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CitSciMedBlitz - a triple citizen science challenge!

CitSciMedBlitz - a triple citizen science challenge!

We are very proud to be partnering with our friends Mark2Cure [https://mark2cure.org/] and Cochrane Crowd [http://crowd.cochrane.org/index.html], and organizing a joint CitSciMed Blitz next week! CitSciMed Blitz begins at [Stall Catchers](https://stallcatchers.com/main) on Monday, Feb 26, 3pm GMT. You can find

Citizen Science Action Day (Sat, Feb 3) - double points in Stall Catchers !

Citizen Science Action Day (Sat, Feb 3) - double points in Stall Catchers !

We're on our way to Salzburg, Austria, as we write, where Pietro & Egle will be participating [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/austrian-citsci-conference/] in "Generation Citizen Science" Austrian Citizen Science 2018 conference, as well as Citizen Science Action Day [https://www.citizen-science.sbg.ac.at/index.php/

*Catcher*-centered design - how the community is shaping Stall Catchers

Catcher-centered design - how the community is shaping Stall Catchers

Recently, our colleagues at UCL asked us for examples on how we have used user feedback in shaping our project and our game - Stall Catchers. Well, I think it's safe to say they probably regret asking, because the list we gave them was looong! 😜 We're

Stall Catchers trophy displayed proudly at Lake Hazel Middle School 💜

Stall Catchers trophy displayed proudly at Lake Hazel Middle School 💜

We already told you the story [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citizen-science-trophy-2017/] of the first #CitSciTrophy that we awarded to Lake Hazel Middle School students some weeks ago, for winning the #CrushALZ competition ! After the winter break we received photos of the trophy from their teacher, Ms. Erin Davis (who, to

Austrian Citizen Science Conference & Stall Catchers challenge in Salzburg next week!

Austrian Citizen Science Conference & Stall Catchers challenge in Salzburg next week!

Next week we're setting off for Salzburg, Austria, where we have been invited to attend the Austrian Citizen Science Conference [https://www.citizen-science.sbg.ac.at/], "Generation Citizen Science". We'll be there for 3 days, starting February 1st, with a Stall Catchers booth (and

We're in the Top 10 #CitizenScience projects of 2017!

We're in the Top 10 #CitizenScience projects of 2017!

SciStarter [https://scistarter.com] has announced the list of Top 10 projects on the year, "with the most page views on SciStarter and the most “joins”." SciStarter's Top 10 Projects of 2017 are here! https://t.co/SBmqRil0NQ #CitizenScience [https://twitter.com/hashtag/CitizenScience?src=hash&

We're 8000 catchers !! 🎉

We're 8000 catchers !! 🎉

It's official - the Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/main] crowd has reached 8000 registered participants !! 🙌 Thanks to each and every one you for helping us get closer to a cure for #Alzheimers every day 💜 If you're not part of the crowd yet - join now

Who managed to #CatchXmas? Winners announced!

Who managed to #CatchXmas? Winners announced!

The holiday season is almost over, and so is our #CatchXmas competition [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/catchxmas-2017/]! We hid a number of surprises in Stall Catchers [https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2018/01/1_bearing_gifts-ANIMATION.gif] movies, such as these: Some of these proved really difficult to find,

Our New Years resolution? Grow the crowd to #CRUSHAlz!

Our New Years resolution? Grow the crowd to #CRUSHAlz!

Last December we told you [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/reaching-ten-thousand/] about our goal to reach 10 000 Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/main#] users - and we almost made it!! Today, we're almost 8 thousand, and we're not about to stop there!! 😊 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We like to

World's first Citizen Science trophy finally in the hands of Lake Hazel students!

World's first Citizen Science trophy finally in the hands of Lake Hazel students!

Last Thursday, 21st December, will enter the history books, as the day when the first Citizen Science trophy was given to a school! :)) or at least we certainly hope so - as well as we hope this tradition continues with other citizen science projects! 🏆 But let's take a

Stall Catchers at H-B Woodlawn’s Science Expo

Stall Catchers at H-B Woodlawn’s Science Expo

Last week, with the help of Samantha Taggart (H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program) & her mom - Martha Taggart (from the BrightFocus Foundation [https://www.brightfocus.org/] - our sponsors!) we sent Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/main#] to H-B Woodlawn school Science Fair in Arlington, VA (USA), for Grades 6th

New video about Stall Catchers!

As you may have noticed, we launched a revamped version of the Stall Catchers landing page last week! And for it - as well as to celebrate Stall Catchers of course - Vika [https://www.instagram.com/vi.zo/] (our social media manager & an amazing video artist + photographer), created

Holidays are coming - look for hidden gifts in Stall Catchers!

Holidays are coming - look for hidden gifts in Stall Catchers!

Happy Holiday Season 2017, our catchers & fans! 💜 Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] is getting festive again, and we invite you to #CatchXmas in the vessel movies! What's that? Each day from now until Christmas we will hide one special holiday item in a vessel movie for you

Our crowd is growing - can we reach 10 thousand catchers by New Years?!

Our crowd is growing - can we reach 10 thousand catchers by New Years?!

Early in the development of the EyesOnALZ project and the Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] game, we set ourselves a goal - have at least 10 thousand users by the end of 2017. And guess what - it's almost the end of 2017, and we're.

New batch of "funny vessels"!

New batch of "funny vessels"!

Citizen scientists are not just good at solving complex visual tasks - they have an awesome imagination, which often crosses boundaries of specific tasks & scientific questions! This can easily be proven by looking at our "funny vessels" collection on our forum [http://forum.eyesonalz.com/t/funny-vessels/

Science of Stall Catchers: Our new Magic Number 🔮✨

Science of Stall Catchers: Our new Magic Number 🔮✨

Ever wonder how we get reliable crowd answers in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/]? Well, there's a special kind of magic for that! Our goal with Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] is to use crowd power to speed up the analysis of Alzheimer's disease research data.

Science of Stall Catchers: the High Fat Diet dataset

Science of Stall Catchers: the High Fat Diet dataset

Right now in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/main], our catchers are analyzing a dataset concerned with the role of a high fat diet in the formation of stalls. What does that mean? What research questions are we trying to answer? How are catchers helping us answer them? All explained

OSMGeoWeek Catchathon in Nigeria (guest post)

OSMGeoWeek Catchathon in Nigeria (guest post)

> Guest post by UniqueMappersTeam (UMT) University of Port Harcourt A Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] Catchathon was a fun addition to the UniqueMappersTeam celebration of OSMGeoweek 2017. After the Catchathon in July [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/catchathon-winners-announced/], where Uniquemappers joined 14 other countries in a global contest to

We're looking for an "effective treatment" for Alzheimer's. What does that mean?

We're looking for an "effective treatment" for Alzheimer's. What does that mean?

What do we mean by "Effective Treatment"? I was talking with EyesOnALZ colleague Lisa Gusman today, who has created some amazing educational videos for Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com], like this one: She aptly pointed out that when we talk about goals and expectations for Stall Catchers [http:

We're going to #MozFest in London! Join us!

We're going to #MozFest in London! Join us!

We'll be in London again this weekend, for the Mozilla Festival 2017 [https://mozillafestival.org/] ! On Friday, Oct 27th, we're participating in the MozFest Science Fair, where Financial Times will be filming a segment on Stall Catchers for Alzheimer's Research UK [https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.

Science of Stall Catchers: discovery-based or hypothesis-driven?

Science of Stall Catchers: discovery-based or hypothesis-driven?

We received an interesting question from one of our catchers, tova, about whether Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] is based on discovery-based or hypothesis-driven science. I thought it might be interesting for everyone to know that, so here is Pietro's answer to that below! It's primarily

Challenging dataset in Stall Catchers 💪

What's life without a little challenge, eh?! Same goes for Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com]... sort of 😂 We have a new dataset in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com], and due to the way it was prepared, some movies appear extra blurry & unclear 🙁 we are working to remove

Funny vessels in Stall Catchers!

Funny vessels in Stall Catchers!

Who said citizen science cannot be about having fun too ?! Ha - certainly no one, and in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] we've been having fun with finding funny vessels & funny outlines in the vessel movies. Check out the entire collection on our forum (largely populated by

Stall Catchers are 1! Announcing catchers of the year

Stall Catchers are 1! Announcing catchers of the year

It's October, and we're celebrating our first birthday in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com]! It's been a year full of adventures for sure! We're cooking up some graphics to illustrate our main milestones & the achievements of our community during the last

Catcher of the #WorldAlzMonth - Michael Landau 😊

Catcher of the #WorldAlzMonth - Michael Landau 😊

The World Alzheimer's Month has just wrapped up, and we are happy to announce the winner of our Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/main] social media competition! Our dedicated catcher, Michael Landau, who not only catches lots of stalls, but keeps spreading the word about Stall Catchers [https: