Damian M @damiandamiani.bsky.social Postdoc at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social in #ChinaComx working on politics in/of Chinese comics | researching intersections of state socialism, visual culture, and everyday life | book project: collective reading practices after 1949 | damianmandzunowski.com
@arseniuszsz.bsky.social @arseniuszsz.bsky.social 
Daniele Monaco @danielemonaco.bsky.social PhD in philosophy—widely proven to be a highly questionable life choice. Divided between the UK and Italy.
스테가노 @stegano.cyclonopedia.com #계산형이상학 연구. 인문학 연구에 관해 논란이 많은 말들을 주로 합니다.
#DMRG Seoul의 채팅방: https://matrix.to/#/#dmrg:matrix.org
@fhfvbbbbbbvv.bsky.social @fhfvbbbbbbvv.bsky.social 
EADH 2026 in Kraków @eadh2026krakow.bsky.social EADH 2026 conference in Kraków, Poland
15-19 September 2026
https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/
Registration open: https://eadh2026.systemcoffee.pl/
Logan Davis @doing-fine-thanks.bsky.social Programmer, potter, and object maker.
Current PhD student at RPI studying games.
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social - Alum: University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government
- University of Syracuse, Maxwell School of Citizenship
- Chevening Fellow, Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow, Police Officer.
Justice not enforcement
History of Games Conference @historyofgames.bsky.social 2026 conference taking place at City University of Hong Kong's School of Creative Media, from June 25-27. https://www.history-of-games.com/2026-hong-kong/
Kübra @mostlyindie.com Games/media/American Studies scholar, lecturer @uni-freiburg.de. PhD on books in games. Currently studying video game remakes, reboots, and adaptations.
Read my blog (new posts approx. every two years): https://mostlyindie.com/
Elina Roinioti @elroin.bsky.social Game Scholar, narrative designer, consultant.
Assistant Professor at University of Peloponnese | Games Outreach for Kickstarter |Vice President of DiGRA.
Institute of Digital Games - University of Malta @indigitalgames.bsky.social Making big waves in Game Studies research, Game Design, and AI from a tiny, Mediterranean island | Check us out: https://www.um.edu.mt/digitalgames/ | Hosts of DiGRA 2025
@amayer.bsky.social @amayer.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media
Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
Regina Seiwald @reginaballerina.bsky.social 
Júlia Vilasís-Pamos @jvilasispamos.bsky.social PhD in Communication
Game Studies | Digital Divide | Youth Studies | Social Class | Gender
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him) @gamestudies.bsky.social _Prof. for Game Design & Game Studies (HNU)
_PhD Triforce Holder
_Podcast Founder "Game Studies" (NBN)
_Editor "Games" (TITEL kulturmagazin)
_Expert Advisor "Games" (DFJV)
_Xbox: Inderst1978
_Former Int. Community Strategist (Koch Media)
@prosperoscell.bsky.social @prosperoscell.bsky.social 
Dutch Government News @dutchgovnews.com The English version of openrijk.nl/en offers essential government reads for all non-Dutch speakers.
This is not an official government account!
https://openrijk.nl/en/missie
Build your own Dutch gov feed here:
https://www.openrijk.nl/en/my-openrijk
Robin L. Zingarelli @BDiGRA26 @robinzingarelli.bsky.social Doctoral researcher working on transgender representations in video games, game designer, London based coffee enthusiast.
AG Games der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft @gfmgames.bsky.social Interdisziplinäre Gruppe von Forscher*innen inkl. Studierende zum Thema #gamestudies.
Posts von @sebomat.bsky.social
#gamedev #mediastudies #indiedev
https://ag-games.de/
Nataliya Gorbina @nattgoo.bsky.social paddington stan account | writing books & making games
cracks (2024): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216596625
Jalal Khawaldeh @jalal-khawaldeh.bsky.social Theoretical Scientist | Researcher & Philosopher
Head of Research Department, RO Educational Institute
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jalal-Khawaldeh
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7872-1967
LauraShiva @shivaduna.bsky.social Indie Dev🎮FullStack LegacyCode🎮GameDesigner
🎮 @indiedevday.bsky.social (co-founder)
🃏 @cartonfever.bsky.social (co-founder)
🕹️ @powerupplus.bsky.social (Director)
🔮 @widev.bsky.social (Founder)
https://linktr.ee/laurashiva
Alex Bacalja @alexbacalja.bsky.social Digital Game Literacies - Critical Pedagogies - English Language Arts - Youth Literacies - Critical EdTech - Postdigital research. The University of Melbourne.
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Andrei Nae @andrei-nae.bsky.social ✔️ andrei-nae.com
✔️ Lecturer in game studies and English literature
✔️ Author of 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴
Xylohydra @revolutionarytax.bsky.social 
Jaroslav Švelch @electroslav.bsky.social game scholar and historian at Charles University
vocalist and lyricist at Rest in Haste
svelch.com
Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social 🔬 Lead Researcher, Overwatch | Blizzard
🎓 PhD human factors psych
🐝 Previous Amazon Games, Georgia Tech Research Scientist
👾 #GUR #HCI
🤷🏻♀️ John McCain put my first game on his "naughty list"
💬 my own thoughts/opinions
🇺🇸🇨🇱🇸🇪
Michel Maksimova @michelmaks.bsky.social phd student at uic. they/them. queer game studies, crip theory, digital media, decoloniality, intersectionality & interdisciplinarity.
avatar ID: a mirror selfie of a vaguely masc person in a floral shirt
banner ID: hand-holding photos (also paws)
Francis Lavigne @francislavigne.bsky.social Responsable du laboratoire universitaire de documentation et d'observation vidéoludiques (LUDOV) à l'Université de Montréal. En train d'écrire une thèse sur l'histoire des formes de la critique de jeu vidéo, à travers la série de jeux Castlevania.
Joe Yizhou Xu @joexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries 
Jakub Šindelář @sindeja-kuba.bsky.social PhD Researcher in historical game studies at IMS FSV UK and LUCAS Leiden University
Czech National DOI Centre Coordinator at the National Library of Technology (NTK)
Piotr Stankiewicz @stankiewicz.bsky.social Za rok nie tylko starsi, ale i mądrzejsi! Zapraszam do programu, szczegóły tutaj: https://piotrstankiewicz.pl/program2026/
Hagioptasia: Perception & Meaning @hagioptasiatheory.bsky.social Exploring the hidden force of perceived 'specialness' - a natural illusion shaping human belief, behaviour, & culture.
https://hagioptasia.wordpress.com
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
Pawel Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social I live in transit and specialize in everything but particularly in science fiction, ocular media, House of Leaves, dark musics, indie games, California, unpopular culture, Coil, outsider art, digital literature, Mass Effect, archives, and Southland Tales. 
Adam @sephspawn.bsky.social |Master of Anticipatory Intelligence (Biosecurity, working on healthcare and water security) graduate student @cai_usu| BSc Philosophy, (Ph.D candidate, J.D candidate soonish)
Karin Wenz @karinwenz.bsky.social Working in the field of Digital Cultures at Maastricht University, The Netherlands
@digital literature
@algorithmic art
@digital games: death in games, metagaming, game art
@VR
Ashley @professorashley.bsky.social 
Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
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
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Aszka @glaitglait.bsky.social Polish larper & gamedev
Tanja Välisalo @tanjavalisalo.bsky.social 
Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
Nele Van de Mosselaer @nelevdm.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Tilburg University • working on (interactive) fiction, imagination, and virtual reality
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
Kelly Boudreau @velixious.bsky.social professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
@uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social This is the Bluesky account of the philosophy department at the University of Nottingham. We like philosophy!!
Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.com
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
Editor: Eludamos
PREORDER SCHOLAR'S CODEX: https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/scholars-codex
domford.net
Melanie Swalwell @melswal.bsky.social Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Laura Goudet Jamoussi @theschwatterer.bsky.social MCF en linguistique anglaise à URouen-Normandie • IUF 2023-28 sur les dictionnaires (linguiste binguiste) • Experte trad/interprète en Normandie • Rigolote à chien et chats sur son temps libre • Nerderies, jeux et gender studies
Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social science, gaming, art (senior researcher at university of jyväskylä)
Maciej Paprocki @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social Student of ancient Greek theologies, librarian, tea drinker, gamer. Lover of myth, poetry and magic. Myth adviser on #Apotheon
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
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Clara Fernandez-Vara @clarafv.bsky.social NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
https://clarafv.com
suely @suely.bsky.social professora e pesquisadora com mestrado em semiótica dos tridimensionais que não existem, doutorado em videogame e pós-doutorado em the witcher
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)
Samuel Heine @sadmediahistorian.bsky.social Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.
David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
Gerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social (he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal @federicoalvarez.bsky.social Prof. of Digital Media & Game Studies at HBK Essen. I research the aesthetics of games and play combining theoretical and experimental approaches.
Book: "Time and Space in Video Games. A Cogntive-Formalist Approach" http://bit.ly/3iiMEk8
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
Renata Ntelia (she/her) @renatadrlove.bsky.social Academic in Games and HCI. Mostly interested in love and death. Assistant Professor at University of Lincoln. https://renatantelia.dfs.gr/
Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social Associate Professor of #Philosophy at the University of Bergen. 🇳🇴 Various philosophical interests. Kant’s theoretical philosophy is my field of specialty. Other interests: arts, science, music, literature, photography, and travels.
Nicolle Lamerichs @nicolleness.bsky.social 🔸️Media studies scholar
🔸️Fan studies, cosplay, games & tech
🔸️Passionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht
🔸️Gamer, fan artist & Trekker 🖖
https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
@avrilfillyjonk.bsky.social @avrilfillyjonk.bsky.social 
Rafael Bienia, Ph.D. @rafaelbienia.bsky.social Ins Unbekannte.
http://www.drachenschmalz.de
Sebastian Möring @sebomat.bsky.social (he/him) #gamestudies, media, and culture researcher, Prof. of Game Design at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences. Books http://bit.ly/3MWJ5vM and https://bit.ly/4yA52aj. Website: http://sebastianmoering.com.
Torill @torillelvira.bsky.social Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.
Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher. Game studies, political economy, platforms, cultural memory, critical race theory, production studies, postcolonialism
Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Debut novel out 2026
Kati Alha @katialha.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher in game studies. Gardening and woodworking enthusiast. Devourer of video games and audiobooks. Wife to my wife. She/they.
Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social Postdoc at Ghent University // Video games and mythology // DiGRA Belgium Co-Chair 
Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social
Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/
Author of strange literary fictions ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
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.
Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels.
New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64
https://jesperjuul.net
Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺 @eugenpfister.bsky.social Historian & Political Scientist / SNF Sinergia project lead #CH_Ludens / SNF Ambizione lead #HorrorGamePolitics / History / Games / Politics / History of Ideas / Opinion must not always reflect object. scient. analysis / AKGWDS
spielkult.hypotheses.org
Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human
Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona)
Founding member of @DIGRASpain
Director de la colección Ludografías.
Co-president of the History of Games conference.
I also do my own stunts.
www.vnavarro.eu
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)