Daniele Monaco @danielemonaco.bsky.social PhD in philosophy—widely proven to be a highly questionable life choice. Divided between the UK and Italy.
Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh
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/
7th Sea 3e @7thsea3e.bsky.social 7th Sea 3e re-imagined by Studio Agate from John Wick's 7th Sea 2e.
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).
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
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 
Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social POV: You live in Eastern Europe, next door to Russia
https://eastsplaining.substack.com
euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com Brussels' premier independent news media on EU affairs. EUobserver is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what's really going on in Europe. Your support keeps us going: https://euobserver.com/memberships
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)
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/
Piotr Stankiewicz @stankiewicz.bsky.social Za rok nie tylko starsi, ale i mądrzejsi! Zapraszam do programu, szczegóły tutaj: https://piotrstankiewicz.pl/program2026/
Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social Independent and informed news and insight on Polish politics, culture, business and history.
Support us: https://notesfrompoland.com/donations/support-us/
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
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)
Wolnelewo @wolnelewo.bsky.social Nie ma wolności bez równości, nie ma równości bez wolności | Autor: Xavier Woliński
www: https://wolnelewo.pl
Możesz wspierać projekt: https://patronite.pl/Wolnelewo
Narodowe Centrum Nauki @ncn.gov.pl Wspieramy badania podstawowe. Od 2011 roku przyznaliśmy ponad 34 tys. grantów naukowcom z Polski i zagranicy | National Science Centre, Poland #NCN
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego @ministerstwonauki.bsky.social Oficjalny profil Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego 🎓📚
Bea Pérez @bpz.bsky.social 
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. 
Sabine Harrer @sabha.bsky.social °• Hertha-Firnberg scholar uni wien & Uppsala uni games department °• play, race & social justice: PI of white-play.com
Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
T.L. Taylor @tltaylor.bsky.social Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see.
Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney).
tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!)
Teresa de la Hera @teresadelahera.bsky.social Associate Professor of Persuasive Gaming at Erasmus University Rotterdam
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
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
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
Joy Sun @joysun.bsky.social game scholar
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.
Hartmut Koenitz @hkoenitz.bsky.social Scholar, designer, artist. Working on interactive digital narrative and how to understand our complex world. Professor and student in the subject of life
President of ARDIN.
book: Understanding
Interactive Digital Narrative (2023): https://amzn.to/3OUEj32
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Annakaisa Kultima @aakoo.bsky.social Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin @astridensslin.bsky.social Professor for the Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg
Lisbeth Klastrup @klast.bsky.social External lecturer at Uni of Cph, Copenhagen Business School & Roskilde University. Digital media scholar, part-time nerd, full-time mum, born again catlover and impatient IPhone-photographer. Trying to update a book (in Danish) on social media.
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
Mariana Amaro @mariamaro.bsky.social PhD in Game Studies & Communication | Head of Publishing @nuuvem @criticalleap ☁️| Retired game scholar (still fighting the urge to un-retire) | Recovering workaholic (with mixed results) 🌪️
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.
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.
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
Andy Phelps @andymphelps.bsky.social Professor at @GT_LMC, President at @theHEVGA. Personal acct.
Mad Mullah Hastur @madmullah.bsky.social I used to be funny. Really funny. Now I just work and actively pursue being anti-social online. Also I am an associate professor in Digital Culture as well ass journalism and communication. Also games. I do a lot of games.
Rafael Bienia, Ph.D. @rafaelbienia.bsky.social Ins Unbekannte.
http://www.drachenschmalz.de
Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social Postdoc at Ghent University // Video games and mythology // DiGRA Belgium Co-Chair 
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
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
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
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.
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)
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.
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.
Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social Play scholar, among other things
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
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
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
Lankoski @lankoski.bsky.social Professor, D.Arts. Game researcher.
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)
Cindy Poremba @cloobot.bsky.social Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.com
Johnathan Harrington @johnh18.bsky.social Based in HK, sometimes in MT / CN // asst prof @HKBaptistU on player-based design and board games, I make stuff sometimes too.
Mostly EN || Some MT / 中文
Nick Webber @doktornick.bsky.social Games and history researcher, BCU. Co-convenor of @historygamesnet.bsky.social. Views my own. He/him.
Lina Eklund @linaeklund.bsky.social Still new and confused.
Tanja Välisalo @tanjavalisalo.bsky.social 
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social science, gaming, art (senior researcher at university of jyväskylä)
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
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
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.
William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
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
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
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/
Thiago Falcão @falc4o.bsky.social Entertainment Media and (Critical) Game Studies Researcher @ UFPB, Brazil
Coordinator @lens_ufpb and Researcher @nppd_ufpb | @inctparticipa
Robin L. Zingarelli @BDiGRA26 @robinzingarelli.bsky.social Doctoral researcher working on transgender representations in video games, game designer, London based coffee enthusiast.
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.
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
Agata Waszkiewicz @agatawaszkiewicz.bsky.social Game scholar, therapist in training, mental health advocate. Makes art on the side.
Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social Professor in Sound Production and Post Production, Sound Designer, Educator. Researcher in acoustical heritage and accessibility through sound design. Zumba instructor. Latina. She/Her https://marianajlopez.com/
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Jaroslav Švelch @electroslav.bsky.social game scholar and historian at Charles University
vocalist and lyricist at Rest in Haste
svelch.com
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
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
Magdalena Cielecka @cielecka.bsky.social Game Studies Scholar with PhD on dialogue structures | Head of Development at Anshar Studios | Producer on Gamedec and Irony Curtain
she/her
@avrilfillyjonk.bsky.social @avrilfillyjonk.bsky.social 
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
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
Nele Van de Mosselaer @nelevdm.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Tilburg University • working on (interactive) fiction, imagination, and virtual reality
Esther MacCallum-Stewart @neveahfs.bsky.social 
Laura op de Beke @lauraodbeke.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, Screens, and Interfaces at Uni Utrecht #ecogames. #larp. #envhum. Founder of http://un-earthed.group. Knitter. Vegan.
Emil Hammar @elhammar.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher. Game studies, political economy, platforms, cultural memory, critical race theory, production studies, postcolonialism
Bettina Bódi🌿🎮 @bettibo.bsky.social 📚 Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communication - University of Birmingham, UK
✨ Working on video games | agency | cosiness | nature
🖊️ Author of Videogames and Agency (Routledge 2023) - https://tinyurl.com/3mbr8ytu
🌐 https://cozymedia.net/
Aphra Kerr @aphrak.bsky.social Prof Digital Media & Communication, University College Dublin, Ireland. Co- PI ADAPT Research Centre & Algowatch project. Researching people & games, tech & AI.
Ashley @professorashley.bsky.social 
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.
Olli Sotamaa @sotamaa.bsky.social proper grumpy professor // creative labour scholar // football enthusiast // middle-aged soulboy // tampere män