Marc Saurette @saurette.bsky.social Medievalist, Cluny-phile, DH and Historical Game Studies dilettante. @Carleton University (Ottawa). Ex-Winnipeger.
Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social Archaeology & ancient DNA 🧬
Mobility, kinship & identity in the ancient Mediterranean 🏺
Ice Age communities of central Europe 🧊
Nikhil Murthy @murthynikhil.bsky.social Experimental game designer currently working on Hoop Dungeon. Previous games: Syphilisation, The Quiet Sleep
Jeff Pearson @legoverleg.bsky.social Poet, educator, bipolar disorder/mental health advocate, MtG player, Ex-Mormon
CALL ME OUT FOR MISINFORMATION
https://poesyjeffpearson.com
Previous editor to Blood Orange Review, fugue and 5x5 Litmag
A commonplace book
Fuck Doug Wilson
Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UCLA | Alum @MIT @Princeton @UC Berkeley | AI+Cognitive Science+Climate Policy | https://ucla-cocopol.github.io/
Doni @doni.bsky.social Games and History, History and Games, History Games, Games History, Games for Change, Games with Purpose, (ex) Games Industry, Game Design, Game Production, Game Quality.
Andrew Reid @ajreid93.bsky.social Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
Rü @rbrandis.eu 🌹 poetic realist.
🎮 makes games.
✍️ writes about theory, ideology & history.
🛠 working on 13 Rosas @achtungautobahn.com
✊ proud member of ver.di @game-workers.de
✍️ researching history & games @uni-goettingen.de
Barbora Bachanová @barborabachanova.bsky.social Research Master Student in Media Studies at University of Amsterdam | video game studies, media theory, digital cultures
Ammodo Science @ammodoscience.bsky.social Supporting fundamental and groundbreaking research through awards and fellowships.
https://ammodo-science.org/
Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social Writer, editor, and journalist.
https://charliehallwriter.com/
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
Eva Mol🍉 @evamol.bsky.social Lecturer Roman ArchaeologyUoY; slow archaeology; from Drenthe; lover of everything conceptual
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social History, strategy & communication | game designer | researcher in applied history | PhD early modern history, MPhil international relations | www.branwenadvisors.com, www.sunkentower.be
The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social Annual Asynchronous Conference, other events and publications. Sponsored by CMRR Winchester, Intellect Books, and Slitherine Games. middleagesinmoderngames.net
GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social GDC Festival of Gaming returns March 1-5, 2027, in San Francisco!
Jakub Šindelář @sindeja-kuba.bsky.social PhD Researcher in historical game studies at IMS FSV UK and LUCAS Leiden University
Czech National DOI Centre Coordinator at the National Library of Technology (NTK)
Camilla Mazzucato @camillamazzucato.bsky.social Archaeology of prehistoric Southwest Asia. Network Science and material culture. Kinship studies, multispecies archaeology and anthropology. Currently postdoctoral researcher with AviArch@UniTO.
Flippo @flippo9204.bsky.social Arts, Literature, Media @ Leiden University
RuneMeisterKris @runemeisterkris.bsky.social Professional Archaeologist, & Archaeogaming Content Creator
I play video games, meme, & trick you into learning
Streamer DM Dad & Dingus 🏺 🎮 🎲
Twitch (1k+) | YouTube (700+) | TikTok (42k+)
linktr.ee/RuneMeisterKris
Inquiries: runemeisterkris@gmail.com
Despoina V. Sampatakou @archaeobruja.bsky.social Research Associate @UofGlasgow
Teaching Fellow @aberdeenuni
PhD in Digital #Archaeology
@UniOfYork
she/her
#firstgen
Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social Assistant prof of public international law in Leiden • cultural heritage, human rights & environmental law • previously LLM at Leiden & Cambridge, PhD at Leiden & postdoc at Tilburg • @s_starrenburg over on Twitter.
Didi @sapphireblueworld.bsky.social Keep on keeping on | HOH | she/her
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Dr Amy Hondsmerk @awildhistorian.bsky.social Works to upskill the heritage sector. Researches videogames as museum interpretation. Lover of games, singing, sci-fi, and cats. She/her.
Sanne Muurling @smuurling.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Social History @ Radboud Uni | History of gender, social inequalities, crime, death & disease | Editor TSEG & HISFAM | 📚🎮 🗺 🐈
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist with a focus on SW Asia, Ancient Egypt and Sudan. Funerary practices, taphonomy, dental anthropology. Music and photography nerd.
Good Organisation @goodorgcic.bsky.social tourism with a difference…that makes a difference
Edward González-Tennant @edgonzaleztennant.bsky.social An archaeologist, author, and educator living in Central Texas.
Mare @mareonline.nl Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare, krant van Universiteit Leiden
mareonline.nl
criticalplayorg @criticalplayorg.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for The Center for the History of Video Games, Technology, and Critical Play at CSU, Long Beach (criticalplay.org) also @criticalplayorg@mstdn.social
Antiquipop @antiquipop.bsky.social Antiquity, pop culture and politics 🏺
L'Antiquité dans la culture populaire 🏛️
English / Français
https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/eng
Compte tenu par @fabienbp.bsky.social
ArchaeologistsEngage @archsengage.bsky.social An international independent non-profit group of archaeologists who enable community engagement and outreach.
https://archaeologists-engage.org/
Corine "TimesNewRoman" Gerritsen @times-new-roman.bsky.social PhD Leiden | Game Studies | Historian Roman Antiquity | soft spot for Crusader Kings 3 and Sims | Still processing INDIKA
Dr Hayley Mickleburgh @hlmickleburgh.bsky.social Assist. Prof. Archaeology @UvA | Director 4D Research Lab | forensic archaeology/taphonomy, 3D visualization, mass graves, digital archaeology
@oomzer.bsky.social @oomzer.bsky.social Historian | city-builder connaisseur & streamer at the VALUE Foundatuon | Football & Formula 1
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
Liv Nilsson Stutz @livnstutz.bsky.social Professor of Archaeology. Interested in ritual practice, death, the body, the ethics and politics of human remains, hunter-gatherers, pop culture, politics, art, and aesthetics.
More of my work on ethics&human remains: https://ethicalentanglements.online/
playfultimemach.bsky.social @playfultimemach.bsky.social Go on a journey with us, through time, games and play!
Sarah Herr @sherr-spadefoot.bsky.social Archaeologist, rabbitmama, Mawrtyr, addicted to mountains, fan of street art. Past editor and fan club for SAA journal Advances in Archaeological Practice. Tucson.
Internet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social #OpenAccess peer-reviewed #digital #journal for #archaeology at University of York (UK). Posts by Judith Winters (Ed) #publication #digital #heritage 🏺
Digital Heritage Innovation Lab @dhilab.bsky.social Michigan State University Digital Heritage Innovation Lab. We're focused on the application of digital methods in heritage for documentation, preservation, access, and public and community engagement. Director, @ethanwatrall.bsky.social
Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.- H Harry Hur @harryhur.bsky.social A Leiden University student in MA History, with a Bachelor's Degree in International Studies from Leiden University & Economics from Baruch College, NY. Focusing on Politics, National and Cultural Identity Post 1789, and Game Studies
FelixEnigma @felixenigma47.bsky.social A University student, PC gamer, and streamer. Gaming since the Atari 2600. Here are my other channel links.
twitch.tv/FelixEnigma
youtube.com/FelixEnigma
Bram van den Hout @bramvdhout.bsky.social Historian interested in the Darkest Side of the VOC (slavery, piracy, violence), Linked Open Data/datasets, video games as tool for presentation of/and research
ARISE (Arqueologia Interativa e Simulações Eletrônicas) @archarise.bsky.social Página do laboratório de pesquisa ARISE, sediado na FURG e vinculado ao MAE-USP | ⛏️ Archaeogaming | 🎲 Historical Game Studies | 🎮 Métodos digitais
keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social they | phd @ leiden | hacker-bard |
forever gm, habitual gamer, biweekly artiste
keerthisridharan.com
Gaurav Kalyani @archaeogk.bsky.social Archaeology | Anti-caste | Pop Culture | Digital Humanities
आगीतून फुफाट्यात 🔥🌈💥
Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social Professor of Virtual Heritage & Interactive History, Adelaide University. Researching serious games for heritage & history. https://erikchampion.wordpress.com/ OR https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-champion/
Dunstan Lowe @ancientplay.bsky.social Classical Studies academic, gamer, enthusiast.
Read around and find out
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at […]
[bridged from https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social Broke Project Archaeologist with Alpine Archaeological Consultants. Music (cyphernaut.bandcamp.com/follow_me), author (ORCID: 0000-0001-7987-8227), photography (andrewreinhard.com). Based in Chicagoland.
ArchaeoPlays @archaeoplays.bsky.social They/them. Disabled/chronically ill Minecraft YouTuber, & archaeologist (aka: Dr. Heather Christie). Early medieval Scotland specialist & glass bead nerd. Lead Researcher for Carved in Stone. https://linktr.ee/archaeoplays | email: archaeoplays@gmail.com
Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social Postdoc at Ghent University // Video games and mythology // DiGRA Belgium Co-Chair
Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social Adjunct professor, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com Zooarchaeologist. 🏺
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Ralphrius @ralphrius.bsky.social Fullstack developer 🇳🇱 he/him
Great enjoyer of videogames and occasional hobbyist writer and gamedev
Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
Mithun @mithunb.bsky.social Ex-enthu cutlet. Sometimes gamedev. Runs geeky community things in Bangalore. (They/He)
Sebastian Hageneuer @archaeobasti.bsky.social Father, ANE Archaeologist, Research Associate, PhD, Gamer.
I dig up artifacts and my kid digs up my patience.
Dr. Marieke Hendriksen @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Senior Researcher early modern history of knowledge & head of dept @KNAWHuC | Taste, medicine, identity, performative methods | FRHistS | PI ERC CoG @preservare.bsky.social | author of Het Grote Dropboek
Johanna Röver @jroever.bsky.social Archaeology student, previous software developer.
Aspiring to go into digital/computational archaeology.
Also... ducks are great.
Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social Does Pleistocene Archaeology @ Leiden University https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/gerrit-dusseldorp#tab-1
Cricket | Natural history
Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social Writes a PhD thesis about Berlin in the 1920s in contemporary popular culture. Works @UniLeiden as Research Manager.
Likes pop & classical music, literature, (model) trains, Peanuts, Donald Duck, hiking, old musical films and much more
VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social The VALUE Foundation brings out the untapped potential of knowledge at play. We work in the crossroads of gaming, academia, and the past. #archaeogaming
Website: https://value-foundation.org/
Blog: https://interactivepasts.com/
Ishtar - 🧜♀️😷☢️🏳️🌈 @ishtar.bsky.social
𒊩𒈹🥰✌️SciComm🏳️🌈
• Postgrad Archaeology Student🏺(Portrayal of the past in media)
• Computer Scientist 👩💻
• Lesbian Poetess 👭
• Novelist - prehistory/antiquity
• EDXRF/Gamma/Xray Spectroscopy ☢️
• Astrophotography🔭
• ASD/ADHD/Tourette's/CPTSD😵💫
• Weaver🧵
Dr Aris Politopoulos @apolitopoulos.bsky.social Assistant professor Archaeology and Cultural Politics at Leiden University. Archaeology, play, video games, and politics.