IRL Citizen Science

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While poking around and extrapolating the corners of ideas from PSS, I’ve stumbled into some interesting opportunities to participate in real citizen science projects.

A few live ones that are space oriented:

Borderlands 3 implemented a citizen science mini game, leading to this paper in Nature. How cool would it be if Hello Games put something like this in their games.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02175-6

I’ve sent in a Zendesk suggestion, maybe one day we’ll see something like this in game.

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Future Backward Image
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:astonished_face: Space Wasps! :honeybee: Ohh. Never mind.

Which type of citizen scientist are you, indoors, outdoors, digital? There are different projects. :slight_smile:

Adding some more for Europe:

Germany: Welcher Citizen-Science-Typ bist du? | mit:forschen!

Switzerland: Aktuelle Projekte – Schweiz forscht

Czechia & Slowakia: https://db.citizenscience.cz/

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Indeed, there are a bunch of ecological observation type projects in the UK too. My main interactions have been when I see a weird bug.

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