Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social DPhil (/PhD) Researcher @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social working on podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Former Research Lead for Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D and Senior Tech Policy Researcher, Demos
Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social author/Ripples of the Universe (Chicago, 2021) and A Perturbed System (Chicago, 2026) | environmental and medical anthropology with a side of religion | university lecturer | curmudgeon | views my own
Eleven Yearz @elevenyearz.bsky.social Slow moving images at youtube.com/@ElevenYearz
Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social writer & PhD candidate at the University of Calgary | editor in chief @ex-puritan.bsky.social
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social Canadian Studies UofT. 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
Kids' data privacy, AI & policy; Social AI, Ghostbots, Griefbots; Digital Humanities, Digital & Geolocative Storytelling; Game Studies.
T'karanto, Treaty 13
Diana Enriquez, PhD @denrsch.bsky.social Sociologist via @Princeton.edu PhD (labor, tech & orgs) | writing a book about freelancers’ strategies | Principal, Technology Strategy & Design at Redstone Strategy Group
GAMERella @gamerella.bsky.social GAMERella is the world’s longest running annual game jam and workshop series focusing on supporting marginalized game creators and aspiring game makers.
https://linktr.ee/GAMERella
David Waddington @waddington.bsky.social Professor of Education, Concordia University
New book: The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games (McGill-Queens University Press)
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
Thought Slime @slimemildred.bsky.social Gender fluid, among other fluids. Any/All.
Avatar by @izzi8bit.bsky.social
https://YouTube.com/@ThoughtSlime
http://patreon.com/thoughtslime
Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social he/him exclusive access to a youtubers opinions
https://allmylinks.com/lackingsaint
Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social It’s Liv agar
André Almo @andrealmo.bsky.social Scientist interested in communication, art, games and education. 👻👾 | He/Him. | Art account: @almoghost.bsky.social
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.
Prem Sylvester @pxs.bsky.social Trying to figure out who I am before I throw myself back into grad school.
AI's an attention sink.
Always historicize!
he/him
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social Calgary journalist. Recovering architect. Reluctant urbanist.
http://ximena-gonzalez.com
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
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
Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social Freelance cybersecurity journalist & writer. Welsh. SE London.
Also likely to post about games, rugby, F1, wrestling & the cat.
I have a Simpsons reference for every occasion.
Mr. Friday Night @birdrespecter.bsky.social Ignoble ape-like cryptid and whimsical dullard ambling about the PNW. I write + talk about both the Internet and the NFL.
www.linktr.ee/birdrespecter
Marie Geist, Baby Guitar Hero @mariepgeist.bsky.social Full-time student of Japanese language; sometimes translator for hire. Dale Cooper's imaginary girlfriend; electronic music nerd. Land back. ACAB includes SWERFs and TERFs. Why TF was Link banned again?
AuDHD. She/her/彼女
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
Isabella @isabellawangbc.bsky.social 
Dr Kyle McPhail @drkylemcphail.bsky.social they/them
Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Studies and Art History at Mount Allison University
Trans and Disability Representation in Art and Visual Culture, mainly focusing on disability aesthetics in video games and digital art
I'm bad at social media
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social Co-creator/cohost of Talking Simpsons podcast, follow us wherever you listen to podcasts and also on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/talkingsimpsons
Rianna Walcott @riannawalcott.bsky.social Researcher of social media, so I am contractually obliged to shitpost
Assistant prof @ UMD
Associate director of BCaT Lab
Black Brit abroad, Londoner for life 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇧🇧
MASSIVE hater
Alberta University of the Arts @albertauarts.bsky.social Alberta's only university dedicated to art, craft and design. Email communications@auarts.ca with requests or to share community news.
📍Calgary, AB
Gregory Blomquist @gcwblomquist.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer @ University of Alberta
PhD in game studies & transmedia storytelling
Max Lander @snaxwell.bsky.social Game Designer + Professor. Angry queer.
Himbos of Myth & Mettle, OddFolk and Frame 352. https://maxwellander.itch.io/
Co-host of RTFM. Rtfmcast.com
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Sinéad McDevitt @neadiegirl.bsky.social Freelance journalist, JRPG expert, fully time info-dumper.
You can see my latest work at https://lnk.bio/somcdevitt
shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social https://www.twitch.tv/shaun_vids
https://www.youtube.com/@Shaun_vids
https://www.patreon.com/shaunfromyoutube
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Brendan Allen @brendanallen.bsky.social poet / little gamemaker / doctoral student
"bibliomancer" when wearing my gamer pants
https://bibliomancer.itch.io/
https://brendan-allen.com/
KB ❤️🔥 UVW-CWA @square2mom.bsky.social ✨ creator of (VAL)IANT (https://valsguide.com/)
✨ organizer @videogameworkers.bsky.social
✨ teaching at usc games (& elsewhere)
✨ weirdo lefty feminist game designer
✨ square2mom.carrd.co
Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social I study popular music and digital culture 💾🎶 PhD in Media and Communication from Temple University, postdoc at
@cdcspenn.bsky.social
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social writer actor rifftrax mst3k crow t. robot. dog butler.
https://www.rifftrax.com
instagram @billcorbett
Deus Pascit Corvos
Alexis-Carlota Cochrane @alexiscarlota.bsky.social (she/they) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇵🇪
⁘ PhD(c) and Sessional Instructor @ McMaster
⁘ Coordinating Digital Scholarship @ scds.ca
⁘ Researching power and precarity on platforms
⁘ Digital Harms, Queer Theory, Platform Studies, Critical Data, Digital Scholarship
⁘ alexiscarlota.ca
bonny CD @bonnycd.bsky.social 
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Jeremy Cohen @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ McMaster University.
Anthropologist of religion. Immortality, transhumanism, conspiracy theories and technology.
Vegan. Dad. ADHD haver. TalkDeath.com co-founder.
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. PRECOGNITION for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
Wency Leung @wencyleung.bsky.social Reporter at The Local @thelocal.to
Pronounced "wen-see," she/her. 
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social Associate professor @ University of Alberta and Canada CIFAR AI Chair @ Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.
Games, machine learning, and creativity | he/him
Enzo Cunanan @enzocunanan.bsky.social (he/him)
MPhil Early Modern History, Cambridge '25
🏳️🌈
Early modern history enthusiast
Opinions my own
Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social Writer, Comedian, TV’s Frank
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
rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab.
amuse|muse|use|us|u
pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers
banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.
Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University. Studying comic cons and festivals as interfaces between media industries and fan communities. Reading comics, playing TTRPGs, cooking Chinese food. #CatDad
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.
Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social Author of John Dies at the End, formerly David Wong of Cracked.com fame 
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Luanne Platter @luanneplatter.bsky.social Commoner living in Austin TX. She/her
Puritans suck so bad.
Phil Russell @3dsisqo.bsky.social Black writer. Currently @ Sonos. Prev: Narrative on Thirsty Suitors. Host of Origin Story podcast. Writing all over the internet. www.philrussell.me- A Ali Boyle @aliboyle.bsky.social Philosopher of science. Thinking about nonhuman minds, memory, living things. Cat person.
@aidanmoir.bsky.social @aidanmoir.bsky.social 
Jeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social Calgary Mayor | Pathfinder, non-profit CEO, and community builder | Housing, jobs, safety, and trust | It’s time for a new path forward. 🍁
www.jeromy.ca
Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social Artist formerly known as ManuclearBomb || wallowing in my own crapulence || he/they || Chicago, Greatest City in da World || @notacast.bsky.social
Briana Vecchione @briana-v.bsky.social Researcher @datasociety.bsky.social • AI use/evaluation/accountability in mental health + companionship • Cornell IS PhD • brianavecchione.org • 🏳️🌈
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
ASAP/Review @asapjournal.bsky.social ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts. ASAP/Review is the journal's internet-focused publishing branch.
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social 6x award-winning feminist buzzkill.
Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario.
🏳️🌈 Femme.
I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻
Actually fun™️
📍Ottawa, Canada
YellowManteau.com
Lauren Taylor @laurenmt1.bsky.social Co-Founder of Snappy Gurus.
Supporting entry level talent moving into games and relevent roles!
My email: lauren@snappygurus.com
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Yena Lee @yenalee.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow @AnnenbergPenn CDCS researching political creators & social movement | PhD @NorthwesternU MTS | she/they
https://yenaleephd.com/
Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.
My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@rwg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Ergin Bulut @bltergin.bsky.social Teaching at Goldsmiths
Rachel Plotnick @rachelplotnick.bsky.social Associate Prof, IU Media School. Hist of tech, interfaces, wearables, media tech and everyday life. Books: Power Button (MIT) bit.ly/2xMlmsr and License to Spill (MIT, out now!) https://shorturl.at/Yl1DP
Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social Media. Fin/Tech. Capitalism. Selfhood. Higher Ed. Justice.
Co-director @starlingcentre.bsky.ca
Exhausted but still feisty.
Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work in Vancouver, Canada (https://centreforfuturework.ca/). He/him. Harold Innis Industry Professor, Economics Dept., McMaster University, and Honorary Prof. of Political-Economy, University of Sydney
Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
writer/editor at The Beaverton
she/her | Vancouver B.C.
Articles: https://www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gillis/
If you wanna criticize me, pay here first: https://ko-fi.com/marygillis
John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social @Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. http://www.leavittalone.com/
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
Lowell Gasoi @lowellgasoi.bsky.social Communication and media studies prof at Carleton and University of Ottawa. Theatre maker and cultural policy person. Performance studies and sci-fi geek. 
Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social Architectural designer and researcher exploring the intersection of the internet and physical space.
https://chenoehart.com/
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
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
Emma Quilty @emmaquilty.bsky.social anthropologist | research fellow at Monash @_CEVAW | STS | gender, tech & society | new book on feminism & witchcraft coming out October
https://www.emmaquilty.com/
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com 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 (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | OCEAN | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
Ian Li @ianli.bsky.social Chinese-Canadian writer/poet/economist/developer | he/him
words in Strange Horizons, Year's Best Canadian F&SF, the Toronto subway, +more
poetry editor for @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social
SFWA, Codexian
https://ian-li.com
Straith 🍉 @straith.ca D.A. Straith (they/them). Toronto-adjacent fiction person • nonbinary trans & queer settler • work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, SHATTER THE SUN • Clarion West Novel Workshop ‘25 • #straithenfrancais • agent: Laura Zats @ Headwater • straith.carrd.co
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
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
University Affairs | Affaires universitaires @universityaffairs.bsky.social We are Canada's leading magazine for and about the academic sector.
Nous sommes le principal magazine canadien pour et sur le secteur universitaire.
Alexandria Arrieta @alexandriaarrieta.bsky.social Researcher studying popular music, internet platforms, and race + ethnicity
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Ashley Scarlett @ashleyscarlett.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Alberta University of the Arts researching/writing about intersections between art and algorithmic culture.