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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:

Megathon

Thursday Night League #3 -- Results!

Shoutout to christiane, the ultimate champion of last week's Thursday Night League! See you all again today, 7pm PT, on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com]! Catchers: #####Teams:Read more about the challenge & how to participate here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/thursday-night-league/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handy Megathon resources: * Megathon info

Megathon

Thursday Night League #2 -- Results!

Welcome Maricopa County Library District team, and The Mansfield Connection! Welcome back West Slope Community Library :) Catchers: #####Teams:Read more about the challenge & how to participate here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/thursday-night-league/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handy Megathon resources: * Megathon info & sign up: megathon.us [http://megathon.us] * Librarian step-by-step guide

Megathon

The MEGATHON is coming!! 🥁

We have a dangerous habit of trying to outdo ourselves... and this time, we're going MEGA! On April 13, Citizen Science Day, we are aiming to gather thousands of people across the US to analyze an entire dataset that answers a single question about Alzheimers disease in just

Stall Catchers

Thursday Night League #1 -- Results!

Catchers: #####Teams:Read more about the challenge & how to participate here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/thursday-night-league/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handy Megathon resources: * Megathon info & sign up: megathon.us [http://megathon.us] * Librarian step-by-step guide for megathon [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTC2qOJf__HWoxblX9wk5vqPF6e63ypGKsBkFTn94j8/edit#heading=h.t4dxjn9e82qa] * Citizen Science

Stall Catchers

Thursday Night league -- 7pm Pacific Time, every Thursday!

ᗯEᒪᑕOᗰE TO TᕼE TᕼᑌᖇᔕᗪᗩY ᒪEᗩGᑌE -- ᗰEGᗩTᕼOᑎ ᑭᖇEᑭ! -- a challenge for library teams* practicing for the Megathon, happening every Thursday, 7pm-9pm PT ( convert time here [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20190222T030000&p1=tz_pt&p2=tz_et] ). * See detailed joining instructions below... Results so

Science

The time of NOX is over. The time of Tau has come. (Wait what?! 😅)

Here comes the long overdue update on the research YOU are helping to achieve on Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] ! In short: we have just finished the "NOX" dataset -- the very first dataset looking into molecular mechanisms behind stall formation. Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] is

Science

Article in "Nature Neuroscience" describes the role of stalls in Alzheimer's for the first time -- translation to human here 👇

The basis for everything we do in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com] was published in the article "Neutrophil adhesion in brain capillaries reduces cortical blood flow and impairs memory function in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models" by our collaborators at Cornell University in Nature Neuroscience today. → Read the

The Humans of Stall Catchers

Goofy and inspiring... interview with Stall Catchers superuser Badstallsbadbad ! 😜 🖤

As promised..! We ambushed and interrogated, oops I mean - interviewed our Family & Friends tournament [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/family-friends-tournament-final-results/] champion, and a recently emerged supercatcher who won't let almost anyone else to the top of the Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] leaderboards anymore... Badstallsbadbad ! -----------------

The Humans of Stall Catchers

What does it take to become a vessel expert in Stall Catchers? Interview with our rock star Torie! ♥

Why can't Cornell University researchers do their work Alzheimer's research work effectively without the help of citizen scientists? What does it take to become an expert in recognizing stalls? Interview with Victorine (Torie) Muse -- the rock star of Stall Catchers and a former Master'

Stall Catchers

Stall Catchers doesn't just speed up research -- it *enables* it! Interview with Prof. Nozomi Nishimura

Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] doesn't just speed up the research at Cornell University - it enables researchers to ask questions that they haven't been able to ask before. Wonderfully explained in this interview with our collaborator, Prof. Nozomi Nishimura: Help us do new kinds of

Stall Catchers

Family & Friends Tournament -- final results ! ❄♡❄

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the holiday tournament, and in the spirit of Sharing the Joy, shared Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com] with their families and friends!! ♡♡♡ Here's a detailed report on who was victorious ... :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A total of 31 teams [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/instructions-for-teams-updated/

Resources

Stall Catchers: complete instructions for Teams (updated)

Updated 2018-12-28 * Teams: * How to join a team * How to create a team * How to invite others to your team * How to edit your team * How to change teams * Leagues: * How to join a league * How to create a league ---How to join a team: 1. Login or Register on

Stall Catchers

Santa's bringing double points! 🎅

We're Sharing the Joy of Catching during the holidays, and as a special treat for the Families & Friends Tournament [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/family-friends-tournament/], Santa Catcher is bringing you double points!!! The first hour of double points starts at 18:00 UTC TODAY, Christmas Eve (13:00

Stall Catchers

Family & Friends Tournament in Stall Catchers -- #ShareTheJoy !

Update: 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕃𝕀𝕍𝔼 ℕ𝕆𝕎! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The time has come to announce the first of it's kind... Family & Friends Tournament in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope], starting 22nd December 2018! [https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2018/12/Family-Friends-Tournament2.png] Share the joy of catching & helping to cure

Stall Catchers

Winter Holiday Season is coming... #ShareTheJoy of Catching! ♡❄

It's the first day of Winter and with it begins the Winter Holiday anticipation ! ♡❄ (at least so here in Europe anyway! :)) We feel this season is just right to be sharing all the good things that have filled your year with your family and friends. So, why not

Stall Catchers

Stall Catchers Twitch session #1!

Join Pietro live here: Watch live video from pmichelu on www.twitch.tv [https://www.twitch.tv/pmichelu?tt_content=text_link&tt_medium=live_embed]And chat with him!

Stall Catchers

Happy Birthday 🎂 to the first billionaire of Stall Catchers - Caprarom!

We are delighted to congratulate one of our very first catchers, who has, since the launch of Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope], remained at the very top of the leaderboards, on his birthday AND becoming the first billionaire of Stall Catchers today !!! Happy B-day & One Billion, Caprarom !!! 💜 Caprarom,

The Humans of Stall Catchers

Catcher Michael Landau: "playing the game makes me feel less powerless"

Very much overdo, but not any less important - it is time to acknowledge our long-time catcher (who wins all the contests!) - Michael Landau! For other "Humans of Stall Catchers" features, click here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/tag/the-humans-of-stall-catchers/]. Michael is the #WorldAlzMonth competition [https://blog.eyesonalz.

Events

Human Computation Institute and Games For Health Europe enter formal partnership!

OCT. 8, 2018, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS – As many of you know, we launched the first app version [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/catchathon2018-surprise-app/] of Stall Catchers [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamesolutionslab.stallcatchers] on Android right before World Alzheimer’s Day, with the help of Games for Health

Stall Catchers

Thank you for celebrating with us!! Here are the B-day leaderboards...

This week is all about celebrating Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] second birthday, and we've been giving out double and quadruple points [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/2nd-birthday-stall-catchers/] to our dedicated catchers!! 🤩 Here's who participated, and here's their loot !! Special mention and THANK YOU goes

Stall Catchers

Happy 2nd birthday, Stall Catchers ! 🎂 Lookout for B-day Happy Hours !!

This month marks a two year anniversary since, after much developing, testing and fine tuning, we released the long awaited Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/main#] !! > It's official. #StallCatchers [https://twitter.com/hashtag/StallCatchers?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #citizenscience [https://twitter.com/hashtag/citizenscience?

Catchathons

Catchathon 2018 captured in an infographic! 📊📈🎈

Here's the final final numbers and achievements of all you catchers during Catchathon 2018 for World Alzheimer's Day! For full leaderboards & country results see here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/catchathon-2018-final-and-country-leaderboards/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [info@stallcatchers.com]

Catchathons

Catchathon 2018: final & country leaderboards! 🌍🌏🌎

And the final results are in!! Our apologies for the long wait - our countries features are not quite worked out yet, so Pietro worked for a day or two to semi manually determine all these numbers, and then I worked to make the leaderboards! 😄 We had a total of

Catchathons

Catchathon 2018 concludes - THANKS TO ALL who participated! 💜

As September 21 ends in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia - the last time zone on Earth, so does the global World Alzheimer's Day, and our Second International Catchathon 🏁 First of all, let us express our deepest gratitude to everyone who joined - from all corners of the world,

Catchathons

Two hours left in the #Catchathon2018 - Top 40 Catchers!

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