🚨 To celebrate the 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of releasing my
#Pokemon
-inspired
#neuroanatomy
cranial nerve cards on
@thegamecrafter
, I'm in the *VERY early stages* of designing an expansion set feat. ganglia & nuclei!!! 🚨
Meanwhile, get the original set here:
Ask and you shall receive... cranial nerves I, II, & III as
#Pokemon
cards!! 🤓🧠 (full set coming slowly but surely!)
See if you can make sense of the cryptic emoji strengths & weaknesses 🤔
#AnatomyDoodle
#MedTwitter
Seen some confusion about extraocular muscles & their main actions in *cardinal directions* vs clinical testing floating about, so I put together a quick
#AnatomyDoodle
👁
As an
#anatomist
, I always like to consider basic structure & function first! 🤓
#MedTwitter
#anatomy
A couple more cerebellar pathway
#neuroanatomy
doodles for your viewing pleasure!! They are intentionally simplified because I was teaching an introductory course — I know that there are many details missing!! 🧠🤓✏️
#AnatomyDoodle
#NeuroTwitter
#AnatEd
#MedEd
Guess who has been doodling for her
#neuroanatomy
course again?? 🤓✏️🧠 Hard to believe I only have TWO LECTURES left this semester!! 💔
I’ve been making simplified illustrations of cerebellar afferents & efferents… here’s the vestibulocerebellum!
#AnatomyDoodle
#AnatEd
Listen, all you brilliant
@LEGO_Group
Master Builders (or whatever you’re actually called). This needs to become a reality STAT… I know a bunch of
#neuroanatomy
/
#neurology
/
#neuroscience
nerds who would buy a set immediately! 🤓🧠🙏🏼
I’m absolutely overjoyed to announce that I have accepted a faculty position in the Division of Anatomical Sciences, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at McGill University!!! 🎉🤩🙌🏼
@mcgillu
@McGill_ACB
[& my first course for the fall is
#neuroanatomy
!! 🧠]
#AcademicTwitter
Attention
#neuroanatomy
x
#Pokemon
fans!!
Presenting the long-awaited trigeminal, facial, & vestibulocochlear cards! I sincerely hope I’ve done them justice (especially for all you CN V enthusiasts) 🤞🏼🤓🧠
#AnatomyDoodle
#MedTwitter
This girl is
#PhDone
(with no revisions to boot)!!! 🤓🙌🏼❤️
Thank you to everyone who stuck with me through all the highs & lows… I couldn’t have done it without you!
#AcademicTwitter
📸 ft. goodies from
@amandatomical
,
@academeology
, & many more!
Guess who has been doodling again?? 🧠🤓
Prepping a few figures for my
#neuroanatomy
course & thought I’d share one since it’s been quite a while!! Starting my students off on the right foot with some
#embryology
fundamentals!
#AnatomyDoodle
#MedTwitter
This week is off to an *ABSOLUTELY* brilliant start...
I just submitted 3 COMPLETE CHAPTERS of my PhD
#thesis
to my committee (including the lit review chapter that has been haunting my dreams for over a year)!!! 😱🥳🤓
#AcademicTwitter
#PhDlife
@OpenAcademics
Geeking out because LOOK WHAT JUST ARRIVED IN THE MAIL!!! 🤓🧠💌
My
#Pokemon
-inspired cranial nerve cards look even better than I imagined ❤️ waiting on a test print from one other company, but soon you too can own these
#neuroanatomy
beauts!!!
#MedTwitter
Gotta learn it all!!!
I have a love–hate relationship with cranial nerve nuclei 🧠 but creating the first draft of this little schematic has tipped the scales toward love!! ❤️
#neuroanatomy
Suggestions always welcome!!
#AnatomyDoodle
#MedTwitter
High time for a new
#embryology
animation: neurulation (incl. a few bare-bones labels!) 🤓🧠🟣
I found it quite challenging to link the static images that I had previously drawn... open to comments & suggestions, as always!!
#AnatomyDoodle
#SciArt
#MedTwitter
Check out the first design idea for the back of my cranial nerve
#Pokemon
cards 🤓🧠 I originally used a font generator for “neuroanatomy” but ended up preferring my hand-drawn version!
Feedback welcome, keeping in mind my limited artistic skills!!! 😅
#AnatomyDoodle
#MedTwitter
Today was rough 🥺
Some of my major concerns about my thesis were confirmed by my supervisory committee—I’m glad it’s out in the open, but overwhelmingly I feel discouraged & afraid.
Today, I’m accepting it...
Tomorrow, I’m going to tackle it head on 💪🏼
#PhDlife
#AcademicChatter
In memory of the incomparable Andre Braugher, here is my all-time favourite scene from Brooklyn Nine-Nine (which hits extra close to home while living in a province that won’t let PhDs use the title even though it’s *literally describing a doctor*!) 💛 RIP legend 💛
Paper ✨OFFICIALLY✨ accepted this morning!!!
Here's a little sneak peek: models of the comprehensive 3D architecture of trapezius (infant & adult)! 🤓💪🏼
#AcademicTwitter
#PhDlife
Starting Part 2 (out of 3) of my
#neuroanatomy
course on Thursday, so today I prepped a little
#AnatomyDoodle
to zhuzh up my lecture slides 🤓🎨 Guess the (hopefully very obvious 🤞🏼) topic!!
Please forgive the less-than-perfect colour palette for colour vision deficiency...🤦🏻♀️
After nearly 2 YEARS of rewriting, reframing, revisions, & rejections, the 1st manuscript from my PhD research *FINALLY* has a journal to call home!! 🥲🙏🏼
We still have a few substantial edits to make, but I'm counting "accept with revisions" as a MASSIVE win ❤️
#AcademicTwitter
WE'RE LIVE! 🧠🤓🎉
My cranial nerve
#neuroanatomy
cards are OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE on
@thegamecrafter
! Get a set of 18 cards for a special introductory price:
✅ 12 cranial nerves
✅ 3 nerve type cards
✅ 3 *bonus* duplicates to share!
#MedTwitter
#anatomy
#Neuroanatomy
: Gotta learn it all! 🤓🧠🙌🏼
Presenting the COMPLETE SET of cranial nerve
#Pokemon
cards + preliminary designs for card backs & 'energy' cards!!
Which cranial nerve will you choose?? 🤔
#MedTwitter
#NeuroTwitter
(1/4)
I've seen the bones before but just stumbled upon the muscles and brain today! Someday these will adorn my office walls... ❤️
#anatomy
#sciart
#typogram
Credit:
@AaronKuehn
Two of the four remaining cranial nerve
#Pokemon
cards: CN XI & CN XII 🤓🧠 Which is your favourite so far???
I left glossopharyngeal & vagus for last because they’re SOOOO challenging to summarize in a couple sentences 🙈 but they’re coming soon! ⏳
#AnatomyDoodle
#MedTwitter
Slightly terrified to post this one for fear that people will be scared off by my very strange mind 🙈 but this is *genuinely* how I learned the dorsal brainstem!
Definitely requires a wild imagination... please don’t judge me too much!! 😂🧠🐰
#neuroanatomy
#MedTwitter
Probably need another 10,000 hours of practice with shading before I really get the hang of it, but I think the great vessels are starting to pop!! ❤️💙
#AnatomyDoodle
#SciArt
#MedTwitter
All my
#embryology
friends made ❤️ development sound pretty wild, so I thought I’d try to teach myself a little bit about it w/ an animated
#AnatomyDoodle
🤓
This is a *very* rough first draft... I’m 99% sure it’s wonky as, but that’s what learning is all about! Any thoughts?
Just ordered a test set of my
#Pokemon
-inspired cranial nerve
#neuroanatomy
cards!!! 🤩 Stay tuned for updates… 🧠
Shipping is a bit $$, but ordering a few sets & splitting the cost with friends would help!! I will do my best to find better options in the future ❤️
#MedTwitter
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!! 🎁🎂🎉❤️ Celebrating the big 8.0 this year… you do the math 🙈
Wishing all my fellow
#LeapDay
babies the best day ever to make up for 4 long years of waiting 😉 Go do something awesome with your “extra” day!!!
🚨
#neuroanatomy
&
#anatomy
friends! The moment you've been waiting for is nigh:
I will *FINALLY* be making my TCG-inspired cranial nerve cards available for purchase through
@thegamecrafter
on MONDAY!! 🥳🧠🤓 Please consider supporting my creation by purchasing a set or two! ❤️
#HappyHalloween
! 👻🎃🍬
I’m an anatomically incorrect skeleton, complete with
#anatomist
annotations humerus-ly pointing out some of the more egregious errors 💀
(Also yes, these are glow-in-the-dark pyjamas… I regret nothing ❤️)
Hit a 50,000-word milestone in my
#dissertation
last night with several chapter still to go 🙃 I sincerely apologise in advance to my wonderful supervisory committee… brevity has never been my forte 🙈 I promise to edit!!!
#AcademicTwitter
#PhDlife
***FINALLY*** finished re-writing the manuscript I’ve been sitting on for a year (following a handful of brutal back-to-back rejections) 💪🏼
It’s a drop in the ocean that is my PhD thesis, but I reckon it’s still worth celebrating?! 🥳
#AcademicTwitter
#PhDlife
No
#anatomist
’s wardrobe is complete without a dermatome wetsuit* 🤓🤿
*Not my creation! This beauty hangs in my PhD supervisor’s office & is currently keeping my company while I rerun data analyses
#AcademicTwitter
#MedTwitter
“Willis” the cerebral arterial circle + vertebrobasilar arterial system spider/8-legged monster (you choose)!🕷👹
Annotated version & DIY template 🧠🤓
#neuroanatomy
#MedTwitter
⭐️ Original source: Goldberg, S (2014) Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple, 5th ed.
Had a few different suggestions to improve my
#neurulation
animation, so let’s just call this v2.0 🧠
✅ No more weird migrating mesoderm 🙈
✅ New regions highlighted in colour 🎨
✅ Neural crest labelled 🖊
✅ Slightly ⬇️ frame rate
#embryology
#MedTwitter
#AnatomyDoodle
You may have heard of Build-A-Bear, but what about Build-a-Hand?? 🖐️🏻
#AnatomyDoodle
#MedTwitter
Quick video of super simplified palmar hand structures in sequential layers!! Some assembly required, lumbricals not included (in this iteration) 🤓
A colourful little illustration of the
#hippocampus
that I put together in early June to accompany a brilliant friend's research 🧠🤓🔬
I'd love to do more of these. Get in touch if I can draw you some
#anatomy
—for your research or just for fun!
#neuroanatomy
#AnatomyArt
#SciArt
Now that everything is signed & official, I’m THRILLED to announce that I have the honour & privilege of illustrating the 1st EVER Histology Colouring Book by
@FranzOdendaal
&
@DrKarenPinder
(+ a team of brilliant contributors), funded by
@AnatomyOrg
!!! 🎉✏️🤓
#SciArt
#histology
Last (but most definitely not least) in my
#neuroanatomy
x
#Pokemon
card cranial nerve series 🧠🤓:
9️⃣ Glossopharyngeal
🔟 Vagus
I’ll post the complete set in a thread tomorrow! 🙌🏼
Should I make ganglion or reflex cards next? Or something else?? 🤔
#AcademicTwitter
#MedTwitter
Delighted to have received a Faculty Award for Teaching Innovation this year for implementing game-based learning in my
@McGillRehab
undergrad
#neuroanatomy
course (including the
#Pokemon
-inspired cranial nerve cards)!! 🧠🥰🎉
Learning is hard work, but it should also be fun! 🙌🏼
Congratulations to the winners of the third annual Learner and Faculty Awards for Teaching Innovation! The awards recognize their innovative strategies that are learning- and learner-focused. Meet the winners here:
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
Normally I teach
#arthrokinematics
with bones in the
#anatomy
lab, but now that half the course is online (& demonstrating with my hands over video was an unmitigated disaster) I’m improvising!! 🤓✍🏼
#AnatomyDoodle
Animation
#1
: Concave joint surface moving (1/2)
Contracts signed & flights booked, so I can finally share my exciting news:
I’m heading to Italy 🇮🇹 in January–February 2023 to teach
#anatomy
as part of the Harvey Medical Course at the Università di Pavia (
@unipv
)!! 🫀🤓🎉
European friends: let’s plan some weekend adventures!
I had the honour of seeing this priceless piece of
#anatomy
history at the Università di Pavia yesterday!! 🤓❤️🤯
A 2nd edition of “De humani corporis fabrica libri septem” by Andreas Veslius in immaculate condition. It honestly left me speechless…🫀
There are quite a few of these schematics floating around, but I wanted to make my own for an upcoming lecture so I could customise the colour scheme & add/remove labels as needed 🤓🧠
#Neuroanatomy
#AnatomyDoodle
My thesis defence is *officially* scheduled for February 28th!!! 🎉🤓
… which is also my BIRTHDAY in non-leap years 🙈 Here’s hoping it’s a memorable birthday for good reasons!? 🤞🏼 It’s been a long road and I’m very ready for it to be over!
#AcademicTwitter
#AlmostPhDone
Haven’t checked my Cranial Nerve Card sales in a hot second… I'm *ecstatic* to report that I have sold >185 COPIES in 16 COUNTRIES, including one from every inhabited continent!! 🤯🤓🧠
#MedTwitter
#AnatEd
#MedEd
Get your own and/or leave a review here:
Reviving my punny holiday
#AnatomyDoodle
creations to hopefully spread a little cheer amidst all the
#OmicronVariant
madness 🤓✏️❤️ If they make you smile (or even just cringe) a little, my job here is done!!
#SciArt
#MedTwitter
The very sweaty face of a very happy girl who got to do a little dissection for the first time in nearly 9 months!!!
PLUS I got to try out my fancy new
@mcgillu
scrubs 🤓🙌🏼❤️
#Anatomy
#AcademicTwitter
Bonjour, new academic home!! 🫀🤓
Please forgive the repetitive posts—I’m *very* excited about this new chapter! My official start date is August 1st, but today I got to meet some colleagues, chat with some students, & get acquainted with this beautiful building!
#AcademicTwitter
Are you following this artistic queen yet??! You absolutely should be 🤩 Every piece is more impressive than the last!
Saving up to buy a couple prints for my office! ❤️
#AnatomyArt
#SciArt
It’s been a hot minute since I posted a new
#AnatomyDoodle
🤓
Here’s a little ‘behind the scenes’ video of an os coxa in progress! I struggle miserably with proportions so I’m working with grids & photos of bones for the time being 🙈 Final colour version coming soon 🤞🏼
#SciArt
Happy
#WorldAnatomyDay
to all of my anatomy friends all around the world!! 🧠💀🫀
One of my favourite parts of being an
#anatomist
is that I learn something new every day, whether it's reading new research, answering an insightful question, or having an unexpected 'a-ha' moment!
It's been ~18 days since I released my
#Pokemon
-inspired
#neuroanatomy
cranial nerve cards on
@thegamecrafter
& I'm super excited to share that I've just cracked 100 COPIES sold (in 9 countries across 5 continents)!!! 🤩
#GottaLearnItAll
Get your own ➡️
Last week’s brachial plexus-focused lab involved buying EVERY pipe cleaner at my local Dollarama 😂🙌🏼 each plexus requires either 16 or 20 pipe cleaners (depending on your preferred method) ❤️
#AnatEd
+ I finally finished my beautiful
@anatomyfound
‘plaited plexus’!! 😍🧶
Visual fields + CN II pathway
#AnatomyDoodle
from yesterday’s first cranial nerve
#neuroanatomy
lecture of the semester!! 👁❤️
Plenty of wonderful graphics out there, but I couldn’t help but make my own. Can’t wait to dive into some lesion problems on Monday morning! 🙌🏼
It’s a wine &
#anatomy
puzzle kind of
#ChristmasDay
… is anyone really surprised? 🍷🧩🧠
I’ve done the first 3 puzzles in this set *many* times & I really need to purchase the limbs to complete the set… + maybe a few of the organs too? (feat.
@mesabree
’s gorgeous
#SciArt
! ❤️)
New
#histology
graphics for my website (& cartilage/bone lab next week) 🤓
Featuring beautiful slides from
@VMDatabase
contributors, , & more! My life has been very pink and purple for the past few days 💗💜
I’m in full-fledged
#pomodoro
method writing mode 🍅
• 25 minutes work
• 5 minute break
I’ve sorted through 130+ papers (not read, just organized 😉) & added 1,000 words to my thesis today!! 💪🏼 Who else is having a solidly productive Monday?
#PhDlife
#AcademicTwitter
A little ombré brachial plexus (+ phrenic nerve) with a subway map aesthetic 👌🏼
#AnatomyDoodle
Going to try to turn this one into an interactive tool (i.e., where each node can be clicked on/moused over to reveal info about the corresponding nerve). Any tips greatly appreciated!
Squishy faced puppy cuddles 🥰🐶
I will be MIA from Twitter over the weekend as I prepare for my defence on Monday… please keep your fingers and toes crossed for me!! 🤞🏼🤓
#AcademicTwitter
#EndOfAnEra
Hooray!! A little
@ResearchGate
milestone to boost my spirits on this find Tuesday morning! 🤓🥳👍🏼
The imposter in me feels obligated to disclose that over 3/4 of these citations are on the paper to which I contributed the least though... 😕🤷🏻♀️
#AcademicTwitter
#PhDlife
Guess what we’re making in
#neuroanatomy
lab tomorrow?!! 🧠🎉
Full credit for this wonderful paper brain model goes to the brilliant & beautiful
@DraForlizzi
❤️ (paired with my subpar Spanish to English translate skills 🙃)
#AcademicTwitter
An
#anatomy
pal sent this to me this morning & OBVIOUSLY I had to share it!! Consider it my attempt at
#FollowFriday
...
1) Which cranial nerve are you?
2) Tag a friend & assign them a cranial nerve too!
3) Follow, RT, etc.
[After some serious digging, I think 📸:
@omariospizza
]
Prepping some super duper simplified skull base schematics for my
#neuroanatomy
lab manual 🤓🧠
Great for colouring and labelling structures, drawing foramina, and much more!
#MedTwitter
I often plan my colour schemes ahead of time to ensure that they are accessible for viewers who are
#ColourBlind
, but sometimes I need to double check slides I've already made...
Today I found Sim Daltonism (): an open source app to do just that!! 🤩🎨👁️
The epic bags under my eyes & I are thrilled to see happy cranial nerve card customers posting on Twitter!!! I’m glad so many people appreciate
#neuroanatomy
nerdiness as much as I do 🥰🧠❤️
If you have purchased a set, please consider leaving a review on
@thegamecrafter
🙏🏼
I got a new iPad and I drew a thing!!! 🤓
It’s a work in progress, but I’m super excited to learn more in
@Procreate
and make many more
#anatomy
drawings 🙌🏼
Can I ‘cheat’ and re-share this
#AnatomyDoodle
for Day 2 of
#SciArtInk
: eye muscle movements 👀???
I’m sad that I don’t have time to keep up with any of these wonderful October art challenges, but I’ll post some old work where applicable 🙈
#SciArt
#MedTwitter
It has arrived and it is glorious 😍🧠 Definitely going to be integrating a daily
#neuroanatomy
riddle into my Fall lectures & labs!!
Well done,
@neelmed
& James Dolbow! I love the detailed explanations that accompany each riddle’s answer 👏🏼🤓
#AnatEd
#MedEd
Plans anatomiques ou PAINS anatomiques?? 😂🤓🥖
The most French representation of anatomical planes ever… with a baguette!!
#Anatomy
📸: “Apprendre et comprendre l’anatomie Appareil locomoteur” by Michel Dufour