The Longest Day Lexington Goes Purple for The Longest Day today, with Stall Catchers! ๐ Lexington, MA, are painting the town purple today to raise awareness and funds to end Alzheimer's disease. Aaaaand.... among other activities, they're doing Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com]! We'll have a special challenge on in the game from 3.30 to 4.30pm ET
Datasets The Long Term dataset Next in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com] we are working on the "Long Term" dataset. With the "Long Term" dataset we are seeking to understand how late into disease development an increase in brain blood flow, due to a decrease in capillary stalling, still leads to
Science The "Hypertension" dataset is complete! Here's the full report... Fanfares ๐บ Another datase is complete in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com]! This time we are looking to find out if high blood pressure affects the rate of stalls in Alzheimer's mice. See the full dataset report below! P.S. the official research result will come later, after the
The Humans of Stall Catchers "I DO BELIEVE we will be able to learn enough about Alzheimer's" - the story of catcher John (chairstar) ๐ Next in the series of "the Humans of Stall Catchers" is John, or chairstar / chairflyer as he is known in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope], and our forum [http://forum.eyesonalz.com/]. ๐ Here is his letter below: ๐ > Dear Stall Catchers, > First, please allow me to
The Humans of Stall Catchers "Curing Alzheimerโs is very personal to me" - a letter from supercatcher & caregiver Sheryl ๐ > Hi, I am sachambers. > I am a Stall Catcher. My mother has Alzheimerโs. > I am the mother of two grown children, and I find that taking care of Mom has many similarities to taking care of young children. They need someone to keep them safe and
Megathon April Megathon update on Alzheimer's Speaks Radio with Lori La Bey ๐ป Catch up on last week's Alzheimer' Speaks Radio [http://www.alzheimersspeaks.com/] episode, featuring our own Pietro with an update on all things achieved -- with YOUR HELP -- during our mega Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] event in April -- The Megathon [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/
The Humans of Stall Catchers "If I can do this, anyone can, and we need all the help we can get!" -- interview with supercatcher Carol aka Mema! ๐ฉ ๐ฌ As you may know from our Humans of Stall Catchers [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/tag/the-humans-of-stall-catchers/] series here on this blog, we LOVE hearing from our catchers, and learning more about them!! Today I present an interview with Carol -- known as Carol aka Mema by other catchers, a veteran
The Humans of Stall Catchers Congrats to *Dr.* Mohammad Haft-Javaherian for successfully defending his PhD thesis! ๐ Big congratulations to DR Mohammad Haft-Javaherian, whose place in the annals of EyesOnALZ & Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] is secured by his many technical contributions, including notably his automated approach to finding vessel segments that alleviated a key analytic bottleneck in Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] preprocessing! See Mohammad&
Stall Catchers What's the new multicolor bar on Stall Catchers? Hello hello ! Here to share and explain an exciting update on the main Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] interface.. :) The new "tribar" You might have noticed a progress bar like this right at the top right of the screen: We call it a "tribar" :) Why? because
Megathon Early peek at the #Megathon research result ๐ ๐ As you know, as of Monday this week, we completed the first pass [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/megathon-results] of the Megathon dataset analysis, which allows us to take a peek at your answers and, as promised, provide a preliminary research result! However, let me start with the reminder that all
Megathon The #Megathon leaderboards -- who made it to the top ?! ๐ As promised, here come the Megathon leaderboards! Catch up on the full results of the Megathon weekend here [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/megathon-results]. * Austral/Asian Megathon * Megathon "golden hour" * Megathon weekend * Monday student Megathon extension challenge ---Austral/Asian Megathon 2019-04-13 6:00 to 2019-04-13 8:00 UTCCatchers: All
Megathon The #Megathon results // Dataset 100% analyzed !!! Megathon. Citizen Science Day 2019. Thousands of catchers turn up to single-handedly complete the amount of research that would have taken months in the lab... Yep -- we did it! Never before have we done so much work in a single event, and if the "megaton" glitchy blast*
Megathon Class is in session!! We have Dickson County High School joining Stall Catchers today :) Did you think the Megathon fun was over? No such luck! ๐ Those who couldn't join during the weekend, for example Dickson County High School students from Dickson, Tennessee, are doing their part today. ๐ So the challenge is back on, and so is the progress bar! Can you get
Megathon #Megathon interim update & leaderboards -- 4.5 hours left! ๐ฑ Only a few hours left in the Megathon, and nd we're steadily reaching our goal -- complete an entire dataset ๐คฉ Over 60% done now -- come help us [http://stallcatchers.com] in the final push! ๐ช -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the leading catchers so far: These guys can be
Stall Catchers Tฬทhฬถeฬธ ฬต#Megathon fun is extended until Sunday 11.59pm !! (nฬดoฬต ฬทrฬดeฬดaฬทsฬธoฬทnฬธ.. ๐ณ) Better have too many eyes searching for a cure, than too few, right? ๐ Well, that's exactly what happened in the Megathon today (a record 1253 people played!), and despite all our best preparations and scaling up the servers (and moving them to dynamic Microsoft Azure systems), our database
Megathon The Megathon is LIVE! ๐ ... DRUMS ... And we're off! โฆ All you have to do to participate is play the game RIGHT NOW here [http://stallcatchers.com]. ๐น Follow the live stream on Facebook here [http://bit.ly/MegathonLIVE]. (Facebook account not required -- anyone can stream it without logging in.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handy resources: * "
Megathon ๐ป Stall Catchers #Megathon & Citizen Science Day on Science Friday! Stall Catchers & the Megathon were featured on Science Friday radio show today!! ๐คฉ Catch up on the segment, featuring our own Pietro Michelucci and Chris Schaffer, here: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handy Megathon resources: * Megathon info & sign up: megathon.us [http://megathon.us] * Citizen Science Day resources [https://scistarter.org/citizen-science-day] * * "
Stall Catchers Pre-#Megathon event at Belleville! Here I am again, bringing more pre-Megathon [https://blog.hcinst.org/literally-everything-megathon/] news ๐ one of our colleagues of the Citizen Science Day librarians working group, Chris Santos-Lang, organized a pre-Megathon meetup in his library in Belleville (WI) last week, with great success!! Here it is in Chris' own words:
Stall Catchers #LeadersBlossom -- Cherry Blossom Princess catchers! ๐ธ Looks like we're in for many pleasant surprises in the lead-up to the Megathon [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/literally-everything-megathon/] on Saturday! And I am here to share one of them... A couple days ago, our rock-star colleague from SciStarter [http://scistarter.org], Caroline Nickerson, presented Stall Catchers [http:
Megathon Thursday Night League #7 -- Results! Congrats to christiane, the absolute rock star of Thursday Night League! See you next Thursday in THE LAST practice league before the Megathon [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/literally-everything-megathon/]! Catchers: #####Teams:Read more about the challenge & how to participate here [https://blog.hcinst.org/thursday-night-league/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handy Megathon resources: * Megathon
Megathon Literally everything you need to know about the #Megathon... ๐ Whether you're a Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] regular, or tried it once and never came back until now -- we hope you'll hear this call and help complete one year worth of research in a single hour... Join thousands in the Megathon [http://megathon.us]
Megathon Thursday Night League #6 -- Results! See you next Thursday, second to last before the Megathon [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/megathon/]!~, April 4, 7pm PT, on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com]! Catchers: #####Teams:Read more about the challenge & how to participate here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/thursday-night-league/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handy Megathon resources: * Megathon info & sign
Microsoft Are you from Seattle / Redmond area, WA? Participate in the #Megathon headquarters LIVE! If you're local to Redmond / Seattle area, you have an exclusive chance to participate in the #Megathon at it's headquarters! โ RSVP here [bit.ly/RedmondRSVP] โ The FREE event starts 10.30 AM PT on April 13 at the Microsoft Redmond Campus, Memphis Room, Building 92! The
Stall Catchers ๐ฅ Lecture: the role of reduced blood flow in Alzheimer's & the Stall Catchers game Last Friday, Pietro gave a talk at Cornell University alongside our biomedical collaborators Nozomi & Chris. The lecture covers the aspects of the science behind Stall Catchers, i.e. the role of stalls and reduced blood flow in the brain in Alzheimer's, as well as the inception and
Stall Catchers What better time to announce #Megathon @ Lituanicon if not on... #TolkienReadingDay! ๐๐ Fantastic news! (no pun intended) Stall Catchers has been invited to be present at the long running Lithuania's fantasy convention -- Lituanicon [https://www.facebook.com/lituanicon/] !! ๐ I was pleasantly surprised to be approached by one of the event's organizers, and a fellow science communicator / fantasy
