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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:

Research

Another scientific paper - coauthored with catchers! 💜

Another one is out there! Earlier this we told you about the first scientific paper published with Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] data - data YOU helped generate - in Nature's Scientific Reports [https://blog.hcinst.org/sc-paper-hfd-scientific-reports/]. The second one is out too - in PLoS

Datasets

New Stall Catchers dataset: "ApoE" 🧬

There's a new dataset in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/]! This time we're dealing with "ApoE" gene. See below what that is... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As many of you will know, there are certain genetic factors involved Alzheimer's disease. If you have certain gene

Machine learning

Stalls, machines and humans: an update 🤖

If we had a nickel for every time the question "why humans and not machines" has been asked in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] history... :) Well, the reasons why humans are so much better at catching stalls have been explained in this blog post [https://blog.hcinst.

Stall Catchers

New Stall Catchers dataset: "Apocynin" 🧪

There's a new dataset in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] - "Apocynin", and here's what it's about (straight from the "lips" from our biomedical partners at Cornell!) : > In this dataset, we sought to determine  whether there is any

Stall Catchers

World Alzheimer's Day challenge: full results!

Thank you everyone who joined our World Alzheimer's Day challenge day yesterday, September 21. Find the full stats below! Total movies analyzed: 24 024 Total real movies analyzed: 17 340 Lab time: 22.5 days! 🚀 Catchers by research movies: RankUsernameResearch movies 1starider6293 2christiane2370 3KarisFraMauro1404 4 lscatcher865 5glol785 6caprarom★

Stall Catchers

World Alzheimer's Day challenge on Stall Catchers!

On September 21 - World Alzheimer's Day - the whole world comes together to do something about Alzheimer's - a disease affecting nearly 50 million people worldwide. That's, of course, not even including the caregivers, families and friends of people living with the disease.

The Humans of Stall Catchers Featured

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 game, and climbed to the top of the leaderboards. To this day, even with so many other players

Stall Catchers Featured

📜 First Stall Catchers scientific article - with all catchers' usernames!

Finally, our long awaited manuscript is out there - in Nature's Scientific Reports! You can find the open access article in full here [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65908-y]. In a nutshell... > You helped discover that: A high fat diet increases the severity of Alzheimer's

Datasets

New Stall Catchers dataset: "Structural mapping" 🧠

In record time here comes a fresh new dataset! 😀 As some of you catchers have guessed already, this one is going deeper into the brain to look for stalls. Here's what the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab said about it: > In this dataset, we are trying to evaluate the distribution

Stall Catchers

The machines are coming! (but the humans are staying) 🤖🤝🧔

You might be familiar with the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians to “First do no harm”. My colleagues and I have adopted our own version of this: “First use no humans”, which means if there is a way to solve a problem using machines, we should not ask a human

Datasets

Full stats of "Running" and "Anti-VEGF" datasets

Find the full stats and catcher leaderboards of the "Running" and "Anti-VEGF" datasets below! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anti-VEGF dataset (more about it here [https://blog.hcinst.org/anti-vegf-dataset/]) Total movies: 151765 Average number of answers per movie: 3.4379 Min answers on movie: 3 Max views: 19 Time

Research

The first scientific articles using Stall Catchers data are in the works!

Some of you might have received the good news in the mail already... And if you've helped analyze the datasets, you're on the list of authors! 💜 There are THREE scientific articles currently in the process of being published, with results derived directly from your blood vessel

Stall Catchers

Final results of the #CabinFever challege!

133 catchers - have joined!! 69 teams - have participated! Among which there were... 8 are school teams and 7 - library teams! See the relevant leaderboards below. 214 K - that's the total number of vessel movies watched in the challenge. 157 K - of these where

Stall Catchers

Last day of the #CabinFever challenge!

Citizen Science Month is over, and we're almost done with the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/]... but it's time for one last bang! ;) There will be DOUBLE POINTS tomorrow, 8 to 12am ET (12 to 16pm UTC) ! And we hope you'll join

Stall Catchers

Day 28 & Week 4 of the #CabinFever challenge!

Less than two days left in the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/]!!! The challenge will last until 12pm ET, May 1st. And there will be double all day until then!! Meanwhile, here's a quick update on the main stats of the challenge so far... 128 catchers

Stall Catchers

Day 27 of #CabinFever - leaderboards!

Here's results of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Day 27! Teams by points & research points - Day 27 TeamPoints - Day 27Research movies - Day 27 1First Stone912319811 2MemoryCafes 789011602 3testing687249525 4krissi586070528 5Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day410024333 6Canada337757294 7LAPL322763632 8I See Stalls180180183

Stall Catchers

Day 26 of #CabinFever - leaderboards!

Here's results of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Day 26! Teams by points & research points - Day 26 TeamPoints - Day 26Research movies - Day 26 1testing1071260815 2MemoryCafes 541395441 3I See Stalls376281327 4Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day289561 237 5LAPL260136606 6First Stone158197164 7Port

Stall Catchers

Day 25 of #CabinFever - leaderboards!

Here's results of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Day 25! Teams by points & research points - Day 25 Team Points - Day 24Research movies - Day 24 1MemoryCafes897736686 2Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day598658553 3First Stone515629421 4krissi407835328 5I See Stalls358369331 6testing328280270 7LAPL211092440 8Canada176050157

Stall Catchers

Day 24 of #CabinFever - leaderboards!

Here's results of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Day 24! Teams by points & research points - Day 24 Team Points - Day 24Research movies - Day 24 1krissi23426701669 2MemoryCafes 17668911255 3testing13968721039 4I See Stalls782795644 5First Stone608642392 6 Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day435279234

Stall Catchers

Friday Bonus round leaderboards! (Apr 27)

Friday Bonus round (April 10) leaderboards: Teams by points: Team namePoints 1krissi433336 2MemoryCafes224656 3Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day216492 4Dementia Action Week176893 5First Stone137211 6Austria103124 7testing87232 8I See Stalls33429 9Appaloosa Library13074 10HB Woodlawn 7th Grade Stall Catchers6083Teams by research movies: Team nameResearch movies 1krissi195 2MemoryCafes116 3Dementia Action Week77 4

Stall Catchers

Don't forget Friday Bonus round!

Whoa, it's Friday again! #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Bonus round! 🥁 As usual, there will be DOUBLE POINTS, 4 to 5pm ET (8 to 9pm UTC) on Stall Catchers! Plus, you're welcome to join us for a live chat at 4.30pm ET on

Stall Catchers

Day 23 of #CabinFever - leaderboards!

Here's results of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Day 23! Teams by points & research points - Day 23 Team Points - Day 23Research movies - Day 23 1testing24194081747 2MemoryCafes 1041121864 3Canada704283662 4First Stone699160591 5Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day503194438 6krissi444518273 7I See Stalls344457339

Stall Catchers

Day 22 of #CabinFever - leaderboards!

Here's results of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Day 22! Teams by points & research points - Day 22 Team Points - Day 22Research movies - Day 22 1testing16020031376 2MemoryCafes 1340177917 3First Stone670082616 4Canada539118478 5I See Stalls370913303 6Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day365084316 7Port

Stall Catchers

Day 21 of #CabinFever - leaderboards!

Here's results of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Day 21! Teams by points - Day 21 Team Points - Day 21 1testing1906112 2Canada585237 3MemoryCafes557702 4I See Stalls552437 5krissi551955 6Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day507059 7First Stone482401 8This is our Life236209 9Port Angeles, WA184968 10Ring

Stall Catchers

Day 20 of #CabinFever - leaderboards!

Here's results of the #CabinFever challenge [https://blog.hcinst.org/cabinfever-challenge/] Day 20! Teams by points - Day 20 Team Points - Day 20 1testing2377731 2MemoryCafes1572279 3Canada679821 4Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day628110 5First Stone606811 6krissi501357 7I See Stalls222363 8Port Angeles, WA178535 9MinnesotaNice121467 10Dementia Action Week 94698