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Screw Loose Studios @screwloosestudios.bsky.social 🕹️SCREWED | UW-Stout Capstone Team
🔩 A 3D physics puzzle game where you are the screw
🧩 Control objects and solve the puzzles.
SGX – May 7th, 2026
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Djordi @djordi.bsky.social MCDM | Undead Labs | ArenaNet | Naughty Dog | Pandemic | Blizzard | The D is silent | I like KITTIES!!! | (he/him)
lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social D. Vincent Baker, longtime indie ttrpg creator. Co-creator of Apocalypse World, Under Hollow Hills, and many more. Disarm, defund, abolish. He/him. https://lumpley.games
Kat King @katattack.bsky.social UX Designer on D&D Beyond @ WOTC 🎲⚔️
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
Stephen T. Slota @steveslota.bsky.social Co-author of The Worldbuilding Workshop: Teaching Critical Thinking and Empathy Through World Modeling, Simulation, and Play
Learning Scientist, EdTech Expert, Instructional Designer, GameDev, Former K12 Teacher
They|Them 🏳️🌈🎮 https://www.steveslota.com/
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!
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 🍉
JoAnneh Nagler @joannehnagler.bsky.social Author, Singer, all things ART. Lover of my sweet husband. Yoga, travel, love being alive!
J.K. Rademaekers @profrads.bsky.social Seeker of consensus-based interdisciplinary discourse about sustainable society. Can we improve well-being, happiness, and prosperity while reducing irreverisble ecological damage and human poverty? Also: music, poetry, running, wine, dogs, and hiking.
Shira Feldman @writingwithrobots.bsky.social Writer, reader, human. Interested observer of all things AI/writing.
Professor Marine @professormarine.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition interested in graffiti, writing engagement, and James Moffett.
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social Professor of eighteenth-century lit and culture; person who studies pirates; dragon aficionado; proud parliamentarian dork. Opinions are my own and no one else's.
Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/
Andy Zawadzki @andyzawadzki.bsky.social Senior Game Designer @ Raw Power Games
Solo developer on A Bit Dicey
Prev: CDPR, IO Interactive // Board Game Enthusiast
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Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social Industry-based sociologist and adjunct professor. Future of work. Innovation. Strategic Foresight. Enterprise Software. Ethnography and qual methods. A few books. https://www.samladner.com/
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
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We're the non-profit volunteer collective keeping Netrunner thriving!
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
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.
John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social Using qualitative & machine learning methods to study writers/content creators. I study the interaction between writers & audiences. Professor @ University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social English professor at Rockford University // sound & music // creative nonfiction // IP & remix & fair use // family & local history // weirdly deep dives into learning // coauthor of Soundwriting: A Guide to Making Audio Projects (Broadview).
Teri Lynn Bookless @terilynnbookless.bsky.social Gratitude for my living environment, which is a cabin in rural Wisconsin. My dog, Poppy, enjoys watching at the large window for the deer who often visit our meadow. I am a writer at this time. In earlier years I traveled abroad and then, worked as an MSW.
Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social gaziano family legacy professor of rhetoric & writing studies | cultural & digital rhet / asian am rhet / UX | refusal.blog | http://www.etsy.com/shop/byebot
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Madison Jones @ecorhetor.bsky.social Associate Professor, Writing/Natural Resources Science at URI; DWELL Lab Director, Senior Fellow at the Coastal Institute, and SciWrite Coordinator. Part time poet. Opinions those of my influencers. https://madisonpjones.com/
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Bethany Risler @mamarizzle.bsky.social Dogs > People
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Andy Gaertner @gaertnerandy.bsky.social Farmer, Teacher, Writer on Medium, Morris Dancer, Genealogist, Ex Peace Corps Honduras ('93-'96). Climate Change, Anti-Racism, Photography, Food, Books, Green Bay Packers.
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Prof. B @profberrier.bsky.social Very tired teacher, singer, coder, gamer, father, and CS program director at UW Stout.
Innisfree @innisfree.bsky.social geography, GIS, data visualization, people and the environment, inventing a liveable future, pedagogy and tech, cats, geeky stuff
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Technical Communication & Social Justice Journal @techcommsj.bsky.social Technical Communication and Social Justice (TCSJ), is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and open-source online journal, published biannually, and hosted at East Carolina University.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Daniel J @cheesegrtr.bsky.social Game dev in the Boston Area. UW Stout Graduate. Check out my stuff here: https://cheesegrtr.itch.io/
Sydney Goggins @sydneygoggins.bsky.social PhD student researching rhetoric, health crises (past and present) and public memory. #TeamRhetoric #histmed | interested in #STS, histories of tuberculosis patient advocacy, and emerging memory practices around COVID | Writing Center pedagogy 
Morgan Banville, PhD @banvillemorgan.bsky.social She/her | Assistant Professor of English, Fairfield University |#firstgen | Surveillance Studies | Technical Communication | @CivicsofTech Board | All opinions are mine
Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication. Academia & industry: usability, UX, design, techcomm, content, data.
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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social Writing, Rhetoric, Multimodality. History of composition & standardizing writing; feedback & assessment; and multimodal pedagogies. Digital rhetoric & disinformation.
Reviews Coeditor @kairostp.bsky.social
Francesca Gentile @fgentile11.bsky.social Associate professor & writing program administrator in the big ROC. Probably watching soccer. Maybe flipping through dusty vinyl somewhere.
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@headology-witch.bsky.social @headology-witch.bsky.social Rhet/comp PhD student 🍊 I have an overabundance of feelings and nail polish 💅 Queer, she/her or they/them.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
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Mike Duncan @theophrastean.bsky.social Professor in Texas. Rhetoric, tech comm, composition, early Christianity. Author: Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem. Fiction, too. Dad gamer. https://badrhetoric.com/about/
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Milena Babina @milenababina.bsky.social Award Winning Visual Designer & Art Director
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Robin Zwier @robinkzwier.bsky.social 
Claire Oldham Griffith @claire-og.bsky.social PhD in Rhetoric and Writing from Michigan State University
Cultural Rhetorics and Tech Comm
Lover of maps, stories, and apple trees 🗺️📓🍎
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
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Dr. CJ Walker @firehead.bsky.social I’m a friendly Cajun-Swede who lives in the French Alps. France is my 9th country and I’m still curiously exploring.
I like to find patterns in data and connecting people.
Firehead is my baby.
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Dr. Mel Rozalia @drmelissameade.bsky.social Ethnographies of inequality, digital media + tech, labor, environment, economic decline, collective memory, identity.
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Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social pissed off, funny, and warm • refusal.blog • views don't represent my employer
Ron Brooks @rooksbay.bsky.social writing and rhetoric associate professor (montclair state), mechanical humanist, gardener, pinball enthusiast, banjo player, husband, dad, master of none
Amy Reed @amyr6531.bsky.social Associate Professor. Medical rhetoric. Disability studies. Tech comm. Newly interested in GenAI. Not a techno-optimist. 
Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy at Ohio State. Associate Editor @ TCSJ.
Teaching and researching medical evidence + expertise (#techcomm, #medrhet, #femrhet, #sts). She/her.
Lacy Hope @lacyhope.bsky.social Writer and perpetual student | TPC | Digital rhetoric | Digital humanities | Buffalo wings connoisseur
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Liz Walker @ecwalker.bsky.social Who I am: teaching faculty at Johns Hopkins University. What I do: professional and technical communication, ethics and engineering, GenAI, and DH and data stories
Joanna Schreiber @joannaschreiber.bsky.social Dog lover. Euchre enthusiast. Associate Professor of #techcomm. Scholar of mundane communication practices.
Omnia Cum Respectu @dahklarr.bsky.social Star Trek, Science Fiction, 80’s nerd, music enthusiast, and retired Air Force Veteran. Happily married Gen X dude who refuses to grow up.
Did I mention Star Trek?
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