BashTheBug @ Zooniverse Below are the most recent posts about the BashTheBug project on the Zooniverse which you can find here. BashTheBug paper out!23rd May 2022Read the first scientific paper published in eLife. Anyone can go to the website and… Read all about it!22nd July 2021The first scientific paper investigating how we can best use all the classifications done by… Oxford Public Engagement with Research Conference 20206th August 2020We gave a talk, “Setting up an online citizen science project on the Zooniverse is… 4 Million Classifications Reached29th June 2020Hi All, We hope you are all well and keeping safe and sane during these… BashTheBug part of Earth School16th June 2020In response to the COVID pandemic, UN Environment (UNEP), TED Education, and many other partners… Talking Science16th May 2020As part of the Talking Science series, Philip Fowler gave an evening talk via Zoom… Science Friday livestream1st May 2020Ariel Zych and Diana Montano team from Science Friday hosted a discussion with Philip Fowler… BashTheBug on ScienceFriday27th April 2020Last Friday 24 April 2020, Laura Trouille, who is Co-Principal Investigator for the Zooniverse and… Zooniverse volunteer study27th April 2020You may have received this email from the Zooniverse Team and already taken part; if… Three million classifications20th April 2020You reached three million classifications on Sun 19 April 2020. That means it took you… BashTheBug and COVID-1912th April 2020Like many of you, the researchers behind BashTheBug have been at home for a while… Two Million Classifications7th April 2020You reached two million classifications on Thu 12 March 2020. Shout Out….to our top 20 Volunteers26th March 2020We would like to give a special Shout Out.. and Thank You to our Top… Visit to The Batt School, Witney, Oxfordshire16th March 2020On Friday 13 March I visited The Batt School in Witney, Oxfordshire as part of… We need YOUR help celebrating reaching two million classifications11th March 2020As of midnight Tue 10 March 2020 you had all done 1,959,626 classifications and so… Second largest number of classifications in a day recorded11th March 2020Yesterday evening (UK time) the Zooniverse sent an email to all their Citizen Scientists encouraging… Almost there…two million classifications is in sight!6th March 2020Wow. We emailed you all a few weeks back about how we needed your help… This is how your work on classifications has helped us fight antibiotic resistance and Tuberculosis!27th February 2020Over the last five years since 2015, we have collected more than 100,000 samples from… Citizen Science Coordinator appointed22nd January 2020We have appointed Carla Wright as the new Citizen Science Coordinator. Carla will be working… Post advertised: Project Coordinator15th November 2019We are advertising for a Part-time Citizen Science Project Co-ordinator to come and work with… 1.5 Million Classifications16th September 2019Wow, last Monday you reached 1.5 million classifications. Thank you. Launching BashTheBug on the Zooniverse mobile app11th June 2019After feedback from a number of volunteers, we’ve decided to change (nearly all) the workflows… Testing BashTheBug on mobile devices10th May 2019Until recently the Zooniverse app, which is available for Android and iOS, could only handle… 20184th January 2019Our second calendar year and it has been a busy one. Highlights of the year… Bacterial World26th October 2018BashTheBug is a small part of the new exhibition, Bacterial World, at the Museum of… A crocheted bug!17th October 2018Gemma Hall has crocheted a woolly bug in the process of being bashed! Love it…. One Million Classifications4th October 2018Thanks to the hard work and persistence of all our volunteer scientists, BashTheBug reached one… A photo of everyone14th September 2018In total, we’ve done 974,283 classifications. Which means ONE MILLION isn’t too far away. After the Zooniverse newsletter was sent20th August 2018Two weeks ago exactly, I posted a small update on how we were doing; how… Focussing effort where it is needed8th August 2018Until now we have simply sent all the images of each M. tuberculosis sample growing on… August 2018 update6th August 2018It has been a while since I updated everyone on how BashTheBug is going. OxfordSparks podcast5th July 2018If you want to know about how BashTheBug is helping tackle tuberculosis and fits into… Tuberculosis inspired textiles!13th June 2018Check out the work of my friend Lucy Turner who has created some textile designs… Tuberculosis: from Victorian fashion to citizen science8th June 2018This public event comprised three talks, each about 15-25 minutes long. Videos of each talk… Meet Samir27th April 2018Pause for a moment and think about the 750,000+ classifications achieved by BashTheBug in its… BashTheBug at ECCMID201825th April 2018BashTheBug has just got back from the recent European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious… BashTheBug is one year old!7th April 2018BashTheBug was officially launched one year ago today. Since then 10,213 people from all over… Super Science Saturday14th March 2018Researchers from ModMedMicro showed BashTheBug to the public today at the Oxford Natural History Museum… Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar4th March 2018A week ago on Saturday, BashTheBug and Lucy Turner together ran a stall at the annual, extremely… Classifications update23rd February 2018It has been a while since I provided an update on how many classifications everyone… Crystallisation of Clofazimine22nd January 2018This is another great example of how volunteers spot things that we, the professional scientists,… 201715th January 2018Before 2017 slips out of mind, here is a list of all the things that… Research for All. A poem by Sam Illingworth18th December 2017This is a BashTheBug first; a poem about Citizen Science and The Zooniverse that mentions… Google11th December 2017Last week, BashTheBug was invited to Google in London to celebrate winning the Community Award… Half a million classifications26th November 2017We reached 500,000 classifications sometime late on Thursday 16 November 2017 – a little over… An evening at the London Natural History Museum30th October 2017Last Friday, along with several other Zooniverse projects, BashTheBug was invited to the monthly Lates… A brief update23rd October 2017A bit over six months since BashTheBug launched, and it is still attracting new Citizen… Six months old19th October 2017BashTheBug is six months old! To mark the event, I’ve written a longer article that… NEW ethambutol images27th September 2017You may have noticed the images recently have not had much bacterial growth on them,… BashTheBug featured on ScienceUpdate22nd September 2017BashTheBug was featured yesterday on ScienceUpdate, a one-minute daily briefing on interesting topics in science… Our top ten users13th September 2017Although I’ve posted before on how a small number of users do a lot of… BashTheBug on BBC Radio Oxford13th September 2017You can hear BashTheBug’s creator, Philip Fowler, briefly talk about BashTheBug how he got the… BashTheBug has won an NIHR Let’s Get Digital award!4th September 2017Our Citizen Science project has won the Online Community award in the NIHR Let’s Get… A quick progress update2nd September 2017In the six weeks since I last wrote a post with a statistics update, the… We’ve been shortlisted for an Online Community award!21st July 2017We’ve been shortlisted in the Online Community category of the NIHR Let’s Get Digital awards! The… How many classifications has everyone done?21st July 2017Since the last time I gave an update the Citizen Scientists have added nearly 50,000 classifications. I… Why have some workflows finished but not others?21st July 2017To understand this I need to explain where all the images come from. A small… What do you have to do in the BashTheBug citizen science project?29th June 2017 BashTheBug featured by GenomeWeb28th June 2017BashTheBug, and its parent project, CRyPTIC, have been featured in an article by GenomeWeb. This… Interview with Carolyn Day23rd June 2017Hello Carolyn: Hiya BashTheBug. I sense an American accent hiding in there… Yep. You’d be right…. Wow. A quarter of a million classifications.19th June 2017Was idly checking how many classifications had been done up to midnight last night to find… The contributions to BashTheBug are following the Pareto Principle12th May 2017Last week’s post showed how a relatively few number of volunteers do a huge number… The first four weeks7th May 2017Nearly a month after the public launch, the Zooniverse citizen scientists have done a staggering… The first fortnight21st April 2017Another amazing week. Together the Zooniverse citizen scientists did 28,721 classifications this week, bringing the grand… End of week 115th April 2017BashTheBug went live on the Zooniverse website a bit over a week ago, just after… Online launch coverage11th April 2017BashtheBug has been covered so far by End of day 18th April 2017Thank you to everyone who had a go at BashTheBug yesterday, by the end of… BashTheBug is launched today!7th April 2017Today is the official launch of the BashTheBug citizen science project, hosted by Zooniverse.org. The… BashTheBug at the Science Museum29th March 2017A group of us from Modernising Medical Microbiology headed off to the Science Museum in London… Results of the beta-testing28th March 2017Thanks to all the Zooniverse.org beta testers who have tried out our BashTheBug project these… The Artwork28th March 2017The beautiful background photographs of the bacteria growing in petri dishes are the result of… The Aim28th March 2017BashTheBug is an online project studying, with the help of the public, antibiotic resistance in… DTC Programming Module Project: Identification of antibiotic resistance7th November 2016Background The inevitable and relentless growth of antibiotic resistance threatens much of the progress made…