Like many of you, the researchers behind BashTheBug have been at home for a while now due to restrictions put in place to slow the progress of this COVID-19 epidemic.
Author: Philip Fowler
Philip W Fowler is a computational biophysicist studying antimicrobial resistance working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
You reached two million classifications on Thu 12 March 2020.
On Friday 13 March I visited The Batt School in Witney, Oxfordshire as part of their activities for STEM week. This is a primary school (5-11 year olds) and has 2 classes of 30 per year group. I introduced around 60 Year 6 students to the idea of citizen science on the Zooniverse, focussing on BashTheBug. Both classes were very keen to do classifications on the big screen and I had some excellent questions, not all of them “on topic”!
As of midnight Tue 10 March 2020 you had all done 1,959,626 classifications and so we will reach two million classifications later this week.
To celebrate we are creating a wordle out of words you send us and a montage of images you upload. To contribute click this link.
The deadline is midnight on Mon 6 April 2020.
Click here if you want to see the montage of images we made when we reached one million classifications,
Yesterday evening (UK time) the Zooniverse sent an email to all their Citizen Scientists encouraging them to give BashTheBug a try.
By midnight you’d all done 26,208 classifications bringing us to 1,959,626 classifications. Thank you.
Wow. We emailed you all a few weeks back about how we needed your help catching up with some data and you have responded!
We are advertising for a Part-time Citizen Science Project Co-ordinator to come and work with us in Oxford improving BashTheBug, in particular how the project engages, informs and educates its existing base of volunteers, as well as reaching out to new audiences.
The closing date is Monday 25 November 2019.
For more information please see the Job Advert.
Wow, last Monday you reached 1.5 million classifications. Thank you.
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After feedback from a number of volunteers, we’ve decided to change (nearly all) the workflows so you can classify images of M. tuberculosis growing using the new Zooniverse mobile app.