We've had our first session of our Final Event - we've heard about the work of the HEIDI Project. Our next session will be on Diverse Voices for Diverse Needs using Digital Action. We're thrilled that some outside speakers are joining us to tell their stories!
Counting down the hours to Day 2 of our Final Event! 4pm BST. We'll hear more about the HEIDI Project and the work we've done, some short talks about other Digital Action efforts and hold an Inspiring Digital Action workshop! There's still time to join https://t.co/Q0e51vDjrO
Ah yes, we promised alt text for this slide of the @SciStarter talk!
"Because of Citizen Science, we now know ...
- Bird populations have declined by 50%
- Birds are breeding earlier
- 50+ types of bacteria live in your belly button
The first flowering of 19 species of...
Citizen science has taught us a lot - sorry we haven't time to type up alt text, we will later!
(NB the bar for volunteer data is *high*, higher than for scientists. You can be sure it's good data.)
... plants has moved 9 days earlier over the past decade
- there's a new type of aurora in the night sky (and the citizen scientists named it Steve!)
- in one weekend, citizen scientists accomplished 2,566 research-hours, or 3.5 months equivalent lab research time ...
That's it for today. We would love to see you tomorrow to discuss more about Digital Action and how to enable it - you can get a ticket for Day 2 here https://t.co/Q0e51vDjrO See you then!
Our Final Event starts in a few minutes! https://t.co/Q0e51vDRhm Our first speaker has arrived and we're setting up :-) We'll be livetweeting the speakers' talks - feel free to ask us questions.
However, Bridgette adds that people are getting more creative about how they come together online, to stay human through the digital - e.g. playing an online game together!