Pharmageddon
pharmageddon.bsky.social
Pharmageddon
@pharmageddon.bsky.social
Making games to teach & learn antibiotics, microbiology, and (soon) infectious disease epidemiology! Also sharing any good ID memes and infographics I find in the process...

https://labbeaglegames.com/
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The Epipocalypse is here!

Learn infectious diseases while playing cards. Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives teaches symptoms, transmission, reservoirs, geography, & more for over 150+ different infections.

#IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pha...
Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives, A Medical Card Game
Learn infectious diseases by playing cards. Symptoms, transmission, reservoirs, and more!
www.kickstarter.com
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Oue friend Critical Care game is on sale for $55 (nl 70)

Critical Care: The Game — Critical Care: The Game share.google/VhiBUtAMfbEe...
Critical Care: The Game — Critical Care: The Game
1-4 player co-op board game designed by doctors & board game lovers for everyone. Use medicine & engage experts to save lives! Critical Care takes about 45-90 minutes to play for ages 14 and u...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Do you have an idea for an educational neurology game that needs some work?

Or wish you knew where to start?

Apply for GANGLIA, a game-development program providing instruction, mentorship, community and funds - with
@zachlondon.bsky.social & me!
Deadline April 2026
neurdgames.com/ganglia
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge.
#22- Duck

Again promoting this excellent resource by Iowa State School of Veterinary Medicine

(confession: I learned ducks are considered poultry 🤪; pero English is my second language so 🤷🏻‍♀️)

#IDSky #VetSky

www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Assets/zoono...
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
CDC group DF-2 (dysgonic fermenter type 2)! And its friends.
Psst. Want to know everything you need to on Capnocytophagia?

Got 15 minutes?

Listen here.

Free pun included! It’s a regular ‘Cap Friday’ deal!

#idsky #microsky

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
podcasts.apple.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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New episode out today: Listen in to this team from LA as they walk through several mini-cases and chat IV vs PO antibiotics!

Feat: Fourth year medical student Hannah Chute, Dr. Paloma Reta-Impey, and @bradspellberg.bsky.social

Also check out: www.bradspellberg.com/oral-antibio...

#IDsky #MedSky
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Small Business Saturday!

An educational card game for healthcare workers and other pharmacology enthusiasts. Check out Pharmageddon: Bugs vs Drugs on our Etsy store!

labbeaglegames.etsy.com/listing/1452...
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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But cities used to be affordable, and with lighter building regulations, they built fast and densified very quickly.

Why did that end? What brought about 'the Great Downzoning'?

Samuel Hughes evaluates the theories in a great new piece for Works in Progress.
worksinprogress.co/issue/the-gr...
The Great Downzoning - Works in Progress Magazine
It was once legal to build almost anything, anywhere. Then, in the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the West banned densification.
worksinprogress.co
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I had a lot of fun making this choropleth map of property sales prices in Germany.

Predictably, big cities have the highest property prices. This pattern is typical now.
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Novels' sentences are much shorter than they used to be.

Part of this is about punctuation: we use periods as people used to use semi-colons. And shorter sentences aren't necessarily simpler to read, since jargon can condense complicated ideas.
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Fascinating reading about unheralded women game designers in the C19th.
daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-h...
The Hidden History of Women Game Designers - JSTOR Daily
Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.
daily.jstor.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Let’s start with your first clue: survivors rarely get smallpox again. But you don’t know why. The only technology available is variolation – infect your child with a controlled dose of smallpox, but risk a 1-in-50 chance they die from the procedure.
Imagine you lived in the 18th century.

Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?

In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
The history of vaccines
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Imagine you lived in the 18th century.

Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?

In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
The history of vaccines
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Why does skunk spray smell so bad, and what are some science-backed methods for removing the stench? The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social takes a look: cen.acs.org/biological-c...

#ChemSky 🧪
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Did you know that most* of the neurologists in your life** want to receive fun neurology-themed games this holiday? 😲

Order now to make sure these games will arrive in time to ensure happy neurologists! ☺️

neurdgames.com
*or at least some
**probably
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.

phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
phys.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Pharmageddon: Bugs vs Drugs is now available on AMAZON.

If you backed the Kickstarter or purchased it on Etsy please consider dropping a review. It helps prime the Amazon search pump so.

#IDSky #MedSky

www.amazon.com/Lab-Beagle-G...
Pharmageddon: Bugs vs Drugs, A Medical Education Game
Amazon.com: Lab Beagle Games Pharmageddon: Bugs vs Drugs, A Medical Education Game : Toys & Games
www.amazon.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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@cidjournal.bsky.social State-of-the-Art Review: Antibiotic Allergy—A Multidisciplinary Approach to Delabeling

academic.oup.com/cid/article/...
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
More ID crosswords!
Put your infectious diseases and stewardship knowledge to the test with the Mini Crossword #MedEd game for #WAAW2025. The timer is ticking! ⏰
crossword.firstline.org

Educational game content created by Shaqil Peermohamed, MD #IDSky #PharmSky #AMSSky
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I read the caption first and thought the illusion might be because the y-axis was on a log scale, but it's not!

My brain was bamboozled regardless.
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Our newest episode features Drs. Raghad Al-Abdwani, Badriya Al Adawi, and Zaid Al Hinai discussing "A Critical Query"! #Idsky
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!

C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky

quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Everything is a zoonosis! Drawing/listing challenge.
#21 - Donkey

Iowa State’s Center for Food Security and Public Health is my go to resource for information about zoonoses in farm animals ❤️👩🏻‍🌾

www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Assets/zoono...
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM