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National Volunteer Week
Stateside, April 21-27 is National Volunteer week. Thanks to the collective efforts of 826,026 people scattered around the world, a heck of a lot of scientific research has occurred that otherwise...
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Introducing VOLCROWE – Volunteer and Crowdsourcing Economics
Hi everyone, I’d like to let you know about a cool new project we are involved with. VOLCROWE is a three year research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the...
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Who Are The Zooniverse Community? We Asked Them…
We are often asked who our community are by project scientists, sociologists, and by the community itself. A recent Oxford study tried to find out, and working with them we conducted a survey of...
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One line at a time: A new approach to transcription and art history
Today, we launch AnnoTate, an art history and transcription project made in partnership with Tate museums and archives. AnnoTate was built with the average time-pressed user in mind, by which I mean...
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Darren (DZM) New Horizons
Dear Zooniverse community, I have some news to break to everyone. I’ve accepted a new position at a different company, and while it’s an extremely exciting opportunity for me, it does mean that I have...
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What is Penguin Watch 2.0?
We’re getting through the first round of Penguin Watch data- it’s amazing and it’s doing the job we wanted, which is to revolutionise the collection and processing of penguin data from the Southern...
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Asteroid Zoo Paused
The AsteroidZoo community has exhausted the data that are available at this time. With all the data examined we are going to pause the experiment, and before users spend more time we want to make sure...
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Emails from the Zooniverse
Click this image to be taken to your Zooniverse email settings We’re cleaning up our email list to make sure that we do not email anyone who does not want to hear from us. You will have got an email...
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Pop-ups on Comet Hunters
We’re testing out a new feature of our interface, which means if you’re classifying images on Comet Hunters you may see occasional pop-up messages like the one pictured above. The messages are...
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Help the victims of Hurricane Irma
The Zooniverse has again been asked to enable The Planetary Response Network – this time in response to Hurricane Irma. The US virgin Islands as seen from ESA’s Sentinel-2 satellite on 23rd August...
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Occasionally we run studies in collaboration with external researchers in order to better understand our community and improve our platform. These can involve methods such as A/B splits, where we show...
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We recently uncovered a couple of bugs in the Zooniverse code which meant that the wrong question text may have been shown to some volunteers on Zooniverse projects while they were classifying. They...
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Exoplanet Explorers Discoveries – A Sixth Planet in the K2-138 System
This is the first of two guest posts from the Exoplanet Explorers research team announcing two new planets discovered by their Zooniverse volunteers. This post was written by Jessie Christiansen. Hello...
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Exoplanet Explorers Discoveries – A Small Planet in the Habitable Zone
This post is by Adina Feinstein. Adina is a graduate student at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on detecting and characterizing exoplanets. Adina became involved with the Exoplanet...
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28 New Planet Candidates Discovered on Exoplanet Explorers
The team behind the Exoplanet Explorers project has just published a Research Note of the American Astronomical Society announcing the discovery of 28 new exoplanet candidates uncovered by Zooniverse...
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CELEBRATING CITIZEN SCIENCE DAY 2019, PT. 5
This coming Saturday 13th April is Citizen Science Day, an ‘annual event to celebrate and promote all things citizen science’. Here at the Zooniverse, one of our team members will be posting each day...
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Zooniverse is 10 today!
Zooniverse is ten years old! On 12th December 2009, Zooniverse.org sputtered into life, celebrated with a post on this very blog (https://blog.zooniverse.org/2009/12/12/the-zooniverse-is-go/). Truth...
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Zooniverse Volunteers Discover More New Worlds
The volunteers on our Planet Hunters TESS project have helped discover another planetary system! The new system, HD 152843, consists of two planets that are similar in size to Neptune and Saturn in...
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Happy New Year & YouTube livestream this Thursday
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...
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Freshening up the Zooniverse Homepage
The Zooniverse has come a long way since beginning our journey together in 2009 – from the launch of the Project Builder to supporting diverse task types across the disciplines, including...
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