{"id":815635,"date":"2026-08-16T15:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815635\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:36:13","slug":"the-inaturalist-app-mixing-science-with-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815635\/","title":{"rendered":"The iNaturalist app \u2013 Mixing science with fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                The iNaturalist cellphone app not only helps users identify plant, animal and insect species; it also provides invaluable data to scientists studying biodiversity, species decline, and habitat loss. It also provides opportunities for fun: David Pogue joins iNaturalist fan Martha Stewart in a &#8220;bioblitz&#8221; \u2013 a timed competition with other users to spot and ID species. (Originally broadcast March 22, 2026.)\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iNaturalist cellphone app not only helps users identify plant, animal and insect species; it also provides invaluable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-815635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}