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The Humans of Stall Catchers

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Stall Catchers has a Girl Scouts Patch!

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Stall Catchers has a Girl Scouts Patch!

It doesn’t get more official than this: the Stall Catchers citizen science project [https://youtu.be/-DI97ITiiMk] now has it’s very own Girl Scouts patch! (scroll down to watch the video) (I’m not sure if we’ve been this excited since Lake Hazel Middle School won and

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

Meet the bot authors - Kirill Brodt and his bot “Clsc2”!

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 opportunity to speak with Roman Solovyev about his bot ZFTurbo. ZFTurbo was able to help us out quite a lot

Meet the bot authors - Laura Onac and her bot “GAIA”

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 able to compete once again in our most recent Bot Study. Since this Bot Study was a chance to test

Meet the bot authors - Roman Solovyev and his bot “ZFTurbo”!

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. And still - even bots themselves were just machines, they were all created by great and talented people! To get

Hello from Libuše!

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Hello from Libuše!

Hi everyone! After having been around the Human Computation Institute for more than a year, we thought it would be high time for a proper introduction! My name is Libuše and I am a PhD student of cultural anthropology and a master’s student of computer science at LMU Munich,

Farewell, Eglė

(No, she's not dead - she's just leaving.) It is with some measure of disbelief and a great sense of loss that I must convey the news that, after five years of dedicated service to the Stall Catchers project, Eglė Marija Ramanauskaitė will soon be leaving

Remembering Evelyn - our legendary supercatcher 💜

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Remembering Evelyn - our legendary supercatcher 💜

We were very sorry to hear about the recent passing of our legendary supercatcher and dear friend - Evelyn. Being one of the very first catchers, Evelyn quickly "cracked" the game, and climbed to the top of the leaderboards. To this day, even with so many other players

The Humans of Human Computation Institute: Percy - our new developer!

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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

"I DO BELIEVE we will be able to learn enough about Alzheimer's" - the story of catcher John (chairstar) 💜

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"I DO BELIEVE we will be able to learn enough about Alzheimer's" - the story of catcher John (chairstar) 💜

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/]. 😊 Here is his letter below: 💜 > Dear Stall Catchers, > First, please allow me to

"Curing Alzheimer’s is very personal to me" - a letter from supercatcher & caregiver Sheryl 💜

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"Curing Alzheimer’s is very personal to me" - a letter from supercatcher & caregiver Sheryl 💜

> Hi, I am sachambers. > I am a Stall Catcher. My mother has Alzheimer’s. > 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

"If I can do this, anyone can, and we need all the help we can get!" -- interview with supercatcher Carol aka Mema! 👩 🔬

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"If I can do this, anyone can, and we need all the help we can get!" -- interview with supercatcher Carol aka Mema! 👩 🔬

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

Congrats to *Dr.* Mohammad Haft-Javaherian for successfully defending his PhD thesis! 🎓

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Congrats to Dr. Mohammad Haft-Javaherian for successfully defending his PhD thesis! 🎓

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&

Goofy and inspiring... interview with Stall Catchers superuser Badstallsbadbad ! 😜 🖤

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Goofy and inspiring... interview with Stall Catchers superuser Badstallsbadbad ! 😜 🖤

As promised..! We ambushed and interrogated, oops I mean - interviewed our Family & Friends tournament [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/family-friends-tournament-final-results/] champion, and a recently emerged supercatcher who won't let almost anyone else to the top of the Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] leaderboards anymore... Badstallsbadbad ! -----------------

What does it take to become a vessel expert in Stall Catchers? Interview with our rock star Torie! ♥

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What does it take to become a vessel expert in Stall Catchers? Interview with our rock star Torie! ♥

Why can't Cornell University researchers do their work Alzheimer's research work effectively without the help of citizen scientists? What does it take to become an expert in recognizing stalls? Interview with Victorine (Torie) Muse -- the rock star of Stall Catchers and a former Master'

Stall Catchers doesn't just speed up research -- it enables it! Interview with Prof. Nozomi Nishimura

Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] doesn't just speed up the research at Cornell University - it enables researchers to ask questions that they haven't been able to ask before. Wonderfully explained in this interview with our collaborator, Prof. Nozomi Nishimura: Help us do new kinds of

Happy Birthday 🎂 to the first billionaire of Stall Catchers - Caprarom!

Happy Birthday 🎂 to the first billionaire of Stall Catchers - Caprarom!

We are delighted to congratulate one of our very first catchers, who has, since the launch of Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope], remained at the very top of the leaderboards, on his birthday AND becoming the first billionaire of Stall Catchers today !!! Happy B-day & One Billion, Caprarom !!! 💜 Caprarom,

Catcher Michael Landau: "playing the game makes me feel less powerless"

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Catcher Michael Landau: "playing the game makes me feel less powerless"

Very much overdo, but not any less important - it is time to acknowledge our long-time catcher (who wins all the contests!) - Michael Landau! For other "Humans of Stall Catchers" features, click here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/tag/the-humans-of-stall-catchers/]. Michael is the #WorldAlzMonth competition [https://blog.eyesonalz.

🎥 Interview with super catcher Guy Calkins

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🎥 Interview with super catcher Guy Calkins

One of our super catchers, Guy Calkins (you might have noticed him at the top of the leaderboards as gcalkins!) has visited the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab recently, and met the scientists doing the biomedical research behind Stall Catchers, as well as our project lead, Pietro. Among learning more about the work

Remembering Steve Johanson

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Remembering Steve Johanson

Life takes you to unexpected places – one of which, for me, was a block party in a Boston suburb [https://youtu.be/FoVqD6mAVSA]. This is where I met the perfect couple – Steve and Judy Johanson. They and their family invited us to their block party – an Alzheimer's fundraiser,

The hidden figures of Stall Catchers

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The hidden figures of Stall Catchers

We've just been through another major Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] event - the first-ever Catchathon [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/tag/catchathon/], and we have celebrated [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/catchathon-winners-announced/] the participants and the winners... but what about the people who made that happen?! First of

Meeting with Asta - a catcher in Lithuania!

Meeting with Asta - a catcher in Lithuania!

Eglė here, reporting straight from the Sunrise Valley in Vilnius, Lithuania, where I had the pleasure to meet one of local catchers here in Vilnius - Asta ( Astrocitija) ! > We got in touch with Asta during the #RedeemLoot competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/redeem-competition/] in Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com]