[laughs] Um, but before we dive into all those details, uh, could you tell us about, you know, what is community science and why it's important for people to get involved?

Yeah, definitely.

Yes, so community science is one of the names of this idea that regular people can do real science and contribute to a shared database that s- professional scientists analyze and, uh, use the, use the results of to better research and study something.

It goes by other names too.

Community science is a really common one.

Citizen science, uh, participatory science.

Like, it goes by lots of different names, but it all generally describes the same thing, that you don't have to have a degree in biology or any other type of science to do research, that regular people can participate in these programs and help study a research topic.

Mm-hmm.