Jan Lietz @zteilnaj.bsky.social PostDoc, Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Freie Universität Berlin) / Fall 2026: Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Narrative (Bergen) – www.jan-lietz.de
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
@mareinna.bsky.social @mareinna.bsky.social ■ interdisciplinary hybrid ■ digital culture, gender studies, fandom and monsters ■ postdoc @ University of Bergen, Norway ■
Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social (she/her) Postdoc on EPIC and @uobphenomenal.bsky.social, Uni of Birmingham
Main quest: investigating epistemic injustice among young people with psychosis
Side quest: roleplaying games and mental health!
jodie-russell.co.uk
Elias Najarro @najarro.science Computational physicist. Working on self-organisation & AI • Postdoc at @real.itu.dk • SciComm at http://slam.science • 🎭🪩🏔️
🌐 https://najarro.science
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Klara Sterczewska @klarast.bsky.social PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. script writer for the game Mr. Prepper. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist.
she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Chisel @chiselmag.bsky.social Words worth carving in stone | https://chiselmag.com
Zen @zen-browser.app Welcome to a calmer internet.
→ 🔗 http://zen-browser.app
→ 💚 http://zen-browser.app/donate
→ 📦 http://github.com/zen-browser
Rob Gallagher @gealga.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, King's College London. Co-director MA Digital Futures. Author of Videogames, Identity & Digital Subjectivity (Routledge 2017) and Artgames after Gamergate (Palgrave 2025): https://link.springer.com/book/9783032044341
胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating"
paranom.asia
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Jonne Arjoranta @arjoranta.fi Digitaalisen kulttuurin tutkija. Eniten huolettaa valvontakapitalismi ja ilmastokriisi.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodontti.fi/@jonne, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social Associate Professor of #Philosophy at the University of Bergen. 🇳🇴 Various philosophical interests. Kant’s theoretical philosophy is my field of specialty. Other interests: arts, science, music, literature, photography, and travels.
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Daniele Monaco @danielemonaco.bsky.social PhD in philosophy—widely proven to be a highly questionable life choice. Divided between the UK and Italy.
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.
MU LIbrary Cat @mulibrarycat.bsky.social Purring my way through life outside
MU Library. Unofficial account, kinda. 
Kübra @mostlyindie.com Games/media/American Studies scholar, lecturer @uni-freiburg.de. PhD on books in games. Currently studying video game remakes, reboots, and adaptations.
Read my blog (new posts approx. every two years): https://mostlyindie.com/
Ryan C. Wright @ryancwright.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Autoscopia Interactive | PhD Candidate at UC Davis
matildastahl.bsky.social @matildastahl.bsky.social University Lecturer in Education at Åbo Akademi University, also affiliated with the Game Research Lab, Tampere University.
The banner is for the SURVIVE-project (by Ludwig Sandbacka) where we explore intersections between survival games and survivalism.
M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red marxist art & video game critic
Artribune, Il manifesto
matteolupetti@upandpunch.red
they/them
My book UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene is out!
https://nuovesido.it/store/collezione-tebe/udo-guida-ai-videogiochi-nellantropocene/
Susanne Binder @susannebinder.bsky.social Aficionada of architecture, art, books, cake, coffee, dance, games, linguistics, music, saxophones, science, shoes, typewriters, zeitgeist.
Manager of iGGi - Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence @ Queen Mary Uni of London
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/
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social Stephanie Sterling. Writer for Vampire Survivors, Date Everything, & Quantum Witch. Transfem She/Them Polyantagonist. Also a pro wrestler. Currently accepting writing gigs for cool games by cool people.
Lu Gossian @lugossian.bsky.social Game dev & miscellaneous creative
PhD: Seriously casual games
https://lugossian.com/
Scott Rettberg @srettberg.bsky.social Director of the Center for Digital Narrative, leader of the Extending Digital Narrative project, professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. Author of electronic literature and other curious things.
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
OpenAlternative @openalternative.co Discover open source alternatives to popular software. Curated by @kulpinski.dev
Join 8k+ subscribers → openalternative.co
Ida Jahr @idajahr.bsky.social Associate professor of English (lit and cult) at University of Inland Norway. Head of MA in Digital Communication and Culture. Deputy director of MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Dooley @dooleymurphy.bsky.social Virtual experience designer and researcher. Tinkerer, artist, cyclist, knave, fool.
https://dooleymurphy.com/
Sian Tomkinson @siantomkinson.bsky.social Media/Communication scholar specialising in games, gender, and misogyny. I like philosophy (especially D&G) and esotericism. 少し日本語を話せます。https://linktr.ee/siantomkinson
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social Fagkåt på folk og fortellinger & postdoc at AI STORIES, Center for Digital Narrative, UiB.
Insta: @folkogfortellinger.
Trondheim MDG 💚
Hun/henne.
Profilbilde: Eivind Senneset / UiB
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social Lecturer - Games and Interactivity @Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Mark, the Oni @markmaletska.bsky.social Hi, I’m Mark Maletska (he/him), game studies scholar working in queer/trans game studies!
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social 📖Research: planetary boundaries, apples, orchards, sustainable food systems
🌍Interests: European heatwaves, deep ecology, biodiversity loss, GCR and ER, ecological economics
🚶♂️Outside: Scandinavia, archipelagos, glaciers
🍰Food: lussekatter, semla, tosca
nico @nicodelort.bsky.social illustration - xfiles
https://shop.nicolasdelort.com/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Tune & Fairweather @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social Irish publisher of fine books. 💙📚
Projects: You Died, Soul Arts, Abyssal Archive, Blood Echoes, Demonic Archive, Grace Given, Grant Us Eyes, Process, Gods & Monsters, Lore Bound, Scholar's Codex and more.
https://tuneandfairweather.com/pages/portfolio
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.
Aphrodite Andreou @aphrodite-a.bsky.social Coordinator of EU Projects & Cultural Assets at Heritage Malta - Technology and Experience Development Unit
visual artist / designing playful experiences for museums / researching interspecies interactions / ACI / (and some other stuff)
Zoheb AKA Klow @zohebmashiur.bsky.social Academic. TTRPG designer. Actual Plays.
'Midnight in a Perfect World' now out at Plus One Exp!
Researcher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Game design: https://klowspeaking.itch.io/
Actual Play: https://desperateattune.podbean.com/
Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social Senior Lecturer English and American Lit @ Winchester Uni: Lit & Film, utopia/dystopia, apocalypse, terror. Co-host Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast. D&D. Dog pics. Views own. He/Him
Markus Elvig @vongnome.bsky.social They/them. PhD Student, cooking enjoyer, haunted by affordance theory and generally interested in the history of game studies, queer theory and other chthonic topics.
Universitetet i Bergen @unibergen.bsky.social 
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.
Thomas Spies @digital-stranger.bsky.social Critical Game Studies (Ph.D.) | Co-Editor of 'Spiel*Kritik: Kritische Perspektiven auf Videospiele im Kapitalismus' | Organizer of 'Let's Play Critical' | Part of the media artist formation K.o.Z. | Virtual Photography
https://thomspies.net/
Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence (SFF). We focus on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts in humanities-driven research.
UiB, Bergen, Norway.
Victor Breum (REVIEW MIND DIVER) @breum.bsky.social Game director of Mind Diver: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/Mind_Diver/
And other stuff: https://www.victorbreum.com/
Usva Friman @usvaf.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow & Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Tampere University (Finland). She/her or they/them.
Akatemiatutkija ja pelitutkimuksen apulaisprofessori Tampereen yliopistossa.
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
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social Reader, writer, translator, professional nerd, game scholar, larper, feminist.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, Stalker RPG, Astraterra, Chernobyl Mon Amour
Photo by Chiara Cappiello.
doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social the statues are bleeding green
iggi phd student @ uni of york
researching game design & player creativity
sound toys & playful tools
[website] fuzul.bearblog.dev
[games & zines] fuzul.itch.io
Carolin Puckhaber @caroleinx.bsky.social She/Her
Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie, Irgendwas mit (Nicht-)Religion, Gaming & Populärkultur | Gründungsmitglied der @ludobande.bsky.social
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
Julián Gutiérrez Carrera @gutierrezcarrera.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at Tampere University's Game Research lab, writing on representations of suicide in computer games.
CheeseTalk🧀 Uchan @cheesetalk.bsky.social Yuqian (Uchan) Sun | AI research artist (PhDing) | Artistic AI chatbot dev since 2018
Working on story-crafting #indiegame “1001 Nights”
Steam demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782660/1001_Nights_Demo/
Personal website: https://fakecheese.me
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social Artist
Integrated Researcher, University of Porto
i2ADS/Faculty of Fine Arts+Engineering
Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude
PhD in Digital Design, ITU, Copenhagen
Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024
https://rosemary-lee.com
Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
AtticusTheMythologist @attythemythologist.bsky.social Mythologist | Video Essayist | Charity Streamer |He/Him|
I've been described as "What if Mr. Rogers swore like Markiplier"
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/atticusthemythologist/
Mythology YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ArcanumBetwixt
pfp by YungKhan
De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
@amayer.bsky.social @amayer.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media
Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University
Valentina Romanzi @tinanovels.bsky.social American, utopian, animal, video game & pop studies. EnvHum @UniTorino. Author of American Nightmares https://bit.ly/3euW4Ho. Editor at @Iperstoria. She/her
Lankoski @lankoski.bsky.social Professor, D.Arts. Game researcher.
PAIDIA - Zeitschrift für Computerspielforschung @paidia.bsky.social www.paidia.de
PAIDIA ist ein medien-kulturwissenschaftliches eJournal für (Computer-)Spielforschung [de/en] und ein wichtiges Publikationsorgan für die Game Studies im DACH-Raum.
Emile Parchliniak @emilparchy.bsky.social Medievalism in Fantasy RPGs | Gacha Games | Sorbonne Paris Nord
Francis Lavigne @francislavigne.bsky.social Responsable du laboratoire universitaire de documentation et d'observation vidéoludiques (LUDOV) à l'Université de Montréal. En train d'écrire une thèse sur l'histoire des formes de la critique de jeu vidéo, à travers la série de jeux Castlevania.
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Hamish @peregrinekiwi.bsky.social Game Designer. Classicist, (Ancient) Historian, Historical Games Studier. Pākehā. He/him/his.
@TheSprawl_RPG, @ardensludere, @peregrinekiwi@dice.camp & Twitter.
Mer Grazzini 🔜✈️🇬🇧 Develop:Brighton @mergrazzini.bsky.social 🎮🖌️Game designer and artist
👑Currently working at Storyteller
✒️I write about games at Press Over News
🐟Co-founder of Matajuegos Co-op
She/her | Argentina | Hype elemental
https://mergrazzini.itch.io/
Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
🦢=🦖 She/her
Tomasz Z. Majkowski @tzmajkowski.bsky.social Game researcher from Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social Professor/Researcher at UFPEL/UFRGS. MIDIARS Lab director.
Also @raquelrecuero@aoir.social
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/midiars/
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/raquelrecuero/about-me/
Olli Sotamaa @sotamaa.bsky.social proper grumpy professor // creative labour scholar // football enthusiast // middle-aged soulboy // tampere män
✨ Kaelan ✨ @kaelandm.bsky.social Game & Narrative Designer.
Lead narrative designer & game writer for Capy Castaway https://store.steampowered.com/app/2890240/Capy_Castaway/
PhD Candidate at UChicago researching weird worldbuilding.
Lead organizer, QGCon.
they/he
WHAT THE GAMES? @whatthegames.bsky.social We are Triband, makers of silly games
✋🏼 WHAT THE CLASH?- https://apple.co/what-the-clash
🚗 WHAT THE CAR?- https://apple.co/what-the-car
⛳️ WHAT THE GOLF?- https://apple.co/what-the-golf
⚾ WHAT THE BAT?- http://whatthebat.com
More?? : linktr.ee/triband
@runekristian.bsky.social @runekristian.bsky.social 
Anders S. Løvlie @anderslovlie.bsky.social Associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Research: Human-Computer Interaction, design, AI, art, museum experience design and more. I mostly post in English, occasionally in Norwegian or Danish. He/him.
Politics: Member of @voltdanmark.org
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)
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
IT-Universitetet i København @itu.dk IT-Universitetet i København er Danmarks førende universitet med fokus på den digitale verden.
Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
Bettina Bódi🌿🎮 @bettibo.bsky.social 📚 Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communication - University of Birmingham, UK
✨ Working on video games | agency | cosiness | nature
🖊️ Author of Videogames and Agency (Routledge 2023) - https://tinyurl.com/3mbr8ytu
🌐 https://cozymedia.net/
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social 15+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Prev. Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher. Game studies, political economy, platforms, cultural memory, critical race theory, production studies, postcolonialism
Sébastien Savard @savord.bsky.social Professeur invité en design de jeux - UQAT MTL
Nele Van de Mosselaer @nelevdm.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Tilburg University • working on (interactive) fiction, imagination, and virtual reality