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The Zooniverse is the world's largest platform for people-powered research. We connect professional researchers with millions of volunteers worldwide. Facilitating real results from impractical, or otherwise impossible research. This has led to new discoveries, policy impacts, and research publications.
Our platform is driven by volunteers, like you. All ages and backgrounds are welcome to participate, no PhD required — just a sense of wonder and a few clicks. Many of the most interesting findings from Zooniverse projects have emerged from discussions between volunteers and researchers. Join us today to take part in cutting-edge research and make your own discoveries!
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From classifying animals to discovering exoplanets to transcribing historical documents, and more, researchers across the disciplines have used the Project Builder to create engaging, accessible projects. Anyone can build a Zooniverse project. Simply upload your data, choose the tasks you want the volunteers to do, and join us in nurturing an inclusive and welcoming online community engaged in real research.
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Zooniverse Volunteers Accurately Count Endangered Galápagos Marine Iguanas from Above
A new study in Nature’s Scientific Reports shows that citizen scientists can reliably count endangered Galápagos marine iguanas from drone images, offering a fast and cost-effective tool for wildlife monitoring. Through the online project “Iguanas from Above”, hosted on the Zooniverse.org platform, over 13,000 volunteers analysed almost 58,000 images collected across seven islands of the […]
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Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes: new publication in Nature!
Cover photo subject (via Talk). Congratulations are due to the research team behind Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes, who have a new publication out in Nature: Community science helps digitize 78 years of fish and habitat data for thousands of lakes in Michigan, USA. Thanks especially to the 3,000+ Zooniverse volunteers who contributed more […]
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Transcription Tool Evaluation – Project Results
This post is a follow-up to our January 2024 post, “Zooniverse Receives NEH Grant to Evaluate Transcription Tools,” which you can read here. In January 2024, we received a Level I Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to allow Zooniverse team members to carry out an evaluative study of the […]
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NASA live event with Marc Kuchner
In celebration of Citizen Science Month, NASA’s Twitch Channel has invited American astronomer Marc Kuchner to join a one-hour online event on April 29 from 4-5 pm ET. In this interactive session, you will have a chance to contribute to fun, beginner-friendly volunteer projects, make measurements together live on-air, and ask questions throughout the show. […]
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Who’s who in the Zoo – Marianne Barrier
In this edition of Who’s who in the Zoo, meet Ameenat Lola Solebo who leads Eyes on Eyes; a Zooniverse project that aims to improve how we monitor children with a blinding eye disorder.
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AI Ethics Workshop Series: Update #1
This post is part of our Kavli Foundation-funded series, Ethical Considerations for Machine Learning in Public-Engaged Research. Read our project announcement blog post here. We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the first of four surveys to help shape the future of AI and public-engaged research. We received over 1000 responses to the first […]
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Zooniverse translated projects list
Here is the latest list of Zooniverse projects available in languages other than English. Many thanks to our amazing volunteers who contributed.
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Who translates Zooniverse?
All Zooniverse projects are created in English. But many of them are available in different languages. Everyone can become a translator on Zooniverse! But how do you do that? We talked with some of our amazing volunteers who helped various research teams to translate their projects, and here is what we’ve learned.
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