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Join us for a Stall Catchers webinar tomorrow!

Join us for a Stall Catchers webinar tomorrow!

Dear Catchers, please join us [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrd-qtqT8rHd1B_F2oIdDhEkNyTMjk0h99] for a special webinar at 10 AM tomorrow, Saturday, 2nd November! Our team member, cultural anthropologist Libuše will present her new book, based on Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] and similar projects. You'll be able

Libuše worked with us and then wrote about it in her new book!

Libuše worked with us and then wrote about it in her new book!

Libuše Vepřek came to the Human Computation Institute to study Stall Catchers. Libuše introduced herself to the Stall Catchers community in 2022 through this blog post [https://calendly.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.hcinst.org%2Fhello-from-libuse%2F] - so if you need a refresher, feel free to take

Microsoft's Volunteers, it's a wrap!

Microsoft's Volunteers, it's a wrap!

What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving? We’re thankful for the Microsoft Giving Campaign!

Caprarom visited us in the lab… and so can you!

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 leaderboard as Caprarom, visited us to celebrate our fifth anniversary and joined us on a tour

Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign - a time of year when volunteering blooms

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 which employees rally to volunteer their time for a cause that feels important to them. This year, Microsoft invited Stall

Alzheimer's Day hangout with the scientists & the community of Stall Catchers!

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

“This Is Our Life” Community Goes Purple To #ENDAlz this Saturday - special challenge! 💜

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

Lexington Goes Purple for The Longest Day today, with Stall Catchers! 💜

The Longest Day

Lexington Goes Purple for The Longest Day today, with Stall Catchers! 💜

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

The #Megathon leaderboards -- who made it to the top ?! 🏆

The #Megathon leaderboards -- who made it to the top ?! 🏆

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

The #Megathon results // Dataset 100% analyzed !!!

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 interim update & leaderboards -- 4.5 hours left! 😱

#Megathon interim update & leaderboards -- 4.5 hours left! 😱

Only a few hours left in the Megathon, and nd we're steadily reaching our goal -- complete an entire dataset 🤩 Over 60% done now -- come help us [http://stallcatchers.com] in the final push! 💪 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the leading catchers so far: These guys can be

T̷h̶e̸ ̵#Megathon fun is extended until Sunday 11.59pm !! (n̴o̵ ̷r̴e̴a̷s̸o̷n̸.. 😳)

T̷h̶e̸ ̵#Megathon fun is extended until Sunday 11.59pm !! (n̴o̵ ̷r̴e̴a̷s̸o̷n̸.. 😳)

Better have too many eyes searching for a cure, than too few, right? 😜 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

The Megathon is LIVE! 🏁

The Megathon is LIVE! 🏁

... DRUMS ... And we're off! ✦ All you have to do to participate is play the game RIGHT NOW here [http://stallcatchers.com]. 📹 Follow the live stream on Facebook here [http://bit.ly/MegathonLIVE]. (Facebook account not required -- anyone can stream it without logging in.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handy resources: * "

Pre-#Megathon event at Belleville!

Pre-#Megathon event at Belleville!

Here I am again, bringing more pre-Megathon [https://blog.hcinst.org/literally-everything-megathon/] news 😍 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:

#LeadersBlossom -- Cherry Blossom Princess catchers! 🌸

#LeadersBlossom -- Cherry Blossom Princess catchers! 🌸

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:

Literally everything you need to know about the #Megathon... 👇

Literally everything you need to know about the #Megathon... 👇

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]

Are you from Seattle / Redmond area, WA? Participate in the #Megathon headquarters LIVE!

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! → RSVP here [bit.ly/RedmondRSVP] ← The FREE event starts 10.30 AM PT on April 13 at the Microsoft Redmond Campus, Memphis Room, Building 92! The

What better time to announce #Megathon @ Lituanicon if not on... #TolkienReadingDay! 😜🚀

What better time to announce #Megathon @ Lituanicon if not on... #TolkienReadingDay! 😜🚀

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/] !! 🚀 I was pleasantly surprised to be approached by one of the event's organizers, and a fellow science communicator / fantasy

Winter Holiday Season is coming... #ShareTheJoy of Catching! ♡❄

Winter Holiday Season is coming... #ShareTheJoy of Catching! ♡❄

It's the first day of Winter and with it begins the Winter Holiday anticipation ! ♡❄ (at least so here in Europe anyway! :)) We feel this season is just right to be sharing all the good things that have filled your year with your family and friends. So, why not

Human Computation Institute and Games For Health Europe enter formal partnership!

Human Computation Institute and Games For Health Europe enter formal partnership!

OCT. 8, 2018, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS – As many of you know, we launched the first app version [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/catchathon2018-surprise-app/] of Stall Catchers [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamesolutionslab.stallcatchers] on Android right before World Alzheimer’s Day, with the help of Games for Health

Catchathon 2018 is LIVE NOW!

Catchathon 2018 is LIVE NOW!

It's 0:00 o'clock, September 21, in Kiritimati, Christmas Island - the first timezone on the planet, and so begins the World Alzheimer's Day, together with the... Second International Stall Catchers Catchathon❗ Teams and individuals across the planet will stand together for 48 hours

The Catchathon is COMING! 🥁 🤸

The Catchathon is COMING! 🥁 🤸

The time has come for the Second International Catchathon of Stall Catchers ❗ We will join together as a planet again, this time on World Alzheimer's Day, to fight a disease that has no ethnic or geographic boundaries. The catchathon will run for 48 hours, from the moment World

Play Stall Catchers on #TheLongestDay!

The Longest Day

Play Stall Catchers on #TheLongestDay!

June 21 marks The Longest Day, and we're rallying forces to #ENDAlz with Stall Catchers [http://bit.ly/StallCatchersENDAlz]! [http://bit.ly/StallCatchersENDAlz] Join us for the entire day on the 21st, 00:00-23:59 ET, and help us break last year's [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/

Watertown community logs 1 week of research time in 1 day!

Watertown community logs 1 week of research time in 1 day!

Thank you so much for joining us and the Watertown community in the special "This Is Our Life" challenge today 💜 Together, we managed to achieve about 39.7 hours of research, that is almost 1 week in the lab!! And all of that in just one day! Here

Sunrise to sunset: Honoring Steve Johanson with "This Is Our Life" challenge 💜 TRIPLE points!

The Longest Day

Sunrise to sunset: Honoring Steve Johanson with "This Is Our Life" challenge 💜 TRIPLE points!

TODAY, June 16, our dear friends, the community in Watertown, MA, are painting their town purple again for The Longest Day. The event has been organized by Judy & Steve Johanson and their family for several years now, and aims to raise funds & awareness about Alzheimer's disease.