Gemma Hall has crocheted a woolly bug in the process of being bashed! Love it. If anyone wants to craft any bugs, whether being bashed or not, we’d be very happy to post images and Tweet about it!

In total, we’ve done 974,283 classifications. Which means ONE MILLION isn’t too far away.

Two weeks ago exactly, I posted a small update on how we were doing; how classifications had been done by our volunteers etc. Then three days later, on Thu 9 August, the Zooniverse team sent a short email about BashTheBug to all the registered Zooniverse users.

Until now we have simply sent all the images of each M. tuberculosis sample growing on each and every of the 14 antibiotics out to be classified by the citizen scientists. A while ago we realised that some images are “easy” in the sense that all the volunteers we show it to all give exactly the […]

It has been a while since I updated everyone on how BashTheBug is going.

If you want to know about how BashTheBug is helping tackle tuberculosis and fits into the international CRyPTIC research project, listen to this podcast by OxfordSparks where you can hear interviews with Philip Fowler as well as the leading BashTheBug volunteer, ElisabethB.

Check out the work of my friend Lucy Turner who has created some textile designs based on various tuberculosis objects (if you look carefully you can see some based on the 96-well plates we classify). View this post on Instagram #Tuberculosis #ntumastered #proteincoils #cryticproject #mutation image by @lucyrachaelturner A post shared by Lucy Turner (@textilescience) […]

This public event comprised three talks, each about 15-25 minutes long. Videos of each talk can be found on YouTube, links below.

BashTheBug has just got back from the recent European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Madrid, Spain. You can see some descriptive analysis of the first-dataset on this poster (free to access).