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Stall Catchers Turns 10: Global Catchathon 🎉

Stall Catchers Turns 10: Global Catchathon 🎉

Ten years ago, in October 2016, Stall Catchers launched as the first citizen science project gamified to fight Alzheimer's disease. Since then, hundreds of thousands of catchers, of all ages and from all over the world, have taken part and powered real research along the way. If you

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

Stall Catchers presented at Neuroscience 2016, San Diego

Last week (November 12-16), the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab [https://snlab.bme.cornell.edu/] from Cornell University presented at the Society of Neuroscience annual meeting 2016 conference [https://www.sfn.org/annual-meeting/neuroscience-2016] in San Diego, CA. The 4 poster presentations, which detailed our unique findings pertaining to Alzheimer’s disease, drew

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

Why aren't we using machines instead of humans to catch stalls?

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Why aren't we using machines instead of humans to catch stalls?

Updated, 26 Dec 2018: This issue does not stand still! For most recent updates, see this forum thread [http://forum.eyesonalz.com/t/why-arent-we-using-machines-instead-of-humans-to-catch-stalls/518] . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A common, and reasonable question that we are frequently asked is "why are you asking people to annotate blood vessels instead of just

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

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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!

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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

Why is "validation" important in Stall Catchers?

Why is "validation" important? Stalls are very rare in Alzheimer's brain, but each is extremely important. Stalls - clogged blood vessels - reduce blood flow to many downstream vessels in the brain, sometimes costing up to 30% of total blood flow. That way, stalls could influence

Announcing Stall Catchers 30 day challenge!

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Announcing Stall Catchers 30 day challenge!

It has been just over two weeks since our first game - Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/], was launched, and it is doing extremely well! Find out more about Stall Catchers here [http://stallcatchers.com/about]. In the first two weeks volunteer catchers have helped to analyze thousands of brain

Welcome to EyesOnALZ!

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Welcome to EyesOnALZ!

In case you didn't know - EyesOnALZ [http://eyesonalz.com/] is a brand new citizen science project, taking on Alzheimer's disease! We have just released our first game - Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/] - and we are ready to get this party started! Anyone can