· Fun
Mazda Makes My Year by Calling Me a 'Rebel'
[](https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/the-astronomer/) Iâve been called a lot of things but ârebelâ hasnât come up too often. Not that I mind. As partâ¦
A Daily Dose of Zooniverse
[](http://daily.zooniverse.org) 'Something awesome from the Zooniverse every day' was the tagline that we came up with, almost a year ago, for a new Zooniverseâ¦
LSST, Public Data, and NAM Hack Day 2014
Today is the start of the UK National Meeting in Portsmouth. Iâll be there tomorrow, and running the NAM Hack Day on Wednesday with Arfon Smith - which isâ¦
Crowdsourcing the First World War: A Lovely Social Machine
[](http://www.operationwardiary.org) Working at the Zooniverse means that I get to indulge many of my interests beyond astronomy, like history. In January weâ¦
New Milky Way Project Paper Brilliantly Fuses Citizen Science and Machine Learning
A new Milky Way Project paper was published to the arXiv last week. The paper presents Brut, an algorithm trained to identify bubbles in infrared images of theâ¦
Ideas Worth Spreading: My TED 2014 Experience
TED 2014 has just ended here in Vancouver and I have finally now experienced an event Iâve heard a lot about for many years. Iâve watched TED talks online forâ¦
The Zooniverse in 3mins 21s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DppJ-Sexmdg This was recorded at the Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London in February - it's me summarising the Zooniverse for…
Backstage at BBC Stargazing Live
This week is the BBC's Stargazing Live show: three now-annual nights of live stargazing and astronomy chatter, live from Jodrell Bank. CBeebies are alsoâ¦
· Research
A Brand New Milky Way Project
[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/2026/02/1771788064982-u18vnf.jpg) Just over three years the Zooniverse launched the Milky Way Project (MWP), myâ¦
· News
Zooniverse Jobs - Come Work with Us in Oxford
[](https://orbitingfrog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/zooniverse-icon-web-black.png) We're expanding the Zooniverse team in Oxford and we're looking…
· Oxford
Kepler-90: An Amazing, Tiny Solar System Where Internet Rumours Come True
[](https://media.orbitingfrog.com/uploads/2026/02/1771788069116-ry0pri.png) We recently posted news of a Planet Hunters planetâ¦
UNAWE's Excellent 'Citizen Science in Astronomy' Poster
[](http://www.unawe.org/resources/posters/citizen-science-astro/) This is a poster from CAP2013, which am attending in Warsaw. Love the idea and the design.…
· News
ZooTeach: Using the Zooniverse in the Classroom
[](http://www.zooteach.org) I was at RAL today, as part of a teacher training event run by the National Space Academy, to talk about the Zooniverse and how our…
Planet Four
Tonight is the start of the 2013 round of the wonderful BBC Stargazing Live. three nights of primetime astronomy programmes, hosted live from the iconicâ¦
· Oxford
The Andromeda Project
Last week we launched a brand new Zooniverse site: The Andromeda Project. We’re asking people to spot star clusters in the Andromeda galaxy in data from the…
Untitled
An amazing image I found on the Milky Way Project. Despite running the project, I still find amazing things there all the time.