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Die Nasa braucht Hilfe: Bei diesen Projekten kann man mitforschen
Von Asteroiden bis Planet 9: Die Nasa sucht Unterstützung für ihre Citizen-Science-Projekte. Auch ohne wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund können Sie mitforschen.

«The recent news concerning GigaScience’s owners, BGI, laying off the entire editorial, software and curation team in Hong Kong on short notice, has filled us with both surprise and deep disappointment.»
Indeed, GigaScience has always been a mainstay at BOSC and the larger intersection of life sciences & open source/science & citizen science.
https://www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2025-09-30-gigascience/

Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU: Harnessing Citizen Science and AI to Advance Open Science Catalogues
Eleni Vardoulaki, Hongming Tang, Micah Bowles, Gary Segal, Soheb Mandhai, Emma L. Alexander, Wendy Williams, Yan Luo, Lawrence Rudnick, Andrew M. Hopkins, O. Ivy Wong, Stanislav S. Shabala, the RGZ EMU collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19787…

Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU: Harnessing Citizen Science and AI to Advance Open Science Catalogues
Over the past decades, significant efforts have been devoted to developing sophisticated algorithms for automatically identifying and classifying radio sources in large surveys. However, even the most advanced methods face challenges in recognising complex radio structures and accurately associating radio emission with their host galaxies. Leveraging data from the ASKAP telescope and the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey, Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU (RGZ EMU) was created to generate high-q…

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
Patricia H. Reiff, Carolyn T. Sumners, Charles H. Gardner, Amir Caspi, Sarah Kovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22348

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
The Heliophysics Big Year was an extended year where major solar events engaged the public. It included two eclipses (annular on October 14, 2023 and total on April 8, 2024), plus solar max and the Parker Solar Probe perihelion December 24, 2024. After the eclipse of 2017, many millions more Americans planned to view the solar corona. We expanded our eclipse website with activities, citizen science projects, resources, training videos, equipment, and external links. We were the Southwest Region…

"Citizen science in libraries worldwide: A systematic review" #CitizenScience

AI-Driven Marine Robotics: Emerging Trends in Underwater Perception and Ecosystem Monitoring
Scarlett Raine, Tobias Fischer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01878 https://

AI-Driven Marine Robotics: Emerging Trends in Underwater Perception and Ecosystem Monitoring
Marine ecosystems face increasing pressure due to climate change, driving the need for scalable, AI-powered monitoring solutions. This paper examines the rapid emergence of underwater AI as a major research frontier and analyzes the factors that have transformed marine perception from a niche application into a catalyst for AI innovation. We identify three convergent drivers: environmental necessity for ecosystem-scale monitoring, democratization of underwater datasets through citizen science p…

Cool, der @… lässt im gesamten Stadtgebiet den Verkehr von Privatpersonen automatisiert zählen. Die Daten stehen dann öffentlich zur Verfügung.
https://berlin.adfc.de/artikel/berlin-

Citizen Science-Projekt des ADFC Berlin: Berlin zählt Mobilität
Berliner:innen schaffen Wissen: Mit dem Projekt „Berlin zählt Mobilität“ erfassen Menschen in Berlin mittels Zählgeräte den Verkehr auf den Straßen der Hauptstadt. Der ADFC Berlin lädt ein, sich der Zählung anzuschließen.

Finding Inter-species Associations on Large Citizen Science Datasets
Jacob Deutsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14259 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14259…

Finding Inter-species Associations on Large Citizen Science Datasets
Determining associations among different species from citizen science databases is challenging due to observer behavior and intrinsic density variations that give rise to correlations that do not imply species associations. This paper introduces a method that can efficiently analyze large datasets to extract likely species associations. It tiles space into small blocks chosen to be of the accuracy of the data coordinates, and reduces observations to presence/absence per tile, in order to comput…

RAD@home citizen science discovery of two spiral galaxies where the 30-220 kpc radio lobes are possibly shaped by ram pressure stripping
Prakash Apoorva, Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, P. K. Navaneeth, Dhruv Nayak, Arundhati Purohit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09518

RAD@home citizen science discovery of two spiral galaxies where the 30-220 kpc radio lobes are possibly shaped by ram pressure stripping
We report the RAD@home citizen science discovery of two rare spiral-host radio galaxies (NGC 3898 and WISEA J221656.57-132042434.1 or RAD-"Thumbs up" galaxy), both exhibiting asymmetric radio lobes extending over 30 to 220 kiloparsec scales. We present a multi-wavelength image analysis of these two sources using radio, optical, and ultraviolet data. Both host galaxies are young, star-forming systems with asymmetric or distorted stellar disks. These disks show similarities to those in galaxies u…

RAD@home discovery of extragalactic radio rings and odd radio circles: clues to their origins
Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Prasun Machado, Joydeep Das, Aarti Muley, Arundhati Purohit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01999

RAD@home discovery of extragalactic radio rings and odd radio circles: clues to their origins
We present three rare and striking extragalactic radio sources discovered through visual inspection of low-frequency continuum maps from LoTSS DR2 and TGSS by the RAD@home citizen-science collaboratory. The first, RAD J131346.9+500320, is the first clear Odd Radio Circle (ORC) identified in LoTSS. At photometric $z \sim$ 0.94, it hosts a pair of intersecting rings of ~300 kpc diameter, embedded in diffuse emission extending over ~800 kpc, making it both the most distant and most powerful ORC re…