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We're not done saying thanks for 2024 yet! Celebrating Microsoft volunteers

New year is right around the corner, but we cannot celebrate until we've dotted all i's and crossed all the t's on 2024! 😏 We'd like to give a much deserved shoutout to this year's Microsoft's October Giving Campaign,

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Join us for a Stall Catchers webinar tomorrow!

Dear Catchers, please join us [https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrd-qtqT8rHd1B_F2oIdDhEkNyTMjk0h99] for a special webinar at 10 AM tomorrow, Saturday, 2nd November! Our team member, cultural anthropologist Libuše will present her new book, based on Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] and similar projects. You'll be able

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Libuše worked with us and then wrote about it in her new book!

Libuše Vepřek came to the Human Computation Institute to study Stall Catchers. Libuše introduced herself to the Stall Catchers community in 2022 through this blog post [https://calendly.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.hcinst.org%2Fhello-from-libuse%2F] - so if you need a refresher, feel free to take

Stall Catchers Featured

Stall Catchers is celebrating its 8 year anniversary!

Oh, and I'm back... For now at least! 😜 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello to all past, current and future catchers! For those who don't know me - I am Eglė, co-founder of Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/]. And for those who do - HI, I've missed you

Citizen Science Badges

Stall Catchers has a Girl Scouts Patch!

It doesn’t get more official than this: the Stall Catchers citizen science project [https://youtu.be/-DI97ITiiMk] now has it’s very own Girl Scouts patch! (scroll down to watch the video) (I’m not sure if we’ve been this excited since Lake Hazel Middle School won and

Science

The mind behind Alzheimer’s disease and a look into his lab

Wait, the Human Computation Institute team was in Germany?? Yes! We found ourselves in the city of Munich for the Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence Conference to gather ideas and feedback about our new Beta Catchers project (more on that in future posts). While we were there, we were lucky enough

Science Featured

The PLX dataset: what is the role of microglia in dementia risk?

What do microglia have to do with dementia risk? That’s the question you are helping to answer when you analyze the current dataset in Stall Catchers.

Catchathons

Catchathon 2023 Results are in!!🎉

We have completed over 2/3rds of the dataset as of this blog post, which is AMAZING! Thank you to everyone who took part in this Catchathon. We can’t wait for the next one!

Catchathons

Catchathon 2023: HUGE Thank You to Everyone!

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who joined this years Catchathon, it was a blast playing with you all!

Catchathons

The competition is heating up in the last full day of the Catchathon

Originally it took us about a month to complete the dataset, but you amazing humans have cut that time in half! But it’s not over yet, and there are many more stalls to catch.

Catchathons

Check the Live Leaderboard for true dataset progress!

We found that the progress bar in the VM is misbehaving, so pay attention to the progress bar on the Live Leaderboard

Catchathons

Double Points Schedule!

As we promised you at the Kick-off, here is the double points schedule for the week.

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The First Annual “Stalling Summit”

What happens when world class Alzheimer’s researchers and stroke researchers put their heads together to help each other?  Among other things, they turn to Stall Catchers with some new requests for help from our loyal community of catchers! Researchers from Cornell University, Boston University, and the Human Computation Institute

Datasets Featured

Could an arthritis drug be used to treat Alzheimer’s? 👀

We have a new dataset for you and it's not just any dataset... PSGL-1 is our first dataset in Stall Catchers looking at the effects of a FDA approved drug in the treatment of Alzheimer's.

hciconvergence

HCI convergence: know our calendar for citizen science month

We are happy to share with you our April activities, an itinerary that will have us traveling from different parts of the world... and you can join us too!

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 leaderboard as Caprarom, visited us to celebrate our fifth anniversary and joined us on a tour

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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 opportunity to speak with Roman Solovyev about his bot ZFTurbo. ZFTurbo was able to help us out quite a lot

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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 able to compete once again in our most recent Bot Study. Since this Bot Study was a chance to test

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

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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. And still - even bots themselves were just machines, they were all created by great and talented people! To get

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Farewell, Eglė

(No, she's not dead - she's just leaving.) It is with some measure of disbelief and a great sense of loss that I must convey the news that, after five years of dedicated service to the Stall Catchers project, Eglė Marija Ramanauskaitė will soon be leaving

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

What's a Catchathon? (the pandemic edition)

> Catchathon is a catching marathon of the Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] citizen science game. Teams from all over the world join forces at the same time to catch stalls and speed up Alzheimer's research! Catchathons used to be based on live meetups, held at local pubs,