What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.
you’re sitting across from me in a shitty diner in anywhere, america, and i watch you pour too much creamer in your coffee and i think “i love you.” you look up, catching me staring, and for a moment i think i’m brave enough to say it, but i take too long and the moment passes. i take the balled up straw wraper and flick it at you, pretending that was my plan all along. you laugh. i never want to go another day without hearing that laugh. i think i will have all the time in the world to say it.
hmm tomorrow i will write an absolutely unhinged post on car headlight design despite knowing little to nothing about design
Maybe I should embrace the robotgirl vibe and make myself an ordered list of priorities as a decision tree. And then when I am struggling I can look at it and try to use it to decide on a better course of action.
I don’t like being referred to as a boy
UGH so true!!!! this is what i keep saying. AI/ML is an incredibly useful tool. we can catch cancer earlier, speed up design processes via structural optimization, catch industrial accidents before they happen, and figure out where fruits are on a tree and which are ripe to automate farming!!! but everyone is focused on genAI and stealing from artists. it's so infuriating to watch
at my university, ai use is a pretty hotly contested topic. cheating with it is a problem. and now the university is partnering with openAI to give us all free chatgpt??????? that's insane to me
a friend at a different university sent me a video of their chancellor talking about ai use and its benefits. the entire video was ai-generated. and it was really fucking convincing.
whatever man, you're a fake creator. you're not playing spore, you're playing something else entirely
i made this anon in spore [2008]
next time show your face
dude this fucking thread LMAO im losing my fuckinf shit rn
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electrical engineering student who smells specifically of soldering fumes, estrogen, and motorcycle exhaust (i love electronics, design, electronic music/dubstep, motorcycles)
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