Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. PRECOGNITION for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social He/him. Journalist at Rascal News. Interested in the art, history, and science of games. Makes the Indie RPG Newsletter and the Yes Indied Podcast. notrueindian@outlook.com
Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.blacksky.app They/Them
AKA MentalLamia
FKA MentalWoke
Centering Intersections of Trauma, Identity & Mental Wellness
Black Queer Mental Wellness
Black Liberation
Therapy, Supervision, Consulting, Gaming
Views are my own
https://bio.link/mentalwoke
Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social Games/Game Design/Game Studies, Nutrition, Psychology, Aging, The Warren, Larpbus, Nanoworld, 200WRPGC, he/him.
Paul Wake @pfwgames.bsky.social UK academic researching games and the environment. Writing book on Blood Bowl. Co-director of the Manchester Game Centre.
Shelly Jones (they/them) @shellyjones.bsky.social English Prof. Editor at Analog Game Studies.
Agatha nominee. Writer, gamer, nature nerd. BLM
Author of Cozy, Nerdy Mysteries:
https://tulepublishing.com/series/a-wren-winters-mystery/
https://shellyjonesauthor.com/
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social TTRPGs | tabletop games | languages | teaching | travel | nature.
Faculty in Italian and Ed Studies at Wesleyan University.
Educator | player | GM | designer | editor | translator.
Co-host of @rpgroots.bsky.social
https://czamboni.carrd.co/
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RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social A podcast that digs deep into analog role-playing games and their cultures. Coming in Fall 2026!
Part of Ludology podcast group.
Hosted by @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @czamboni.bsky.social
Logo by @feralcharlie.bsky.social
Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social Game audio professor and radio host (Monday 7:00 PM, wkar.org) at Michigan State. Musicology via game studies. Go green! Thompson.RyanC@gmail.com
Watch me and my best friends stream Thursday evenings 9-11 PM Eastern at Twitch.tv/BardicKnowledge
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social Writing and Rhetoric faculty at GMU. Digital Rhetoric, Games/Gaming, Tech Comm. Wine and Chinese tea. Tai chi student.
Ailea Merriam-Pigg @ailea.bsky.social The greeneyedtrombonist (she/they)
PhD in Communication Arts
Research themes: Game/Play Studies, digital studies, disability, marginalized identity, rhetoric, communication
Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social Artist, Researcher & Lecturer | Co-Director, Creative Arts Research Centre, DkIT | WG1 Lead, Grassroots of Digital Europe (COST) | Co-President, History of Games International Conference (@historyofgames.bsky.social) - kierannolan.com
Dr. Emma Vossen @emmavphd.bsky.social 🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
Laia @laiavelasco.bsky.social fent @resis-videoludica.bsky.social i organitzant la @santjordijam.bsky.social <3
(ella)
https://videojoc-fanziner-fanzin-juganer.aixeta.cat/
Wehrlegig Games @wehrlegig.games Publishing beautiful history board games.
Pax Pamir ✧ John Company ✧ Molly House
linktr.ee/wehrlegig
Haeny Yoon @haenyyoon.bsky.social 
Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard.
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Emma Westecott @emmawestecott.bsky.social 
Geoffrey Long, Ph.D. @geoffreylong.bsky.social Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Mimi Ito @mimiito.bsky.social professor, anthropologist, connoisseur of geek culture and learning, #connectedlearning advocate, director of UC Irvine's Connected Learning Lab, and a steward of the Connected Learning Alliance - mimiito.com
Meryl Alper @merylalper.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication Studies @ Northeastern. Technology, kids, disability, mental health. BOOKS: Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT 2014) Giving Voice (MIT 2017), Kids Across the Spectrums (MIT 2023) https://bit.ly/kidsacrossthespectrums
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
Jeff Schroeck @jeffschroeck.bsky.social Guitar (The Ergs!, Civic Mimic, Black Wine); Poetry; Boppin' baseballs with the Kensington Kayfabe; Maggs's Dad; Lynn's Husband
J. Rey Lee @jreylee.bsky.social Boardgamer, writer, teacher, girl dad, recovering academic.
Unsettling Catan: lookingglance.com/unsettling-catan/
The Looking Glance: lookingglance.com
@roxbo.bsky.social @roxbo.bsky.social 
Lara J. Martin @laramartin.net Applying and improving #NLP/#AI but in a safe way. Teaching computers to tell stories, play D&D, and help people talk (accessibility).
Assistant Prof in CSEE @ UMBC.
🏳️🌈♿
https://laramartin.net
Dr. Akil Fletcher @theblackblackmage.bsky.social Anthropology Ph.D. | Postdoc & Lecturer at Princeton University | Studies Black gaming communities| Gamer | Has probably seen all of your favorite anime
Meredith Bak @meredithbak.bsky.social Asso. Prof. of Childhood Studies
Film History | Toys | Media Archaeology
www.meredithabak.com
https://ninthletter.com/journal/volume-21-issue-01/
David Murphy (He/Him) @drdavidmurphy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Computer Gameplay and Design at The University of Staffordshire. Phd in Communication and Cultural Studies. Research interests include Game Studies, Platform Studies, Community Management and Digital Heritage.
Dr. José Zagal @jzagal.bsky.social Game scholar, professor, & director of Interactive Games and Media (IGM) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Author: Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy
https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/
https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics- B @bineland.bsky.social @bineland.bsky.social
SUGOI 🔜 Awesome Console Showcase @sugoigames.bsky.social Digital showcases for terribly amazing indie games. Unlike anything you’ve seen before. From the creators of TGAGWCAGA.
The Awesome Console Showcase is coming October 28th.
Awesome indie games, for all consoles.
Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. Codirector, Gaming SEL Lab. Play theorist.
NEW from The MIT Press w/ Tracy Fullerton: “The Well-Read Game” a.co/d/6oAphWV
Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.- M Michael Nixon @mnixon.bsky.social Associate Professor, teaching stream
university of Toronto Mississauga
Digital media & game studies
Andrew Salvati @asalvati.bsky.social Adjunct professor of media and communications at Drew University. Podcaster. Historian.
Jef Bryan @jsbryan1.bsky.social Digital Arts and Media Studies Teacher, Games Researcher, Play Theorist, and Karaoke Enthusiast.
Adjunct Professor @ USC & Saddleback
Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org Learning Scientist. Maker and designer. Player of games and toys. Dad. Associate Professor @ Teachers College, Columbia University. Pop & Play host http://tc.edu/popandplay
Adrian @akperdue.bsky.social Cardholding member of Ororohive, Marvel enthusiast, educator and lifelong learner, Black boy out here trying to thrive in this Milky Way Ghetto. Magneto was right.
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social Teachers College; Digital Futures Institute; Media and Social Change Lab
William Dunkel @miraethegamedr.bsky.social Trained Korean/Informatics/Games Researcher. esports, Serious games, game design. Situating games as a meaningful textual lens to understand social interactions, culture, and globalization. I also cycle, cook, and sail. 한/영
Chloé Germaine @illmare.bsky.social UK-based game-maker, writer, university researcher and Green Party member.
manchestergamecentre.org
Tabletop Games, LARP, TTRPG, Horror, Gothic, Weird, Fantastika, Environmental Philosophy.
Find stuff at frankandalex.itch.io and over at academia.edu.
Laya Liebeseller @playscholar.bsky.social #TTRPG Designer, Project Manager 🎲 Play & Games Anthropologist 😎 neurodivergent queer 🏳️🌈 they/any
Project Lead @confluencerpg.bsky.social
PhD Candidate - Anthropology UW- Milwaukee
Support BLM, MMIWG2S, Free Palestine/Sudan/Ethiopia
Hibby @hibbythach.com PhD student at the University of Michigan's School of Information studying content moderation, trans technologies, and live-streaming. she/her pronouns
Oh also I'm like if a girl was a gamer was a streamer teehee
https://linktr.ee/hibbybobibby
Taylor but in Seattle @taylorannnx.bsky.social She/Her
Puerto Rican-British TTRPG game designer #WotCStaff
Opinions are my own
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Banner by @maorinerd.bsky.social
📧 taylorannnavarro@gmail.com
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
Matthew Thomas Payne @ludology.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film, Television, & Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Author of Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade & Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11. Co-editor of How to Play Video Games. 
Sara M. Grimes, PhD @smgrimes.bsky.social Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
Sam Close ButNoCigar @butnocigar.bsky.social Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
Kimberly Dennin @kimberlydennin.bsky.social they/she | PhD Candidate at UC, Irvine Department of Informatics | queer game studies and fan studies
Evan Lauteria @elauteria.bsky.social Assistant Instructional Professor in Sociology | Culture, Race/Gender/Sexuality, and STS | Studying Japanese video game localization in North America
Annika Waern @wanais.bsky.social Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, Larp scholar, Music lover and Musician.
Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
ideasonfire.net
Sameer Singh @sameer-singh.bsky.social CS Prof at UC Irvine, CTO/Cofounder at Envive AI
Work on evaluation and robustness of LLMs
Ian Larson, PhD @socialvideogame.bsky.social PhD in Informatics @ UC Irvine. Lecturer in Game Studies and Sociology. Researching video games, social dynamics, video game history, and other nonsense. I post mostly retrogaming junk.
Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
✨️Whitney✨️ @brightwhitney.bsky.social Award-winning narrative designer & writer🎮
Future Class 2020, IndieCade (twice!), Top 100 Women in Games
Speculative fiction Author👽🦄😱
Viable Paradise 24, SFWA, Codex
https://brightwhitney.com
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social Games scholar, college professor, freelance writer, deeply tired all the time
Was laevantine/arcanistfox on Twitter
Thiago Falcão @falc4o.bsky.social Entertainment Media and (Critical) Game Studies Researcher @ UFPB, Brazil
Coordinator @lens_ufpb and Researcher @nppd_ufpb | @inctparticipa
Nick LaLone @nicklalone.com Applied researcher in emergency management, workforce development, and vintage tech.
Currently working on some #ttrpg research to better emergency management workforce development in #wargames and #seriousgames
Christine Tomlinson, PhD @socstudygames.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher studying video games, players, and esports. Formerly @ Activision. Current Assistant Professor of Games and Esports. 
Matthew Berland @matthewberland.bsky.social 
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Nathan Altice @altice.bsky.social Game designer, researcher, and archivist. Synth destroyer. Makes old things new. Teaching Professor of Computational Media at UCSC. Wrote I AM ERROR.
Matt Knutson @mattknutson.bsky.social Assistant professor at UND, director of academic program in esports. Research areas: game studies, gender and sexuality in digital spaces, media temporality, esports.
Pronouns: he/him
T.L. Taylor @tltaylor.bsky.social Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see.
Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney).
tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!)
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Dowager Allison Salmon @codecrafty.bsky.social I've made a bunch of games and a couple kids.
Programming Design Patterns Wonk.
Chaotic bi 🩷💜💙🏳️🌈
I would rather be outside
My opinions are my own. She/Her.
Katherine Buse @kbuse.bsky.social I study science fiction, cultures of science and technology, environmental & digital media. Assistant Prof. at University of Chicago Cinema and Media Studies and CEGU. Speculative Planetology! 🪐🌍🌔
Josef Nguyen @mojojojosef.bsky.social he/him/his
Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan
into baking, biceps, and boba
Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social We are a volunteer-run writing collective working at the intersection of academic game studies and popular game criticism. We've got gaming stories to tell; we bet you do, too. www.gamerswithglasses.com
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend.
Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
Bart Simon @bartsimon.bsky.social Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Sociology Prof. Works on digital culture, STS, game studies, AI and other fun stuff. Also Minecraft and eco gaming. Also the Fun Palace!
Samuel Mui Soon @babblegumsam.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Object.
Website: https://samuelclaricemui.carrd.co/
Sabine Harrer @sabha.bsky.social °• Hertha-Firnberg scholar uni wien & Uppsala uni games department °• play, race & social justice: PI of white-play.com
Laura op de Beke @lauraodbeke.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, Screens, and Interfaces at Uni Utrecht #ecogames. #larp. #envhum. Founder of http://un-earthed.group. Knitter. Vegan.
Jon Peterson @increment.bsky.social Author of game histories, mostly wargames and role-playing games. Playing at the World, Elusive Shift, Game Wizards, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, Making of OD&D, Heroes’ Feast, etc. 
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
KayfabeAcademic @thehandyman.bsky.social Anthropology PhD student that studies mental health, games, and critical methodologies in anthropology at UWMilwaukee. MA in Sociology, MS in Emergency Management. Technical Director of UWM Serious Play Games Collaboratory. Views are my own.
GamerAnthro @gameranthro.bsky.social Anthropology PhD, game scholar, designer, gamer - since my work is play, I play by fixing and restoring old stuff. 
Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social Assistant professor, UB Media Study. Researching and making queer/trans games, narratives, and communities. Director, Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio. Catch me 2025 at SCMS, CGSA, and more!
Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Gamer. Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Scholar of literature, games, & pop culture. Author of Tellings RPG & Archaea LARP.
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com
https://gamingthepast.net