Citizen Science Badges Stall Catchers has a Girl Scouts Patch! It doesn’t get more official than this: the Stall Catchers citizen science project now has it’s very own Girl Scouts patch! (scroll down to watch the video) (I’
About 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 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
Stall Catchers 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
Stall Catchers 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.
The Humans of Stall Catchers 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
Stall Catchers 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
The Humans of Stall Catchers 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
The Humans of Stall Catchers The Humans of Human Computation Institute: Percy - our new developer! As some of you may know, our developer Ieva, who's been with us since the beginning of Stall Catchers, has recently left us, and we've been struggling to "make ends
The Humans of Stall Catchers "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, and our forum. 😊 Here is his
The Humans of Stall Catchers "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
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! 👩 🔬 As you may know from our Humans of Stall Catchers series here on this blog, we LOVE hearing from our catchers, and learning more about them!! Today I present an
The Humans of Stall Catchers 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 is secured by his many technical contributions, including notably his automated approach to finding
The Humans of Stall Catchers Goofy and inspiring... interview with Stall Catchers superuser Badstallsbadbad ! 😜 🖤 As promised..! We ambushed and interrogated, oops I mean - interviewed our Family & Friends tournament champion, and a recently emerged supercatcher who won't let almost anyone else to the
The Humans of Stall Catchers 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
Stall Catchers Stall Catchers doesn't just speed up research -- it *enables* it! Interview with Prof. Nozomi Nishimura Stall Catchers 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 research
Stall Catchers 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, remained at the very top of the leaderboards, on his birthday
The Humans of Stall Catchers 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
The Humans of Stall Catchers 🎥 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
The Humans of Stall Catchers Remembering Steve Johanson Life takes you to unexpected places – one of which, for me, was a block party in a Boston suburb. This is where I met the perfect couple – Steve and Judy
The Humans of Stall Catchers The hidden figures of Stall Catchers We've just been through another major Stall Catchers event - the first-ever Catchathon, and we have celebrated the participants and the winners... but what about the people who made that
Stall Catchers 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