Melanie Stegman, Ph.D.

It's SciAnts Sunday! Today we are continuing #ResidentEvilRequiem , chatting in game insect science, rabbit holes, and more!

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This is the start screen for a game called Solve the Outbreak. A DNA molecule and even a schematic of an atom is visible in the background.... There are some people in a picture over the start button... Basically, this picture makes you want to know more!

Second game that was reviewed today on th Science Game Center is Solve the Outbreak. www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/solve-...
This game is by the Centers for Disease Control CDC. Yes, our scientists using the best learning technology we have: games! #immunology #infectiousdisease 🧪 #scicomm

Butterflies, green and brown beetles, ants and flies are beautifully drawn there is a magnifying glass but no bugs are under the magnifying glass only the title of the game which is Virtual Insect Collection Lab!

Two new player reviews today at the Science Game Center.

First one is Virtual Insect Collection by the Learning Games Lab at New Mexico State.
www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/virtua...
#scicomm #gamedev #insects #nativePlants

Follow that link to the Science Game Center and review science games!

Join us for #StanceOnScience where we ask politicians where they stand on #SciencePolicy issues ahead of the midterm elections!

#SciPol #MidtermElections #SciComm

New player review, the first for Outbreak Squad. A game by the Learning Games Lab at New Mexico State University. Read the review, link to the game and write your own review at the Science Game Center:

www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/outbre...

🧪#infectiousDisease

After years of following and supporting #indiegames and #gamedev, it’s finally happening:

Our game "Kernelbay" has a "Coming Soon" page on @steampowered.com and we're part of the Fishing Fest! 🎣

It would mean the world if you could wishlist & repost🙏
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This is the title image for Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering. There's a colorful cartoon drawing of a jungle with a monkey, elephant, panda, and crocodile plus colorful building blocks stacked up in a tower.... The monkey is climbing the tower to get some red fruit on a tree.... The game art makes it look like the game is aimed at children aged around 10...

New player review www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/tami-s...

#gamedev 🧪 Come read this review, maybe play this game yourself! It's from the Smithsonian's science education group. Search for more games by topic, player age or hardware at the Science Game Center.

I reviewed a game: Antibody One A sweet short game about microscopic things battling for their life, and yours. Play it! Review it on my little Science Game site, and tell your friends about it. Together we help science game find their audiences. 🧪 gamedev www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/antibo...

Awesome 😎😍

@repkweisimfume.bsky.social Please do press against our ridiculous actions in Venezuela.

Please do press against the inhumane treatment of immigrants and all other Humans.

Please do press for allowing more legal immigration.

Please press for universal healthcare.

I asked all the neighbors I knew who shoveled my walk this morning... Turned out to be a neighbor hadn't met yet! They have kids who shovel, so I baked them brownies! It's a lovely community here in Johnston Square, Baltimore City!

Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Baltimore

Skin Deep cover image. A collage of insurance commando Nina Pasadena, some space pirates, and a cat-shaped spacecraft pursued by pirate ships

IGF Excellence in Design nominees: Angeline Era Baby Steps Ooo Skin Deep Titanium Court Time Flies

Skin Deep is nominated for the IGF EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN award!

I'm so proud of what we made. Skin Deep's designers:
- Suzanne Will @binarypartitioned.space
- Tynan Wales
- Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social

Skin Deep credits:
blendogames.com/skindeep/cre...

IGF noms:
tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4

Centipede Simulator on Steam Experience life as a centipede! Munch on crickets to grow longer and evade deadly predators in a frantic struggle for survival across multiple game modes. How long can you last?

The Centipede Simulator demo is finally here! Play it now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3922090
#GameArt #Gamedev #3D #B3D #MadeWithUnity #Unity #indiedev #indiegame #Lowpoly #bugSky #insects

So we are taking over Venezuela? Please vote in the primaries and in November.

I do not support what my country is doing.

Since the Kennedy Center no longer exists:

We need a Kennedy Center in exile. Maybe in Baltimore?

Rebook all the cancelations.

Make them charity concerts with full pay to the artists.

'We cannot have art institutions that lose money': Grenell defends Kennedy Center takeover The newly-renamed Trump-Kennedy Center is facing canceled performances and plummeting ticket sales. Amna Nawaz discussed the turmoil with Richard Grenell, the man President Trump handpicked to lead th...

'We cannot have art institutions that lose money': Grenell defends Kennedy Center takeover | PBS News share.google/PScorhNb0QcY...
This Grenell person looks a journalist in the face and say Reporters don't think about finances. Public broadcasting doesn't think about finances. #pbs #NPR #irm

Senior-Birthday4485's comment on "So disapponted :(" Explore this conversation and more from the frederickmd community

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Ok I guess I should say "Yay, 26 more sex nods of sunlight!!!"
40-16= 26

Yay!! 16 seconds!

“Every part of the world seems to have a different interpretation of what it means to make a game. All connected by a love for creating them… I’m inspired by how wildly different every community is.”

Two years is the perfect amount of time! It's impossible to do it faster, given thenpoaytesting etc and any longer, you get tired of it and the tech changes before you finish!! You did great, I would say!!!! I'm going to try to get my siblings to play with me over Xmas!

Congratulations!!! 👏🏽💐👏🏽💐👏🏽

People were not _crazy_ drunk! It was a lovely evening of togetherness... And fireworks set to Christmas music, of course! Baltimore City. We do use our streets well, don't we!?

🧩 Available now! The latest episode of the Stress Puzzle podcast with Dr. Danielle King and host @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social focused on the challenges of conceptualizing and measuring resilience.

Listen now: www.stressmeasurement.org/podcast/epis...

#psychscisky #resilience #socialpsych #scicomm

This meditation rattles in my brain, too! A game can teach how the electron transport chain, to free us from the mitochondria as a "powerhouse" The game Microscopya by @microscopyagame.bsky.social for example. It approaches a playable model. Such games can prep players for more complex concepts.

However, as you can guess, games teach a particular model of a system. Every model has its limitations, as does every game. Some have resisted using games to teach abstract concepts I think b/c we can't make the game "real enough" but everything is a model, just the best model we have for now.

I make games that teach science. As you sais, I am especially interested is being able to teach without using metaphors. Games require players to learn a set of rules, a system if you will, and then to try to solve well defined problems in that system. So, games are great for teaching science.

#scicomm #booksky #art #sciart