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Caprarom visited us in the lab… and so can you!

Ok, so we can't invite all 40,000 catchers to meet us at the office, but we wanted to show you around. Mike Capraro, whom you may know from the Stall Catchers leaderboard as Caprarom, visited us to celebrate our fifth anniversary and joined us on a tour

Microsoft

Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign - a time of year when volunteering blooms

Last month alone, the Stall Catchers community grew by 1,167 new catchers! And there’s a great reason for this - October is Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign, during which employees rally to volunteer their time for a cause that feels important to them. This year, Microsoft invited Stall

Catchathons

Catchathon 2021: Full report!

Thank you ALL for joining us in the Catchathon 2021! 😊 We had a blast!! Did you?! :) Jump to: * Overall stats * Final hour * The Winners * Participant impressions * How did GAIA 🤖 do? * Team leaderboards * Catcher leaderboards Here's an amazing video from Gulliver Prep - one of our participant schools -

Catchathons

3 hours left in the Catchathon 2021!

Well it wouldn't be a Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] catchathon if there weren't a few glitches... 🤪 It seems that some people had trouble logging into the site at the beginning - but we fixed the issues now, and hopefully you are all able to

Catchathons

The Stall Catchers Catchathon is TODAY!

The day is finally here! 😁 How to participate in today's Catchathon? Simply head to Stall Catchers [https://blog.hcinst.org/catchathon2021-is-today/17:00GMT%20(1pm%20ET)%20April%2028%20-%2017:00GMT%20(1pm%20ET)%20April%2029] any time between 17:00GMT (1pm ET) today (April 28) to 17:

Catchathons Featured

Long awaited... Stall Catchers Catchathon is BACK! 🥁 🤸

Tadaam! 🎉 The long awaited Stall Catchers Catchathon is BACK! Right in time to celebrate Citizen Science Month :) > Catchathon [https://blog.hcinst.org/whats-a-catchathon/] is a catching marathon of the Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] citizen science game. Anyone can hold one in their local pub, school, library, hackerspace or

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

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/

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

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!

Score: Real movies:

Catchathons

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

Score: Real movies:

Catchathons

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

Catchathons

The Catchathon is COMING! 🥁 🤸

The time has come for the Second International Catchathon of Stall Catchers ❗ We will join together as a planet again, this time on World Alzheimer's Day, to fight a disease that has no ethnic or geographic boundaries. The catchathon will run for 48 hours, from the moment World

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

Challenges

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]