some of them here: 👇 #History #Skystorians #EarlyModern #Tudors @leverhulme.ac.uk @zooniverse.bsky.social 🧵2/2

✨📚 Announcing a new Zooniverse project - The Senses of Stories. It’s just words on a page. And yet, you can hear the door slam, see the dust in the light, almost taste the salt in the air. If you’re up for a deep dive session on scenes born from ink and syntax join www.zooniverse.org/projects/cit...

Who’s who in the Zoo – Michelle Yuen In this edition of Who's who in the Zoo, meet Michelle Yuen, a Zooniverse backend developer.

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…

Spot the cosmic imposters! 🔍 Help fine-tune NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s alert system and figure out which detected changes in the sky are cosmic events vs. imposters with Rubin Difference Detectives on @zooniverse.bsky.social!🧐 Join now: zooniverse.org/rubin

A @zooniverse.bsky.social recap video from Douglass Day 2026, featuring footage from the in-person event at the University of Michigan library! Produced by our fantastic Adler Planetarium Manager of Creative Content, Meredith Stepien www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2U5... @douglassday.bsky.social

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…

The #DouglassDay livestream may be over (with 18,725 transcriptions/name IDs submitted so far!) but there are still PLENTY of documents to transcribe, and names to find! The project will stay active until everything is finished, so let's keep up the momentum! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

first subject set complete! #DouglassDay

Thanks for your patience, everyone! Things are scaled up and should be good to go once again. #douglassday

Happy Douglass Day, everyone! We're SO excited to welcome new and returning transcribers to the platform today from 12PM-3PM ET, and to learn more from our friends @douglassday.bsky.social Learn more and join the transcribe-a-thon: douglassday.org Follow along here at #douglassday2026

Empower Your Research with Zooniverse! We are hosting a Virtual Introductory Session to help you get started with the @zooniverse.bsky.social platform. Don't miss this opportunity to scale your projects! 📅 Saturday, Feb 21 🕘 9:00 - 11:30 UTC+3 📍 Online forms.gle/aKmJKsrY5prv...

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…

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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…

✨ 🐬 Announcing a new Zooniverse project - DOLPHIN SPOTTING! In a bay of the Red Sea, dolphins live freely. A research team from IBENS use microphones, underwater cameras, and aerial videos to observe both dolphin sounds and behaviour together. Come spot dolphins and help connect sounds to actions!

✨ On 2/13, join us as we host Douglass Day 2026! This annual celebration honors the legacy of Frederick Douglass and brings together volunteers to transcribe Black history. Find guides to help you bring Douglass Day into your college and K12 classrooms and register via the newsletter linked below.

We're SO proud to be hosting another Douglass Day on @zooniverse.bsky.social -- this is always an extremely meaningful event, and if you've never participated before this is a GREAT year to start! Registration via newsletter linked below.

DISCOVER ZOONIVERSE PROJECTS IN A WHOLE NEW WAY We’re happy to introduce an updated Projects page on Zooniverse, designed to make it easier, faster, and more enjoyable to find projects that match your interests. The new page brings together improved navigation, long-requested features like sorting…

Did you know that Zooniverse has a YouTube channel? Subscribe for behind-the-scenes videos and in-depth interviews with our researchers: www.youtube.com/@the_zoonive...

Who’s who in the Zoo – Oluwatoyosi Oyegoke In this edition of Who's who in the Zoo, meet Oluwatoyosi Oyegoke, a Zooniverse backend developer.

✨ New citizen science project on Zooniverse! Help uncover Earth's magnetic shield in space! Space Umbrella is a new project that explores Earth's protective magnetic field, called the magnetosphere. Join the umbrella squad: www.zooniverse.org/projects/vic... @swri.org @jhuapl.bsky.social

Happy 2026 from the Zooniverse team! youtu.be/is55A1M25LU

So excited that Zooniverse has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @SchmidtSciences that will support collaboration with friends incl. @digblk.bsky.social @douglassday.bsky.social! Read more from co-PI @snblickhan.bsky.social: daily.zooniverse.org/2025/12/11/c...

Who’s who in the Zoo – Adam McMaster In this edition of Who's who in the Zoo, meet Adam McMaster, a Research Fellow working at the University of Southampton on Black Hole Hunters and SuperWASP Variable Stars.

Welcome, Cosmic Disco, to "Around the Zoo" series! Watch full video on www.youtube.com/channel/UCEI...

Help the @vrubinobs.bsky.social team tune their alert system by identifying which image changes are real astrophysical events and which are cosmic imposters using early data collected by the observatory. Join Rubin Difference Detectives project on Zooniverse: www.zooniverse.org/projects/ebe...

Not Just Scientists: How And Why Ordinary People Are Saving The Italian Hydrological Data A recent article published by the SIREN team sheds light on what drives people to donate their time to this transcription project. Their main findings: 1) Many volunteers use skills they already have, like…

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…

✨ Nest Quest Go project on Zooniverse is completed! youtube.com/shorts/tuvn7...

In this edition of Who's who in the Zoo, meet Patricia, Community Manager of the Science Scribbler organisation.

“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…

✨ SNAIL SCRIBE ARCHIVE - this new 🐌 Zooniverse transcription project is all about molluscan biodiversity data. It seeks to promote the conservation and critical scientific research of these under-appreciated animals! www.zooniverse.org/projects/ske...

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.

Our quarterly list of the Zooniverse projects available in languages other than English is up! Many thanks to all the amazing volunteers who contributed. Stay curious!

Are you interested in galaxies? Supernovae? Want to help us learn more about how the environment of a galaxy may influence the types of supernovae we see? We welcome you to dive into our Zooniverse project: Supernova Host Herding! www.zooniverse.org/projects/boo...