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Stroke data in Stall Catchers!

It turns out that we can use Stall Catchers not only for Alzheimer's research, but also for stroke research! And if you're familiar with Stall Catchers, you might notice that

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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📜 First Stall Catchers scientific article - with all catchers' usernames!

Finally, our long awaited manuscript is out there - in Nature's Scientific Reports! You can find the open access article in full here. In a nutshell... You helped discover that:

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The first scientific articles using Stall Catchers data are in the works!

Some of you might have received the good news in the mail already... And if you've helped analyze the datasets, you're on the list of authors! 💜 There are THREE scientific

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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,