Trans Gamer Prof. 🏳️⚧️ @transgamer.prof Phoebe Toups Dugas (she/her)
(An actual) professor researching inclusivity in game design and game history. Romhacker, ancient D&D nerd, and metalhead.
https://transgamer.prof
Alt: @snapdragoness.itch.io
Opinions are my own.
Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social #academicsky HCI: boardgames & hybrids, interaction, evaluation, distanced play. Play. IGA Jury. OMG. Spiel. Shoes. Handbags. Random rants. This is all me, not work official. Dr. She. 
THE KRAKEN @the-kraken.bsky.social THE KRAKEN is a baroque gathering of international gamers and game creators to play, develop and test fine quality games. Weirdly successful at being a once in a life time event every time.
Vilos - Looking for A Life @vilospi.bsky.social Marketing Product Specialist by day, informed gamer/writer/ sometimes podcaster/visual storyteller by night. Lover of Xenoblade, Metroidvanias, & horror/sci-fi
Support me sharing my life story at https://ko-fi.com/vilos
Co-founder @ partyinvite.games
Patches34 @patches34.bsky.social Game Developer and College Professor
https://www.eric-baker.net/
https://www.rit.edu/directory/eabigm-eric-baker
Nick Laiacona @nicklaiacona.bsky.social Developer of open source software for the humanities. Maker of FairCopy, EditionCrafter, and Juxta. Partner at Performant Software Solutions LLC.
Richard Heppner 🤷🏼♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Posts too infrequently to have a brand. • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. • see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵 • he/him
Sara Madison @saracodes.bsky.social Webdev slowly turning into a gamedev
Bessie The Traveling Cow @bessiethecow.bsky.social I'm a stuffed cow that has been traveling the globe since 1999. I will share one new adventure every day. My adventures are all legit: no AI or photoshop. Follow along!
DrKR @slat54.bsky.social Retired absent minded professor.
Darwin award semifinalist.
Ancora imparo.
Note: I don't respond to DMs.
INIT HELLO @init-hello.org You have a diskette, and you want to start fresh. So you run “INIT HELLO” on your Apple II and you get a clean slate.
INIT HELLO, V2 is coming to the System Source Computer Museum north of Baltimore, Maryland, June 19–21, 2026.
Michael Calleia @calleia.bsky.social Designer and maker of things, dad, husband, researcher, gamer, film photographer.
Ken Holstein @kenholstein.bsky.social HCI Prof at CMU HCII: thecoalalab.com
Research on:
- technologies to augment human thinking and learning
- participatory & responsible AI
- human-AI interaction
Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social Writer, walker, software archaeologist. Back in the day: Editor of Acorn User, Editor of h2g2.
I love analysing old code, and my aim is to create the best code disassemblies you have ever seen.
Purveyor of Elite/Lander/Revs hacks.
www.markmoxon.com
Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
Georgetown University Wargaming Society @guws.bsky.social The Georgetown University Wargaming Society (GUWS) provides a venue for current and aspiring wargamers to learn more about wargaming and build their professional networks. 🔗 www.guwargaming.org
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Christopher Allbritton @christopherallbritton.com Founder of Back-to-Iraq.com, OG crowdfunded war correspondent, writer, editor, strategist.
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/callbritton/
• https://christopherallbritton.com
Susan Haarman @suzphdm.bsky.social Queer Nerd PhD of Educational Philosophy. Perma (& often paid) GM. Improviser. The games we play & the stories we tell will save us & democracy. TTRPGs are what the world needs.
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Felix A. Epp @handle.invalid Postdoctoral Researcher in Design, HCI, Futures and Social Computing at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University
Current: role of values and ideologies in the design of technologies.
Active at the Research Professionals Union
https://felix.science
Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social 🎲 Board Game Designer
📚 Historical Games
Creative Director at Leder Games
Come talk history, games, and culture with me:
YouTube.com/beyondsolitaire
Kurt Luther @kurtluther.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. CSCW 2026 will be in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 10–14, 2026: https://cscw.acm.org/2026/.
Follow our community using our Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/SPumuMT
Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Former director of HCIL. Steering Committee Chair-Elect for CSCW. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com
Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
Steve Jackson Games @sjgames.com Since 1980, Steve Jackson Games has been creating tabletop classics like GURPS, Car Wars, Munchkin, and more. Where are we headed next? Stay tuned. #PlaySJGames https://linktr.ee/stevejacksongames
Ben Kirman @ben.kirman.org Postdisciplinary games academic: Make/study/teach the playful, weird, wonderful and radical. (he/him)
#criticaldesign #speculativedesign #designfiction #gamedesign
Projects:
https://ben.kirman.org
University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu One of the world's top schools in information science. Offering degrees in Informatics, Library and Information Science (MLIS), Information Management (MSIM), and Museology, and doctorates in information science. Seattle, WA.
https://ischool.uw.edu/
Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social Librarian, Grappler, Diagnosed ADHD late in life, TTRPG'S
Podcast: Daydreaming about Dragons
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daydreaming-about-dragons
Blog: Githyanki Diaspora
https://githyankidiaspora.com/
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a research center. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal.
Paul Tavatgis @paultavatgis.bsky.social I can't explain myself, not just like this. I'm a complicated person, sometimes I'm nice, and sometimes I'm nasty. Naval history (BPF) Lego, Arsenal FC. Minor greek deity (salad dressing). Meanjin/Brisbane on Yuggera/Turrbal land. AI slop = block. He/Him.
Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social I study animal and environmental history of Mongolia. Ph.D. he/him.
Michelle @wmichellewho.blacksky.app Pixel thrower, avocado fan, slacker, cis she/her
Gillian Smith @codingcrafter.bsky.social Director of IMGD at WPI. Game design, generative AI, computational craft, generative design, feminist tech, mom stories. she/they
Baptiste Marescaux @hybrid-psych.bsky.social PhD. Post-Doc Researcher in Organisational Psychology. University of South-Eastern Norway.
Hybrid background (MSc OrgPsych, MA ClinPsych, some HCI and CogSciences...) and so hybrid interests.
Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social Building personalized Bluesky feeds for academics! Pin Paper Skygest, which serves posts about papers from accounts you're following: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest. By @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and @nkgarg.bsky.social
Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social Read my books: http://amzn.to/36pzbf9 Freelance editor, writer, poet, humorist. OEF veteran by way of BFE. Admin: The Aiming Circle. Opinions & jokes my own. https://linktr.ee/randysherpabrown
StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social Stop Skeletons From Fighting
The dumbest and weirdest video game show on YouTube since 2007 | 📧 stopskeletons@gmail.com
📬 PO Box 3261 Seattle WA 98114
The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
Robert Greene II @robgreeneii.bsky.social Claflin University Associate Professor of History; AAIHS President; Co-Host *Our New South* podcast; Modjeska Simkins School Lead Instructor; historian, writer, Star Trek fan
Sean Boyle @zerogframe.bsky.social Game designer, teacher, writer, artist, probably in that order.
https://www.darkbolt.com
Edward Hammond @baalhammond.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Bristol looking at ancient Carthage in games. Higher Education professional. Founder of Posthumous Punic Memes for Salty Carthaginian Teens. Views my own.
🔗 https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/edward-hammond
Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
rrdgames.com
Bad Videogames Club @badvideogamesclub.bsky.social Celebrating the worst in games since 2025.
Stay tuned comrades x
admin @emarlow.bsky.social
Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
@thirdpeculiarity.bsky.social @thirdpeculiarity.bsky.social 
Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Crip Queer Poet: c18/c19 British Literature and Culture / Disability Studies / Health Humanities / History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)
travisclau.com
💾 SIGCIS Conference @sigcisconf.bsky.social Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society of SHOT. SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge will take place virtually on Sept 25-27. See details and CFP here: https://meetings.sigcis.org/
Norbert Landsteiner @masswerk.at Mostly retro and vintage computing content, I guess.
www.masswerk.at
Jeremy Oaten @madeofoats.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Emergency management practitioner. Master of Arts in Disaster and Emergency Management. Public servant working in support of the agriculture industry of BC. Views are my own.
a libi rose @rose-alibi.interferencer.com meat muppet, somehow dr., maintenance & repair & luddism, voluntarily de-convenienced.
this is the most professional account i have.
if i block it's because your profile reads like a bot.
she/they/anything but he.
Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community @blackskyweb.xyz
Making scholarship accessible to my people.
Mitigating misogynoir through research + practice.
I do not play about Black girls.
Trap Feminist.
Non-Binary Baddie.
Exactly who I think I am.
Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social Archaeologist. Ancient Games. Syracuse Basketball. Cheese. Sneakers. Gay stuff. he/him
Matt @CW + Dungeon Delve 🚀 @oddfairpress.bsky.social TTRPG geek. Writer. Blogger. Left. LGBTQIA+ Ally. No-AI Art. Minneapolis, MN. I host a website about TTRPGs , worldbuilding, and storytelling. Check us out @ https://chaoticanwriter.com.
Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social Lawyer, veteran. Ex-baby historian, current litigator, lapsed social scientist, still playing TTRPGs. Unabashedly pro-cat because cats are awesome. Various thoughts, some well articulated in 🇺🇲/🇩🇪.
📍Chicago, IL, Vereinigte Staaten, Terra
Heather Wardle @shwardle.bsky.social Professor of Gambling Research and Policy at the University of Glasgow. Co-chair of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling. 
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
Nick Taylor @nickttaylor.bsky.social Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
James Fogarty @profjayfo.bsky.social 
William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
Jonathan Tweet @jonathantweet.bsky.social Grandmother Fish (Macmillan 2016), the first book to teach #evolution to preschoolers, plus science games for kids (www.grandmotherfish.com). Over the Edge, #TTRPG of surreal urban danger (atlas-games.com/overtheedge). D&D 3E, Ars Magica, Everway, etc.
Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social Human-Computer Interaction @ CMU | Critical Computing + STS + Queer Art | he/they | https://jtaylor.lgbt | Incoming Postdoc at the University of Michigan
Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Game Design. Sword Nerd. (Secretly a Tekken and Wrestling account) He/They/Any
Matthew Thomas Payne @ludology.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film, Television, & Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Author of Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade & Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11. Co-editor of How to Play Video Games. 
Jeff Moore @dreamsdragons.itch.io He/Him. Indy TTRPG designer who has been providing free PDF content to the table top gaming community for almost 30 years.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
@lpalen.bsky.social @lpalen.bsky.social 
Erin Robinson @erinmr.bsky.social CEO, Metadata Game Changers | Ph.D. from CU Boulder in Information Science. Nerd out about infrastructure, field stations, and metadata. https://erinrobinson.info
Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration
Phil Goyette @mrgoyette.bsky.social 🧠🌶️♾️🦋🌈
I love playing games, everything from chess (poorly) to Fortnite (poorly)
YouTube for quick reviews, how to plays, and ongoing design projects:
https://www.youtube.com/@philgoyette1982
Also mrgoyette@wargamers.social on Mastodon
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture
Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Dr. Ben Mitchell @drlibraryben.bsky.social (he/they) Scholar. Geek. Nova Scotian. 🌍 Libraries (#GLAM), medical humanities, history/public history, neurodiversity and disability studies. 🌍 Geekier at: @willow0wisp.bsky.social
Andrew Alan Johnson @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง
https://andrewalanjohnson.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming
@philipjreed.bsky.social @philipjreed.bsky.social 
Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city The Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design @citystgeorges.bsky.social, University of London conducts leading user-centred research. Home of the MSc HCID. https://hcid.city/ #HCID2025: https://hcidopenday.co.uk/
Nataliya Gorbina @nattgoo.bsky.social paddington stan account | writing books & making games
cracks (2024): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216596625
Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social Games/Game Design/Game Studies, Nutrition, Psychology, Aging, The Warren, Larpbus, Nanoworld, 200WRPGC, he/him.
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social designing services and systems. building stuff in my backyard.
independent consultant at https://october.systems. writing and other stuff at https://spencerbeacock.com.
Toronto
Krystian Majewski @krystman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Born in Warsaw. Studied design at Köln International School of Design. Indie game designer now. IGF finalist. Teaching Game Design. 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱 He/Him
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@krystman, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Dungeonbuster @dungeonbuster.bsky.social Seeking adventures from the archives of the past, one story at a time. I love taking a look at the history of RPGs, the tales they spin, and in shining a light on these from time to time in my threads. Let's explore together!
Romhack.ing @romhack.ing A platform to share hacks and translations of retro games.
Website: https://romhack.ing
Patreon: https://patreon.com/Romhackdoting
Discord: https://discord.gg/9m8AnzdTMv
Nikosmico🏴 @nikosmico.click 🏴 Anarchist
🌐 www.riotnation.click
☕ Sustain the Resistance: https://ko-fi.com/riotnation
⚡🏳️🌈 Ⓐ🩼
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Jofish @jofish.bsky.social I do human-computer interaction, mainly, and play music for fun. Well, and a lot of other stuff. But HCI is useful as a way to find me.
Daniel Rough @haggistamer.bsky.social Lecturer in Computing at University of Dundee! 💻👨🏫 Scottish. Metalhead. Cheerful Goth. Tamer of haggises. Impostor academic. A peaceful ferret. Fuelled by coffee/chocolate/whisky. ☕🍫🥃. he/him
jaylin herskovitz @jayl.in ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ PhD student @ umich researching accessibility, diy tech, AR
she/her
jayl.in
Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
Kritika @kritikaa.bsky.social HCI PhD student @UCSC
kittykaa.github.io
Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
Dr. Kate Ringland @kateringland.bsky.social Assistant Prof at University of California Santa Cruz in Computational Media. PhD. HCI & Accessibility. I study the intersection of people, play, & tech. she/they, opinions own
https://kateringland.com
Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Harvard SEAS specializing in human-computer and human-AI interaction. Also interested in visualization, digital humanities, urban design.
The One Ring RPG @the-one-ring-rpg.bsky.social Fan site for The One Ring RPG by Free League. Immerses yourself in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, exploring themes of heroism, fellowship, and the struggle against the Shadow. Journey through lands of wonder, peril, and epic adventure.
Matt T @powersoffour.bsky.social I'm an academic in Information Sciences, background in computational astrophysics. I tend to post about academic stuff, open source, politics, tabletop roleplaying games, MS-DOS and occasionally the 1975 Joe Don Baker movie "Mitchell."
Arborius @handle.invalid 🎲Board game designer🎓Grad student studying 💾 bits and bytes 🖥️⚙️Operating systems📈mathematical finance
Weekly playtesting: https://arborius.online/discord
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt