Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026.
Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com 🧑💻 freelance culture writer, copy editor
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Firefox @firefox.com The only major non-profit backed, people-first browser ️🔥
Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social reader, critic, fan, he/him
Science Fiction Foundation @sffoundation.bsky.social Founded by George Hay in 1971, the SFF promotes the study and understanding of science fiction, both in the UK and overseas. Home to the journal Foundation and the SFF Library at Liverpool. Become a member at www.sf-foundation.org and support our work!
Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social We are United Videogame Workers, an industry-wide union working to build a game industry that works for us. ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾 Affiliated with CWA and CODE-CWA.
JOIN US: https://uvw-cwa.org/membership
Aftermath @aftermath.site Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture.
www.aftermath.site
Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social Co-founder and reporter @aftermath.site. Beats: labor, livestreaming. My book about Twitch, Stream Big, is available now. Formerly: The Washington Post. Send tips to nathan@aftermath.site or nathangrayson.666 on Signal
Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org Cinephilia & Beyond is an online treasure trove for film lovers and filmmakers, dedicated to celebrating and preserving the art of cinema: https://cinephiliabeyond.org/
New Blood Interactive @newblood.games Your favorite game developer's favorite game developers.
DUSK, AMID EVIL, ULTRAKILL, Gloomwood, Fallen Aces, Blood West, SGS, FAITH and TENEBRIS SOMNIA 🩸
http://Waste.Money http://WeHate.money
Daniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs (2025, MIT Press)
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social https://youtu.be/CmngeJ5qjX4
Taylor Hardwick @darthtayrah.bsky.social Postdoc @RMIT on gender, games and kids’ play cultures 👾
Freeplay board🤘DiGRAA board ⭐️ silly little guy 🤠 she/her 🌿
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
Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social Poet, biographer, critic—bear of very little brain, troubled by long words. Rudimentary bass player. Pre-raphaelite wannabe. Aesthete, always.
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - IAFA @iafa.bsky.social The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) is a scholarly organization devoted to the study of the fantastic (broadly defined) as it appears in literature, film, and the other arts.
Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social English professor in Fukuoka, Japan; research focus on utopias in literature with forays into science fiction, ecocriticism, & monster theory. Immigrant, LGBTQIA+(bi).
https://dystopianflower.leaflet.pub/
https://linkat.blue/azzageddi.myatproto.social
Gavin Miller @drgavinmiller.bsky.social Academic in medical humanities, science fiction, history of psy disciplines, and UFOs. English Literature, University of Glasgow. Blog www.ufos.ac.uk. Academic profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/gavinmiller/
SJ Lauro @zombiescholar.bsky.social I got off Twitter before it was cool.
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
https://thepolyphony.org/
AM_Marini @annamartamarini.bsky.social Humboldt Research Fellow at JFKI FU Berlin | CDA&visual media | heritage/borderlands, ethnoracial violence, exclusionary/national identities | horror/gothic mediascapes, ocular uncanny and dental angst | annamartamarini.com
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.
Christine Gundermann @cgpublichistory.bsky.social Prof. für Public History an der Universität zu Köln/ Sprecherin der AG PublicHistory im VHD/ KGD Arbeitsgruppe Historische Lernorte/ privat
Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social it’s me
channel: youtube.com/@any_austin
merch: merch.unremarkableandodd.com
The New Republic @newrepublic.com Ideas. Influence. Impact.
TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.
Follow us: https://profile.google.com/@newrepublic
Joy Sanchez-Taylor @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social Scholar of SFF Literature. Author of Diverse Futures (OSU, 2021) and Dispelling Fantasies (OSU, 2025). Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215906.html
Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
Hanna Wirman @hwirman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Games and Play Design, Center for Digital Play &
Head of Study Programme of MSc in Games, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. José Zagal @jzagal.bsky.social Game scholar, professor, & director of Interactive Games and Media (IGM) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Author: Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy
https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/jose-p-zagal-23078/
https://www.pillowfort.social/jpzagal Comics
Piotr Gnyp @tipheret.bsky.social 🎮 PR & bizdev in #gamedev | Keeping classics alive, shaping what’s next
🛸 Sci-fi, transhumanism & vampire aficionado
🐾 Two cats, many ideas, and a world to explore
Krzysztof Rowiński @rowinski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Polish Studies @tcdsllcs | PhD CompLit
@UMass_LLC | Book project on non-redemptive failure | Translator Polish/English | he/him/on
Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social #firstgen 📍Braunschweig / Cologne
PhD on the #fantastic dawn of #affinity 💫 #belonging 🌈 #eco 🌿 #speculativefiction 🛸
https://tinyurl.com/adwalder
she/her
investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social Investigating video games, board games and other types of play in the context of their history, production and socio-cultural value 👾
🌐 http://investigate.games
✉️ investigate.games@yorksj.ac.uk
📍 York St John University, UK
Justyna Deszcz Tryhubczak @justynadeszcz.bsky.social Children’s literature and culture scholar, Institute of English Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Tomasz Z. Majkowski @tzmajkowski.bsky.social Game researcher from Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Graeme Macdonald @gmacdonald.bsky.social Literature Energy Environment Climate stuff @University of Warwick. Glasgow Dweller. Yes, they are quite far apart.- T Paris Review @theparisreivew.bsky.social We don't just review Paris
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com Astrophysicist
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Lance Olsen @lance-olsen.bsky.social More than 30 books of and about innovative writing practices, most recently the novels Absolute Away (Dzanc, 2024) and Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie (FC2, 2023): www.lanceolsen.com
Furtherfield @furtherfield.bsky.social London’s longest-running (de)centre for art and tech
#CultureStake #peoplesparkplinth #furtherfield
Andrea Gibbons @argibbons.bsky.social From the desert to the green hills of Wales, working to make the world better, these days through growing food and transforming food systems. Also into noir and SF, ducks and lucha.
David Shipko @dshipko.bsky.social PhD in English from Johns Hopkins University. Marxist science fiction writer and scholar.
Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive.
https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
Andrew M Butler @amb42.bsky.social Sf, film, art, real ale, shiny trousers
LYU Guangzhao @lyuguangzhao.bsky.social Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literature at Fudan University, Author of The Boom & The Boom (2024), PhD at UCL, “Support a New Scholar” at SFRA
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
Fabio Fernandes @fabiofernandes.bsky.social Writer, translator, editor.
Jornalista, pesquisador, professor.
Criador do Observatório do Futuro (PUC-SP).
Esquerdopata, surrealista, budista.
Autista nível 1 de suporte.
Posts in English e em Português.
https://fabiofernandeswriter.com/
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social Science Fiction, Empire, Japan
Sarah Lohmann @sarahlohmann.bsky.social Academic working on science fiction, utopian studies, climate fiction and the Gothic. German/American/British, based in Tübingen, Germany and soon Zurich, Switzerland. Into cats, plants, choir, yoga, trail running and socialism. 🌹🌱
Amy C. Chambers 🧬🎬🍿 @amycchambers.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #SciEnt #SciComm #WomenMakeSF #WomenMakeSFPod
Women Make Science Fiction Project:
https://bsky.app/profile/womenmakesf.bsky.social
she/her/Dr | https://linktr.ee/amycchambers
Science Fiction Research Association Review @sfrareview.bsky.social Reviews, Articles, and Updates from the SFRA since 1971
https://sfrareview.org/
Posts by @cephalopoda.bsky.social
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies / senior acquiring editor @leverpress.bsky.social / associate editor of sf @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social / read more: seanguynes.com
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social Book nerd interested in utopia/dystopia, SF & modernism. Senior Lecturer in English Lit. Currently thinking about deserts (& usually also dessert) ✡️🌈He/him
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the official journal of @bacls.bsky.social. The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. Published by @openlibhums.org
Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series. Kadrey also plays music with the band A Demon in Fun City. he/him
20th Century Flicks @20thcflicks.bsky.social Your friendly local video store. We have over 20,000 films and 2 small cinemas. Find us on Christmas Steps, Bristol!
www.20thcenturyflicks.co.uk
Ayesha Khan - Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* @everyscififilm.bsky.social The award winning Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* #podcast looks back at more than a century of films, beginning in 1902 and working towards the future. Antifascists welcome.
*Almost.
www.everyscififilm.com
https://www.patreon.com/everyscififilm
Dr Emrah Atasoy @atasoyemrah.bsky.social IASH Research Fellow and EFI Affiliate at the University of Edinburgh. Associate Fellow at the Uni of Warwick. Assoc Prof of Anglophone Literature and Culture. Former researcher at Harvard, Oxford, and Penn State Universities. RTs/likes not endorsements.
Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social Jacobin offers socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Support our work and subscribe to our print magazine!
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social Professor of Film, Literature and Poor Life Choices. Full-time duck chaperone. Part-time author of things about films and books.
Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social Head of Collections and Principal Curator at The Science Museum, London | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine | https://linktr.ee/glynmorgan
Eu. Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects @efgamp.bsky.social Founded 2012 EFGAMP (European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects) represents more than 20 cultural heritage institutions and other organisations collecting and preserving digital games heritage
> www.efgamp.eu
Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social UCLA Associate Professor, PhD Researcher of brains 🧠 (development, stem cells, neuroinflammation, autism, sensory processing, brain injury & repair)
Teacher of Neuroanatomy, Neurophilosophy (consciousness, cognitive science), & Stem Cell Biology
Ben Robertson @benrobertson.bsky.social
Conrad Scott @conradscott.bsky.social I think / write about the future, the environment, literature, and culture. Academics, poetry, prose.
DEVONtechnologies @devontechnologies.bsky.social The makers of DEVONthink and DEVONagent, apps that tame the information flood. We all are Mac users by heart and are writing on the Mac and for macOS and iOS.
Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
My book, Contemporary SF and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, is available here: https://tinyurl.com/4p55avcy
Dr. Ryan Straight @ryanstraight.com Honors/Asst Prof @ CAST #UArizona | #Posthuman #Cybersecurity Education | Director: @mavrxlab | content mine alone | repost ≠ endorsement | #highered #cyberops #ethics #rstats #quartopub #tattoos #edtech #Tucson | he/him
Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, Lightspeed, & more! 🏳️🌈🇨🇾
www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social essayist, critic, journalist, editor
author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk
words: Unwinnable, VGC, Polygon, GR+, RPS, PLAY, EDGE, Into The Spine, Mothership, Stop Caring, Deleted Saves, Skybox
https://ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/
she/her
Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social Digital Editor
PhD in Medieval lit📚
Columnist @ Unwinnable Magazine 💻
Books Editor @ Exploits
Words @ Polygon, Post45, Digital Trends, Edge, etc.✏️
https://emily-price.neocities.org
inquiries: eaprice.work@gmail.com
فاروق @faroukk.bsky.social I'm Farouk and I tend to write a lot.
Also gamedev @ pugonline.bsky.social
Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social Making trailers. Making comics. She/her
Comic: https://iteatsplanets.com/
Trailer Portfolio & Contact: https://sammgreer.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sammgreer
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/samanthamackgreer
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SamMGreer
Ryan Stevens @ryanstevens.bsky.social Playwright, Director, Freelancer // 1/2 of Nation of Animation // He/They
https://www.ryangstevens.com/
Dea Ratna @dearatna.bsky.social Sometimes writer, sometimes artist, sometimes photographer, always storyteller.
Baha Tan Oral @bahatan.bsky.social Game Studies - Researcher
Cinematic & Game Designer
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3707150/
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3668110/
Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3866230/
Website: https://www.bahatanoral.com
ProfNoctis @profnoctis.bsky.social I teach and play video games. I do both at the University of Alabama. | YOUTUBE | TWITCH | PROFESSOR
www.profnoctis.com
Business Inquiries: wade@profnoctis.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/profnoctis
@tymonique.bsky.social @tymonique.bsky.social
Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com PhD student at Yale University. Studying Japanese video games in the EALL department. イェール大学博士課程、デジタルゲーム研究。🏳️🌈 lillianmcintyre.com
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth