Play a Game, Map the Brain with MIT
What’s it like to build a game to map the brain at MIT? Did you know that it takes the best neuroscience …
Monthly EyeWire Stats: June 2013
Introducing the first EyeWire Monthly Stat Report! Congrats to our top player, @Jinbean, who scored 402,810 points and submitted 4,538 validations during …
Bazinga! A New Starburst Neuron is Complete!
A 20th neuron has been completed by the EyeWire community! Check it out below and sign in on eyewire.org to explore it …
EyeWire Profiles
EyeWire Profiles 101 (psst..How to get Better at EyeWire) Clicking your username in the top right corner pops out your profile, including personal stats: …
And you thought mapping neurons was easy
There are about 85 billion neurons in one human brain. These are all branches of just one cell: a starburst neuron in the …
Introducing Profiles in EyeWire
We’re delighted to debut profiles in EyeWire. In the new home view on eyewire.org, you will see at bottom left three icons …
Meet Seung Lab: Claire O’Connell (on graduation day!!)
Meet Claire O’Connell, EyeWire’s Director of Education, who graduated from MIT today with a degree in Cognitive Sciences! This summer, Claire will …
Connectome is Now Available in Paperback: Win a Signed Copy!
Sebastian Seung‘s book, Connectome, named one of the top 10 nonfiction books in 2012 by the Wall Street Journal, is now available in …
Chat Bot 101
EyeWire Chat has special player-generated commands. Here they are in full glory. This is one post in a series of posts highlighting …
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 …
What is the highest resolution humans can distinguish?
EyeWire is all about understanding vision. Today guest blogger Paul King answers a question rarely considered question: just how well can a …
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 …