BashTheBug
Ariel Zych and Diana Montano team from Science Friday hosted a discussion with Philip Fowler (BashTheBug lead), Carla Wright (BashTheBug coordinator) and Helen Spiers (Zooniverse liaison) yesterday on Facebook.
You can watch a recording of the livestream here.
This was a first time the BashTheBug has ever done anything like this, so let us know if you’d like more, or equally if you’d like something different.
Last Friday 24 April 2020, Laura Trouille, who is Co-Principal Investigator for the Zooniverse and Vice President of Citizen Science at the Adler Planetarium, was interviewed on the popular North American radio show, ScienceFriday.
Laura talked about four Zooniverse projects, and BashTheBug was one of them!
You can listen to her interview by following this link to the Science Friday website, or the episode is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Podcasts.
You may have received this email from the Zooniverse Team and already taken part; if so, thank you. If not, please consider participating as the more volunteers take part, the better.
You reached three million classifications on Sun 19 April 2020.
That means it took you only 38 days to add a million classifications, which is astonishing. That averages out as one every 3 seconds. The previous million took nearly a year-and-a-half!
Since we asked you all to send in your words and images last month to celebrate reaching two million, we decided to recognise reaching three million classifications by overlaying onto the BashTheBug logo all the usernames of everyone who has participated, even if you’ve just done a single classification. That is 19,639 usernames, however, so the writing is really, really tiny — you’ll need to download the high resolution image and then zoom in!
If you didn’t login to the Zooniverse, you won’t find yourself on the logo I’m afraid, and also if you deleted your account it will also be missing.
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.
You reached two million classifications on Thu 12 March 2020.
We would like to give a special Shout Out.. and Thank You to our Top 20 volunteers:
|
User Name |
Classification |
Rank |
| Pego.cs | 63053 | 1 |
| Elisabeth B | 35058 | 2 |
| skl6284 | 28995 | 3 |
| Carol49 | 27740 | 4 |
| Michael.c.cozens | 23478 | 5 |
| rodlawes | 22246 | 6 |
| Huskynator | 21018 | 7 |
| ianmetcalf | 18651 | 8 |
| Victorr8 | 17190 | 9 |
| r.sasaki | 16802 | 10 |
| marius_aga | 16641 | 11 |
| kristaFB | 15136 | 12 |
| deleted-1678833 | 14431 | 13 |
| Mary_Nichols | 12772 | 14 |
| mkavooss | 12398 | 15 |
| ghewson | 12178 | 16 |
| x303 | 11613 | 17 |
| ElizabethLarson | 11177 | 18 |
| Rattus | 10843 | 19 |
| hermesp | 10020 | 20 |
They have collectively classified over 81,000 images which is just over 19% of the overall classifications.
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.