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Margaret Gold

@mobilemaggie.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 🇳🇱 #CitizenScience and #OpenScience are my jam. I run the Citizen Science Lab at Leiden University, and co-lead the CS-NL network.

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Amanda Cossham @afcossham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Excellent writing, shivers down the spine stuff. Go Canada!
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'm looking forward to an interesting debate tonight - I'll be making the case for the role of the University in an #OpenScience world :)
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Godwyns Onwuchekwa @godwyns.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Had the privilege of sitting down with the legend, John Willinsky at @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, in Oxford to interview him for this.👇🏾 It was inspiring to hear the story of the enigma behind the man and the founding of @pkp.sfu.ca. Listen here 👂🏽🔉 #Community #ScholarlyCommunication
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Two massive influencers in the menopause space, Dr. Haver, MD, and Dr. Sims, PhD, market turmeric supplements. I looked at their supporting science. Holy shit it’s bad. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
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Of Mice and Men...and Turmeric and Menopause
How rodent studies and weak science are driving the menopause supplement boom
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CWTS | Leiden University @cwts.nl · 10/07/2025
🎉 Congratulations to our Citizen Science Lab colleagues (@mobilemaggie.bsky.social, @anoukspelt.bsky.social, Jordy Janssen) at @unileiden.bsky.social for being part of 1 of 5 #CitizenScience hubs funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social! More info about the Hub for Impactful & Engaged Research (HIER).👇
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/07/2025
"while it is one thing to disagree with the political views of a business leader, it is another to be mortally afraid of his products. In the Tesla Files, we found thousands of examples of why such fear may be justified" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops o...
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
For everyone at the #CS4Water conference asking me about the #OECD #CitizenScience Position Paper, there's a nice blog summary here: www.oecd.org/en/blogs/202... and the full report here: www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
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What is citizen science and why should policymakers care?
Citizen science empowers people from all walks of life to contribute meaningfully to scientific research—from tracking biodiversity to supporting public health. As it gains momentum globally, this blo...
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Shout out to the founders of the #CitizenScience Lab at @unileiden.bsky.social on the occasion of our 450 Jubileum: top450.universiteitleiden.nl/en/items/cit... Do send some love their way!!
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Citizen Science Lab
Science & Society Together - the founding of the Citizen Science Lab in 2018 is a classic Leiden story of academic grassroots…
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A new David Attenborough documentary is always an event, but I think that Ocean really is something innovative and different. I've seen some clips, and it tells a critical & unseen story (plus spectacular photography, of course). It'll be in cinemas from May 8th. Do go! www.oceanfilm.net/
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wij zijn goed up gang met #ExpeditieStadsNatuurLeiden als je in #Leiden bent tel maar mee!! waarneming.nl/bioblitz/174...
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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ode aan de doe-het-zelvers van de wetenschap www.mareonline.nl/wetenschap/o... in @mareonline.nl
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Ode aan de doe-het-zelvers van de wetenschap
Amateuronderzoekers en verzamelaars zijn van onschatbare waarde voor de wetenschap, betoogt hoogleraar biologie Menno Schilthuizen in zijn boek Darwin in de achtertuin. ‘Er zijn nog zoveel belangrijke...
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 11/04/2025
So very hyped that @nature.com made a video about our study on microplastic in caddisfly casings! 😱🎥 Watch it preferably next to a creek... some of them might want to tune in too. 🍿🐛
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Microplastic pollution found in insect casing from 1971
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 09/04/2025
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/04/2025
This #NationalLibraryWeek, we're celebrating the power of libraries to endure—even in the face of unprecedented challenges. In our latest Vanishing Culture essay, @brewster.kahle.org shares why preserving the library system matters now more than ever: blog.archive.org/2025/04/07/v...
“As a child, I did not know how special libraries were—I thought it was just how society worked—I thought there always were and always would be public libraries.”
Brewster Kahle
Digital librarian, Internet Archive
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Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 07/04/2025
Thank you to @juurd.bsky.social & @nrcnl.bsky.social for this interview about the @archive.org with @brewster.kahle.org "In history, libraries usually have not ended well. They are often destroyed by powerful institutions. It used to be the church and the state, now it's governments and companies."
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Het grootste web-archief ter wereld wordt bedreigd door procederende uitgevers, zegt oprichter
Internetondernemer: Het Internet Archive bewaart sinds 1996 webpagina’s, onder leiding van de onvermoeibare oprichter Brewster Kahle. „In de geschiedenis is het met bibliotheken meestal niet goed afge...
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2025
"How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To" www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digit… "Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with #Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's […]
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19/03/2025
🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark? From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever. 🎧 Listen now ⤵️ www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
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What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark? | KQED
For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ideolog...
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Woohoo! The Citizen Science Lab has two of the 60 innovative projects funded by NWO this round. www.nwo.nl/en/news/fund... #citizenscience
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Funding for sixty innovative projects linked to NWA routes | NWO
Sixty consortia will get to work on innovative inter- and transdisciplinary research projects that aim to increase the scientific and social impact of NWA routes. Civil society organisations (both pub...
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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#StandUpForScience #ScienceForAll #ScienceNotSilence With @anoukspelt.bsky.social from the Netherlands. @standupforscience.bsky.social
Two women in front of bookshelves looking in to the camera, each of them holding a red paper with the following text: Stand up for Science, and Science for All
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 26/01/2025
IMPORTANT: Read Brent Toderian NEVER listen to Trump
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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 01/03/2025
This one, from Fellowship of the Ring: "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 28/02/2025
JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹 I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀 “You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x #scicomm 🧪🪶
Three photos are shown. A) The Rokin nest, a colourful plastic-filled nest inside a metal pipe. B) The Eurasian coots swimming side by side through the Rokin canal, Amsterdam C) A whole list of vintage plastics ranging from 2022-1991. Photos: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The work of the @archive.org is becoming increasingly vital (see: flowingdata.com/2025/02/05/d... for example). You can support their work here: archive.org/donate
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Download CDC data through Internet Archive
The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was taken down last Friday. For now, it seems data.cdc.gov is up in a modified form, but just in case, the Internet Archive h…
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
That point when you're yawning so loud you sound like a wookie ..
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T6 Ecosystems @t6ecosystems.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🧐 Any questions about the final #IMPETUS4CS call for #CitizenScience? 👉 Join us the next explainer webinar and do not miss the opportunity to apply for the call!
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Eurocities @eurocities.eu · 08/02/2025
🗳️ Europe's cities are giving people a direct say in policies that shape their lives. 🌍 The @citiobs.bsky.social project, involving Eurocities, empowers communities to monitor issues like air & noise pollution and urban heat - turning citizen data into action. Learn more 👉 citiobs.eu #100DaysEU
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Helena Fitzgerald @helenafitzgerald.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
As data on climate and public health disappears, a big thank you to those who are organising to preserve it.
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ORCID @orcid.org · 10/02/2025
Here in Germany with 10 of our 29 Consortia Leads from all over the world, discussing national and regional progress with ORCID adoption and PID strategies, and sharing ideas for how to serve their member communities better.
box of donuts with the ORCID logoParticipants in the ORCID Consortia Interest Group workshop listening to a presentation.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If she can do it, we can all do it.
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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 13/01/2025
🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media. Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives. #FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative. Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com
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Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Yet another exit plan to execute. Dammit, this platform was a life-line to extended family and high school friends... www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #Woodslee #BelleRiver #EssexCounty find me over here!
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Jean-Claude @jcdrg.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The battle between eLife and Clarivate is crucial. If Clarivate wins, the impact factor will be vindicated once more. And the IF is the keystone of the commercial structure of scholarly journals. But if eLife demonstrates what a sham the IF is, then Clarivate will have lost a crucial battle.
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
for those of you in fireworks obsessed countries, it's the noise you'll be noticing more than than the increase in particulate matter in the air (i.e. #AirPollution) - the @rivm-nl.bsky.social is tracking both #CitizenScience samenmeten.rivm.nl/vuurwerk/fij... samenmeten.rivm.nl/vuurwerk/gel...
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Samen Meten - Vuurwerkportaal
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
So many new #BluSci users 💙✨❄️, welcome! For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀… use 🧪 to post on the #Science feed use 🧠 for a #Neuroskyence feed If you use any of these emojis👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 your post will on a #WomenInSTEM feed Bonuses: 🕊️ 🌱 📌 Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩‍🔬💙
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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
To those outside of the Netherlands: Yesterday and today, Dutch Christian religious parties sold their souls to the right-wing government in exchange for a few dimes and now support radical and destructive cuts to the Dutch educational system. This makes this, sadly and terribly, a done deal. 1/
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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
You didn't think we forgot about science did you? 🧬🧪 Our 2024 year in review reflections conclude with the Open Science program at CC. Read more about the work of Open Science and what's to come in 2025: loom.ly/LOfb8A8
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CC Open Science: 2024 Year in Review - Creative Commons
Science by Steve Rotman is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Access to science is a fundamental human right, and yet, much of that public good is inaccessible because of paywalls and limited in its reuse...
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
'Liever Turks dan Paaps' (Better Turkish than Papist); 'En DESPIT DE LA MES' (In spite of the mass). Medal worn in the hat of Dutch 'sea beggars' in the 16th-century, when the Turks were also fighting the Habsburgs. Wikimedia commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3_...
Crescent-shaped Geuzen medal, in the shape of a half moon, the moon has a face in profile and the slogan "Liever Turks dan Paaps" ("Rather Turkish than Papist") around the opposite edge. Cast silver, tooled, about 1570.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In person tickets are full, but online viewers still very welcome for tomorrow's Gresham lecture.
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Wolf-Peter Schill @wpschill.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
BlueSky is now tracked by @altmetric.com! For many people it may not matter, but for acadamics this is huge! Another step towards making BlueSky a relevant platform to share and discuss research. Also: beautiful dark blue color, see example of recently published paper below 😉 #academicsky
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Report for: Power sector benefits of flexible heat pumps in 2030 scenarios
In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
To be honest, if you have an online source that your research depends on, today is always the day to get your plan B in place. But there are moments when the situation can feel even more fragile than usual.
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
oooh, this is a very handy feature! Thanks for sharing :)
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Jeff Smith on Air Pollution @jksmith34.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
450 times more health harmful black carbon #AirPollution is emitted from #Woodburning #woodstoves than from natural gas. The inhaled #soot reaches every organ of the body causing DNA damage to our cells & long-term disabilities & shorter lifespans. #Biomass #BuildBackBetter
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Barbara K @kieslb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Back to social media with some #citsci content. Have you already read the @ecs.ngo impact stories? zenodo.org/records/1364...
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Margaret Gold @mobilemaggie.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This article feels like a reminder that we humans are also nature - it's not about our absence on the landscape, but living in harmony....https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/11/2024
Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons
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Rohit Chakraborty @rcrohit7.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Had the pleasure to talk about Burn Alert project that started during my PhD and now being adopted as a trial study in Swansea. Hope to see reduced #airpollution due to this!
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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 26/11/2024
1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.
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