It's tomorrow, July 17th! Join us to learn about games, medical education and research, and network with your peers. mededgamer.org/conference-2... @empiricgame.bsky.social @zachlondon.bsky.social @pharmageddon.bsky.social @mikaelastiver.bsky.social @drsarahedwards.bsky.social

I come on Bluesky these days less frequently that most first-year university students wash their bed sheets, but I’m popping on today to assure everyone that my dog is still adorable AND she recently made a tiny friend 🐶🌲❤️

Time to get excited. Like toddler at Disney World excited. CIRCLE OF WILLIS, a board game about vascular anatomy, is here! @befast.bsky.social and I set out to make a #MEdEd game that is more fun than Epcot. Life goal unlocked. Tell your friends and parents! www.neurdgames.com/circle-of-willis

CIRCLE OF WILLIS | Cooperative Stroke Vascular Neurology Game

A cooperative set-building game about stroke prevention, neurology, and vascular anatomy.

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Braydon Dymm, MD@befast.bsky.social · last yr.

Introducing Circle of Willis - the board game! The first board game that makes vascular anatomy feel like an epic adventure instead of memorization. ✨ Cooperative gameplay 📷 Gorgeous neuroanatomy art ✨ Sold at cost (education > profit) Learn more: dymm.md

Obligatory first day of work selfie from Wednesday afternoon! 📸✌🏼 It has been a whirlwind of a short week in my new position at UBC and my emotions are an overwhelming mix of excitement + ‘fish out of water’ / imposter syndrome, but I’m going to just keep swimming until it feels like home! 🐟💙

Excited to announce that our visual fields game, "Field Cut," is a finalist for an educational game award called the Gee! Being a finalist also makes it eligible for their People's Choice Award. Please vote for Field Cut here! www.geeawards.com More on Field Cut: www.neurdgames.com/field-cut

Mike@empiricgame.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to the man the legend @zachlondon.bsky.social for being a finalist for the Gee! Awards in tabletop with Field Cut. Go check out the finalists and vote for your favorite human visual system game. www.geeawards.com

📢 Update: the Kickstarter for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives is coming SEPTEMBER 2025. Learn ID epi with a card game! Click to be notified when it launches. Early backers will receive a free Emerging Infections bonus card pack. #IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky www.kickstarter.com/projects/pha...

Coming soon: Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives, A Medical Card Game

Learn infectious disease epidemiology through a simple card game. Geography, vectors, reservoirs, and more!

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Last day of work at McGill University was an absolute rollercoaster of emotions 💙 Excited to be starting my next chapter as an Assistant Professor of Teaching at UBC (@ubccps.bsky.social) on July 1st … but first, I have a lot of packing to finish and an overflowing email inbox to attend to 😂🎉

Ciao from my little home away from home in Italia! 💚🤍❤️ Looking forward to finally meeting the first year Harvey Med students in person in ~1 week… ma prima, le vacanze!! ✌🏼

Fresh off the presses!!! 🗞️🧩♟️🎲🎉 doi.org/10.1002/ase.... Part of a Special Issue on Anatomical Engagement & Science Communication… with lots of other great articles that you should also check out! #AnatEd #MedEd #GBL #GamifiedLearning

Gamifying anatomy outreach: An underexplored opportunity

This article explores the underutilized potential of incorporating gamified approaches into anatomy outreach initiatives. While gamification and game-based learning approaches have been widely adopte...

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Teeny tiny London wishes everyone on Bluesky a Happy Monday!! ✌🏼🎉🐶

Just like that, I have wrapped up the final course I get to coordinate at McGill University! 💔😭 Anatomy for Surgeons (a.k.a., Anatomy for Med-4s Who Love Anatomy) is my FAVOURITE course & it's bittersweet to say goodbye... so obviously I seized one final chance to make silly student certificates 🫀✌🏼

Got a paper accepted on my (sort of) birthday!!! 🎉🤓🙏🏼 Non-leap years are a bit anticlimactic because my birthday gets a bit forgotten, but I appreciate the universe giving me a little win just the same! Cheers to my co-authors, getting older one quarter birthday at a time, and happy coincidences 🥂

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This has been online for a little while, but I’m so excited to see this scoping review finally published 🎉❤️📝 My first LAST author paper with a couple wonderful students and some of my favourite #GBL friends & collaborators!! @drsarahedwards.bsky.social @empiricgame.bsky.social @tchanmd.bsky.social

Analog Serious Games for Medical Education: A Scoping Review : Academic Medicine

rovides recommendations regarding gaps and emerging directions for future research. Method The authors conducted a scoping review following the Arksey and O’Malley framework, searching 3 databases ...

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It is with IMMENSE pride (& a touch of relief... WOW, drawing histology is more challenging than I imagined) that I share all 105 illustrations I contributed to the first ever Histology Colouring Book, created by Drs. Franz-Odendaal & Pinder 🤩🔬🖍️ histologycoloringbook.com #Histology #AnatEd #MedEd

My brilliant med students taught me that in French the pudendal nerve used to be called “nerf honteux”, meaning “shameful/disgraceful nerve” — presumably related to the better known fact that “pudendal” itself is derived from the latin verb pudere = “to be ashamed”! #ValentinesDay anatomy facts ❤️

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Every time I open the news I want to start sobbing and/or punching pillows, so instead I’m crocheting Woobles cacti and succulent kits, & I hope they will cheer everyone else up a bit too 🌵🪴💚

Apropos of nothing 🙄 “large reproductive cell[s]” are called ova, “small reproductive cell[s]” are called sperm (spermatozoa, if you’re fancy), zygotes do not produce either gamete “at conception”, and some people never produce gametes at all… …and that’s just the TIP of the iceberg! 🫠

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Even pulling super late nights to finish recommendation letters, manuscript reviews, and lecture slides is tolerable with my best friend helping me out 🐶💜

Yeah that tracks ❤️‍🩹 If at first you don’t succeed… ✌🏼

Merry Christmas Eve Eve 😉🎄 London and I are spending some quality time in our matching Christmas PJs while watching Richard Osman’s House of Games reruns on YouTube ✌🏼

Can we go all in and toss out the term "hysterectomy" while we're at it? 😤✌🏼 Just call it a uterectomy. It's not that hard!!

Shematologist, MD@shematologist.medsky.social · 2y ago

Motion to ban the term hysterical from ever being used in reference to female patients or the issues that affect them.

Completely inconsequential, I know, but I just need to cry into the Bluesky void so somebody somewhere can hear that I’m REALLY sad I inadvertently broke my Wordle, Connections, and Minute Cryptic streaks!!! 😫 392-day NYT crossword streak still going strong though 🏆

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Alt: A blue unicorn puppet with a rainbow horn, grey hair, and wearing a red sweater throwing its arms up and down with the caption “ahh, gum drops”

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Hey! I've just realised that I haven't told Blue Sky about our histology colouring book. Made in collaboration w/ Dr Tamara Franz-Odendaal & images by the marvelous Dr @mikaelastiver.bsky.social. Check it out as a visual learning resource for those studying #histology. histologycolouringbook.com 🖍️🔬

First test to see if the #anatomy hive mind is alive on Bluesky... Xiphisternal joint ➡️ symphysis or synchondrosis? Moore's says synchondrosis (1º cartilaginous joint; hyaline cartilage) Last's & Gray's for Students say symphysis (2º cartilaginous joint; fibrocartilage) My brain says... HELP!!! 🚨🤯

In case you missed your emails, the deadline for abstract submission has been *extended* until December 9th!! 🎉🎉🎉 Please come join us in Portland, OR at the end of March and share your research + if you're into analog educational games, we've got an awesome workshop planned 🤓 🎲 🧩 #Anatomy25

American Association for Anatomy@anatomyorg.bsky.social · 2y ago

AAA is now on Bluesky just in time to tell you why you should submit an abstract for Anatomy Connected 25! Listen to our past participants, abstracts are essential to level up in your career! 📈 More info: ow.ly/Ywev50UbcY2 vimeo.com/1032411840 #Anatomy25 #anatomy #science #research #education #AAA

Last day of undergraduate classes today (AND my last time teaching the Clinical Neuroanatomy course I love so much 💔🧠), so I went all out with mini pre-exam care packages for my students — complete with encourage-mints, positivi-tea, stickers, and a little hand written note (among other goodies) 🍬

Thank goodness my mom was able to snag me a copy in the states because international shipping is absurdly expensive 😳 Saving this for the holidays 🎄🧩

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

Puzzle Mania, our special print puzzle section, appeared in your Sunday paper — and you can also find it in the Times store: nyti.ms/3Vk79xs This is how our puzzle makers create the giant crossword that is the centerpiece of our 12-page special section: nyti.ms/3Zzqm0X

I have a new hobby… 3D cryptic crossword puzzles!! 🤓🧩 Why? Because I’m still pretty terrible at cryptic crosswords, but something about doing them in 3D just hurts my brain in the most satisfying way 🧠 Join me in my weird midlife crisis: 3dcalendarpuzzles.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...

My Friday night musings are centred around realizing that I have exactly two approaches to drinking tea: 1) Gulping it all down within 2–3 minutes, usually resulting in a burnt palate 🥵 2) Making a lovely cup and promptly forgetting about it until it’s freezing cold 🥶

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Alt: GIF of April Ludgate from Parks and Recreation sitting at a desk. She is staring forward without blinking while repeatedly dipping a teabag in and out of a takeout cup.

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Reminder: Students get 33% off a copy of Pharmageddon: Bugs vs Drugs the antibiotic and microbiology card game. Tell all your new #IDSky #MedSky friends! labbeaglegames.com/student-disc...