If You're Feeling Anxious Or Depressed About The Climate And Want To Do Something To Help Right Now,

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

The Conversation

Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

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.

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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.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

This got me utterly sick i cant stop thinking about this video

My Modern Met

Interview: Travel Photographer Immortalizes China’s 1,300-Year-Old Cormorant Fishing Technique

“Cormorant fishing is a traditional fishing method in which fishermen use trained cormorants to fish in rivers, but sadly the thirteen-hundr

losing my Mind over these pics btw

LIKE.... you CANNOT tell me this dude (Fisherman Lao Huang) isn't a wizard. the swag is UNPARALLELED

btw i don’t care if Avery or Charlotte broke any rules that led to them getting banned because it is clear as day to anybody who uses this website that that is not actually why they got nuked. they were nuked for being trans women, & that’s it. i’ve reported quite literally hundreds if not thousands of blogs for harassing trans women, personal rape threats in my inbox, terfs telling people to kill themselves, etc and very little of it ever went anywhere.

it is crystal clear to everybody with their eyes open that these young women were banned for being well-known and beloved members of the trans community, and this is especially clear with the flagrant & unpunished transmisogynistic bigotry i see (and face personally!) on this website every day. there are terfs on this website who i have personally been reporting since 2014. there are people who have publicly accused me of pedophilia and wished the death penalty on me for being trans who are still doing the same things to other trans girls every day.

nobody stop talking about this. everybody keep talking about this until they have to make a comment. this is unacceptable & if it is left unaddressed it should follow Mullenweg for the rest of his career.

ksdk.com

Missouri Supreme Court: Christopher Dunn has to stay in prison — for now

It comes hours after a judge told a Missouri prison warden to release Christopher Dunn from custody or face consequences.

More than 30 years in prison for a crime there was no evidence he committed. He was only 18. Now republican AG is refusing to allow his overturned sentence be implemented.

Don't stop talking about Christopher Dunn until he is released.