Links
Some of our favourite resources to learn all about the wibbly-wobbly world of gravitational-waves
Websites
Classify glitches, analyse real gravitational-wave data and read up on the latest news from the detectors. (Links open in a new tab)
Gravity Spy Zooniverse
The place to be if you want to get involved with classifying glitches and helping LIGO scientists improve gravitational-wave detector data
LIGO.org
The place to be if you want to get involved with classifying glitches and helping LIGO scientists improve gravitational-wave detector data
GWOSC
The Gravitational Wave Open Science Center. Get hands with real detector data & tutorials on how to access and analyse gravitational-waves
LIGO Magazine
Published twice a year in March and September with research, news, advice and stories from across the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration
Science Summaries
Summaries of the latest research published by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration in plain-English (other languages too!)
Observing Plans
Keep up to date with the latest updates about the observing plans of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors
Videos
Learn all about the history of LIGO from the first detection to the latest results from GWTC-5.0, watch as two black holes collide and then listen to the sound of the gravitational-waves.
If you enjoyed the LVK seminar on GWTC-5.0, keep an eye on this thread for announcements of future seminars
Papers
Check out these recent papers published by the Gravity Spy team and our collaborators (links open in a new tab)
Folksonomies in Crowdsourcing: A Cross-Project Comparison
Alexander O. Smith, Julia Bullard, Corey Jackson, Kevin Crowston, Carsten Østerlund
Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2026
OmegaNeuron: Applying GravitySpy Similarity Methods to the Search for LIGO Glitch Witnesses
Bri Aleman, Derek Davis
ArXIV Pre-Print, 2026
Leveling Up or Dropping Out: Searching for Learning Routines in Crowdsourced Environments
Corey Jackson, Carsten Østerlund, Anand Vamsi, Alexander Owen Smith, Kevin Crowston
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2025
Advancing Glitch Classification in Gravity Spy: Multi-View Fusion With Attention-Based Machine Learning for Advanced LIGO’s Fourth Observing Run
Yunan Wu, Michael Zevin, Christopher P L Berry, Kevin Crowston, Carsten Østerlund, Zoheyr Doctor, Sharan Banagiri, Corey B Jackson, Vicky Kalogera, Aggelos K Katsaggelos
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2025
Hunting for New Glitches in LIGO Data Using Community Science
Eilidh Mackenzie, Christopher P L Berry, Gerhard Niklasch, Barbara Téglás, Christine Unsworth, Kevin Crowston, Derek Davis, Aggelos K Katsaggelos
GR-Amaldi Proceedings, 2025
Please Say “Shibboleth”: Socialization Through Language Adoption in Virtual Citizen Science
Corey Jackson
Proceedings of the 19th International AAAI Conderence on Web and Social Media, 2025
Gravity Spy: Lessons Learned and a Path Forward
Michael Zevin, Corey B. Jackson, Zoheyr Doctor, Yunan Wu, Carsten Østerlund, L. Clifton Johnson, Christopher P. L. Berry, Kevin Crowston, Scott B. Coughlin, Vicky Kalogera, Sharan Banagiri, Derek Davis, Jane Glanzer, Renzhi Hao, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Oli Patane, Jennifer Sanchez, Joshua Smith, Siddharth Soni, Laura Trouille, Marissa Walker, Irina Aerith, Wilfried Domainko, Victor-Georges Baranowski, Gerhard Niklasch, Barbara Téglás
The European Physical Journal Plus, 2023
