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Check out our citizen science projects on They combine 3D imaging techniques using X-rays and electrons, cell biology and computer science.

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Want to learn more? Check out our @RosFrankInst news article 🧠🔍🐘
https://t.co/cxcbjOxIJX

#ScienceScribbler #SynapseSafari #CommunityScience #Bioimaging #ElectronMicroscopy

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And we are live! Check out our newest #CitizenScience project on @the_zooniverse - Science Scribbler: Synapse Safari

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Grab your virtual microscope and get ready for an adventure with Science Scribbler: Synapse Safari! Help us outsmart AI as we venture into uncharted depths of the developing hippocampus. https://t.co/MkDpsYpDlf

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Together, we can correct the machine 🤖 and uncover the hidden dynamics of the hippocampus 🧐 so that we can better understand neurodevelopmental disorders like #Epilepsy and #Autism 🧑‍🔬🧑‍⚕️

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Co-author @martinjones78 has a 10/10 thread explaining how #citizenscience can help with the 100s of GB of data routinely produced in #cryoEM and #teamtomo biological imaging:

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@the_zooniverse @EM_STP @TheCrick The problem: many microscopes produce datasets in the giga- to terabyte regime. Extracting meaning from these datasets is HARD!
E.g. 3D #ElectronMicroscopy methods like #SBFSEM and #FIBSEM produce data at 100s of GB per day

Movie: @GatanMicroscopy 3View https://t.co/oG7WMaC1o1

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Aren’t computers up to the task? Sometimes – but people are much better at pattern recognition than computers, and biology is inherently variable, making these images particularly tricky. Combining #citizenscience with #artificialintellingence helps make computers better too.

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Why do we need citizen science? Take #PlacentaProfiles for example: our #volunteers picked out 2.23M potential mitochondria in just 18 months – a number that would take a single researcher years to match. The #power of the #crowd indeed 💪

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Published with @SpringerNature in Histochemistry and Cell Biology, authors @_OllyK @WinM_Tun @basham_mark @martinjones78 @EM_STP @MDarrow7 & @H_Spiers discuss using #crowdsourcing for the #segmentation of #microscopy image data, and combining #citsci with #machinelearning 🔬🧑‍💻

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📢HOT OFF THE PRESS📢

Our new paper, in collaboration with the @EtchACell team at @TheCrick, @DiamondLightSou and @RosFrankInst shares our collective experience in using @the_zooniverse for #citizenscience projects using biological #volumeEM data:

https://t.co/ch71tWaWuy

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More good news - the first results update from #PlacentaProfiles! Read about how many #mitochondria our volunteers were able to find in Mito Mapper, and how we are looking to cluster the 2.2 million picks for our Mop Up workflow:

https://t.co/54uRzUv0Ri

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TL;DR - Our amazing #CitizenScientists have retired over 40,000 images from our final workflow - with over 420,000 classifications contributed! We are hugely #grateful for every single contribution to our #nanoparticle #research

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Check out our latest spring-themed update on our #Key2Cat project, classifying #nanoparticles for #catalysis on @the_zooniverse:

https://t.co/aC7xSvoNmr

#CitizenScience #catalyst #research

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It's #CitizenScienceMonth and we are celebrating the brilliant public-powered research happening at the Franklin. Find out how volunteers are helping our AI&I team train their algorithms and decipher complex biological images -> https://t.co/gYqEnGOD5a

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We had a great time at @DiamondLightSou last month talking about our #CitizenScience projects on @the_zooniverse. Looking forward to more citizen science action this April for #CitizenScienceMonth!

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Many friends have joined us for our Open Day. Here is the Zooniverse Team talking about the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research 🌍 Find out more at https://t.co/f3JPO1rlFa @the_zooniverse @OxfordPhysics @RosFrankInst @ScienceScribbl1

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We are looking forward to chatting about nanoparticles for @ScienceWeekUK very soon! Come along and ask our expert Kevin about catalysis, microscopes, and our @the_zooniverse project at 4pm GMT:

https://t.co/VAvE08WDFV

@RosFrankInst @UniofOxford #BSW23 #Key2Cat

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.@UniofOxford Nanoparticle researcher Kevin is excited to connect with you to talk about our #Key2Cat #CitizenScience project for #BSW23. He will be live on our Talk forum from 16:00-17:00 GMT on Thursday 16th - drop by and say hello!

https://t.co/VAvE08WDFV

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