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Stall Catchers at Patcham Junior School science club 🎓

Today, one of our team, Claire, brought Stall Catchers to a science club at the Patcham Junior School in Brighton! Claire presented Stall Catchers to junior kids (10-11 years old). Here's what she said after: I was impressed by their knowledge. They were asked

Competitions

Follow #CitSciMedBlitz LIVE!

The challenge has begun! Learn all about how to participate here. Follow how the competition unfolds in social media LIVE, right here: #CitSciMedBlitz LIVE! !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.

Challenges

CitSciMedBlitz - a triple citizen science challenge!

We are very proud to be partnering with our friends Mark2Cure and Cochrane Crowd, and organizing a joint CitSciMed Blitz next week! CitSciMed Blitz begins at [Stall Catchers](https://stallcatchers.

Stall Catchers

Citizen Science Action Day (Sat, Feb 3) - double points in Stall Catchers !

We're on our way to Salzburg, Austria, as we write, where Pietro & Egle will be participating in "Generation Citizen Science" Austrian Citizen Science 2018 conference, as well

Stall Catchers

Catcher-centered design - how the community is shaping Stall Catchers

Recently, our colleagues at UCL asked us for examples on how we have used user feedback in shaping our project and our game - Stall Catchers. Well, I think it's

Stall Catchers

Stall Catchers trophy displayed proudly at Lake Hazel Middle School 💜

We already told you the story of the first #CitSciTrophy that we awarded to Lake Hazel Middle School students some weeks ago, for winning the #CrushALZ competition ! After the winter

Stall Catchers

Austrian Citizen Science Conference & Stall Catchers challenge in Salzburg next week!

Next week we're setting off for Salzburg, Austria, where we have been invited to attend the Austrian Citizen Science Conference, "Generation Citizen Science". We'll be there for 3

EyesOnALZ

EyesOnALZ & Stall Catchers in UCL's open online course!

We're very proud to be included in the new online course "Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing", run by our friends at UCL ExCiteS ! The course, which

Stall Catchers

We're in the Top 10 #CitizenScience projects of 2017!

SciStarter has announced the list of Top 10 projects on the year, "with the most page views on SciStarter and the most “joins”." SciStarter's Top 10

Stall Catchers

We're 8000 catchers !! 🎉

It's official - the Stall Catchers crowd has reached 8000 registered participants !! 🙌 Thanks to each and every one you for helping us get closer to a cure for #Alzheimers every

Competitions

Who managed to #CatchXmas? Winners announced!

The holiday season is almost over, and so is our #CatchXmas competition! We hid a number of surprises in Stall Catchers movies, such as these: Some of these proved really

Stall Catchers

Our New Years resolution? Grow the crowd to #CRUSHAlz!

Last December we told you about our goal to reach 10 000 Stall Catchers users - and we almost made it!! Today, we're almost 8 thousand, and we're not about

Stall Catchers

World's first Citizen Science trophy finally in the hands of Lake Hazel students!

Last Thursday, 21st December, will enter the history books, as the day when the first Citizen Science trophy was given to a school! :)) or at least we certainly hope so

Stall Catchers

Stall Catchers at H-B Woodlawn’s Science Expo

Last week, with the help of Samantha Taggart (H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program) & her mom - Martha Taggart (from the BrightFocus Foundation - our sponsors!) we sent Stall Catchers to

Stall Catchers

New video about Stall Catchers!

As you may have noticed, we launched a revamped version of the Stall Catchers landing page last week! And for it - as well as to celebrate Stall Catchers of

Stall Catchers

Holidays are coming - look for hidden gifts in Stall Catchers!

Happy Holiday Season 2017, our catchers & fans! 💜 Stall Catchers is getting festive again, and we invite you to #CatchXmas in the vessel movies! What's that? Each day from now

Stall Catchers

Our crowd is growing - can we reach 10 thousand catchers by New Years?!

Early in the development of the EyesOnALZ project and the Stall Catchers game, we set ourselves a goal - have at least 10 thousand users by the end of 2017.

Stall Catchers

New batch of "funny vessels"!

Citizen scientists are not just good at solving complex visual tasks - they have an awesome imagination, which often crosses boundaries of specific tasks & scientific questions! This can easily

Science

Science of Stall Catchers: Our new Magic Number 🔮✨

Ever wonder how we get reliable crowd answers in Stall Catchers? Well, there's a special kind of magic for that! Our goal with Stall Catchers is to use crowd power

Science

Science of Stall Catchers: the High Fat Diet dataset

Right now in Stall Catchers, our catchers are analyzing a dataset concerned with the role of a high fat diet in the formation of stalls. What does that mean? What

BrightFocus

It's #GivingTuesday!

An international day of giving 😊 Our sponsors, the BrightFocus Foundation, held a great Twitter chat earlier today, aimed to explain the ways the organization & it's generous donors are helping

Catchathons

OSMGeoWeek Catchathon in Nigeria (guest post)

Guest post by UniqueMappersTeam (UMT) University of Port Harcourt A Stall Catchers Catchathon was a fun addition to the UniqueMappersTeam celebration of OSMGeoweek 2017. After the Catchathon in July, where

Science

We're looking for an "effective treatment" for Alzheimer's. What does that mean?

What do we mean by "Effective Treatment"? I was talking with EyesOnALZ colleague Lisa Gusman today, who has created some amazing educational videos for Stall Catchers, like this

Double Points for World Science Day

We're giving out double points in Stall Catchers for World Science Day if you'll help us reach our goal of 1000 vessels annotated for the day! This would be equivalent

Gryffindor wins the 2017 Hogwarts House Challenge!

If you're not a Harry Potter fan, you might want to read this blog post to see what the fuss is all about! (Since we don't track the point competition