by ginger | May 20, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Since our last blog post, users have completed 210 quests, submitted 1050 annotated abstracts, closed out the last of our autophagy-based missions (doc sets), and brought the first of the GlcNAC missions to near completion. The winners for our bi-weekly contribution...
by ginger | May 6, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
A new doc set is now available in the dashboard. Don’t worry though, you can still view the results of the recently completed doc sets by going to the landing page in Mark2Cure. Speaking of the landing page, we’ve been working on making more of Mark2Cure’s content...
by ginger | Apr 22, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Although the San Diego Citizen Science Day expo was a bit of a last-minute event, it went rather well over all. An estimated hundred or so people showed up to the event and we got to meet and speak with a few Mark2Curators in person! A HUGE thanks to our Mark2Curators...
by ginger | Apr 18, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
We’ll put together a more detailed review of both the Mark2Curathon and the San Diego Citizen Science Day Expo towards the end of the week. In the mean time, here’s a quick breakdown of the event: Event started: April 15th, 2016 at 00:00 AM...
by ginger | Apr 15, 2016 | citizen science, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
It’s now April 15th, and the official start of the Mark2Curathon! Thanks to our Mark2Curators, two of our doc sets were completed before the start of the Mark2Curathon, so we will be opening TWO new doc sets–making more prizes available. The new doc sets...
by Jacob Bruggemann | Apr 12, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, cryo-em, Uncategorized, zooniverse
In a previous blog post, we asked for beta testers for our Zooniverse-hosted citizen science project Microscopy Masters. Thanks to the feedback we received from our initial testing run, the project was approved for a full launch by Zooniverse and is up and running on...
