This Earth Month (April), university communities across the globe joined forces to clean up their campuses and log the litter for science. The 2025 #LeaveNoTrash University Challenge, co-hosted by CitSci (an app and website for global citizen science engagement) and Leave No Trace (a nonprofit that teaches people how to take care of the outdoors),
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CitSci is is excited to participate in this year’s Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences (CAPS)! Our team will be busy hosting, presenting, and attending sessions throughout the conference (May 27-30). Check out the full agenda here. Below are some highlights you won’t want to miss. #LeaveNoTrash CAPS Challenge While at CAPS, we invite all attendees to contribute to
We’re reaching out with an important update for participants who recently submitted observations to certain projects via CitSci’s app or website. Some users experienced an “Internal Server Error” while submitting observations, meaning they weren’t able to submit observations with images. You are welcome to edit those observations to add images, now that we have fixed
April is both Citizen Science Month and Earth Month. That means there’s no better time to do science that increases our understanding of the natural world! At CitSci this month, we’re excited to be a partner in SciStarter’s One Million Acts of Science campaign, a global effort to spark over one million science actions—chiefly, logging
This was originally published as the April 2025 CitSci newsletter. Want citizen science in your inbox? Subscribe today. Hey from the CitSci team! It’s a big month—both Citizen Science Month and Earth Month—and we’ve got tons of ways for you to turn curiosity into action. 🌱🔬 CitSci is a proud partner in SciStarter’s One Million
This was originally published as the February 2025 CitSci newsletter. Want citizen science in your inbox? Subscribe today. Hey! It’s the CitSci team. Our Favorite Extreme Sport: Hunting for Microbes We’ve explored the oceans, outer space…but have we explored our dishwashers and air conditioning trays? Microbes—tiny living organisms that can only be seen with a



