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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Daniel Epstein @depstein.net Associate Professor, University of California Irvine
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Michal Feldman @michal-feldman.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, @TelAvivUni | @ACM SIGECOM Chair | Research areas: Econ&CS, Algorithmic Game Theory, Market Design
Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social |Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @Tampere Game Research Lab |Book Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
Katja Hofmann @katjahofmann.bsky.social At Microsoft Research. Lead of https://aka.ms/game-intelligence - we drive innovation in machine learning with applications in games. https://iclr.cc Board.
GDRI @gdri.bsky.social GDRI (Game Developer Research Institute) researches the history of video games and their creators. Since 2006.
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
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Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
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
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Kurt Luther @kurtluther.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
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offbrand games @offbrand.games making cool games before we’re all dead
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Kyle Nolla @drpiggyphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Morgan State University • previously Northwestern University • they/she 🏳️🌈• 🇵🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸 • I study games/esports, social identity, gambling, skill acquisition, emotion regulation, digital health
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The best damn MC in the FGC.
Unapologetically Philly. Living in Texas.
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Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social Personal account. Researching algorithmic & surveillance tech in Portland, OR at RedtailMedia.org. '25-'26 OSU fellow. 25 yrs as a journo reporting on data use, AI, etc. Music nerd, forest walker, raptor watcher and fan of the NY Mets. KEEPIN THAT PMA.
Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social Staff writer on science, tech, and health at The Atlantic covering AI. Signal @matteowong.52
Bryan Gaensler @scibry.bsky.social Dean of Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Astronomer, sci-fi connoisseur, rugby league devotee, puzzled parent 🇦🇺🇨🇦. Opinions ∉ UCSC.
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Intersectionality.
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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
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Jasmine @irljasmine.bsky.social I work in tech and don't recommend it. I also talk to the dead and that I do recommend.
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Chris Hanel @chrishanel.com Fights for the users. Co-Founder @supportclass.net, Lead Production Designer for GDQ, OQL Host/Designer, Baseball stats @ewstats.com, Twins fan, ex-game dev. (he/him)
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Alexy and 69 others @chiefscientist.org Open-source AI Community and GTM leader.
Founder, ai.bythebay.io.
Discovered Justin Bieber.
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Maggie Johnson-Pint @maggie.bsky.social Helping people airplanes with software. Dog Person. DateTime weirdo.
Forever ❤️JS.
She/her
@maggiepint on twitter
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
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Carmen Crincoli @crincoli.org Black Lives Matter | He/Him | F*ck TERFs | Principal PM in Azure Edge+Platform | Adaptive Cloud is my thing.
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