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Featured partners of NightLife Says Who

Top row (from left): Alex Hanna, Amy Fiedler, Aurora Cortes, Christine Cordero, Christine Liu, Deniss Martinez. Middle row (from left): Francesca Fiorentini, Kel Larkin, Naomi Garcia, Naomi Maisel, Nia Imara, Olivia VanDamme. Bottom row (from left): Panda Dulce, Rebekah Kim, Sarah Shimazaki, Sthefany Galante Bautista, VERA!, Walter Kitundu.

California Academy of Sciences launches all-new NightLife series: Says Who?

Three-part series uplifts systematically excluded voices in science and questions “storyteller privilege."

Yellow-crowned night heron from Texas
City Nature Challenge records over 1,870,000 wildlife observations in a single weekend

More than 66,300 community scientists participate in the Challenge's eighth year.

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Children measure a Sauropod femur.

Kids get a sense of Sauropod size with a glimpse at a huge fossil replica femur.

The World’s Largest Dinosaurs, an exciting exhibition about super-sized Sauropods, opens May 26 at the California Academy of Sciences

New exhibit delves into the biology and behavior of the largest dinosaurs to ever walk earth.

An iNaturalist user documents an observation on Yerba Buena Island.
Community scientists across the globe compete in City Nature Challenge, April 28 - May 1, 2023

Eighth annual Challenge unites people with nature around the world to document Earth's biodiversity.

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Programs & Events
San Francisco Neighborhood Free Weekends Announced for Fall 2014 and Spring 2015
September 11, 2014

San Francisco residents can enjoy fall and spring free admission weekends at the California Academy of Sciences.

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Trautwein in the Amazon
Science & Sustainability
Academy Welcomes Newest Curator; Appoints New Schlinger Chair of Dipterology
August 15, 2014

Dr. Michelle Trautwein becomes the Academy's newest curator and Schlinger Chair of Dipterology.

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Science & Sustainability
Academy Researchers Awarded Grant for Biodiversity Data and Access by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation
August 12, 2014

A team led by Academy curator David Blackburn is awarded grant to support biodiversity research in Africa.

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A Russells viper in India
Science & Sustainability
Experimental Trial Represents Promising Step Toward Universal Antidote For Snakebite
May 28, 2014

An Academy researcher has taken another promising step toward developing a universal snakebite antidote.

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Science & Sustainability
Scientific Collections Play Vital Role in Conservation Biology
May 22, 2014

The value of scientific collections is vast and their impact on populations is minimal.

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Leadership
California Academy of Sciences Elects Jerome C. Vascellaro As Chair of the Board
May 15, 2014

The Academy announces the election of Jerome C. Vascellaro as the new Chair of its Board of Trustees.

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Leadership, Science & Sustainability
California Academy of Sciences Appoints Dr. Jonathan Foley As New Executive Director
April 28, 2014

Introducing Jonathan Foley, the new Executive Director of the California Academy of Sciences.

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iNaturalist screenshot showing a list of reptiles.
Education, Programs & Events, Science & Sustainability
California Academy of Sciences Acquires iNaturalist
April 25, 2014

Scientific observation platform allows citizen scientists to contribute to global biodiversity database.

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