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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:

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We're giving out citizen science badges for #CitSciDay!

Intrigued? You should be... 😎 Inspired by our recent success during CitSciMed Blitz [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/winners-of-citscimedblitz/], where we awarded participants with a digital badge [https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2018/04/leaderboards-citscimedblitz2.png] for their contributions, we are planning a big bang for CitSciDay [https://scistarter.com/citizen-science-day]

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Stall Catchers part of school research project in Catalonia!

Yesterday I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Ruth & Noa - two 15 year old students from Catalonia, doing a school research project on video games and Alzheimer's! Ruth reached out to us a couple weeks ago about including our citizen science game - Stall Catchers

Science

The Science Behind EyesOnALZ

In the early days of our existence (I mean EyesOnALZ, not the Universe 😇) we published a blog series about the project on the SciStarter/DiscoverMag/PLOS Blogs networks. We're sharing the selected content here! The following post, orig. titled "The Science Behind WeCureALZ * : A Participatory Research Project

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Where does the research behind Stall Catchers happen? Interview with Prof. Chris Schaffer

In Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/], you - our volunteer catchers - are analyzing movies from a mouse brain, looking for stalled blood vessels. But where do these "movies" come from? Who are our biomedical collaborators doing this research? Why are they so interested, and how does this

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Happy Science Education Day ! 👩‍🔬

Today, March 14th, is Science Education Day! This day has been celebrated since 2014, as "a chance to celebrate and say thank you to all those who share their passion for science with kids and adults everywhere and in all venues." We say a huge THANK YOU to

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Winners (and prizes) of CitSciMedBlitz 🏆 🎉 (updated)

!!! Updated! We accidentally missed out three CitSciMedBlitz triathletes: Andama, Christiane and Laurie. Our apologies for the mix up! 💜 See edited results below... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope you all had a blast during the first-of-its-kind CitSciMed Blitz [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citscimedblitz/] last week! And… the results are finally in! There were three

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Stall Catchers at Patcham Junior School science club 🎓

Today, one of our team, Claire, brought Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] to a science club at the Patcham Junior School [http://www.patchamjun.org.uk/] in Brighton! Claire presented Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] to junior kids (10-11 years old). Here's what she said after: > I

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Follow #CitSciMedBlitz LIVE!

The challenge has begun! Learn all about how to participate here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citscimedblitz/]. Follow how the competition unfolds in social media LIVE, right here: #CitSciMedBlitz LIVE! [https://twitter.com/hashtag/citscimedblitz]

Challenges

CitSciMedBlitz - a triple citizen science challenge!

We are very proud to be partnering with our friends Mark2Cure [https://mark2cure.org/] and Cochrane Crowd [http://crowd.cochrane.org/index.html], and organizing a joint CitSciMed Blitz next week! CitSciMed Blitz begins at [Stall Catchers](https://stallcatchers.com/main) on Monday, Feb 26, 3pm GMT. You can find

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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 [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/austrian-citsci-conference/] in "Generation Citizen Science" Austrian Citizen Science 2018 conference, as well as Citizen Science Action Day [https://www.citizen-science.sbg.ac.at/index.php/

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*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 safe to say they probably regret asking, because the list we gave them was looong! 😜 We're

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Stall Catchers trophy displayed proudly at Lake Hazel Middle School 💜

We already told you the story [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citizen-science-trophy-2017/] of the first #CitSciTrophy that we awarded to Lake Hazel Middle School students some weeks ago, for winning the #CrushALZ competition ! After the winter break we received photos of the trophy from their teacher, Ms. Erin Davis (who, to

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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 [https://www.citizen-science.sbg.ac.at/], "Generation Citizen Science". We'll be there for 3 days, starting February 1st, with a Stall Catchers booth (and

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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 [http://www.togetherscience.eu/blog/introducing-a-new-open-online-course-introduction-to-citizen-science-and-scientific-crowdsourcing] ", run by our friends at UCL ExCiteS [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites] ! The course [http://www.togetherscience.eu/blog/introducing-a-new-open-online-course-introduction-to-citizen-science-and-scientific-crowdsourcing] , which

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

SciStarter [https://scistarter.com] 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 Projects of 2017 are here! https://t.co/SBmqRil0NQ #CitizenScience [https://twitter.com/hashtag/CitizenScience?src=hash&

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We're 8000 catchers !! 🎉

It's official - the Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/main] crowd has reached 8000 registered participants !! 🙌 Thanks to each and every one you for helping us get closer to a cure for #Alzheimers every day 💜 If you're not part of the crowd yet - join now

Competitions

Who managed to #CatchXmas? Winners announced!

The holiday season is almost over, and so is our #CatchXmas competition [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/catchxmas-2017/]! We hid a number of surprises in Stall Catchers [https://blog.hcinst.org/content/images/2018/01/1_bearing_gifts-ANIMATION.gif] movies, such as these: Some of these proved really difficult to find,

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

Last December we told you [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/reaching-ten-thousand/] about our goal to reach 10 000 Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/main#] users - and we almost made it!! Today, we're almost 8 thousand, and we're not about to stop there!! 😊 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We like to

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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 - as well as we hope this tradition continues with other citizen science projects! 🏆 But let's take a

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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 [https://www.brightfocus.org/] - our sponsors!) we sent Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/main#] to H-B Woodlawn school Science Fair in Arlington, VA (USA), for Grades 6th

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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 course - Vika [https://www.instagram.com/vi.zo/] (our social media manager & an amazing video artist + photographer), created

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

Happy Holiday Season 2017, our catchers & fans! 💜 Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] is getting festive again, and we invite you to #CatchXmas in the vessel movies! What's that? Each day from now until Christmas we will hide one special holiday item in a vessel movie for you

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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 [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] game, we set ourselves a goal - have at least 10 thousand users by the end of 2017. And guess what - it's almost the end of 2017, and we're.

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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 be proven by looking at our "funny vessels" collection on our forum [http://forum.eyesonalz.com/t/funny-vessels/

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Science of Stall Catchers: Our new Magic Number 🔮✨

Ever wonder how we get reliable crowd answers in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/]? Well, there's a special kind of magic for that! Our goal with Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] is to use crowd power to speed up the analysis of Alzheimer's disease research data.