Snapshot Wisconsin Celebrates 50th Zooniverse Season!
Zooniverse
by The Zooniverse
2M ago
What is Snapshot Wisconsin? Snapshot Wisconsin is a community science project where the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (Wisconsin DNR) partners with volunteers to monitor wildlife using a statewide network of trail cameras. Volunteers host trail cameras, which are triggered by heat and movement, capturing pictures of passing animals. Located in the Great Lakes region of the United States, Wisconsin hosts a variety of habitats from coniferous forest to prairies. Wisconsin is home 65 species of native mammals, hundreds of other vertebrate species, and thousands of invertebrates and n ..read more
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Happy New Year & YouTube livestream this Thursday
Zooniverse
by The Zooniverse
2M ago
Happy New Year Everyone! We can’t thank you enough for making Zooniverse possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! We have so much to celebrate from 2023.  We welcomed our 2.5 millionth registered participant! To date: 2.6 million registered participants from 190 countries Top countries in 2023: US, UK, Germany, India, Canada, Australia 400 Zooniverse projects publicly launched 40 new projects in 2023 alone; ~90 active projects at any given time Each led by a different research team. Zooniverse partners with hundreds of universities, research institutes, museums, libraries ..read more
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‘Etch A Cell – Fat Checker’ – Project Update!
Zooniverse
by The Zooniverse
4M ago
We are excited to share with you results from two Zooniverse projects, ‘Etch A Cell – Fat Checker’ and ‘Etch A Cell – Fat Checker Round 2’. Over the course of these two projects, more than 2000 Zooniverse volunteers contributed over 75 thousand annotations! One of the core aims of these two projects was to enable the design and implementation of machine learning approaches that could automate the annotation of fat droplets in novel data sets, to provide a starting point for other research teams attempting to perform similar tasks. With this in mind, we have developed multiple machine learning ..read more
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‘Etch A Cell – Demolition Squad’ – First Results!
Zooniverse
by The Zooniverse
4M ago
Introducing Etch a Cell – Demolition Squad Earlier this year, the team behind the Etch A Cell series of citizen science projects launched their latest project; ‘Etch A Cell – Demolition Squad’. Through this project, researchers based at the Francis Crick Institute (London, UK) have teamed up with Zooniverse volunteers to study ‘lysosomes’. What are lysosomes? Lysosomes are balloon-shaped organelles contain a range of enzymes that can break down biological substances including proteins, sugars, and fats. These enzymes allow lysosomes to function as the cell’s digestive system; lysosomes digest ..read more
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Who’s who in the Zoo – Ramana Sankar
Zooniverse
by The Zooniverse
5M ago
Name: Ramana Sankar Location: University of California, Berkeley Tell us about your role within the team: I’ve been with the Zooniverse team for two years now as a postdoc working with Lucy Fortson at University of Minnesota. My main role was to help with building human-machine interfaces for project teams on Zooniverse (particularly in the avenue of speeding up project completion rates and improving avenues serendipitous discovery), and also with providing data science assistance to projects. What did you do in your life before the Zooniverse? I did my Ph.D. at Florida Institute of Technolog ..read more
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A note from Chris Lintott
Zooniverse
by chrislintott
7M ago
For more than a decade, I’ve been ending talks by looking forward to the rich data that will soon begin flowing from the Vera Rubin Observatory. The observatory’s magnificent new telescope, nearing its long-awaited first light on a mountaintop in Chile, will conduct a ten year survey of the sky, producing 30 TB of images and maybe ten million alerts a night, covering everything from asteroids to distant galaxies.  The Vera Rubin Observatory Building, ready for action. The Observatory has – from really early on – seen citizen science, and in particular working with the Zooniverse, as an im ..read more
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Adventures of a Junior Designer
Zooniverse
by The Zooniverse
8M ago
Guest post written by Keanu Glover, Junior Designer with the Zooniverse team at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago from June-August 2023. Prior to joining the Zooniverse, Keanu was an i.c.stars intern, an intensive 6-month program supporting pathways to economic mobility through IT and software engineering workforce skills training, job experience, and leadership development. After his role within the Zooniverse, Keanu will join the United Airlines Apprenticeship Program. Pivoting into a new field of work brings forth so many different thoughts such as “can I do the task” “how will I fit in” “d ..read more
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Who’s who in the Zoo – Shaun A. Noordin
Zooniverse
by Helen Spiers
1y ago
In this edition of our Who’s who in the Zoo series meet Shaun, a frontend developer here at the Zooniverse. Grab a cuppa and have a read – Helen Name: Shaun A. Noordin Location: Oxford, UK Tell us about your role within the team: I’ve been a frontend web developer since the ancient era of 2017, and I’ve been responsible for building and updating (and occasionally accidentally breaking) various features on the website. If it’s something visible on a Zooniverse webpage, I’ve probably tinkered with it. What did you do in your life before the Zooniverse? In between playing Super Mario and Zelda ..read more
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Fixed Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability on hosted media domains
Zooniverse
by The Zooniverse
1y ago
We recently fixed a security vulnerability whereby an attacker could upload executable content to our media storage domains. On 13th November 2022, a security researcher notified us of a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting our media storage domains. This XSS vulnerability made it possible for attackers to upload content to our storage domains that could then be shared as links for use in ‘phishing’ or other attacks. We fixed the vulnerability on the morning of the 15th November 2022 by blocking script access to the API from the impacted domains ensuring any malicious code failed ..read more
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Bursts from Space
Zooniverse
by The Zooniverse
1y ago
This is a guest post by summer intern Anastasia Unitt. The study of celestial objects creates a huge amount of data. So much data, that astronomers struggle to make use of it all. The solution? Citizen scientists, who lend their brainpower to analyse and catalogue vast swathes of information. Alex Andersson, a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, has been applying this approach to his field: radio astronomy, through the Zooniverse. I met with him via Zoom to learn about his project detecting rare, potentially explosive events happening far out in space. Alex’s research uses data collecte ..read more
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