Stall Catchers Day 5 of #CabinFever - leaderboards! Here's a quick report on the Day 5 leaderboards of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/]! Teams by points - entire challenge, up until 2pm ET, April 6 Team namePoints 1testing9,223,848 2MemoryCafes7,033,764 3krissi3,286,715 4Canada 2,866,811 5Play Stall Catchers
Stall Catchers Day 4 of #CabinFever - leaderboards! Our #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] gains speed, and here's the leaderboards of Day 4! Note that the points leaderboards are the TOTAL points collected during the challenge, and research movie leaderboards - just Day 4. Teams by points
Challenges Day 3 of #CabinFever + Bonus round leaderboards! Three days fighting this pesky #CabinFever [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] and... we've already done almost 20 days* of lab work for Alzheimer's research!!! Isn't that amazing? That's the power of citizen science for you - that's how much we
Challenges Day 2 of #CabinFever - leaderboards! Better late than never... here's the leaderboards for #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Day 2! (April 2 - April 3) Note that the points leaderboards are the TOTAL points collected during the challenge, and research movie leaderboards - just Day 2. Teams by points - entire
Challenges #CabinFever Friday Bonus round and LIVE hangout! Join us on Stall Catchers for #CabinFever Bonus round today, 4-5pm ET with DOUBLE POINTS! 🙌 And, feel free to join the LIVE hangout, 4.30-5pm ET ! Here's the link: https://zoom.us/j/732719799 And the call-in numbers: Meeting ID: 732 719 799 Dial by your location +1
Challenges Day 1 of #CabinFever - leaderboards! Yay, the first 24 hours of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] are complete, and here's how we did! Teams by points & research movies: Team namePointsResearch moviesAll movies 1testing2,332,64417692383 2MemoryCafes 1,166,72011081458 3krissi730,378658883 4I See Stalls465,354361494 5Kaunas Makerspace390,063349461 6Play
Stall Catchers #CabinFever challenge - with a special twist for schools! So most of us have been cooped up at home lately, and probably going a little crazy, right? Well, there's tons of ways to contribute to science [https://www.citizenscience.org/covid-19/]while staying safe at home. And one of them is, of course, Stall Catchers [https://blog.
Stall Catchers New dataset: 5XFAD Jr. There's a new dataset in Stall Catchers [https://blog.hcinst.org/5xfad-jr-dataset/stallcatchers.com]! Or, to quote one of our most prolific catchers of late, KarisFraMauro, "life is bearable again!" 😅 In this dataset, we are again looking at the brains of 5XFAD mice, just as the
Stall Catchers New Stall Catchers dataset: 5XFAD Finally, more data in Stall Catchers - and it's continuing the NOX2 saga. (Read the backstory of NOX2 here: https://blog.hcinst.org/nox-vol2/ [https://blog.hcinst.org/nox-vol2/] In this set, we are analyzing the effects of NOX2 inhibition, similarly as before, but on a different mouse
Research Survey: Northeastern University researchers need your input! :) Northeastern University researchers are conducting a survey to learn about how to make better citizen science games. To take this survey, visit https://forms.gle/QaFFsNwcwTVYqiPQA. The results will be shared back with us, and we are keen to see how, in your opinion, we could improve the game, how
The Humans of Stall Catchers The Humans of Human Computation Institute: Percy - our new developer! As some of you may know, our developer Ieva [https://blog.hcinst.org/hidden-figures-ieva/] , who's been with us since the beginning of Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com], has recently left us, and we've been struggling to "make ends meet"! Fortunately though, we found a
Stall Catchers Featured 📹 Stall Catchers research update (January 2020) What's been cooking in the lab where the biomedical science of Stall Catchers happens? What have we already achieved, what's next, and what challenges are we currently facing? (And how YOU could help overcome them!) Find out all in this fresh new update video by Pietro
Stall Catchers Happy New Year, Catchers! 🎉 🥁 ... and, thanks largely to our super star catcher Badstallsbadbad, we have a blood vessel alphabet!!! (see this post [https://blog.hcinst.org/spelling-challenge/] for context and what we're trying to do with it... 😇) Check out or alphabet-in-the-making on the forum here [http://forum.hcinst.org/t/spelling-challenge-we-want-to-create-a-vessel-alphabet/670/
Stall Catchers Spelling challenge! Can we spell "Happy New Year" with vessels? Happy Holidays, dear Catchers! 🎉 We know things have been a little quiet in Stall Catchers, and you've been itching for a challenge... Well here I am to give you one! 😃 Perhaps a little different than usual... a spelling challenge! Yes, you heard that right. We'd like
Stall Catchers New dataset in Stall Catchers: "NOX: Vol 2"! Long awaited, there's a fresh new dataset in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope]: "NOX: Vol 2" ! Sounds familiar? Yep, we've already worked on a dataset called "NOX" before (hence "Vol 2", haha) ! You can read all about the previous
Stall Catchers Another dataset complete in Stall Catchers - for a question you raised yourselves! 🐁 We recently completed another (rather quick!) dataset in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com], and here I am to tell you all about it... This time it was... the Running dataset! What was the research question and where did it come from? According to one of our main biomedical collaborators on
Microsoft Featured Stall Catchers had a baby! 👶🏿 Introducing: Dream Catchers Yes, you heard that right! Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope], a citizen science game tackling Alzheimer's disease, just had a spin-off, called Dream Catchers [https://dreamcatchers.app/virtualMicroscope]! Dream Catchers is very similar to its predecessor... but it's tackling SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
EyesOnALZ 📝 We are retiring the "EyesOnALZ" brand - it's all Stall Catchers now! Hey there, the loyal catcher community! We have some news :) For a while now we've been working with two brands "EyesOnALZ" and "Stall Catchers", the former being the name for the project here at the Human Computation Institute, tackling Alzheimer's disease, and
Stall Catchers 📹 Stall Catchers community hangout - World Alzheimer's Day 2019 Thank you to everyone who join our first community hangout on World Alzheimer's Day last Saturday, and all the awesome questions! Here's the recording of the "eye-opening" chat we had (with tons of science of Stall Catchers!) :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [https://stallcatchers.com] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [info@stallcatchers.
Events Alzheimer's Day hangout with the scientists & the community of Stall Catchers! This Saturday, September 21st is World Alzheimer's Day. For this occasion, we are organizing a very special hangout / community call with our scientists and, well -- YOU! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tune in at 3pm ET / 12pm PT / 7pm UTC on Saturday (Sep 21) to speak with our scientists and... ask
Microsoft The human/machine partnership solving Alzheimer's disease 📹 How do we combine the best of humans and machines in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com] - the game crowdsourcing Alzheimer's disease? It took lots of exploration of the existing machine learning algorithms, calibration of crowd wisdom algorithms, and combination of the two in the best possible way.
Science Research update: the datasets you've helped analyze so far in Stall Catchers 🔎🐁 Can you believe it?! So far in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] you've helped us analyze six datasets (and that's not counting the validation [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/why-is-validation-important/] ones!), and we're currently on our seventh!! Each dataset could take up to a
Science The "anti-VEGF" dataset now in Stall Catchers 🔬 A couple of weeks ago, after completing the "Long Term" dataset (see report here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/hypertension-dataset-report/#long-term]) we uploaded new data to Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] dealing with the VEGF molecule. Read all about it below... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is "anti-VEGF" &
The Longest Day Play Stall Catchers on #TheLongestDay 💜 It's that time of the year again, and we're inviting you to celebrate The Longest Day by playing a game to speed up Alzheimer's disease -- Stall Catchers [http://bit.ly/StallCatchersENDAlz]! Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day! [http://bit.ly/StallCatchersENDAlz] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Longest Day “This Is Our Life” Community Goes Purple To #ENDAlz this Saturday - special challenge! 💜 Our beloved "This Is Our Life" community (rooted in Watertown, MA, but open to absolutely everyone everywhere!) is Going Purple again this Saturday to celebrate The Longest Day and raise funds to end Alzheimer's disease. We're joining along and Going Purple with a special
