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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!

Score: Real movies:

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Two hours left in the #Catchathon2018 - current team standing ! 🏃

Score: Real movies:

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The first half of #Catchathon2018 - what happened so far?

It's been more than 24 hours of the Catchathon 2018 [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/catchathon-2018-live-now/], and the competition is just getting started! Here's what happened so far ... Over 200 catchers from 30+ teams have already joined the catchathon! Over 15K research vessels analyzed! That adds up

Catchathons

Catchathon 2018 is LIVE NOW!

It's 0:00 o'clock, September 21, in Kiritimati, Christmas Island - the first timezone on the planet, and so begins the World Alzheimer's Day, together with the... Second International Stall Catchers Catchathon❗ Teams and individuals across the planet will stand together for 48 hours

The Longest Day

Thank you for contributing to research on The Longest Day 💜 (updated)

Yesterday, during the longest day of the year, we joined forces [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/thelongestday-2018/] to #ENDAlzheimers via Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com]. Here's the final results! We fell a little short of our goal of 6500 movies, but still managed to achieve 157 hours of lab

The Longest Day

Play Stall Catchers on #TheLongestDay!

June 21 marks The Longest Day, and we're rallying forces to #ENDAlz with Stall Catchers [http://bit.ly/StallCatchersENDAlz]! [http://bit.ly/StallCatchersENDAlz] Join us for the entire day on the 21st, 00:00-23:59 ET, and help us break last year's [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/

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Watertown community logs 1 week of research time in 1 day!

Thank you so much for joining us and the Watertown community in the special "This Is Our Life" challenge today 💜 Together, we managed to achieve about 39.7 hours of research, that is almost 1 week in the lab!! And all of that in just one day! Here

The Longest Day

Sunrise to sunset: Honoring Steve Johanson with "This Is Our Life" challenge 💜 TRIPLE points!

TODAY, June 16, our dear friends, the community in Watertown, MA, are painting their town purple again for The Longest Day. The event has been organized by Judy & Steve Johanson and their family for several years now, and aims to raise funds & awareness about Alzheimer's disease.

Stall Catchers

Final leaderboads of the Dementia Awareness Week in Scotland

Thank you all for joining us for Dementia Awareness Week in Scotland [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/dementia-awareness-scotland], and taking a stand against dementia via Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/]! As promised, here are the final leaderboards..: Congrats to caprarom who scored highest in both Score and All movies analyzed, elAmber

Events

🎮 Play Stall Catchers during Dementia Awareness Week in Scotland

This week is Dementia Awareness Week in Scotland [https://daw.alzscot.org/] (4-10 June). We're joining in with a special challenge in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com]! [https://stallcatchers.com] To participate, just login or register on Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/], and play as much as you&

Events

Final leaderboads of the Dementia Action Week Challenge

Thank you all for joining us for Dementia Action Week [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/daw2018/], and taking a stand against dementia via Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/]! As promised, here are the final leaderboards..: Congrats to christiane who scored highest in both Score and All movies analyzed, Michael Landau who

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🎮 Dementia Action Week: play a game to fight Alzheimer's

This week (May 21-27) is Dementia Action Week! Spearheaded by the Alzheimer's Society (UK), it's a week to "Take an action and stand united with people affected by dementia." [https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-involved/dementia-action-week] There's lots of ways to get

Citizen Science Badges

Mission for Citizen Science Day on SciStarter - includes Stall Catchers!

There is still time to accept “Your Research Mission” on SciStarter [https://scistarter.com/] and get some prizes!! On April 14 SciStarter [https://scistarter.com/] launched a Mission for Citizen Science Day on their platform. It runs until May 14, and includes Stall Catchers! How to participate? If you have

CitSciDay HERO

CitSciDayHERO concludes with 12 heroes!

We had the most fun celebrating this year's Citizen Science Day [https://scistarter.com/citizen-science-day], together with a bunch of our citizen science friends: SciStarter [https://scistarter.com/], MalariaSpot [http://malariaspot.org], Foldit [http://fold.it/portal/], Mozak [https://www.mozak.science/landing], mark2cure.org [https://mark2cure.org/

CitSciDay HERO

CitSciDayHERO challenge extended!!

Haven't had a chance to complete all the #CitSciDayHERO [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citsciday-hero/] missions yet? No problem - you now have time until Monday, April 23, 9am ET! We've been having lots of fun this week, and issued over 200 citizen science badges to 55

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Be a Citizen Science Village-Crier! What's that, you ask?

We've been having lots of fun tracking the CitSciDay Hero challenge [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citsciday-hero/], and here's the standing so far: We already have 4 Heroes - hurry up and claim [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citsciday-hero-challenge-step-by-step/] this title before Saturday! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To make things even

CitSciDay HERO

Follow #CitSciDayHero tweets here!

CitSciDay Hero challenge [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citsciday-hero/]is gaining speed - follow how it evolves via Twitter right here! (even if you don't have a Twitter account!) And here's the step-by-step on how to participate: CitSciDay Hero instructions [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citsciday-hero-challenge-step-by-step/] #CitSciDayHero Tweets

CitSciDay HERO

CitSciDay HERO challenge - step by step

Bellow are the step-by-step instructions for participating in the CitSciDay HERO challenge, 14-21 April. More about it here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/citsciday-hero]. Step 1. To join the challenge follow this link [https://www.badgecraft.eu/auto/join/80b35e51-97af-461b-ad87-880ac2ecb52f] and register. Make sure you confirm your email address! :) If you&

CitSciDay HERO

Calling all Citizen Science Day heroes - we have badges waiting for you 🤘

Today is Citizen Science Day [https://scistarter.com/citizen-science-day], and hundreds of citizen science projects are kicking off worldwide to celebrate! On our side, we, the Human Computation Institute together with SciStarter, have prepared a very special CitSciDay HERO challenge, involving citizen science badges that we've been developing.

Stall Catchers

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]

Stall Catchers

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

Competitions

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]

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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

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 [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/