- R @rounian1206.bsky.social @rounian1206.bsky.social
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Seth Karten @sethkarten.ai Autonomous Agents | Research @ Prime Intellect | PhD @ Princeton | Prev: CMU, Waymo | NSF GRFP Fellow
https://sethkarten.ai/
Ryan Asmussen @ryanasmussen.bsky.social Visiting Lecturer in English, UIC / Freelance Writer / Member, NBCC & International Vladimir Nabokov Society. Arsenal.
Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
Dr. Whit Frazier Peterson @whitfrazier.bsky.social Writer; Lecturer at University of Stuttgart, Germany; PhD American Studies
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
DEMocratic Punch @dempunch.bsky.social Punch up. Speak out. Stay loud!
👉 Follow now — before the next headline breaks.
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)
Zachary K Stine @zacharykstine.bsky.social Asst prof of computer science interested in computational methods for the study of language and culture.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
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
Emily B. Stanback @emilybstanback.bsky.social Romanticism / long 18th c (mostly) British literature, disability studies, history of medicine, health humanities, disability & race
Associate Prof English + director of minors in Disability Studies / Health & Medical Humanities, U of Southern Mississippi
Robert Rouse @rousemedieval.bsky.social Medievalist, medieval romance, medievalisms, left coast professor@UBC, @Oecologies OG, environmental and spatial approaches, game development consulting (AoE4), dad, nostalgic Man Utd fan. Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 (never the 51st State; fuck that noise).
@melbettersoccap.bsky.social @melbettersoccap.bsky.social 
Michael Berger, LSW @alittlebitkinder.bsky.social Founder of A Little Bit Kinder & Practice Kinder. Sharing science-backed strategies for growth and healing. Training mental health pros in kind conversations: MI, crisis de-escalation, and suicide discussion
https://alittlebitkinder.substack.com/
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
Deep-Chicken @deep-chicken.bsky.social games, philosophy, public admin, policy, politics. street level & guerilla bureaucrat. imagining sisyphus happy. curing faults through attention. containing multitudes. theoria < poiesis < praxis. vires + artes + mores.
🗽⚖️🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ✌️🤟🤘
📍Tallahassee, FL
Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
📍Toronto
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon @jeremiepgagnon.net Humanités numériques, game studies, études japonaises | Professeur @Université de l'Ontario français | Co-editor (English) @Journal of Replaying Japan | 日本語でOK!
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.
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
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.
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
Makopowered Chris, PhD (he/him) @makopowered.bsky.social Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
Prof Matthew @profmatthew.bsky.social Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social if D&D has no haters then i'm 💀 • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Comms • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza & cats
videos & cards: https://www.youtube.com/@noizangel
https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester
she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
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).
Michael Hancock @personofcon.bsky.social Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him
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.
Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Hate account. All opinions should be my employer’s.
Assistant Prof Early American Lit. Melville. Mill girls. Murder.
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social Vagabond game maker. TIGSource, Gametrekking, Loneliness, Game Poems, etc. https://jordanmagnuson.itch.io/
Debt Shop Boi @debtshopboi.bsky.social Toronto-based synthpop-industrial-darkwave-electropunk artist. Lover of black cats, hater of fascism. https://linktr.ee/debtshopboi
Ryker @rykermitchell.bsky.social Fantasy Author, Fight. Level. Survive. Available now on Kindle, Kindle unlimited, Audible and print!
https://books2read.com/u/brEAGk
Brian Moran @brianmoran.bsky.social Sceptical optimist. Occasionally inspired, always committed. Views my own.
Melbourne & London.- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Kevin E. Wells @kevinwellsphd.bsky.social Architect of structure-first AI integrity.
Predictive emotion, runtime diagnostics, memory autonomy.
No vibes or magic just compression, cognition, and control.
Alignment ≠ safety. Structure holds.
CWA Local 3821.
Simon Obendorf @obendorf.bsky.social Studying/teaching international theory, post/decolonial praxis & queer worlds. Proud Chair of Cheka Sana UK. 🇦🇺🇬🇧🏳️🌈🇪🇺 He/Him
Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social Co-editor, The Colored Conventions Movement (2021). Writing a history of editing and editors. Making our way at the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, Early Black Press Project, and the Coalition for Black Digital Research.
Nic Carey @roboniccarey.bsky.social Working on self-organizing systems, robotics for ecological restoration, bio-inspired engineering, and occasionally some useful things.
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!
Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social Sociologist of sexual health. Chancellor's Fellow at University of Edinburgh. 🇪🇸🏳️🌈🏴 he/him
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him)
Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture
Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021)
Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing
https://jacobgaboury.com
Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca Open Standards & Practices lead at @CivicActions.com | #Drupal #Accessibility | Digital Services Coalition Board | @w3c Invited Expert #SustainableWeb #ARRM | http://ox.ca | #SolarPunk #Quaker #Feminist #Canadian #WebAlmanac #IAAPCPWA
#UNOpenSourceWeek
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social Utopia enthusiast and former Internet personality
David M. Berry @berrydm.bsky.social Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code. 
Edwardy Whitley @edwardwhitley.bsky.social Whitman scholar, DH dabbler, Professor and Chair of Lehigh University English Department edwardwhitley.org
Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social UAlbany English | The Art of Slight Living, 1900/2000 (in progress) | Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke UP) | Co-editor (w Sarah Wasserman), Oxford Studies in American Literary History | she/her
Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
Till A. Heilmann @tillheilmann.info Doing #MediaStudies at RuhrUniBochum as part of CRC Virtual Lifeworlds | Book project on #Photoshop and #ImageProcessing | #Culture, #History and #Theory of #Digitality
Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Eric Lars Martinsen @emartinsen.bsky.social Community College writing teacher. #edtech #ungrading #edusky #eduskyai #highered #communitycollege @Ventura_College @CalCommColleges
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social Historian, Husband, Dad, Teacher, Army Vet, & Annoyance. Another middle-aged white guy for reason, compassion, & tolerance. He/Him. #NAFO
Opinions are my own ¬ the views of my employer
Games in the History Classroom Project: frc.edu/history/games
Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Longreads, Current Affairs, etc.
🌐 www.bcglee.com
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
Phd le jeu @phd-le-jeu.bsky.social Le jeu de cartes incontournable sur le doctorat
https://fr.ulule.com/phd_jeu/
en cours de financement
Florian Cafiero @floriancafiero.bsky.social Fellow « AI for the Humanities and Social Sciences » PSL University. Lecturer in Digital Humanities and NLP (Ecole Nationale des Chartes, École Normale Supérieure de Paris) Computational Social Science (Dauphine). Researcher at Centre Jean Mabillon.
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
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