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📝 We are retiring the "EyesOnALZ" brand - it's all Stall Catchers now!

Hey there, the loyal catcher community! We have some news :) For a while now we've been working with two brands "EyesOnALZ" and "Stall Catchers", the former being the name for the project here at the Human Computation Institute, tackling Alzheimer's disease, and

Congrats to *Dr.* Mohammad Haft-Javaherian for successfully defending his PhD thesis! 🎓

The Humans of Stall Catchers

Congrats to Dr. Mohammad Haft-Javaherian for successfully defending his PhD thesis! 🎓

Big congratulations to DR Mohammad Haft-Javaherian, whose place in the annals of EyesOnALZ & Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] is secured by his many technical contributions, including notably his automated approach to finding vessel segments that alleviated a key analytic bottleneck in Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] preprocessing! See Mohammad&

🎥 Lecture: the role of reduced blood flow in Alzheimer's & the Stall Catchers game

Last Friday, Pietro gave a talk at Cornell University alongside our biomedical collaborators Nozomi & Chris. The lecture covers the aspects of the science behind Stall Catchers, i.e. the role of stalls and reduced blood flow in the brain in Alzheimer's, as well as the inception and

Behind the scenes: Quiet before the storm... 😇

Behind the scenes: Quiet before the storm... 😇

If you're following our "diary" here on this blog, you'll have noticed that we tend to get a little quiet right before something big happens ... 😈 Yep yep - we've been plotting and cooking things up in the background, and some exciting times

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

*Catcher*-centered design - how the community is shaping 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 safe to say they probably regret asking, because the list we gave them was looong! 😜 We're

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

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

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

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

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

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&

It's #GivingTuesday!

It's #GivingTuesday!

An international day of giving 😊 Our sponsors, the BrightFocus Foundation [https://www.brightfocus.org/], held a great Twitter chat [https://www.brightfocus.org/give4science-chat] earlier today, aimed to explain the ways the organization & it's generous donors are helping to speed up disease research. Including EyesOnALZ & our

We're going to #MozFest in London! Join us!

We're going to #MozFest in London! Join us!

We'll be in London again this weekend, for the Mozilla Festival 2017 [https://mozillafestival.org/] ! On Friday, Oct 27th, we're participating in the MozFest Science Fair, where Financial Times will be filming a segment on Stall Catchers for Alzheimer's Research UK [https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.

How does playing Stall Catchers help fight Alzheimer's?

How does playing Stall Catchers help fight Alzheimer's?

Get all the answers in this new great video made by Lindsay & Lisa from out team! You can watch it with Chinese, French, Portugese, Spanish subtitles!

We want to buy you pizza!

We want to buy you pizza!

(...or baklava, falafels, empanadas, whatever!) As you may know, especially if you are already part of our "Catchers" community, StallCatchers [http://stallcatchers.com] from EyesOnALZ [http://eyesonalz.com] is an online puzzle-game – similar to Foldit, EyeWire, EteRNA, etc. – designed to speed up research related to Alzheimer’s disease.

Busy month behind the scenes!

Busy month behind the scenes!

We've been a little busy working behind the scenes during the last couple of weeks & have lots to report ! First and foremost, our team has met again at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) to discuss short & long term goals and hang out (don't judge -

EyesOnALZ at #CitSci2017 conference storified!

Things we saw, things we told, people we met !See Pietro's [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/ghost/team/pietro/] talk on Stall Catchers in page 2 of the Storify... [View the story "EyesOnALZ at #CitSci2017" on Storify [//storify.com/EyesOnALZ/stall-catchers-at-citsci2017]]

#CrushALZ competition storified!

#CrushALZ competition storified!

[View the story "Look back at the #CrushALZ competition!" on Storify [//storify.com/EyesOnALZ/look-back-at-the-crushalz-competition]]

We're going to Twin Cities for #CitSci2017 conference next week!

We're going to Twin Cities for #CitSci2017 conference next week!

We're participating in Citizen Science Association 2017 conference in Twin Cities (US) next week - the largest citizen science conference out there! :) See below for events open to the public, if you're in town! Pietro [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/ghost/team/pietro/] is going to present

Here's all you need to know about The Crowd & The Cloud

Here's all you need to know about The Crowd & The Cloud

From the series creators themselves! Note: EyesOnALZ & Stall Catchers are featured in Episode 1, which you can watch online here [https://youtu.be/Po8PB2Z17Ic]. The 21st Century is host to a new era of communications and global interconnectivity, where smartphones, computers, mobile tech and the cloud are radically changing

Get ready! Teams to #CrushALZ on Stall Catchers - coming soon

Get ready! Teams to #CrushALZ on Stall Catchers - coming soon

We've been cooking up a special feature on Stall Catchers for a while, and very soon everyone will be able to create or join a team & catch stalls together with friends or colleagues! Moreover, to celebrate the TV premiere of The Crowd & The Cloud [http://crowdandcloud.

The Crowd & The Cloud

The Crowd & The Cloud series feat. EyesOnALZ - NOW available online!

We are happy to announce - and this is no joke! - that the episodes of the long awaited The Crowd & The Cloud [http://crowdandcloud.org] citizen science series are now available online, featuring EyesOnALZ & Stall Catchers in Episode 1 [http://crowdandcloud.org/watch-the-episodes/episode-one]!! > **Watch it

Catch up on the #CitizensSolvingAlz chat!

Two days ago the BrightFocus Foundation [http://www.brightfocus.org/] (our generous sponsors!) hosted a chat on Twitter dedicated to the theme of #CitizensSolvingAlz! Our own principal investigator & inspirational leader Pietro Michelucci was the special guest, joined by Chris Schaffer, our biomedical advisor from Cornell University [https://snlab.bme.

#CitizensSolvingAlz chat on Twitter, 1pm ET/ 6pm GMT, March 28

On March 28, our sponsors, the BrightFocus Foundation, are holding a #CitizensSolvingALZ chat on 🐦Twitter! With a special guest... can you guess it? EyesOnALZ! We will answer questions regarding the Alzheimer's citizen science that we have happening here, and how can any citizen help fight Alzheimer's

EyesOnALZ is 1! Here's our year in review

EyesOnALZ is 1! Here's our year in review

One year ago, in January 2016, EyesOnALZ [http://eyesonalz.com/] project officially kicked off! Which is why today is double special for us - it's the beginning of the New Year AND the first Birthday of EyesOnALZ 😊🎆🎁 We prepared a detailed overview of our year for this special

Happy Holidays from the team at EyesOnALZ!

Happy Holidays EyesOnALZ [http://eyesonalz.com/]fans & Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope]! ❄️☃️ Thank you for giving the gift of hope every single day 💝 Yours, The EyesOnALZ Team

4 alternative ways to give on Giving Tuesday that don't include money!

4 alternative ways to give on Giving Tuesday that don't include money!

It's Giving Tuesday today, with charities around the world asking for monetary and other kind of contributions to support their World-changing work. Fundraising this way to help Alzheimer's research is crucial. To say the least, we wouldn't be able to carry out our ground