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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

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

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

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 🫀✌🏼

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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 🥂

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

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

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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

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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 🌵🪴💚

submitted 66 days ago • 5 comments

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 🐶💜

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

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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 ✌🏼

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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!!

submitted 114 days ago • 2 comments

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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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 🖍️🔬

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

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!!! 🚨🤯

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

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

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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) 🍬

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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 🎄🧩

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

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...

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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 🥶

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

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...

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Bluesky neuroanatomy & neurology nerds 🧠👀 We don't have an account for the Global Neuroanatomy Network (GNN) on here yet, but please come check it out! 🌎🌍🌏 The GNN is an online resource repository & community of practice for neuroanatomy educators — new member applications are ALWAYS welcome!

submitted 134 days ago • 1 comment

New podcast on Body Banter: The intersection of Art and Science with Chris Smith bodybanter.ca

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

Hey all: I created a new starter pack for #MedEd enthusiasts! If you know of anyone missing, I’ll add you or them until we get to 150 - just reply to this message! go.bsky.app/8hfHZr

submitted 136 days ago • 44 comments

The vestibulocochlear nerve always struck me as the neuroanatomical version of a BOGO sale ✌🏼 Enjoy this neuroanatomy Pokémon-inspired cranial nerve card for the "inner ear dream team" — a.k.a. CN VIII Print-on-demand copies available from The Game Crafter: www.thegamecrafter.com/games/crania...

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“We like to think of gamification as a hat … the hat can be worn by many different people with little or no modification.” Peep the Virtual Issue we compiled in @asmeofficial.bsky.social Medical Education! @drsarahedwards.bsky.social @empiricgame.bsky.social @tchanmd.bsky.social

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This is Fred. He just found out he can chew his own ear. There aren't actually any rules against it, he checked. 12/10

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