Citizen Science on Zooniverse

Hi Londongranny that's a really interesting site. So much going on! I might transcribe some Shakespeare ...

Meant to add - I've thought for a long time, in a way we are all researchers, if we are interested in observing.

Observation...a very underrated thing.
It's also nice to know that ordinary people on the internet have helped projects do research quite quickly that would otherwise require boots on the ground and years more research.

Definitely. It reminds me of the psychotherapist Oliver James who wrote a book with his MIL (Penny Garner) after he realised she was on to something from observing her own mother in the grip of dementia:

Garner's ideas evolved as a result of caring for her mother, Dorothy Johnson, when she developed Alzheimer's. One day, they were sitting together in a doctor's waiting room when out of the blue Dorothy said, "Has our flight been called yet?" Garner was mystified and played for time. Her mother anxiously looked around and said, "We don't want to miss it, where's our hand luggage?" Suddenly, Garner realised what was happening. Her mother had always loved air travel and Dorothy was making sense of this crowded waiting situation by assuming they were in a departure lounge. When Garner responded with "All our luggage has been checked in, we've just got our handbags," her mother visibly relaxed .

I omitted to say that the book was groundbreaking, a game-changer. All from a lay person's observations.

Grannyknot....have you ever read any of Oliver James other books?
I’ve found them to be full of compassion for the human condition, all backed up with well researched studies.
I go back time and again to dip in and out if them when the need arises!

No, I haven't! Will definitely check them out now.