How are Points Calculated in Eyewire?
The points you’ll get consist of: Time: The more time you spend, the more points you’ll get. The function is somehow sigmoidal (rather …
Announcing the Winners of the Ketta Competition!
Results are in and records are broken! Congrats to KETTA for winning the Ketta Competition on EyeWire! 2nd place goes to @jamiexq and …
CLARITY makes clear brains (and awesome GIFs)
CLARITY makes brains (and other tissue) clear. “This is probably one of the most important advances for doing neuroanatomy in decades,” says Thomas …
The 24 Hour Ketta Competition, Coming April 21, 2013
First there was the CrazyMan Challenge. Then there was the @a5hm0r Challenge. Now it’s time for the next chapter in EyeWire player …
EyeWire Features Developed by Players
EyeWire Features Developed by Players EyeWirers (@nkem and @crazyman4865) have recently begun building chatbots and developing on top of EyeWire. Today, we’re …
Infographic: Obama’s BRAIN Initiative
An infographic explains President Obama’s new $100M BRAIN Initiative. The White House calls the BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) …
President Barack Obama Announces BRAIN Initiative
President Barack Obama announced today at the White House a BRAIN Initiative, “a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of …
Infographic: EyeWire, a game to map the brain
EyeWire is a game to map the brain. Anyone can play and you need no scientific background. Learn more or play now. …
EyeWire Chat Commands
Chat commands to improve your EyeWire experience. Korean chat commands. One of the most important features in chat is /pm, a feature …
EyeWire at the World Life Sciences Forum
EyeWire will be presented at Biovision, the World Life Sciences Forum in Lyon, France. The event will be livestreamed from biovision.org — …
New Neuron in EyeWire: J7
A new neuron is up in EyeWire: J Cell #7! This is the last opportunity to map J Cells in this dataset! …
Video: Neuron Synapse Zoom
Imagine zooming through an entire connectome as you see this beautiful set of synapses that have been rendered translucent so you can …