Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Game Studies at ICCIT, U Toronto Mississauga. Researches games, systems, AI/ML, and digital media. www.samuelpizelo.com
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing you the best of small press tabletop roleplaying and storytelling games since 2004.
https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/
Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Playable and Participatory Media in Creative Technologies and Performance, Play & Design:Games @ UCSC. Award winning Game Designer/Artist. Afrofuturist. Opinions are my own.
jonayakemper.com
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social Applied Data Science Librarian+Multilingual Digital Humanist+Computational Community Building+++
Takes classes for fun. Gushes about cool papers. Views my own.
RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social A podcast that digs deep into analog role-playing games and their cultures. Coming in Fall 2026!
Part of Ludology podcast group.
Hosted by @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @czamboni.bsky.social
Logo by @feralcharlie.bsky.social
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Tabletop Game Designers Association @ttgda.bsky.social Official account of the Tabletop Game Designers Association. More information at ttgda.org
NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form.
https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter
School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study Experimental school supporting study in art, code, hardware + critical theory. A place for unlearning and learning.
✎⋆ Apps open for Fall 2026 ↓↓
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Dr. Kurtis Hanlon @kurtishanlon.bsky.social An assistant professor in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Palacký University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Former lecturer at Yale, UBC. Designated departmental baker (he/him)
TTRPG Cataloging Project - Research Group @ttrpgcataloging.bsky.social MLIS Capstone Project sponsored by the University of Washington GAMER group. Building a better way to catalog and search TTRPGs
Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social TTRPGs | tabletop games | languages | teaching | travel | nature.
Faculty in Italian and Ed Studies at Wesleyan University.
Educator | player | GM | designer | editor | translator.
Co-host of @rpgroots.bsky.social
https://czamboni.carrd.co/
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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories // www.romchip.org
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
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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
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Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social Anyone who ever had a heart, they wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who every played a part, they wouldn't turn around and hate it.
Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Gamer. Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. Scholar of literature, games, & pop culture. Author of Tellings RPG & Archaea LARP.
pajamabee @pajamabeevegan.bsky.social genderfluid ace gamedev, vegan and anti-oppression for all.
they/them
Enter the Cow Online World:
https://pajamabeevegan.itch.io/cow-online-world
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.
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
jay Dragon is sleepy @jdragsky.bsky.social 29 🌱 she/her 🌱 editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay 🌱 wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
email: jay@sjgames.com
ACH @ach.bsky.social Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social One of the leading transsexuals in emotion-drenched indie roleplaying game design. Hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6). I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
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)
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social Ph.D (Ludomusicology & Disability Studies), Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games, Game Sound Con Advisory Board (Game Audio Studies Track), NACVGM programming committee, freelance violinist, she/her.
Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog
https://analoggamestudies.org
Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social No-one of consequence.
Twelvepinspress.com
patreon.com/TwelvePinsPress
Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social playtestmaterial.org
playtest_material on instagram
Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social Award-winning TTRPG performer, unaward-winning game designer, writer, rogue archivist
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♾️ {they/she}
Star Trek account: https://bsky.app/profile/wheregnomeannegoes.bsky.social
I make so much stuff: linktr.ee/annethegnome
Email: annethegnome@gmail.com
Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance) (MIT)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
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.
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
ThatBronzeGirl @thatbronzegirl.bsky.social I'm Jasmine Bhullar! Writer, Dungeon Master (not the kinky kind), content creator and general lover of games, comics and especially Warhammer. #criticalrole #dimension20 #coffinrun #acqinc inquiries: ThatBronzeGirl@kojo.gg
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Senior Vice President of Woke 5
Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired. @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
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
ktb @kevinbaker.bsky.social 
Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social Game audio professor and radio host (Monday 7:00 PM, wkar.org) at Michigan State. Musicology via game studies. Go green! Thompson.RyanC@gmail.com
Watch me and my best friends stream Thursday evenings 9-11 PM Eastern at Twitch.tv/BardicKnowledge
Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social Professor of Music Psychology at Durham University, violinist, researching musical memory and imagination
Jonathan Lahue @jclahoot.bsky.social Designer and Creative Coder •🔥✨👨🏼💻✨🔥 • Cat Dad 🐈 • Plant Dad 🌿 • Emoji Dad 👨🦰 • He/Him
🔮 jclahoot.com
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
sweet kerry eleanor @kerryeleanor.blog there's a stone in my pocket and an acorn around my neck
https://kerryeleanor.blog
cohost @leavingthepartypod.bsky.social
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social When you absolutely, positively got to know every "On This Day" in movie history, accept no substitutes.
10+ years & 50,000 followers on Twitter, making a new home for ourselves here. (formerly Dates in Movies)
BlueSR @bluesr.bsky.social Hollow Knight Speedrunner and video person! | 20🎉| he/him | My online appearance is my hand for some reason | youtube.com/BlueSR
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy enthusiast of things you like, detester of the things you don't like, but not in a mean way so i don't seem off-putting. just generally a solid follow
[bridged from https://jorts.horse/@Birdbassador on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Emily I. Dolan @eidolan.bsky.social Musicologist with interests in timbre, instruments, and musics of the 18th and 19th centuries.
https://vivo.brown.edu/display/edolan1
My latest article:
"In Search of Panpipes, or The Limits of Materiality"
https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2025.78.1.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
(8=] @quoiquecesoit.bsky.social linguists HATE them because of this one weird trick
lana @lanaphotos.bsky.social i take photos and occasionally post them here. will yap way too much about photography if you ask.
much more active on @davidsocial.com than here
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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social Capturing frames from TWIN PEAKS ▽ (Almost) All pictures belongs to David Lynch & Mark Frost / https://buymeacoffee.com/blacklodgecult / Letterboxd https://boxd.it/Cuxr / Horror / Movies / Things / Discord: discord.gg/PZrNX4mcWV 
Arrow Video @arrowvideo.bsky.social Distributor of classic, world, cult, horror cinema on Blu-ray & UHD.
💿: bit.ly/3oFfoXK
Adrien Dittrick @adriendittrick.bsky.social French hobbyist queer poly gamedev composer. Play my games here: https://adriendittrick.itch.io/
Join my discord server if you feel like chatting!
https://discord.gg/ggqZ2c4
demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon.bsky.social no thanks
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Grumpy dad energy @fdsignifier.bsky.social 
Rob @robarcand.bsky.social phding @ mcgill | formerly pitchfork, spin | writer, editor, webdev, etc. | robarcand.info
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.social I post all physical media announcements, deals, preorders, and share TRUE information. I publish a magazine called The Physical Media Advocate. I produce discs for Terror Vision, Severin Films, Deaf Crocodile, and more. someonesfavoriteproductions.com
Zullie @zulliethewitch.bsky.social Big Hat lady
Soulsborne Scholar
Support me here:
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Business rep:
leto@gamertalent.com.au
Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social Moderately popular YouTube game critic and travel author.
The Only Warrior Cats Podcast @onlywarriorcatspod.bsky.social Hosted by Zoe Bee, @josebird.bsky.social and @lola.nebula.tv
available anywhere you listen to podcasts!
kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes
writing: kellypendergrast.com
working: antistaticpartners.com
Radiance Films @filmsradiance.bsky.social Independent distribution company releasing classic films on Blu-ray in US/CA/UK/IE | https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/
Vic Michaelis @vicmmic.bsky.social actor + improviser + sorry about the birds
Shannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.social video editor, Marlin on Oddity Roadshow, cohost of Fight Together on the One Piece Podcast. also the parasocial hell person. based in ATL
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social the contemporary and its curiosities
https://mid-theory.com
William Paris @williammparis.bsky.social Critical theorist and philosopher of utopia. Author of Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation. Co-host of What’s Left of Philosophy.
gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social philosophy PhD. historical materialist. free Palestine. trans rights. Chicago based. all takes my own. podcast @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social https://leftofphilosophy.com/ https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com
Owen GW @owengw.bsky.social Philosophy PhD, cohost @leftofphil
What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social a podcast about theory and the history of political thought from a leftist perspective. hosted by Lillian, Owen (@owengw.bsky.social), Gil (@gilmorejon.bsky.social), and Will (@williammparis.bsky.social). leftofphilosophy.com
Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social Bitch 😎 lover 😽 child 👼 mother 🦾 sinner 👹 saint 🎅 sometimes feel ashamed 🧚♂️
Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv The game show where the rules change every show. Hosted by Sam Reich.
▶️ https://www.dropout.tv/shows/game-changer
Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv 🩸 CITY COUNCIL OF DARKNESS
☀️ GLADLANDS
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Adam Chase @adamchase.bsky.social kickin’ it in the Snack Zone
Brian Mac Mághnais @brianmcmanus.bsky.social Irish YouTuber in Austin, Texas
Tom Scott @tomscott.com I make things. They’ll probably come back to haunt me in a few years’ time. https://www.tomscott.com/
Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK
🍓 GMTK Game Jam: http://gmtk.itch.io
🔠 Word Play: http://s.team/a/3586660/
🧲 Mind Over Magnet: http://s.team/a/2685900/
olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher
tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective
phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
Valentina Vee @valentinavee.bsky.social Director, Cinematographer 💡
Ben Mekler @benmekler.bsky.social Writer (Ticket to Ride), Director (Demi Adejuyigbe is Going to Do One (1) Backflip), Producer (It Ends), Inventor (Lysol)
Ladyknightthebrave @ladyknightthebrave.bsky.social Queer and Jewish and mad as hell. A sommelier for garbage aka i do YouTube shit and also art stuff sometimes (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/ladyknightthebrave
Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social Senior Lecturer & Director of Postgrad Research in Art History at University of Exeter | Writer, Researcher, Artist and Curator | Queer art and visual culture | He/They🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.danielfountain.com
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/37109-daniel-fountain
Vaati @vaatividya.com Professional item description reader over on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/vaatividya