Ggolondrinaa - Spin

wow y r u so cool???

I just realized this was here how long had this been here—-

Anyways no yOu

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.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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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.

I’ve been a pokemon fan for the better part of 8 years but I also am notoriously poor at drawing from memory. This combination has resulted in a very self explanatory game in which I become my bf’s personal court jester.

I’ll stop stalling—- bulbasaur from memory:

…….

ON THE OTHER HAND My boyfriend (lifelong pokemon fan and incredible artist) drew this:

It’s adorable. And mine is so scary. I’m so fucking pissed. @milowings

please return my bird’s neck

white shrek

just live for today, sights set on the bright side🌲

it’s all good man

So @lucky-leafeon sent me this beautiful photoset and i thought of this IMMEDIATELY.....  so i had to make it. this is when my video editing abilities come into good use.

Blatantly stealing this from twitter cuz i need people to hear Obama in Baki

Gonna be so real if a 12 year old traced my art and put it on their school binder I would be so fucking honored