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Reflections from the Human Computation Institute Team about the Citizen Science for Health 2025 Conference

Photo caption for featured image: The Human Computation Institute team in Stoos, Switzerland, before the conference — taking in mountain air and big ideas. From left: Ravish Dussaruth, Gretė Vaičaitytė, Caroline Nickerson, Maggie Lane, Luca Michelucci, Pietro Michelucci -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why we went to Zurich At the Human Computation Institute (HCI) [https:

#CrushALZ teams: we want to know more about you!

Were you participating in the recent #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-day-thirty/] with a team in Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com]? Tell us more about you! We'd like to feature as many teams and catcher/team stories on our blog. Just answer a few questions below if

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#CrowdCloudLIVE hangout to feature Stall Catchers players, Wednesday 8pm ET

On Wednesday The Crowd & The Cloud [http://crowdandcloud.org/]* are hosting a very special #CrowdCloudLIVE hangout, which will highlight the #CrushALZ competition and include a live panel of Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] players and people behind the game! Tune in to The Crowd & The Cloud Facebook page

#CrushALZ is COMPLETE: final scores & winning teams!

The first Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] team competition - #CrushALZ has come to an end! Over 30 days of the competition catchers have helped us analyse almost 200 thousand real vessels, and achieved up to 32 weeks of lab work! Day 30 has been the most active, with over

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Middle School STEM wins the #CrushALZ team competition !!

With over 90 million points !!! And the most active catchers on the last day have been: Look for the full coverage on the winners & the full report of Day 30 on the blog tomorrow... For now - catch up on the last hour of the competition which was streamed

#CrushALZ Daily: Catchers crush in TRIPLE speed on Day 29!! One day to go!

We've all been amazed by the records achieved during the #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-live-finale/] so far but Day 29 numbers caused even my jaw to drop !!! 😆 Or, to quote Pietro [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/ghost/team/pietro/]: "Look at this insane team competition frenzy!

What's next in Stall Catchers? Life after #CrushALZ 🙃

For the last month we have been running our first team competition on Stall Catchers, to celebrate the premiere of The Crowd & The Cloud documentary [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crowd-cloud-online/] on citizen science, which features Stall Catchers and EyesOnALZ, and to kick-off our brand new Teams (beta) feature! We

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#CrushALZ Daily: Stall Destroyers win Day 28 but can they beat Middle School STEM?!

Day 28 is finished (and so is Week 4!), and we have only two days left in the #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com]! Middle School STEM [http://stallcatchers.com/team/4] and Stall Destroyers [http://stallcatchers.com/team/19] are both keen

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#CrushALZ Live finale & Double points on the last day!

The #CrushALZ competition is drawing to an end, and we can't wait to see which team will call itself the ultimate stall crusher in two days! We are very excited to invite you to tune into #CrushALZ LIVE during the last hour of the competition - a live

#CrushALZ Daily: Day 27 & shoutout to the catchers behind teams!

Day 27 finally brought some changes to the All time leaderboard, but the main leaders remain the same & it is as good a time as any to highlight the catchers behind! Read all about it below... > And keep crushing Alzheimer's with science! If you need a

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#CrushALZ Daily: Crushing faster than ever & all records broken AGAIN on Day 26

Day 26 of the #CrushALZ competition is through and we have only 4 days left! But we are crushing more than ever before - see all the record smashing numbers below. > The team competition is drawing to an end - but it is not too late to join &

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#CrushALZ Daily: Catchers break the records again on Day 25!

Weekends are know to be slow-catching days... But Mondays certainly aren't! Not only did we analyse more than twice the vessels on Day 25 compared to the day before, we broke the "real" vessel record too! Read all about it below, and... > Break the records

#CrushALZ Daily: Veterans catch on Sundays 🙃 ... Day 24!

Find the results of the Day 24 of #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] below! > And don't forget you can play Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] too! See here [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] to learn more about the competition. Day 24 Start of day: April

#CrushALZ Daily: Lazy catchers' Saturday still breaks through 30% goal on Day 23!

Weekends have been known to be slightly lazy times in Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] - but we still managed to analyse almost 3.5 thousand real vessels and shave off up to 0.5 weeks off the potential lab analysis time in one day! Read the report of Day

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#CrushALZ Week 3 wrap up!

The #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] on the Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] citizen science game has concluded 3 full weeks on April 27. During this time the competition has been joined by 28 teams representing specific organizations, classrooms, communities and sporadically organized groups of catchers, who have

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#CrushALZ Daily: Stall Catchers records crushed on Day 22!

It's happened! Our absolute record holder - #CrushALZ [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] Day 1 [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-day-one], which saw over 13 thousand vessels annotated in 24 hrs and has held the record-breaking day title since then, has finally been relieved of that duty! On Day

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#CrushALZ Daily: Quick numbers of Day 21!

Day 21 of the #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] is done, and so is Week 3! Stand by for the full weekly report later, and look at the Day 21 leaderboards below... > We have one week & a bit left to

#CrushALZ Daily: 20 days in but the leaders are none-the-clearer!

After 20 days, we are still catching stalls at record speeds with new teams joining the #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] every day! See the report of Day 20 below, and ... > Join us! Read all about the #CrushALZ competition here [http:

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#CrushALZ Daily: Neck-in-neck race continues on Day 19!

Leaders change quickly in the Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now], with new and old teams bringing surprises of all kinds! Read the full report of Day 19 below... > And join #CrushALZ [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] if you haven't yet!

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#CrushALZ Daily: Competition among daily leaders heating up on Day 18!

New teams joining, old teams fighting for leading positions, and new teams sneakily catching up to old timers - yep, it's becoming hard to keep track of everything that's cooking at #CrushALZ [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now]! See the report of Day 18 below... > ICYMI

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CrushALZ Daily: Day 17 home team advantage ;)

At the end of Day 17 of #CrushALZ [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now], CitSci Gamers [http://stallcatchers.com/team/2] blinks just long enough for Middle School STEM [http://stallcatchers.com/team/4] to steal back the overall lead, and EyesOnALZ [https://stallcatchers.com/team/7] makes a cameo in

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#CrushALZ Daily: Leaders change completely on Day 16!

Day 16 of #CrushALZ [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] is over, and we have a new team join us + a complete reshuffling of the leaderboard! Read all about it bellow... > To catch up on previous #CrushALZ [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] updates, including the latest Week 2 [http://blog.

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#CrushALZ Week 2 wrap up!

The #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] on the Stall Catchers [http://] citizen science game has completed it's second week on April 20th. Find a summary of all we have achieved during the 14 days of the competition below. If you need a reminder of Week One

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#CrushALZ Daily: more gamers are coming on Day 15! (and quick look at Day 14)

Daily #CrushALZ [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] reports are back ! We ran into some computer-calculation related problems yesterday and needed to help them out a bit to get the daily scores of Day 14 and Day 15 (that's why we call it "human computation" 😈 well, kind

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Stand by for #CrushALZ Day 14 & Week 2!

We have been tricked by those tricksy computers today, and are still working on getting you the daily & weekly numbers of #CrushALZ [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now]! Stand by while we do that, or better yet - keep crushing ALZ on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] while we do

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#CrushALZ Daily: The climb continues on Day 13!

We're still gaining speed & catching stalls at close to record speed in Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com], while some stubborn leaders can't decide who gets the first place! All about the Day 13 of the #CrushALZ competition below. > Join us! There's stalls