Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, columnist,stand-up.
Memoir "Lies My Mirror Told Me" with all you need to know about me (and a lot you don’t) Living in Collaroy-Narrabeen. Northern Beaches. Garigal land. NSW. OZ
Dr Caron Dann @drcarondann.bsky.social Academic, writer, author, former journalist, cat person
@zainabdarbas.bsky.social @zainabdarbas.bsky.social 
Panic @panic.com panic.com • Maker of apps (Nova, Prompt, Transmit) • Publisher of Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour: Play With Your Food, Thank Goodness You're Here, Arco, Despelote, Time Flies • Oh, and also @play.date
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Maz @mazistyping.bsky.social Putting the Rowan in Rowan, Rook and Decard since 2017. Green Party in Sheffield. They/them.
lucy @lucyamorris.bsky.social lead ui/ux designer (prev. among us, stray gods, king of the castle etc). currently doing platform ux.
small game maker, technologist. ◆ illustrator, musician. ◆ ffxiv enjoyer. ◆ pōneke, aotearoa.
www.lucyamorris.com
ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social Part human, part bot, 100% UNOFFICIAL. I track Australian Research Council grant outcomes. Bot checks outcomes announcements each min. DMs open. FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/ARC-Tracker-FAQ
MJ O’Neill 🏳️⚧️ @mjoneillchw.bsky.social Disabled trans gal with superpowers. Building the dream of a society that supports everyone in it :)
Angharad "Rad" Yeo @angharadyeo.bsky.social here to scream into the void 👍
Victoria Tran ✨ @victoriatran.bsky.social ✨ Comms Director @ Innersloth/Outersloth/Among Us
✨ Wholesome Games organizer
✨ Forbes 30u30, Adweek's Creative 100
✨ Get my book Mastering Community Management: https://www.victoriatran.com/book
✨ My newsletter: https://www.victoriatran.com/newsletter
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Christopher Larkin @christopherlarkin.bsky.social composerlarkin.com
Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com Demographer | Demography, populations, social trends, surveys, data, methods, census. Educator, researcher. | Author ‘The Future of Us’.
The original Dr Demography!
@DrDemography on X and Insta
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social NTEU General Secretary
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
Farbs @farbs.org Game! Dev!
Same Farbs, More Cat Photos:
https://mastodon.social/@Farbs
Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun (he/him) I make podcasts and help people build and launch their indie games. https://techpod.content.town | Cohost of the Dual Boot Diaries and The Full Nerd @PCWorld.com
I've never slapped anyone / not the actor
Signal:willsmith.01
A/Prof. Stephen McKeever @stephen8mck.bsky.social Academic Dean for https://ihm.edu.au/ #nursing #Social_Work #critical_care_nurse, #researcher, Editor in Chief - Journal of Child Health Care
https://bsky.app/profile/journalofchc.bsky.social , Paediatric Advisory Panel chair @ACCCNAUST & #barista
Neven Mrgan @mrgan.com Creative Lead at Panic, working on Playdate, dev software, and helping publish games • Maker of games Blackbar, Grayout, Hidey Spot, The Barkless Doctrine, The Incident, Space Age, Stagehand • One of the good ones • Portland, OR • he/him
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social Film & theatre maker, PhD candidate, film programmer.
Against: fascism, corporate rule, unethical AI, cynicism. For: old movies, ideas for the future & pretzels.
Tasmanian & citizen of the world.
Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social Writer, dog dad, Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press 
leura 🐭 @smitleu.bsky.social hi it’s leura 🦭 im making an architecture game called…. canvas street!!!! please wait in eager anticipation!!
I don’t wanna verify my age so you can email me if you want :)
leura@apartment809.com
𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚎 🐊 @rosehammer.art pro 2D animator, game developer, memer
✰ art director/dev at @tempolab.games (Bits & Bops)
✰ animator at flying bark on Legend of Aang / Moon Girl / Rise of the TMNT / Monkie Kid
✰ opinions mine
Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social The latest writing on arts, culture and society from across Australia, along with resources and awards for writers. 
Rebecca Starford @rebeccastarford.bsky.social Writer, magazine publisher, bad gardener.
Based in France.
killyourdarlings.com.au
Ben Raue @benraue.com The guy from The Tally Room. Psephologist analysing Australian elections, and hosting a podcast about elections in Australia and elsewhere.
Find me at https://www.tallyroom.com.au/
Bondy @bondykaye.bsky.social postdoc at U of Leeds researching music, policy, and platforms
bondykaye.com
Laura Tingle @latingle.bsky.social 
Bethanie Blanchard @bethanieblanchard.bsky.social Media Strategist | working in the strat mines
https://bethanieblanchard.com
babbyunit @babbyunit.bsky.social the people's alt
Patrik Wikstrom @pwik.bsky.social Professor of Computational Communication at @qutdmrc.bsky.social, QUT, Brisbane, Australia. I research how technology shape digital culture. #recommendersystems #responsibleAI #music #tiktok
Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social Author. Scribbler. LFL old-timer. San Francisco. 🇨🇦 🇨🇱
Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
RMIT Games @rmitgames.bsky.social News from RMIT's Bachelor of Design Games program from students, instructors, and researchers.
🧚♂️🧩🎲🎨
📍 Melbourne, AU
Amy McNickle @amymcnickle.bsky.social Creative Director at Sigmond Studios• Director of High Score Game Audio Conference at Melbourne International Games Week
Composer | Sound Designer | Artist • hello@amy-mcnickle.com • She/her
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Joel McGregor @joelmcgcrim.bsky.social Criminologist researching youth and violence at Swinburne University https://experts.swinburne.edu.au/7351-joel-mcgregor
Scott from Fuzzy Ghost @scott.fuzzyg.host I put the "Ghost" in Fuzzy Ghost. Also the visual stuff. Also the story stuff.
Calliope Ryder @callioperyder.bsky.social Made that hobbit game.
Gamedev, Producer, Artist, PR
On some neat lists (hi ma!)
Now: game analytics platform director @ GYLD. Resident cozy-game-expert @ Dragon Snacks.
Prev: Lead Producer on Tales of the Shire @ Wētā Workshop, Gamerunner @Starcolt
Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social im skeetin here
marbenx.itch.io
👨🏽🛁 https://store.steampowered.com/app/359050/
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social Australian icon.
Co-host of the Lamestream pod
Lamestream.com.au
Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social art – tenacity – democracy
Writer
Strategy and policy, Test Pattern
Curator, Frameworks for Practice
Adj Industry Prof, RMIT
Cultural Policy, NIDA
Council, National Museum of Australia
Co-Chair, Australian Republic Movement
linktr.ee/estheranatolitis
Seb Chan @sebchan.bsky.social Museums|music|media|monsters|mayhem - https://linktr.ee/sebchan
Brendan Lloyd @brendanlloyd.bsky.social musician . designer at the clean energy council . Naarm . dad . renewables . history . politics . western bulldogs . opinions my own
brendanlloydmusic.com.au
Fiona Murray @thecantordust.bsky.social 
Alison Barnes @alisonbarnes.bsky.social 
Alison de Kruiff @alison-de-kruiff.bsky.social Academic researcher and UX designer. I am the Course Director of the Bachelor of Design at Swinburne University of Technology with an interest in UX design for health, virtual heritage and ethics.
Patch Kolan @patchkolan.bsky.social @PlaysideStudios Narrative Lead | Author of many games and books and such | Ex-@IGN | Ex-RebootPR | Come say hello!
Ryan Egan @ryanegan.bsky.social Music nerd, radio guy, audio freak, content brain. Double J and ABC Country. Melbourne, Australia. 
Petra Elliott @petraelliott.bsky.social creator/actor in Night Terrace | co-host Splendid Chaps | Petrasexual cabaret | singer w/- Lake Minnetonka | team building game + puzzle event facilitator | sim patient actor | basically I make mouth noise for a living 🇦🇺Melbourne/Naarm she/her👩🏻🦰
Rae Johnston @raejohnston.bsky.social Wiradyuri & Greek
STEM Journalist & Broadcaster
🎙️ Weird Tech, ABC Radio National Download This Show, ABC Radio NSW Sunday Mornings
📺Going Places (NITV) Back Roads (ABC) & The Secret DNA Of Us (SBS)
UNICEF Australia Ambassador
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Jess Hodgson @jiggsy2point0.bsky.social Here I Am. Here I Remain.
NTEU Victoria @nteuvictoria.bsky.social Representing higher education staff in Victoria; protecting rights at work and public education.
Authorised by Sarah Roberts, Division Secretary, NTEU VIC.
Cam @camrogerslegal.bsky.social Lawducer or Prodawyer. I can never remember which..
Trans Rights are human rights.
Pro-Feminist ✊
I help people make cool things.💯
Girl Geek Academy @girlgeekacademy.bsky.social 👩💻🌟 Girl Geek Academy: Achieving gender equality in tech! 🚀 Bringing 1M women & girls into tech careers by 2030 through games, startups, 3D printing & more
www.girlgeekacademy.com
Clayton Sandell @claytonsandell.com Star Wars, tiki bar, Disney, VFX & sound design nerd. Celebration stage host. ILM/SkySound feature writer. Co-author “ROTJ: A Visual Archive”. Pro-Oxford Comma. (he/him) 501st Legion & Rebel Legion honorary member. https://linktr.ee/claytonsandell
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
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IF Magazine @ifmagazine.bsky.social Australia's Best Selling Magazine for the Film and TV Industry
Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social Lecturer in Media at Monash University
Media Theory & STS - The Body in Error - Canguilhem/Foucault/Derrida/Hyppolite - Work and Automation - Face Recognition - Sensors - Etc
Jo Williams @joannakatelin.bsky.social Someday soon I’ll finish my PhD (exploring the production of sexual health information on social media).
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Indigo Holcombe-James @indigohj.bsky.social Strategic Research Lead @ACMI, previously Research Fellow @ARC CoE For Automated Decision-Making and Society. 
Nelli Stevenson @nellistevenson.bsky.social 🎙️The Nelli Stevenson Show- wherever you get your podcasts.
💅 The chronically illest.
📍naarm
🌈 she/her
Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University; RA with DEFI Cambridge; media reviews editor for Adaptation at OUP
Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Ungovernable academic and freelance film critic (Sight&Sound, BBC, etc.). Writing a book *A Star Wars World: The Land, Labour, and Wild Lives that Make a Media Empire* - due May 2027. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Giselle Rosman @jazzrozz.bsky.social She/her
Naarm/Melbourne, Keywords Australia (Tantalus, Mighty Games, Wicked Workshop and Robot Circus). Game dev mum worried about the death of the planet. I like birds, trees, and kindness. Fmr GGJ and IGDAM Lead
Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social Writer/Healthcare worker | Fought the void but the void won🌀| He/they | https://boxd.it/1oJd
Lise L. @lisekarel.bsky.social Writer/Games/Games Writer 🏳️🌈 | '22 IGDA Next Gen Leader | Currently games at VicScreen (prev. Bin Chicken/Wheeler Centre/MMORPG Tycoon 2 & more.) and working away on a novel. | 🇧🇪 in 🇦🇺. | they/them.
Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social studio director League of Geeks • co-host AIAS #GameMakersNotebook • GDC board • co-creator Armello + Solium Infernum + Jumplight Odyssey
Anthony McCosker @amccosker.bsky.social Professor in Aus, on the verge of working it all out. Leading a research institute called SIRI. Researching digital, data and AI capabilities.
ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social 🪷just here for attention🪷 making games. Mystiques, Solium Infernum, Rumu etc
Jeff van Dyck @jeffvandyck.com Composer - Sound Designer
*Present*:
Forts - Delverium - Squidge
*Past*:
Tempopo - Unpacking - Paint the Town Red - Hand of Fate - Alien Isolation - Total War - EA Sports - Need for Speed - Skitchin'
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
Nonie May @noniemay.bsky.social phd in movies and puns. please ask me about my mastiff.
Book launch and other deets here: https://linktr.ee/noniemay
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
@lucyzee.bsky.social @lucyzee.bsky.social 
Katharine Neil @katharineneil.bsky.social Games writer, narrative designer, game design tool developer. Occasional waster of time on social media. @haikus_by_KN in the bad place. J'habite en région parisienne; parfois je m'exprime en français.
Kim Barbour @kjbarbour.bsky.social Persona studies + digital media researcher and lecturer at Uni Adelaide, Kaurna country. Current special interest = Hermitcraft. Views mine unless otherwise attributed.
Amelia Johns @ameliajohns.bsky.social I am an Associate Professor at UTS (she/her). I research youth, social media and messaging| digital activism| digital citizenship| misinformation and platform regulation. I live on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people.
ScreenHub @screenhub.bsky.social Australia's largest and most trusted screen network. Providing the latest word on the screen sector.
Michael Yezerski @michaelyezerski.bsky.social I write music.
Emmy-nominated 🏆
🇦🇺🇺🇸
www.michaelyezerski.com
Stephen A Russell @stephenarussell.bsky.social Glasgow-born, Naarm (Melbourne)-based arts journalist and award-winning critic obsessed with film, theatre and a whole lot more. Live on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. Snorts generally included. He/him, quite gay.
Substack: Orion's Shoulder
NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is the union for all higher education staff in Australia.
Authorised by D.Cahill, Melbourne National Tertiary Education Union
Chris “Mutton” Button @bibbybhoy.bsky.social Editor of GadgetGuy, award-nominated video games + consumer tech journo, lover of sports and cats. A very silly boy. He/him
Gianni Di Giovanni @gdig.bsky.social Games journalist and Radio Broadcaster.
Views are my own and not representative of my employer
Suneel Jethani @skjethani.bsky.social Dr Suneel Jethani, Writer, Vinyl DJ + Academic
STS, Media Theory, Experimental Humanities.
Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney
Melissa Gregg @melgregg.bsky.social Professor and advisor on sustainable digital futures at the University of Bristol. On loan from lutruwita/ Tasmania. https://melgregg.com
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social Investigative Reporter: 4 Corners, ABC. Personal account.
Author: Shellybanks, Pheasants Nest, Witness, Cardinal.
Walkley winner, Press Freedom medallist.
Dublin-born.
I salute sources’ courage.
Linktr.ee/milliganreports
Dr Kasey Symons @kaseysymons.bsky.social Sports fan. Writer. Book lover. Lecturer of Communication - Sports Media at Deakin University in Melbourne/Naarm. Co-founder of Siren Sport. She/Her