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Citizen Science Coordinator at the Human Computation Institute, EyesOnALZ/Stall Catchers Community Manager. Giving science back to the people!

#CrushALZ Daily: Leaders maintain their positions on Day 4, but NEW teams coming!

#CrushALZ Daily: Leaders maintain their positions on Day 4, but NEW teams coming!

Day 4 has now concluded at Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now], including some whopping numbers, new teams, and - how can we ever avoid them - some technical issues in the game! See the full report below and don't forget... >

#CrushALZ Daily: Gamers & Middle Schoolers run the show on Day 3!

#CrushALZ Daily: Gamers & Middle Schoolers run the show on Day 3!

Day 3 of our #CrushALZ competition on Stall Catchers [http://StallCatchers.com] - a game to fight Alzheimer's disease with real science - has concluded. The leaderboards have never been more dynamic!! Below - all the results summarized. > If you would like to accelerate promising Alzheimer'

#CrushALZ Daily: Changing leaderboards on Day 2!

#CrushALZ Daily: Changing leaderboards on Day 2!

Day 2 of our month-long competition to #CrushALZ on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] has concluded, and here are the results! > Don't forget it's not too late to join & help us #CrushALZ with real science - EVERYONE can do it - see this post

#CrushALZ Daily: Record breaking Day 1!

#CrushALZ Daily: Record breaking Day 1!

Our long awaited competition to #CrushALZ kicked-off [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] just over 30 hrs ago, right after The Crowd & The Cloud series [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/c-c_post/] premiere on April 6, and since then it has already broken all Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] records! As

Complete instructions for Teams (beta) on Stall Catchers

How to join a team: 1. Login or Register on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] 2. Your current team - Team Humanity - is displayed on the left of the main (analysis) page 3. Click "Choose team" right below the team name and you'll be taken

#CrushALZ team competition begins NOW!

#CrushALZ team competition begins NOW!

We are very excited to bring you - the first Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/main] team competition! [http://stallcatchers.com] The competition begins NOW & will run for one month - until 9PM ET, May 6 / 1AM UTC, May 7. During the competition you will contribute points to the

Stall Catchers: complete instructions for Teams

[Updated 2018-12-15] How to join a team: 1. Login or Register on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] 2. Your current team - Team Humanity - is displayed on the left of the main (analysis) page 3. Click "Choose team" right below the team name and you'll

Challenges Featured

Team registration is OPEN! Get ready to #CrushALZ from 10pm ET TODAY

The moment we've been waiting for is HERE! 🎇 ####**Teams (beta) feature on Stall Catchers is LIVE, and you can start creating teams**!The competition to #CrushALZ will start TODAY, April 6, at 10pm ET. You can start creating teams now & start to play around, although note that

Here's all you need to know about The Crowd & The Cloud

Here's all you need to know about The Crowd & The Cloud

From the series creators themselves! Note: EyesOnALZ & Stall Catchers are featured in Episode 1, which you can watch online here [https://youtu.be/Po8PB2Z17Ic]. The 21st Century is host to a new era of communications and global interconnectivity, where smartphones, computers, mobile tech and the cloud are radically changing

Get ready! Teams to #CrushALZ on Stall Catchers - coming soon

Get ready! Teams to #CrushALZ on Stall Catchers - coming soon

We've been cooking up a special feature on Stall Catchers for a while, and very soon everyone will be able to create or join a team & catch stalls together with friends or colleagues! Moreover, to celebrate the TV premiere of The Crowd & The Cloud [http://crowdandcloud.

The Crowd & The Cloud

The Crowd & The Cloud series feat. EyesOnALZ - NOW available online!

We are happy to announce - and this is no joke! - that the episodes of the long awaited The Crowd & The Cloud [http://crowdandcloud.org] citizen science series are now available online, featuring EyesOnALZ & Stall Catchers in Episode 1 [http://crowdandcloud.org/watch-the-episodes/episode-one]!! > **Watch it

Catch up on the #CitizensSolvingAlz chat!

Two days ago the BrightFocus Foundation [http://www.brightfocus.org/] (our generous sponsors!) hosted a chat on Twitter dedicated to the theme of #CitizensSolvingAlz! Our own principal investigator & inspirational leader Pietro Michelucci was the special guest, joined by Chris Schaffer, our biomedical advisor from Cornell University [https://snlab.bme.

#CitizensSolvingAlz chat on Twitter, 1pm ET/ 6pm GMT, March 28

On March 28, our sponsors, the BrightFocus Foundation, are holding a #CitizensSolvingALZ chat on 🐦Twitter! With a special guest... can you guess it? EyesOnALZ! We will answer questions regarding the Alzheimer's citizen science that we have happening here, and how can any citizen help fight Alzheimer's

Something grrreat is brewing for Stall Catchers ... 😈 📹

The Crowd & The Cloud

Something grrreat is brewing for Stall Catchers ... 😈 📹

You might have noticed we've been silent for a while... calm before the storm, one might say... 😈 That's right, something exciting is about to happen in and for Stall Catchers. First and foremost - the big premier of THE CROWD AND THE CLOUD series on citizen

Introducing "Redeem": claim back points for real movies in Stall Catchers!

If you are a Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/] player you’ll know – there are two kinds (or “levels”) of rewards that you can get during the game: generous points for calibration movies (ones we already know the answer to), and token points for the “Maybes”, or real movies (that

What's next? New pace for Stall Catchers

What's next? New pace for Stall Catchers

We haven't officially announced all the results of our Stall Catchers' [http://stallcatchers.com/] Validation study yet, but guess what - they look great, and we are already getting "what's next" questions in the forum [http://forum.eyesonalz.com/t/now-what/110]! (Thank

EyesOnALZ is 1! Here's our year in review

EyesOnALZ is 1! Here's our year in review

One year ago, in January 2016, EyesOnALZ [http://eyesonalz.com/] project officially kicked off! Which is why today is double special for us - it's the beginning of the New Year AND the first Birthday of EyesOnALZ 😊🎆🎁 We prepared a detailed overview of our year for this special

Happy Holidays from the team at EyesOnALZ!

Happy Holidays EyesOnALZ [http://eyesonalz.com/]fans & Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope]! ❄️☃️ Thank you for giving the gift of hope every single day 💝 Yours, The EyesOnALZ Team

Our first challenge is DONE! Thank you stall catchers ❤️

With some minor bumps [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/challenge-extended/] in the road (ha - who get's it right the first time, right? :) ), we finished our FIRST CHALLENGE at Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope]! Thank you all who participated! :) We got over 75% percent of all movies required

Santa Catcher

Good news, fellow stall catchers – Ms. Catcher [http://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] has caught the holiday spirit! And that can only mean... That’s right, from now until Christmas Eve, each vessel annotated on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] is worth double the points than normal. A perfect opportunity climb

4 alternative ways to give on Giving Tuesday that don't include money!

4 alternative ways to give on Giving Tuesday that don't include money!

It's Giving Tuesday today, with charities around the world asking for monetary and other kind of contributions to support their World-changing work. Fundraising this way to help Alzheimer's research is crucial. To say the least, we wouldn't be able to carry out our ground

30-day challenge extended!

30-day challenge extended!

Almost 30-days ago now we announced Stall Catchers' first - the 30-day challenge [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/stall-catchers-30-day-challenge/]! Yes, as the name suggests it should be ending any day now, but ... Our challenge bar has gone rogue! Due to a slight mishap in the implementation, the challenge bar has

National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month

November - National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month is just about halfway through. For us at Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/] it has been a month of new records, as new participants have been coming in to join our growing community! To all of

Stall Catchers session at the Hawthorne retirement community

Stall Catchers Featured

Stall Catchers session at the Hawthorne retirement community

Exactly two weeks ago (Oct, 23) one of our dedicated Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/] volunteers, Coralee Burch, ran a stall catching training session at her retirement community, Hawthorne at Leesburg [http://www.hawthorneatleesburg.com/] in Florida, USA! The session was attended by almost 40 seniors of the community, some

Back from Mozfest!

Stall Catchers Featured

Back from Mozfest!

Alice (@penguingalaxy) and me (Egle, @seplute) just got back from the Mozilla Festival [https://mozillafestival.org/], where we got to hang out with the Open Science gang for three days! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday - getting started... Starting Friday (10/28/2016), we set up camp at Ravensbourne college, London, together with