Datasets Back to the lab: Daniel Rivera describes to us the behind the scenes of the PSGL-1 dataset at the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab 🔬 Daniel Rivera, one of the researchers, took the time to explain to us more about what this particular research question is all about and how he captured the videos analyzed in Stall Catchers.
About 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 Meet the bot authors - Kirill Brodt and his bot “Clsc2”! Onto the next! We will be interviewing another one of our “Bot Makers” in this second installment of our three part series. In the last blog post, we had the
Stall Catchers Meet the bot authors - Laura Onac and her bot “GAIA” And GAIA makes three! Some of you might remember Laura Onac’s bot, GAIA, as she was the first bot EVER to play Stall Catchers. Wow, time flies! GAIA was
Stall Catchers Meet the bot authors - Roman Solovyev and his bot “ZFTurbo”! The Bot study in Stall Catchers just ended. We have already discussed bots so much. Players constantly saw bot names on the leaderboard. And the bots analyzed so much data.
The Humans of Stall Catchers The Humans of Human Computation Institute: Percy - our new developer! As some of you may know, our developer Ieva, who's been with us since the beginning of Stall Catchers, has recently left us, and we've been struggling to "make ends
Stall Catchers 📹 Stall Catchers research update (January 2020) What's been cooking in the lab where the biomedical science of Stall Catchers happens? What have we already achieved, what's next, and what challenges are we currently facing? (And how YOU could help overcome them!) Find out all in this fresh new update video
The Humans of Stall Catchers "I DO BELIEVE we will be able to learn enough about Alzheimer's" - the story of catcher John (chairstar) 💜 Next in the series of "the Humans of Stall Catchers" is John, or chairstar / chairflyer as he is known in Stall Catchers, and our forum. 😊 Here is his
The Humans of Stall Catchers "Curing Alzheimer’s is very personal to me" - a letter from supercatcher & caregiver Sheryl 💜 Hi, I am sachambers. I am a Stall Catcher. My mother has Alzheimer’s. I am the mother of two grown children, and I find that taking care of Mom
Megathon April Megathon update on Alzheimer's Speaks Radio with Lori La Bey 📻 Catch up on last week's Alzheimer' Speaks Radio episode, featuring our own Pietro with an update on all things achieved -- with YOUR HELP -- during our mega Stall Catchers
The Humans of Stall Catchers "If I can do this, anyone can, and we need all the help we can get!" -- interview with supercatcher Carol aka Mema! 👩 🔬 As you may know from our Humans of Stall Catchers series here on this blog, we LOVE hearing from our catchers, and learning more about them!! Today I present an
Megathon 📻 Stall Catchers #Megathon & Citizen Science Day on Science Friday! Stall Catchers & the Megathon were featured on Science Friday radio show today!! 🤩 Catch up on the segment, featuring our own Pietro Michelucci and Chris Schaffer, here: Handy Megathon resources:
The Humans of Stall Catchers Goofy and inspiring... interview with Stall Catchers superuser Badstallsbadbad ! 😜 🖤 As promised..! We ambushed and interrogated, oops I mean - interviewed our Family & Friends tournament champion, and a recently emerged supercatcher who won't let almost anyone else to the
The Humans of Stall Catchers What does it take to become a vessel expert in Stall Catchers? Interview with our rock star Torie! ♥ Why can't Cornell University researchers do their work Alzheimer's research work effectively without the help of citizen scientists? What does it take to become an expert in recognizing stalls? Interview
Stall Catchers Stall Catchers doesn't just speed up research -- it *enables* it! Interview with Prof. Nozomi Nishimura Stall Catchers doesn't just speed up the research at Cornell University - it enables researchers to ask questions that they haven't been able to ask before. Wonderfully explained in this interview with our collaborator, Prof. Nozomi Nishimura: Help us do new kinds of research
The Humans of Stall Catchers 🎥 Interview with super catcher Guy Calkins One of our super catchers, Guy Calkins (you might have noticed him at the top of the leaderboards as gcalkins!) has visited the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab recently, and met the scientists
Stall Catchers Where does the research behind Stall Catchers happen? Interview with Prof. Chris Schaffer In Stall Catchers, 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