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1.5 Million Classifications

Wow, last Monday you reached 1.5 million classifications. Thank you.

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July 2019 Newsletter

Read all about our work tackling influenza in our newsletter below.

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Launching BashTheBug on the Zooniverse mobile app

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.

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Testing BashTheBug on mobile devices

Until recently the Zooniverse app, which is available for Android and iOS, could only handle very simple Citizen Science projects requiring a simple yes/no. They have just updated the app so it can handle multi-answer questions, which is what BashTheBug needs, so we are testing BashTheBug on mobile devices and would love your thoughts and comments.

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2018

Our second calendar year and it has been a busy one. Highlights of the year include

In 2019 our first scientific papers will appear about how BashTheBug is helping the CRyPTIC project create an accurate dataset of the antibiotic susceptibility of thousands of clinical TB samples collecting around the globe and how we can use this to infer what genetic variation confers resistance. Watch this space!

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Bacterial World

BashTheBug is a small part of the new exhibition, Bacterial World, at the Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford which was launched a week ago on Friday 19 October and runs until 28 May 2019.

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A crocheted bug!

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!

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One Million Classifications

Thanks to the hard work and persistence of all our volunteer scientists, BashTheBug reached one million classifications around noon on Tuesday 2 October!

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A photo of everyone

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

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After the Zooniverse newsletter was sent

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.