Noah K Leiter (He/Him) @noah-k.bsky.social Welcome to the frantic, desperate ramblings of a PhD student approaching a deadline.
https://www.noahkleiter.com/
Joel White (he/him) @joelalwhite.bsky.social MA Student in Communication and Culture, York University
Researching character creation and player engagement in digital games
Blog: www.thethirdmedium.com
CptBacon @cptbacon414.bsky.social Dad, husband, drummer, and DevOps/Platform/Data engineer. Play testing indie retro games in my spare time.
He/him
Adeline K. Piercy (she/them) @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social Writer, scholar, game maker. Researching feminist gameplay, queer play, and digital culture.
Digital Humanities MA @ University of Alberta
Instructor @ MacEwan University
Proud dev of https://bsky.app/profile/chickensinmyhead.bsky.social
GB Studio @gbstudio.dev A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system. Created by @chrismaltby.com
🌿 Allie 🌿 @alliemackie.bsky.social Artist, Game Developer, Forest Hag, Dino Fiend. Lots o' hobbies. Marketing Strategist @hitpointpress.bsky.social. Opinions mine.
https://allisonmacalister.com/
🇨🇦🏳️🌈
she/they
Nerea Rubio-López @nerearublop.bsky.social Phd candidate in Psychology @unisevilla.bsky.social
Bert of Psicodigitalizadas
#FanStudies #GenderStudies #DigitalActivism #CulturalStudies
Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social Editorial Collective advancing Democratic Public Finance, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft
Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social associate professor somewhere
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
* posts do not reflect the views of my employer
Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social Hybrid Media Artist - Professor - Author - Fulbright Scholar
Robert Glashüttner @robertglashuettner.bsky.social Game culture journalist ✍️ Radio person 📻 Presenter 🎙️ Researcher 🧐 Pinball enthusiast 🪩 Pac-Man runner-up 🟡 Indie- & retrogames celebrator 👾
• Podcast 💬: sound.orf.at/podcast/fm4/fm4-game-podcast
• Pinball ⚪: https://TheBallisWild.net
Vienna, Austria
Pierre-Yves Hurel @pyhurel.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in Lausanne, Switzerland
Video game history & hobbyists
Dr Kyle McPhail @drkylemcphail.bsky.social they/them
Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Studies and Art History at Mount Allison University
Trans and Disability Representation in Art and Visual Culture, mainly focusing on disability aesthetics in video games and digital art
I'm bad at social media
Shar @cardsbyshar.bsky.social Book Dragon | 40+ Mess | Taken 💕| Chicago 🌈
Mandy Rose Nichols @mandiblerose.bsky.social Your friendly, neighborhood redhead. I like puppies, hope, and the occasional swordfight. #resist They/Them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️
Nicolas Labarre @labarren.cpesr.fr Vice-president for research at University Bordeaux Montaigne.
Comics scholar, writer, player of games, teaching American culture. My latest book: Moebius (UP Mississippi in 2025)
https://cv.hal.science/nicolas-labarre
Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt (elle • she/her)
Québécoise /// 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 rights defender
Law nerd (LL.B., J.D.). Féministe. Antifasciste. I document anti-trans policy and legislation in Canada (and beyond). Empathy is a human value. Views are my own.
web: celeste.lgbt
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social I made GameHistory.org and you can too 
Sarah Christina Ganzon @otomedoctor.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
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).
rowenac @rohuinac.bsky.social ✨ Milieux ✨ AI/Aesthetics/Play 🤖 HUMA PhD, Concordia ✨ writer ✨ kludge queen ✨ WvW addict 🎮 MTL/NYC 🍕🐀🗽 Lucky Charms 🍀 Enjoyer 💅 Neurodiversity 🌻 www.rowenac.com ✨ 
Kenzie Gordon 🍉 @kenzitronic.bsky.social Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme.
She/her
Courtney Blamey @courtneyblamey.bsky.social professional overthinker
PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director
critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design
she/her courtneyblamey.com
Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
melian dialogue tree @vogontheater.bsky.social Wordsman, gameswright. || Narrative Designer [Intern] @ Behaviour || Designer of Shadow Doge || Youtube: Vogon Theater || stephenfriedrich.com || He/er/il || Views are yours
Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
ça que c'tait.
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Dany Guay-Belanger @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
Matt Wells - working on Frenzy @mattjwells.bsky.social • Play Frenzy Mission 0 demo: https://semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-mission-0
• Post-PhD, self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective
• Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
kbarnes (she/her) @barnfeline.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
Jean Ketterling @jeanketterling.bsky.social she/her ✨ Assistant Prof in Political Studies - Women's and Gender Studies at USask✨ Interdisciplinary legal⚖️/pornography🌽/games🎮 studies scholar working on sex in video games ✨ Current work: The Pornography, Platforms and Play Project www.pppproject.com
Meghan Blythe Adams (they / them) @mblytheadams.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester @noizangel.bsky.social aspiring Doctor of D&D @ YorkU (on leave) • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Coms • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza & cats
videos & cards: https://www.youtube.com/@noizangel
https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester
she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
Mathew Iantorno (he/him) @mathewiantorno.com 📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (iSchool + ICCIT)
🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
🛰️ mathewiantorno.com
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social Applied Data Science Librarian+Multilingual Digital Humanist+Computational Community Building+++
Takes classes for fun. Gushes about cool papers. Views my own.
Buddy Toledo @jessefuchs.bsky.social the biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface
Alexander Ross @alexross73.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UBC's School of Information. Media theory, political economy, and digital platforms. Mi'kmaw (Millbrook First Nation). Opinions are my own.
Kara Stone @solarserver.games artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
💫 Brock 💫 @queeralchemy.com I'm a design researcher and PhD student in QC. Interested in design, politics, disability justice, aging, textile arts, electronics, and being a killjoy 💖
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Jess Rowan Marcotte @jessromarcotte.bsky.social game & narrative designer, maker, writer. 1/3 of @softchaos.bsky.social. 🌈36. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw & Eurosettler mix. Organizer of @qgcon.bsky.social & other queer COVID-cautious events.
they/them
https://softchaos.games
https://faenotype.design
Marc Lajeunesse @marclaj.bsky.social Coordinator of the Technoculture, Art, and Games Research Centre. Game researcher, university instructor, podcast producer, musician, and author. Mostly a person though!
krafftmine.bandcamp.com/album/we-who...
connectingtogame.ca
Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social STL native, UM-St. Louis x Michigan State alum. (Full) Prof at Newhouse School (Syracuse U, USA) studying gaming + emerging media. Launch Editor, Global Perspectives of Communication (Oxford x ICA).
Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social 📟 Sociologist studying people who are nostalgic for a past that has never happened, and a future that will never arrive.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
CGSA/ACÉJ @cgsaacej.bsky.social Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
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!
Laura Laabs @lauralaa.bsky.social PhD'ing on bodily and cultural techniques of computer game play. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin @ HfG Offenbach. Editor @ Paidia. Game Studies, Media Culture Studies. Header is a screen grab from The Red Strings Club.
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
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
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
Kyra Ocean 💘 @kyraocean.bsky.social Artist-Researcher-Curator @𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴
Core Areas: Computing Arts • Net Cultures • Media Histories • Cyberfeminism
Creator 𝗈𝖿 ↯ @wwwtxt.bsky.social
Boutique Blu-ray Contributor
⌭ she/her ＊ KEER•ah ♡彡
kyraocean.com | letterboxd.com/kyraocean
media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations
website: www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
calendar: mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/
news: mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/
Marie LeBlanc Flanagan @omarieclaire.bsky.social 
Kalervo @kalervideo.bsky.social bang bang 🤠I’m a cowboy
Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Game Design. Sword Nerd. (Secretly a Tekken and Wrestling account) He/They/Any
IVGD @ivgd.bsky.social Official account of the Independent Video Design program at Dawson College in Montreal. Home of the only recurring #indiegame #playtest event in Montreal!
https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/aec/programs/independent-video-game-design/
Henny Bennett @hennybennettphd.bsky.social Cell biologist: Microscopy, cilia, fibrosis, and planaria | Postdoc in Toronto | Hailing from VT | Advocate for Postdocs 🇨🇦 | (she/her)
Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social (he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
a libi rose @rose-alibi.interferencer.com meat muppet, somehow dr., maintenance & repair & luddism, voluntarily de-convenienced.
this is the most professional account i have.
if i block it's because your profile reads like a bot.
she/they/anything but he.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
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
betsy brey @betsybrey.bsky.social Hollering about games, narrative, RPGs & horror. Too much D&D??? Social Justice Warlock. She/Her
Pixelles @pixellesmtl.bsky.social Nonprofit empowering more women & other underrepresented genders in game development. Volunteer-run and based out of Montréal (Canada), we organize free career development opportunities — in-person and online.
ℹ️ http://pixelles.ca
✉️ info@pixelles.ca
dr lee cyborg @leeborg.bsky.social Chair of the Open Hardware Summit 🔧 + @oshwassociation board member + Radio Snack Executive Director 📻🥨 PhD in space stuff 🌌🚀
artist. cyborg. professional enthusiastic weirdo.
leecyb.org
they/he/iel + accords masculin 🏳️⚧️⚧️
En/Fr
🦯🦮
Scott DeJong @scottdejong.bsky.social Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum). 
hanine @fishinggames.bsky.social here we go again!
anthropologist • award-winning game & narrative designer • writer || 8123 - Ł
communication PhD student at Concordia
game making program coordinator @pixellesmtl.bsky.social
arabic localisation at WB Games
https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Gina Hara🧋 @handle.invalid Filmmaker (#GeekGirlsFilm) 🏳️🌈 She/Her 💖 Moomin, Lego, coffee, games, traveling
🇨🇦English🇭🇺Magyar🇯🇵日本語
Andrei Zanescu @andreizanescu.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Also Magic: The Gathering + Cultural Resonance
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Michael Iantorno♨️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚[Incoming] Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🎮[Currently] Mitacs Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.