Why not spend half an hour today doing the new Community Science at the Natural History Museum #NatureOverheard survey? Simply choose an area near a road to survey🛣️Make a five-minute sound recording of the surroundings🔊Record any insects you see.📷Full survey instructions available here➡️ nhm.ac.uk/take-part/moni…

Every European summer I like to reshare this chart to remind everyone about the importance of urban trees.

Gosh this is brutal 🔥

I gave Keir Starmer a copy of Doughnut Economics just 10 days before he became Labour Party Leader. So will the book make it onto his bookshelves in Number 10? More importantly: will policies for a regenerative & distributive UK become real under this government?...

"I know we hired you remote somehow... But that was then, and this is now." New song: the RTO (Return-To-Office) Tango

It was #FlyingAntDay in Leiden today, if the data is still being scraped....

Vakantie? Tijd voor de Samen Meten nieuwsbrief! Onder andere over GLOBE, Geluidmeetdag, nieuwe initiatieven, EU projecten zoals CitiObs of bijeenkomsten zoals Koppelting om aan mee te doen. Veel leesplezier! lnkd.in/eseASEqZ RIVM GLOBE Nederland

What do these roads have in common? They're excellent #NatureOverheard survey spots! As long as you have a 10x2m area of greenspace along a road, you can take part! 🐝Only 20 mins. Full details: nhm.ac.uk/take-part/moni… #urbannature

What a lovely project from Science at the Natural History Museum researcher Ed Baker - also interested in non-UK data? #NatureOverheard

👏Congratulations to our colleague Kathleen Gregory for being awarded a Veni grant from NWO Funding! We look forward to seeing more of her research on the sustainability challenges of open data infrastructures! Read our interview with her to learn more👉universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

🏖️ De zomer is begonnen en team #CitSciNL gaat op #vakantie! Daarom zullen wij minder bereikbaar zijn en niks delen op X. 🗓️ 19 augustus zijn we weer terug en begin september ontvang je weer een nieuwe nieuwsbrief. Wij wensen iedereen een hele fijn zomer🌞!

My bees seem to be specialists - the lavender is full of bumble bees (Bombus lucorum/ Bombus terrestris) and the oregano is full of bulb flies (grote narcis vlieg) #bijentelling #bees

Ahem.

And now it's really, really time to go: nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/…

Be the first person to lay eyes on a galaxy, help classify its shape. The goal is to reveal the hidden influence of dark matter and dark energy on the visible universe, from the 100GB daily of ESA's Euclid mission data. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/bdznupnj European Space Agency

Hey UK! Do you really want to piss off Musk? Open the settings page on X on the Web (not app). Select the “Privacy & safety button”. Select “Grok” & uncheck the box that reads: “Allow your posts BLAH BLAH… and results with Grok to be used for training.” #UKRiots #FarRightFail

Goed #news: Sicco de Knecht benoemd tot directeur Nationaal Expertisecentrum Wetenschap & Samenleving. De juiste man op de juiste plek. We zien uit naar de samenwerking ⁦@SiccodeKnecht⁩! wetenschapensamenleving.nl/index.php/2024…

Mooi citizen science project met platanen in Amsterdam door @urgenda.bsky.social Interessante nieuwe kijk op het in kaart brengen van luchtkwaliteit RIVM