Science The mind behind Alzheimer’s disease and a look into his lab Wait, the Human Computation Institute team was in Germany?? Yes! We found ourselves in the city of Munich for the Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence Conference to gather ideas and feedback
Science The PLX dataset: what is the role of microglia in dementia risk? What do microglia have to do with dementia risk? That’s the question you are helping to answer when you analyze the current dataset in Stall Catchers.
Catchathons Catchathon 2023 Results are in!!🎉 We have completed over 2/3rds of the dataset as of this blog post, which is AMAZING! Thank you to everyone who took part in this Catchathon. We can’t wait for the next one!
Catchathons Catchathon 2023: HUGE Thank You to Everyone! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who joined this years Catchathon, it was a blast playing with you all!
Catchathons The competition is heating up in the last full day of the Catchathon Originally it took us about a month to complete the dataset, but you amazing humans have cut that time in half! But it’s not over yet, and there are many more stalls to catch.
Catchathons Check the Live Leaderboard for true dataset progress! We found that the progress bar in the VM is misbehaving, so pay attention to the progress bar on the Live Leaderboard
Catchathons Double Points Schedule! As we promised you at the Kick-off, here is the double points schedule for the week.
Stall Catchers The First Annual “Stalling Summit” What happens when world class Alzheimer’s researchers and stroke researchers put their heads together to help each other? Among other things, they turn to Stall Catchers with some new
Datasets Could an arthritis drug be used to treat Alzheimer’s? 👀 We have a new dataset for you and it's not just any dataset... PSGL-1 is our first dataset in Stall Catchers looking at the effects of a FDA approved drug in the treatment of Alzheimer's.
hciconvergence HCI convergence: know our calendar for citizen science month We are happy to share with you our April activities, an itinerary that will have us traveling from different parts of the world... and you can join us too!
About Caprarom visited us in the lab… and so can you! Ok, so we can't invite all 40,000 catchers to meet us at the office, but we wanted to show you around. Mike Capraro, whom you may know from the
Stall Catchers Meet the bot authors - Kirill Brodt and his bot “Clsc2”! Onto the next! We will be interviewing another one of our “Bot Makers” in this second installment of our three part series. In the last blog post, we had the
Stall Catchers Meet the bot authors - Laura Onac and her bot “GAIA” And GAIA makes three! Some of you might remember Laura Onac’s bot, GAIA, as she was the first bot EVER to play Stall Catchers. Wow, time flies! GAIA was
Microsoft Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign - a time of year when volunteering blooms Last month alone, the Stall Catchers community grew by 1,167 new catchers! And there’s a great reason for this - October is Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign, during
Stall Catchers Meet the bot authors - Roman Solovyev and his bot “ZFTurbo”! The Bot study in Stall Catchers just ended. We have already discussed bots so much. Players constantly saw bot names on the leaderboard. And the bots analyzed so much data.
Stall Catchers Farewell, Eglė (No, she's not dead - she's just leaving.) It is with some measure of disbelief and a great sense of loss that I must convey the news that, after five
Catchathons Catchathon 2021: Full report! Thank you ALL for joining us in the Catchathon 2021! 😊 We had a blast!! Did you?! :) Jump to: Overall stats Final hour The Winners Participant impressions How did GAIA 🤖 do?
Catchathons 3 hours left in the Catchathon 2021! Well it wouldn't be a Stall Catchers catchathon if there weren't a few glitches... 🤪 It seems that some people had trouble logging into the site at the beginning - but
Catchathons The Stall Catchers Catchathon is TODAY! The day is finally here! 😁 How to participate in today's Catchathon?Simply head to Stall Catchers any time between 17:00GMT (1pm ET) today (April 28) to 17:00GMT (1pm
Catchathons What's a Catchathon? (the pandemic edition) Catchathon is a catching marathon of the Stall Catchers citizen science game. Teams from all over the world join forces at the same time to catch stalls and speed up
Catchathons Long awaited... Stall Catchers Catchathon is BACK! 🥁 🤸 Tadaam! 🎉 The long awaited Stall Catchers Catchathon is BACK! Right in time to celebrate Citizen Science Month :) Catchathon is a catching marathon of the Stall Catchers citizen science game. Anyone
Research New preprint based on the "anti-VEGF" dataset from Stall Catchers! 📜 Exciting news, catchers! 😍 Another paper was just published (as a pre-print for now), based on the results YOU HELPED GENERATE! Aaaand - "Stall Catchers", meaning YOU, are in the authors
Research Another scientific paper - coauthored with catchers! 💜 Another one is out there! Earlier this we told you about the first scientific paper published with Stall Catchers data - data YOU helped generate - in Nature's Scientific Reports.
Datasets New Stall Catchers dataset: "ApoE" 🧬 There's a new dataset in Stall Catchers! This time we're dealing with "ApoE" gene. See below what that is... As many of you will know, there are certain genetic factors
Machine learning Stalls, machines and humans: an update 🤖 If we had a nickel for every time the question "why humans and not machines" has been asked in Stall Catchers history... :) Well, the reasons why humans are so much
