“The reason that this really works as a science project is a little bit of an accident of geography” - Dr. Jill Leonard
“Any individual image is going to be annotated or looked at by 15 independent volunteer citizen scientists.” — Benjamin Richards
Take-home points Research!America just announced its 2026 Civic Engagement Microgrant cohort, selecting 17 projects from 132 applicants to fund early-career scientists building local civic science initiatives...
Melanie Brown reflects on her journey into science journalism and the practice of finding stories through listening, working in communities, and reporting on science in ways...
“We’re now producing data on about 300,000 species a year… something that would take on the order of 200 years for a typical museum to collect.”...
“Being stuck is what it looks like when you’re working on the edge of knowledge. We are stuck because we’re learning new things about our world,...
In this 18th episode of Consider This Next from our audio studio, host Kacie Luaders speaks with Meagan Naraine, co-founder and executive director of Culturally Relevant...
What if a citizen science project in British Columbia that’s focused on preserving water resources could learn from citizen science projects in South Africa or Pakistan...
"Our goal really is to mobilize for large-scale initiatives in science policy and science communication to reconnect scientists to the communities they came from and the...
"So evaluating the project was kind of a nightmare, but we have a very extended evaluation report that did come out of this program." — Grace...
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