What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
talking about Rosie The Riveter, fun fact: while the We Can Do It picture has become the most-well known depiction of her in modern times, it wasn’t really a famous image when it was made–in fact, it wasn’t even intended to be her
the most famous depiction of Rosie The Riveter during WWII was probably Norman Rockwell’s painting
note what she’s resting her foot on
Reminder that every TERF supports mutilation of intersex children, it is inherent to their ideology.
Being Evil(TM) and posting photos of myself on the internet
T Journey Journal #8
Days since start: 97
God it’s been almost 100 days since I’ve started T. I can hardly belive it half the time if I’m being honest, but it’s gotten to the part where everyone can hear my voice getting lower and my happy trail is visible in low light and there’s hair on my upper legs and arms and I have a little puberty stache and- I could cry man I actually look like Sean now, I look like myself. I’m so unbelievably happy and my T dosege was upped last week so I’m doing two pumps of T instead of one and I cannot wait to see what happens. Guys I don’t think I’ve ever been this happy about my body, or my voice or anything.
Speaking of being happy, things are just going good I general:D A friend of mine and I got an apartment and we’ve had it for about two almost three weeks now:D If you’ve read my past entries you know living with Mamá was A Struggle (TM) but I’m ok now!! And like!! I can hang out with friends!! And lovers!! Whenever I want to (and we can bc work and schedules)!!! Like damn this is nice, stuffs going pretty nice, I like this:))
I’ll try to be more consistent with blogging now that I’m moved and all that jazz, and maybe even start posting photos along with these journals:D I know for a FACT I want my happy trail on the internet, it just needs to be seen by as many people as possible (can you tell I’m proud of it?:))))) But until then, stay safe, stay queer:DD
Y’know what “you can’t make this show today because of woke” is out, I wanna hear about shows that actually cannot be made anymore
Like the technology to do the sfx/music/costumes doesn’t exist anymore
The show was produced by a union that disbanded
The show abused so many labor laws that making it now would be illegal
The locations the show was shot in no longer exist (war, countries dissolving, natural disasters, etc)
Like I wanna know the shit that genuinely physically could not be made today
Love showing people pictures of my gf who only ever takes mirror selfies with the phone covering half her face like “omg look at her she’s so so pretty yeah I know you can’t see her but look at herrrrrr”
Racism isn’t saying an uncomfortable word. Racism is every news media reporting on the individual lives of the 33 adult settler hostages to be released in Phase 1, and not one mention of the 100+ Palestinians, 25 of whom are children, that Israel has murdered since announcing the ceasefire. They’ll try to kill as many as they can before Sunday.
hello y'all, i know right now in the west where most of the tumblr userbase is it's christmas time: the season of giving, where people acrossthe world are buying many presents for their beloveds and decorations as well like christmas trees and lights in preparation for festivities. yet meanwhile, in the birthplace of christ himself, the man that this holiday celebrates, the palestinian people are suffering calamity and tragedy beyond anything any of us can comprehend. around the day people come to celebrate a mother's birth of a very special child, thousands of actual mothers and their children are experiencing the horrors of war.
one such mother and child is suad ahmed and her child khaled. khaled was born during the midst of this war, and as a result cannot grow in the safety and health a child deserves. he's currently very ill with a respiratory illness and his body, not even fully developed yet, fights so hard to live. i cannot imagine fighting for survival before even being a year old..
the best, most meaningful gift you can give to anyone this christmas, is support for the mother and child under war. this campaign is literally their lifeline, as all proceeds go to necessities like tents, clothing, food and water and baby formula. so please give what you can and share.
let's help her get to her short term goal!
Its about to be real lucrative to be a snitch. Guard your information. And guard your friends information.
He/Him, Transmasc Dyke, 19yo A personal blog of mine to document my journey on testosterone, plus other shenanigans:))
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