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#CrushALZ Daily: Upside down report of Day 7 🙃

Day 7 is over and - guess what - so is Week 1 of the #CrushALZ competition! We'll make this daily report quick & upside down ... 🙃 But only because there's

#CrushALZ Daily: 50 000+ vessel milestone reached on Day 6, while "All time" leaders change!

Day 6 is concluded! 24 days to go, and we are making strides in crushing ALZ on Stall Catchers already :) See full results of Day 6 below, and remember... It

Challenges

#CrushALZ Daily: Steady progress on Day 5 but MORE EYES STILL NEEDED!

Time flies when you're having fun, and we have already completed the fifth day of the #CrushALZ competition in Stall Catchers! We are steadily pushing towards the research goal -

Stall Catchers

The research goal of #CrushALZ

Our #CrushALZ competition on Stall Catchers is gaining speed, and at the moment of writing this we are already 6.05% done in solving the research goal. But what does

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

Day 4 has now concluded at Stall Catchers #CrushALZ competition, including some whopping numbers, new teams, and - how can we ever avoid them - some technical issues in the

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

Day 3 of our #CrushALZ competition on Stall Catchers - a game to fight Alzheimer's disease with real science - has concluded. The leaderboards have never been more dynamic!! Below

#CrushALZ Daily: Changing leaderboards on Day 2!

Day 2 of our month-long competition to #CrushALZ on Stall Catchers has concluded, and here are the results! Don't forget it's not too late to join & help us #CrushALZ

Stall Catchers

#CrushALZ Daily: Record breaking Day 1!

Our long awaited competition to #CrushALZ kicked-off just over 30 hrs ago, right after The Crowd & The Cloud series premiere on April 6, and since then it has already

Stall Catchers

Complete instructions for Teams (beta) on Stall Catchers

How to join a team: Login or Register on Stall Catchers Your current team - Team Humanity - is displayed on the left of the main (analysis) page Click "Choose team" right below the team name and you'll be taken to the

Challenges

#CrushALZ team competition begins NOW!

We are very excited to bring you - the first Stall Catchers team competition! The competition begins NOW & will run for one month - until 9PM ET, May 6

Resources

Stall Catchers: complete instructions for Teams

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

Challenges

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

EyesOnALZ

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. The 21st Century is host to a new era

EyesOnALZ

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

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 citizen science series are now available online, featuring EyesOnALZ & Stall Catchers in Episode 1!! **Watch it online NOW!** The

BrightFocus

Catch up on the #CitizensSolvingAlz chat!

Two days ago the BrightFocus Foundation (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, Geoff

EyesOnALZ

#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

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.

Stall Catchers

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

If you are a Stall Catchers 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

Stall Catchers

What's next? New pace for Stall Catchers

We haven't officially announced all the results of our Stall Catchers' Validation study yet, but guess what - they look great, and we are already getting "what's next"

EyesOnALZ

EyesOnALZ is 1! Here's our year in review

One year ago, in January 2016, EyesOnALZ project officially kicked off! Which is why today is double special for us - it's the beginning of the New Year AND the

EyesOnALZ

Happy Holidays from the team at EyesOnALZ!

Happy Holidays EyesOnALZ fans & Stall Catchers! ❄️☃️ Thank you for giving the gift of hope every single day 💝 Yours, The EyesOnALZ Team

Stall Catchers

Our first challenge is DONE! Thank you stall catchers ❤️

With some minor bumps in the road (ha - who get's it right the first time, right? :) ), we finished our FIRST CHALLENGE at Stall Catchers! Thank you all who participated! :) We got over 75% percent of all movies required for our validation study! WOOHOO!

Santa Catcher

Good news, fellow stall catchers – Ms. Catcher has caught the holiday spirit! And that can only mean... That’s right, from now until Christmas Eve, each vessel annotated on Stall

BrightFocus

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