Jascha Sohl-Dickstein @jascha.sohldickstein.com Recently a principal scientist at Google DeepMind. Joining Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamical systems.
Sahar Mirhadi @saharmirhadi.bsky.social Heard before being seen
Magic: The Gathering Eternal Format specialist
PhD Researcher on Video Games, Coping and Wellbeing @iggi-phd.bsky.social
linktr.ee/saharmirhadi
inquiries: sahar.mirhadi@gmail.com
Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social RL researcher at DeepMind
https://schaul.site44.com/ 🇱🇺
Jean-Baptiste Siraudin @jbsiraudin.bsky.social (S)cinema & graphics for fun, game/product design for work (prev Sabacc on SWO, now edtech)
Also here: jbsiraudin.github.io
Florian Fuchs @florian-fuchs.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at SEED (Electronic Arts) working on Reinforcement Learning, views my own, previously: Sony AI
Katja Hofmann @katjahofmann.bsky.social At Microsoft Research. Lead of https://aka.ms/game-intelligence - we drive innovation in machine learning with applications in games. https://iclr.cc Board.
Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com That Scottish AI and games guy...
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Founder of @aiandgames.com
Game AI Programmer & Consultant
Public speaker, educator, nuisance
BAFTA Connect
He-Him, PhD
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Game Republic @gamerepublic.bsky.social Game Republic is the largest games network supporting growth & success for #gamedevs, affiliates & unis/colleges, running GaMaYo and #GRNewHorizons- visit gamerepublic.net or join The Great Northern Games Discord here -> https://discord.gg/y52sj4yMGn
Ahmad Beirami @abeirami.bsky.social stealth // Gemini RL+inference @ Google DeepMind // Conversational AI @ Meta // RL Agents @ EA // ML+Information Theory @ MIT+Harvard+Duke // Georgia Tech PhD
📍{NYC, SFO, YYZ}
🔗 https://beirami.github.io/
Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social Prof. Critical Data & Technology Studies @ Goethe University Frankfurt / digital authoritarianism, surveillance, smart cities/
Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social /
Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social
*personal account*
Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #A.I @umeauniversity; member @UN Advisory Group on AI; @wasp_hs; author; speaker; #responsibleAI https://bit.ly/2WxEkQU
Mounia Lalmas @mounialalmas.bsky.social Research @ Spotify
https://mounia-lalmas.blog/mounia-lalmas/
Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com Faculty at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC), working on topics related to AI Governance, HRI, and human control.
Part of the Smart Sustainable Resources (SSR-UPC) and SINAPSI groups.
Amir H. Payberah @payberah.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science at KTH
https://payberah.github.io
Co-liberative Computing
https://co-liberative-computing.github.io/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Gry Hasselbalch @gryhasselbalch.bsky.social AI/data ethics, EU/global tech policy & 🌍geo politics. 🇩🇰Think Tank Director. 🧐PhD and author of books.
www.gryhasselbalch.com
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Zachary Lipton @zacharylipton.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO @ Abridge, Raj Reddy Associate Prof of ML @ CMU, occasional writer, relapsing 🎷, creator of d2l.ai & approximatelycorrect.com
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Andreas Krause @arkrause.bsky.social Professor at ETH Zurich
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social AI professor. Director, Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab at Carnegie Mellon. Head of Technical AI Engagement, Institute for Ethics in AI (Oxford). Author, "Moral AI - And How We Get There."
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Tim Finin @tfinin.bsky.social UMBC CS prof. specializing in AI, knowledge representation & reasoning, & language understanding with applications to knowledge graphs, privacy, cybersecurity & more
• umbc.edu/~finin • ai.umbc.edu • csee.umbc.edu • ebiquity.umbc.edu •
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Director, Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines http://chm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de | Former prof. @MIT | Creator of http://moralmachine.net | Art: http://instagram.com/iyad.rahwan Web: rahwan.me
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
Louise A. Dennis @louiseadennis.bsky.social Computer Scientist, Doctor Who Fan.
Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture. Prof Robot Ethics, Bristol Robotics Lab. Home page: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AlanWinfield
Emma Norling @emmanorling.bsky.social Professor in computer science education. Also still dabbles in agent-based modelling. And when I have time, love cooking, reading and playing in a brass band.
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
Steffen Staab @ststaab.bsky.social Prof for AI. Interested in knowledge graphs, ML with background knowledge, Web science, AI Ethics
Arvind Satyanarayan @arvind.bsky.social Asst Professing at MIT CSAIL. Data visualization, ML interpretability, accessibility, cognitively convivial information.
Bang An @bang-an.bsky.social PhD candidate @UMD | Responsible AI 
Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social Professor a NYU; Executive Chairman at AMI Labs..
Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.
http://yann.lecun.com
Parisa Rashidi @parisarashidi.bsky.social Scientist, Medical AI Researcher, Humanist
Founding Co-director of @UF_IC3 Center and director of @UFiHealLab
#AI4Health
Opinions my own.
She/her.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Summer School on AI and Games 2026 @gameaischool.bsky.social A summer school on the uses of AI in and for games.
Industry lectures, key techniques in AI and games for playing, generating the content, and modelling players.
iGGi CDT @iggi-phd.bsky.social Based at Uni of York, Queen Mary Uni of London, Goldsmiths, and Essex, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence (iGGi) is the world's largest PhD programme for research in games.
More info: https://www.iggi-phd.org/
Kian 🏳️🌈 @hypernormalizd.bsky.social Psychophysicist
They/Them
Adam Jelley @adamjelley.bsky.social Member of Technical Staff / Co-Founder @ General Intuition
Sara Karimi @sarakarimi.bsky.social Senior AI Research Engineer at King.com (part of Microsoft Gaming)
Ph.D. candidate at @kthuniversity.bsky.social
Interested in RL and Game AI
Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social Postdoc at @kthuniversity.bsky.social.
Past: @gaipslab.bsky.social; Sony AI.
Interested in all things RL and Multimodal.
miguelvasco.com
Sahar Asadi @shrasd.bsky.social 
RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social Official account of the Reinforcement Learning and Video Games Workshop at RLC 2026, August 15th.
Call for papers OPEN: https://openreview.net/group?id=rl-conference.cc/RLC/2026/Workshop/RLVG
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/rlvg-2026/
Paul Chang @mummitrollet.bsky.social ML + stuff @Datacrunch
Ian Schreiber @ianschreiber.bsky.social Game designer, educator, parent.
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social sullen assoc prof @itu.dk
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Games, Theory;
ERC StG Theorycraft (2022 - 2027);
I like weird games and JRPGs (header image: Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)
Qiushi Zhou @qiushiz.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor @ HKUST(GZ). Postdoc @ Aarhus University https://qiushi-zhou.github.io/
Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io She/her.
📚 A/Prof of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University
🎮 Anti-AI; researching trans gaming, game history, & disaster response (unrelatedly)
🌟 STA Superstar of STEM
🐉 Ancient D&D nerd
🎶 Metalhead
I like dragons. Opinions are my own.
Annika Waern @wanais.bsky.social Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, Larp scholar, Music lover and Musician.
Mauricio Sousa @vivaomauricio.bsky.social HCI Researcher. I read comics.
http://mauriciosousa.github.io
#hci #3dui #xr #spatialcomputing #wearables
Antti Oulasvirta @oulasvirta.bsky.social Computational models of human behavior. Prof at Aalto University. Group page: http://cbl.aalto.fi 
Guo Freeman @guofreeman.bsky.social Dean’s Associate Prof. of Human-Centered Computing, Clemson University. CUGAME Lab Director. HCI, CSCW, Games, Social VR, Human-Centered AI. I mainly post about my research and gaming experience. https://guof.people.clemson.edu
Jofish @jofish.bsky.social I do human-computer interaction, mainly, and play music for fun. Well, and a lot of other stuff. But HCI is useful as a way to find me.
Eduardo Velloso @vellosoraptor.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction) @ The University of Sydney.
Immersive systems, Human-AI interaction, HCI methodology
HCI Lab @MUNI 🦝 @hcilabmuni.bsky.social Welcome to our HCI Lab at the Masaryk University. Our research include #VR #AR #Visualization #GamesUR #GameDesign #Esports #HCI #UX
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
Vinni Ott @vlott.bsky.social 
Mikael Kasurinen @mikaelkasurinen.bsky.social Creative Director @ Remedy Entertainment - CONTROL 1 & 2, Quantum Break, Alan Wake
Matti Välimäki in Space @mlkshae.bsky.social Game Developer @ Kuuasema
Aspiring TTRPG Designer
Interests include video games, mobile games, TTRPGs, board games, systems, worlds and more
[FIN/ENG]
Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura | Finnish society for game research @pelitutkimus.fi The Finnish society for game research. Posts FIN/ENG.
Suomen pelitutkimuksen seura on monitieteinen pelitutkimusta edistävä yhdistys. Tältä tililtä jaamme ajankohtaista tietoa pelitutkimukseen ja pelikulttuureihin liittyen.
www.pelitutkimus.fi
Nitro Games @nitrogames.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of game studio Nitro Games. Known for such games as Autogun Heroes, NERF: Superblast, Heroes of Warland, Medals of War & Raids of Glory!
Website: https://www.nitrogames.com/
Hanna Wirman @hwirman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Games and Play Design, Center for Digital Play &
Head of Study Programme of MSc in Games, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies @coegamecult.bsky.social The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies is a joint project of the universities of Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä, and is funded by the Academy of Finland. 
Kati Alha @katialha.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher in game studies. Gardening and woodworking enthusiast. Devourer of video games and audiobooks. Wife to my wife. She/they.
Dan Bennett @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Aalborg University
(prev Bristol, ITU Copenhagen, Aalto)
Human autonomy & agency. Humanistic Quant. Complexity methods. Behavioural Science.
Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies.
Website: press-start.gla.ac.uk
Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta @indigitalgames.bsky.social Making big waves in Game Studies research, Game Design, and AI from a tiny, Mediterranean island | Check us out: https://www.um.edu.mt/digitalgames/ | Hosts of DiGRA 2025
Dr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Christine Tomlinson, PhD @socstudygames.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher studying video games, players, and esports. Formerly @ Activision. Current Assistant Professor of Games and Esports. 
David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Renata Ntelia (she/her) @renatadrlove.bsky.social Academic in Games and HCI. Mostly interested in love and death. Assistant Professor at University of Lincoln. https://renatantelia.dfs.gr/
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Lankoski @lankoski.bsky.social Professor, D.Arts. Game researcher.
DiGRA Belgium @digrabelgium.bsky.social DiGRA Belgium is the Belgian chapter of the international association for academics (and professionals) who research digital games and associated phenomena.
Posts by @alexvandewalle.bsky.social
Thiago Falcão @falc4o.bsky.social Entertainment Media and (Critical) Game Studies Researcher @ UFPB, Brazil
Coordinator @lens_ufpb and Researcher @nppd_ufpb | @inctparticipa
Sebastian Möring @sebomat.bsky.social (he/him) #gamestudies, media, and culture researcher, Prof. of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Books http://bit.ly/3MWJ5vM and https://bit.ly/4yA52aj. Website: http://sebastianmoering.com.
Emmanuel Pietriga @epietriga.bsky.social Senior Researcher at INRIA / Université Paris-Saclay, and Part-time Professor at École Polytechnique. Themes: Human Computer Interaction. Visualization. Augmented Reality.
Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social Professing at University of Utah
vis/hci/programming interfaces
(He/his)
http://mcnutt.in/
Alex Kale @kalealex.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Computer Science and Data Science at UChicago. Research on visualization, HCI, statistics, data cognition. Moonlighting as a musician 🎺 https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalea/
Fernanda Viégas @viegas.bsky.social Human/AI Interaction and data visualization. Professor at Harvard. Co-founder of Google's People+AI Research initiative (PAIR)
matt brehmer @mattbrehmer.bsky.social #HCI researcher, assistant professor of computer science at the university of waterloo. previously {tableau | microsoft} research. interested in #visualization and ubietous information experiences. https://mattbrehmer.ca | https://ubixgroup.ca
@patsui.bsky.social @patsui.bsky.social Lead designer at Mopeful Games
Made Fashion Police Squad
https://www.fashionpolicesquad.com/
Solip Park @solippark.bsky.social Game researcher (Doctor of Arts) at Aalto University and University of Jyväskylä. Researching migrants in the game industry and gamer & game dev culture in Korea and Finland :)
Robin Welsch @robinwelsch.bsky.social Assistant Professor for Engineering Psychology at Aalto University. I use experimental methods to understand mind and machine.
Dr. Feng Feng @blackcorvid.bsky.social Researcher in Human-Computer-Interaction, multisensory perception, movement, emotion, embodied cognition,
Design and design research in UX, multisensory technology.
Currently in Copenhagen.
Vero Vanden Abeele @verovandenabeele.bsky.social HCI professor at KU Leuven, SC Chair of ACM CHI PLAY, Interaction designer of the first hour, UX consultant of Cuez.app, and proud co-founder of TinkerList
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Deanna @philosophette.bsky.social Games & AI | Researcher | Data Scientist | Game Developer
Blogger @ medium.com/game-science
Formerly of Sega, Unity, and Supercell.
she/her 🏳️🌈 Interested in art, people, queer theory, mutual aid, social justice, competitive AI programming and AI demoscene
Perttu Hämäläinen @perttu-h.bsky.social Researching and building games/VR/XR/HCI/AI. Assoc. Prof. @AaltoUniversity. Advisor @valomotion, @HypeHypeInc. Student of human movement (dance,🧗♂️,🤸♂️,🥋…)
Steve Bromley @stevebromley.bsky.social 🎮 games user researcher, author of books about user research | led playtests for some games you’ve heard of, many you haven’t. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Oliver Withington @owithington.bsky.social Game AI Research, Game Dev & Videos about games. he/they
🌐 owithington.co.uk
📹 youtube.com/@Bard_Hard