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18.12.2025 00:02 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Join us on 1 July as we kick off the #SummerScience Exhibition with a special adults-only Lates evening of science, comedy, cocktails and more. Register now: royalsociety.org/science-even...

12.06.2025 16:26 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

Really enjoyed recording this episode with @biopodedinburgh.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧🔬

27.05.2025 08:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium @uoe-eid.bsky.social A really interesting day 🦠

16.05.2025 16:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nergal: science communication and citizen science through a digital game By balancing fun, accessibility, and science, Nergal aims to demonstrate how playful experiences can shed light on complex messages in a meaningful, memorable way.

Discover how a team of researchers designed a game to explore how individuals navigate infection risk and social interactions 🎮 #CitizenScience #TheMicrobiologist #Nergal

@mattjsilk.bsky.social @nitaraw.bsky.social @thentrythis.bsky.social

www.the-microbiologist.com/careers/nerg...

19.03.2025 12:17 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Three simple characters, one shaped like a stick with googly eyes and a party hat on, another is egg shaped with a bobble hat, and the third is cloud shaped with a pussy hat. They are standing in front of a 3 colour rainbow.

🌟 We've happy to announce that we've just released Nergal! 🌟

You play as a cute Nergal in your choice of fancy hat, pottering around a strange world. There's no right or wrong, you can do whatever you like. There is an ominous disease though […]

[Original post on social.thentrythis.org]

17.01.2025 11:43 — 👍 6    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 2

New game released to understand how social networks and decision making change disease spread January 2025: Researchers from School of Biological Sciences have collaborated with Game Developers 'Then Try This' to create 'Nergal' - a game designed help understand how people's social networks an...

Researchers from Biology have collaborated with 'Then Try This' to create 'Nergal' - a game to help understand how social networks and decision-making, change how diseases spread through communities

Read more and play Nergal: edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

23.01.2025 09:56 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 3