Check out our citizen science projects on zooniverse.org! They combine 3D imaging techniques using X-rays and electrons, cell biology and computer science.

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And we are live! Check out our newest #CitizenScience project on @the_zooniverse - Science Scribbler: Synapse Safari
Grab your virtual microscope and get ready for an adventure with Science Scribbler: Synapse Safari! Help us outsmart AI as we venture into uncharted depths of the developing hippocampus. frontend.preview.zooniverse.…
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Together, we can correct the machine 🤖 and uncover the hidden dynamics of the hippocampus 🧐 so that we can better understand neurodevelopmental disorders like #Epilepsy and #Autism 🧑‍🔬🧑‍⚕️

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Co-author @martinjones78 has a 10/10 thread explaining how #citizenscience can help with the 100s of GB of data routinely produced in #cryoEM and #teamtomo biological imaging:
The problem: many microscopes produce datasets in the giga- to terabyte regime. Extracting meaning from these datasets is HARD! E.g. 3D #ElectronMicroscopy methods like #SBFSEM and #FIBSEM produce data at 100s of GB per day Movie: @GatanMicroscopy 3View youtube.com/watch?v=PWbLA7WM…
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Why do we need citizen science? Take #PlacentaProfiles for example: our #volunteers picked out 2.23M potential mitochondria in just 18 months – a number that would take a single researcher years to match. The #power of the #crowd indeed 💪
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Aren’t computers up to the task? Sometimes – but people are much better at pattern recognition than computers, and biology is inherently variable, making these images particularly tricky. Combining #citizenscience with #artificialintellingence helps make computers better too.
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📢HOT OFF THE PRESS📢 Our new paper, in collaboration with the @EtchACell team at @TheCrick, @DiamondLightSou and @RosFrankInst shares our collective experience in using @the_zooniverse for #citizenscience projects using biological #volumeEM data: rdcu.be/dd0Mh
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Published with @SpringerNature in Histochemistry and Cell Biology, authors @_OllyK @WinM_Tun @basham_mark @martinjones78 @EM_STP @MDarrow7 & @H_Spiers discuss using #crowdsourcing for the #segmentation of #microscopy image data, and combining #citsci with #machinelearning 🔬🧑‍💻
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More good news - the first results update from #PlacentaProfiles! Read about how many #mitochondria our volunteers were able to find in Mito Mapper, and how we are looking to cluster the 2.2 million picks for our Mop Up workflow: daily.zooniverse.org/2023/05… #CitizenScience
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Check out our latest spring-themed update on our #Key2Cat project, classifying #nanoparticles for #catalysis on @the_zooniverse: daily.zooniverse.org/2023/05… #CitizenScience #catalyst #research
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TL;DR - Our amazing #CitizenScientists have retired over 40,000 images from our final workflow - with over 420,000 classifications contributed! We are hugely #grateful for every single contribution to our #nanoparticle #research

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It's #CitizenScienceMonth and we are celebrating the brilliant public-powered research happening at the Franklin. Find out how volunteers are helping our AI&I team train their algorithms and decipher complex biological images -> zurl.co/HW3A
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We had a great time at @DiamondLightSou last month talking about our #CitizenScience projects on @the_zooniverse. Looking forward to more citizen science action this April for #CitizenScienceMonth!
Many friends have joined us for our Open Day. Here is the Zooniverse Team talking about the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research 🌍 Find out more at zooniverse.org @the_zooniverse @OxfordPhysics @RosFrankInst @ScienceScribbl1
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We are looking forward to chatting about nanoparticles for @ScienceWeekUK very soon! Come along and ask our expert Kevin about catalysis, microscopes, and our @the_zooniverse project at 4pm GMT: zooniverse.org/projects/msbr… @RosFrankInst @UniofOxford #BSW23 #Key2Cat
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.@UniofOxford Nanoparticle researcher Kevin is excited to connect with you to talk about our #Key2Cat #CitizenScience project for #BSW23. He will be live on our Talk forum from 16:00-17:00 GMT on Thursday 16th - drop by and say hello! zooniverse.org/projects/msbr… @RosFrankInst
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