Travis Wagner (they/them) @drtlwagner.bsky.social Cyborg academic in a world of robot academics. Assistant Professor in the iSchool at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Preserving queer history and obsolete technology one VHS tape at a time.
http://travislwagner.com
Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
www.darkertimes.com
m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social | everything's coming up milhouse |
writer, editor, researcher, concept engineer, goblin
mattlloydturner.com + http://nonlinearities.substack.com
Mark Heisten @theliterarymark.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication at Marist University. I study brand activism and ethical leadership in advertising, marketing, and public relations.
Bobby™ @schwbby.bsky.social 🕹️ Spent 10 years as game design and media professor; now making games for novel hardware
🎢 Theme park scholar
📘 Co-author of Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers
👑 CLT resident
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social playtestmaterial.org
playtest_material on instagram
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Powell's Books @powells.bsky.social The legendary independent bookstore.
Portland, OR | est. 1971
Ajay Singh Chaudhary @materialistjew.bsky.social Executive Director, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Tweets are my own and do not represent positions of BISR.
my big climate book: https://t.ly/5_b_B
A.J.A. Woods @ajawoods.bsky.social they/them. once described as a "prominent Marxist loonbag."
Book: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3239-the-cultural-marxism-conspiracy
Website: https://ajawoods.wordpress.com/
Trot psycho: @anticapresistance.bsky.social
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
perfect angel @shiningangelx.bsky.social cockless spanielgirl
radfem
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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social Author of the DESIGNERS & DRAGONS series of RPG histories, including THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF: A SYSTEM HISTORY OF TRAVELLER. Science-fiction, fantasy, comic, and RPG fan. Currently working on Traveller and Call of Cthulhu history projects.
Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social Historian of science and technology | Professor @ University of Toronto | Director @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social | New book - The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self @mitpress.bsky.social
Jaroslav Švelch @electroslav.bsky.social game scholar and historian at Charles University
vocalist and lyricist at Rest in Haste
svelch.com
Retro Game Books 📚 @retrogamebooks.com Indie retro gaming book publisher. Video Game Maps series, Pixel Art Metroid, History of Rygar, + more.
Store: https://retrogamebooks.com
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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social Artist, Researcher & Lecturer | Co-Director, Creative Arts Research Centre, DkIT | WG1 Lead, Grassroots of Digital Europe (COST) | Co-President, History of Games International Conference (@historyofgames.bsky.social) - kierannolan.com
Logan Davis @doing-fine-thanks.bsky.social Programmer, potter, and object maker.
Current PhD student at RPI studying games.
Christina Couch @ohyeahitscouch.bsky.social Science journalist, Associate Director of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social, kids book author. Views shared here are my own.
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.
Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com Co-founder of @aftermath.site. 📍Canberra, Australia. DMs open. Email: lukeATaftermathDOTsite
www.aftermath.site
https://www.lukeplunkett.com/
33 1/3 Books @3313books.bsky.social Short books about albums. 📚 🎶 Published by Bloomsbury.
www.bloomsbury.com/33-13-hub
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Independent scholarly publisher of distinguished books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Message to join our Berghahn author & editor starter pack!
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com Executive Editor, Reviews @ PCMag. Former editor-in-chief of ExtremeTech. Mix engineer. Author of vintage computing and gaming books: https://amzn.to/3HN4Onl Homepage: https://www.jamielendino.com/
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Gabe Durham @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com Writer, editor, publisher behind @bossfightbooks.com, a series of nonfiction, documentary-style books about video games. Author of MAJORA'S MASK, BIBLE ADVENTURES, and FUN CAMP.
Justin Kehoe @justinkehoe.bsky.social acquisitions editor at the MIT Press
musician at Constellation Myths
raised in Vermont, resides in Boston
he/him
Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social Senior Editor at the Univ Press of Colorado (Utah State UP & U of Alaska Press) acquiring books in composition & rhetoric, folklore, & polar studies. Formerly at OUP (music), Palgrave (politics) & Bloomsbury (33 1/3). Based in Brooklyn. Opinions my own.
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 🍉
Theodore Kim @theodore-kim.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, American Studies, and
Ethnicity, Race & Migration @ Yale
(Also two Oscars)
https://www.tkim.graphics
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social UC Berkeley - InterpretAI
Artificial Humanities - First Encounters with AI
www.ninabegus.com
Warp Door @warpdoor.com 🚪 An observatory in the middle of nowhere 🚪
📧 warpdoor@gmail.com
pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social i lost it at the movies
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
University of Missouri Press @umissouripress.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the University of Missouri Press.
Visit our Facebook: http://bit.ly/3VoCw8p We publish important scholarly books in the areas of U.S. History, Military History, Sports History, Indigenous Studies, African American History.
Emma Kostopolus @glassethound.bsky.social Long time Uatu the Watcher, first time Uatu the Caller.
Art, Words, and Cats. All opinions are an inescapable palimpsest of everyone and everything I have ever encountered.
Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at UvA. Curator of Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information https://textaural.com/keywords/. I study Wikipedia, utopian computation, design and consensus politics, often all at once.
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Deliberate designer & empirical philosopher of playful & engaging things. Professor, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College. Editor-in-Chief, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
@psssssssss.bsky.social @psssssssss.bsky.social 
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
Paul Scheer @paulscheer.com Black Monday|The League|Human Giant| NTSF:SD:SUV::
“Joyful Recollections of Trauma” is a NYT Bestseller & 2024 Vulture Book of the Year
Watch Dark Web on Yt
Listen to How Did This Get Made & Unspooled
https://linktr.ee/PAULSCHEER
Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social “Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out on Flatiron.
Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social 🇭🇹 He/him. Senior Writer, @brasslionent on Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver. Video games. Comic books. Blackness. Past: @Kotaku, @io9, #RiseOfTheBlackPanther, @Marvel #MilesMoralesPS5. Next: Batman/Static: Beyond from @DCComics EvanNarcisse.com
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
Jim Brown @jamesjbrownjr.bsky.social English Professor at Rutgers-Camden
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Greg Costikyan @costik.bsky.social 
Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social CathyDavidson.com. #IntelligentArtifice blog. Coming Fall 2026, w Jody Greene, "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times." Cofounder, HASTAC.org. Opinions and typos my own. Lover of oceans. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
Jenny Sundén @jenmadelene.bsky.social Professor of Gender Studies at Södertörn University and Uppsala University. Researcher of digital sexual cultures, queer stuff, audio porn and pleasure.
Susanna Paasonen @susannapaasonen.bsky.social Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku with random interests https://susannapaasonen.org/
Dave Ryman @d-ryman.bsky.social Exhibits Marketing Manager @The MIT Press
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Graham St John @gmantic.bsky.social Cultural anthropologist, historian, vibeologist, gnomicologist, research fellow, and author. New book: Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, Oct 7, 2025)
Nick Lindsay @bluenoser2.bsky.social 
Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com Queer Entertainer and Podcaster
Streaming only the coolest games
@twloha.bsky.social Streamer Ambassador
Host of @whatchadoingpod.bsky.social podcast
🔗 https://mattcaulder.carrd.co/
James A. Hodges @jameshodges.net human scholar with phd (digital archives) • www.jameshodges.net
zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social At @picopicocafe.bsky.social Making fantasy consoles and trying to make my way back to userland. #pico8 #voxatron #picotron
🦣 mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@zep
Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org Since 01996: Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
gbilder @gbilder.com Louche Cannon. Identifier dweeb. Open scholarly infrastructure pontificator. Grew up in 🇵🇷 . Fled 🇺🇸 & 🇬🇧. Happy resident of 🇫🇷 in 🇪🇺. Dog & cat person. But mostly dogs.
https://gbilder.com
Judy Malloy @judymalloy.bsky.social poet/writer electronic literature
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Daniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social Esolangs are Systems Art
SITE: https://danieltemkin.com
BLOG: https://esoteric.codes
BOOK: Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs (2025, MIT Press)
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social I made GameHistory.org and you can too 
TVs Alex Ptak @tvsalexptak.bsky.social Famous Host of Quorators Podcast and Personal Trainer
AwesomeLiesBlog @awesomeliesblog.bsky.social Author of The Forging of Worlds, a forthcoming history of Warhammer from the MIT Press
awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, queer stuff, literature, and art.
Website: https://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/
Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
Ergin Bulut @bltergin.bsky.social Teaching at Goldsmiths
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social Nonfiction book editor across the sciences
DonE @optional.bsky.social let me fish out my sociologist card from my old wallet, I think it said it was good for life
co-managing ed @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social
previous at Unwinnable, Uppercut Crit, Bullet Points Monthly, Wireframe, Polygon, Symbolic Interaction & more
Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social Leaked photo of heaven
She/her NYC
https://linktr.ee/kathbarbadoro
Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social Skateboarding, Tech-criticism, Blockchain colonialism and platform geopolitics, film, LFC.
The ENNIE Awards @ennie-awards.bsky.social Official account for the ENNIES! Annual fan-based celebration of excellence in tabletop roleplaying gaming.
Chaim Gingold @chaimg.bsky.social Text box, pixels, colors, some words, countless abstractions.
Social media averse designer, papa, and author of Building SimCity.
https://chaim.io
Kyle Orland @kyleor.land Senior Gaming Editor, Ars Technica / The guy who LITERALLY wrote the book on Minesweeper -- https://bossfightbooks.com/products/minesweeper-by-kyle-orland
Signal: kyleorl.31
whoopsie daisy YOO hoo @strida.bsky.social editor at bullet points. horror writer in MEGADAMAGE, the new lesbian pulp, BOMB. live at the death factory. worked on roman sands & paratopic overdub w arbitrary metric.
writing:
astridannerose.gumroad.com/
astridannerose.itch.io/
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
Dan Gardner @dangphd.bsky.social Lecturer at Robert Gordon Uni. I study inequitable interactions, interfaces, and infrastructures, often through co-design. "Boring Things" scholar. My book, Thresholds of Digital Gameplay, open access @ MIT Press. See more at my https://dang.page
Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social Lever Press is a collaborative #openaccess scholarly publisher driven by the values, ambitions, and imagination of the top liberal arts colleges.
leverpress.org
Paul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University 
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Translated Hugo Initiative @translatedhugo.bsky.social A fan project to propose a Hugo for Translated Speculative Fiction, and to share resources and excitement about global SF.
https://translatedhugo.org/
Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social A publisher of award-winning horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Find us at www.wordhorde.com
Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social The scholarly arm of Bloomsbury Books.
Posting news on what we're publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.📚
London | New York | Sydney | New Delhi
Bloomsbury Academic starter pack: https://bit.ly/46qkzOf
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social gloringalbright.com
Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2026).
Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
Get free 3d printed community protection whistles here: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com 2 x Eisner and Bram Stoker-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Faculty at NYU. Noted Monster Scholar. Shigeru Mizuki stan. Sabre fencer. Seattle boy. Extra fancy
OVERWATCH-MIZUKI: FACING DEMONS, KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN
www.zackdavisson.com