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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#CitizenScience Profile Rural villages are designing their own climate futures with PermaFuturos, a #permaculture-based citizen science project. #Citsci #ClimateResilience #CommunityScience impetus4cs.eu/permacommuni...

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Citizenscience Resource CUSP launches the Science Diplomacy Hub: a free, impartial space for the community to connect, share resources and collaborate. Join: lnkd.in/e9Db3xDn #ScienceDiplomacy

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#CitizenScience Reading Club 62% of surveyed citizen science projects had no data management plan. Templates are built for experts, not volunteers. doi.org/10.5334/cstp... #datamanagement #citsci

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🤟 #citizenscience profile - Acting4DHH II Deaf & hearing citizens in 🇵🇱🇸🇰🇺🇦🇬🇷 co-created videos on inclusion. Accessible science is science for all! impetus4cs.eu/acting4dhh-ii/ #CitSci #IMPETUS #DHH

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#CitizenScience resource 🌱 Free online training on #ethics, sustainability & #environmentaljustice in citizen science. 28 Oct or 5 Nov, 13:00 CET. Register: lnkd.in/dtkK7D89 #citsci

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#CitizenScience Reading Club "Talking Metadata" (Thuermer et al., 2023) finds that citizen scientists often don't realise what location/device data they're sharing and shows how better project design can close that privacy gap. sites.units.it/etica/2023_2... #Metadata #privacy

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Citizenscience profile 🌸 UNIQUE makes disabled citizens co-designers of city planning — creating accessible & tactile-Braille tools tested with 60+ people, zero barriers found. impetus4cs.eu/unique-unive... #CitSci #IMPETUS

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🔧 How to build a relationship with your local MP — Repair Cafe Gosport's 3-stage approach to winning political support for repair. lnkd.in/e9jbMxgA #RepairCafe #CommunityRepair

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#citizenscience reading club "When Data Meets Citizens" (Thuermer et al., 2024) finds that EU smart-city data projects rarely deliver on promised citizen benefits - and proposes "data justice plans" as a fix. 📄 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Citsci #data #policy #citizenengagement

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Citizenscience Profile - ASFOs from the ground 🌱 In Italy's Fiastra Valley, citizen scientists map abandoned land & test soil to help form the region's first AsFo—pooling plots to fight erosion & rebuild community. 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/asfos-from-the-ground/ #CitSci #landmanagement

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#Citizenscience Resource 🌱 @cropscs.bsky.social : the Responsible Scaling Training Series for citizen science! Covering #governance, #ethics, #partnerships & #sustainability. Because scaling well matters more than scaling fast. 🔗https://www.crops-cs.eu/resources/training #citsci #training

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#citizenscience Reading club "Rethinking Impact Assessment in Citizen Science" (Kieslinger et al.) uses design thinking to unpack 5 key challenges — methodology, ethics, time, stakeholders, and planning. ap.pensoft.net/article/1255... #impact #research

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#citizenscience Profile - FoodWise How can everyday diaries fight food waste? 🍽️ 80 citizen scientists in Western Thessaloniki are logging what they buy & waste-turning kitchen choices into food-system evidence. #CitSci #IMPETUS #sustainability impetus4cs.eu/foodwise/

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#citizenscience Resource 🎙️New ScienceUs Podcast ep! FLOW turns citizens into field researchers monitoring Germany's freshwater streams, led by @UFZ_de & @iDiv_Leipzig. 🎧 lnkd.in/dMBAQQ8J #water #conservation

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📰 The latest ECSA newsletter is out! 📬 Read: mailchi.mp/b25507e239b5... #CitizenScience #CitSci #OpenScience

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📰 The latest ECSA newsletter is out! Highlights: 📬 Read: mailchi.mp/b25507e239b5... #CitizenScience #CitSci #OpenScience

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🏙️ City Layers: 500+ citizen scientists mapped Vienna's noise, safety & climate comfort — 2,000+ data points turning lived experience into urban planning data. 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/city-layers #CitSci

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#CitizenScience Profile 🌱 Soil Sentinel trains Serbian farmers to sample their own soil, checked against lab data, to guide safe sludge reuse - cutting costs up to 50%. impetus4cs.eu/soil-sentinel/ #soilhealth #conservation

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#CitizenScience Reading Club New study: Redlands Coast Koala Watch had 370+ volunteers but most never reported a sighting. Co-design with the community found the fix: simpler apps, real feedback, and social connection. 🐨 doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

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EUSEA @eusea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

UK public wants more science engagement. Researchers want to give it. So why the gap? The Royal Society's new Science for Society report says it's time to make public engagement core to research—not an extra. 🔬 royalsociety.org/news-resourc... #Science #PublicEngagement #Research

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Science for society | Royal Society

The Royal Society has published the Science for society report exploring the multiple connections between science and the public, and proposes recommendations for how these connections might be streng...

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#CitizenScience - Regenerative Tides: Sailing for Solutions (ReTISS) Citizens in France, the UK & Portugal mapped 77 abandoned fibreglass boats polluting our coasts 🚤🗺️. impetus4cs.eu/regenerative... #Conservation #Biodiversity #MarinePollution

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#citizenscience reading club AI is contaminating citizen science databases: fake wildlife photos and "enhanced" images are fooling experts. 🐦 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI #ParticipatoryScience #biodiversity

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The latest @ecsa.ngo is out - packed with new projects, community news and open calls from across the citizen science network 📰✨ mailchi.mp/d2608ea57704... #CitizenScience #ScienceForAll #CitSci #OpenScience

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🌞 Aug 12 total solar eclipse! Help scientists: track shadow bands, snap Baily's Beads, measure sky darkness & more. 5 ways to get involved 👇 www.newscientist.com/article/2531... #CitizenScience #SolarEclipse2026

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Coventry's River Sowe gets new citizen scientists 🌊 Underrepresented communities monitor water quality & litter with #IMPETUS support. Data ownership stays local. 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/empowering-u... #CitizenScience

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#CitizenScience Reading Club New study: giving elementary teachers ready-to-use support materials (not just data protocols) sharply boosts classroom use of citizen science projects. Practical > dense content. doi.org/10.1080/0950... #ScienceEd

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#CitizenScience profile FloraAtlas is turning Amazigh communities in Morocco's High Atlas into plant conservationists - using a WhatsApp tool to monitor endemic species. 🌿📱 impetus4cs.eu/floraatlas/ #conservation

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#Citizenscience resource 🎙️ New RISE Podcast Ep. 11! Engineer Héloïse V. (Science For Change) discusses co-creation in engaged research & why collaboration matters. 🎧 lnkd.in/eKvG5Upj #RISEPodcast #CoCreation

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New paper: #CitizenScience in #Psychology 🧠🔬 Why is it almost absent in cognitive psych? New 2D model + real examples (microdosing, air pollution, school studies) show how to fix the "researcher-subject paradox." 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s13428-026-03019-8

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#CitizenScience Profile - Empowering older adults Older adults as co-researchers, not subjects. 59 conversations on ageing, loss & belonging are reshaping how we see vulnerability in later life. impetus4cs.eu/empowering-o... #inclusion #citsci #IMPETUS4CS

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European Citizen Science project @ecs.ngo · 14/07/2026

Here is the second episode of the ECS #podcast Is participation in citizen science a choice? a responsibility? a privilege? why people bother participating in #cs? Listen to the episode in the podcast hub citizenscience.eu/ecsa/ecs-pod... or on ECSA's YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmTw...

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The IMPETUS toolkit is here in 3 formats! 🎉 🔍 Search online: impetus4cs.eu/toolkit/#che... 📄 PDF: zenodo.org/uploads/2135... 📖 Booklet: impetus4cs.eu/wp-content/u... #citsci #toolkit

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#CitizenScience Profile 🌱 Living Soils Lab (Paris): residents test urban soil health + use art therapy to turn eco-anxiety into action. Soil care meets people care. 🎨 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/living-soils... #Citsci #soilhealth

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The final ECS Project Lighthouse newsletter is out 📰✨ Reflecting on 4 years of citizen science networks & what's next for #CitSci in Europe. Read here 👇 us20.campaign-archive.com?u=43994d556f... #citizenscience #legacy

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New Interagency Citizen Science Toolkit from Schoodic Institute at Acadia NP! 90 pages on building project teams, collecting data & sharing results on public lands. 📊 lnkd.in/e3RGmwm8 #citsci #CitizenScience #data

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

📊 Check out the impacts of our third and final cohort of #citizenscience initiatives of the IMPETUS accelerator programme, focused on the challenges of #CircularCommunities and #Fair and #Just Societies. Click Here 👇 impetus4cs.eu/impetuss-imp... 👇 #citsci #IMPETUS4CS

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🌱♻️ Can compost teach kids soil science & wellbeing? Novi Sad students build compost systems, test soil & study how gardening boosts mood. #IMPETUS #CitSci 🔗 impetus4cs.eu/from-waste-t...

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Four years. 129 projects. Countless voices. 🌍 As IMPETUS comes to a close, we reflect on our citizen science journey with @ecs.ngo & the EU Commission. Watch now 👇 #citizenscience #citsci youtu.be/E1kh0E5cv4s

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#citizenscience reading club Citizen science isn't just participation — it's driving real policy change & economic value. Read Beyond Participation to see how. zenodo.org/records/2008... #citsci #OpenScience #impact #policy #economic

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Our "final" IMPETUS event was Ars Electronica 2025 - but 10 months of impact followed! We teamed up with @ecs.ngo for two June 2026 events celebrating our citizen science legacy 👇 impetus4cs.eu/the-final-im... #citizenscience #citsci #IMPETUS4CS

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That's a wrap on IMPETUS! 🎉 Our #citizenscience journey continues through the projects we supported. Thank you to this incredible #citsci community. You can learn all about our story on our site 👇 impetus4cs.eu

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🌐 IMPETUS Policy Briefs - now in 5 languages! 🇹🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇵🇹 Breaking down #CitizenScience in #AI, #Data, #SSH, #WaterManagement & #Inclusion - accessible to more people than ever. 👉 impetus4cs.eu/about/impetu...

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#Citizenscience Profile - NEYSA 90 student citizen scientists across Türkiye are mapping food insecurity on campus — turning lived experience into evidence & policy change. 🍽️ impetus4cs.eu/nourishing-e... #foodsecurity #IMPETUS

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🛠️ The IMPETUS Toolkit is here! A practical, field-tested resource for citizen science — built on 129 projects, real challenges, and hard-learnt lessons. Explore it now 👇 impetus4cs.eu/toolkit/ #citizenscience #impact #projectdesign #projectmanagement

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#Citizenscience Reading Club Citizen science data can fill gaps in official datasets & drive better local decisions — but only with the right governance & infrastructure in place. zenodo.org/records/1014... #citsci #OpenData

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🌍#Citizenscience Profile How does Spain really talk about climate change? The Observatory of Climate Narratives maps citizen stories to turn public sentiment into real climate action. impetus4cs.eu/observatory-... #Citsci #ClimateAction

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#Citizenscience Resource Trust in facts and debate is vital. Disinformation undermines this. Science helps evidence and policy. See REA: rea.ec.europa.eu/science-demo... #democracy #science

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Join the @cropscs.bsky.social and @impetus4cs.bsky.social workshop - Protocols for Scaling #citizenscience🌍 Help shape tools for scaling #citsci across Europe. 📅 25 June 2026 ⏰ 14:00 CEST Review protocols & share feedback 🔗 lnkd.in/eBsNacbg

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#CitizenScience Reading List Who really benefits when cities use citizen data? Rarely the citizens. This paper proposes data justice plans to fix that. doi.org/10.1017/dap.... #data #datajustice

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IMPETUS4CS @impetus4cs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

#CitizenScience Profile - Expedition Antenna 🌿 Citizen science for everyone. Expedition Antenna uses touch, smell & sound to make biodiversity monitoring accessible to visually impaired people. impetus4cs.eu/expedition-a... #Inclusion #biodiversity

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