Koneen Säätiö @koneensaatio.fi Kone Foundation. Independent Finnish foundation fostering academic and artistic freedom. Annual grant call 1–15 Sept. https://koneensaatio.fi
Suomen roolipeliseura ry @suomenropeseura.bsky.social Suomen roolipeliseura ry on tarkoitettu kaikille, jotka haluavat parantaa suomalaista roolipeliskeneä, oli intohimosi sitten larppaus, pöytäropet, freeformit tai vaikka foorumiropet.
www.suomenroolipeliseura.fi
Panun peliuutistoimisto @peliuutistoimisto.fi Peliuutisia lyhyesti suomeksi.
https://peliuutistoimisto.fi
Ylläpitäjä: @riepumeuhkis.bsky.social
Contact: info@peliuutistoimisto DOT fi
Suman Ghosh @sumanghosh.bsky.social Building VR museum of protest art and PhDing at Tampere University 🇫🇮 Visual artist & researcher of ‘Artivism’. Exploring intersection of design anthropology with human computer interaction. Interest #Art, #DigitalCultures, #Affect, #Solidarity and #Protest
Tapio Määttä @tapiomaatta.bsky.social Rector, University of Eastern Finland
LGBTQ Game Archive @lgbtqgamearchive.bsky.social A curated/researched collection of information of LGBTQ content in digital games from 1980s-present. Our profile icon was designed by Adrienne Shaw (2024)adapting an icon created by zidney from the Noun Project. https://lgbtqgamearchive.wordpress.com/
@kaarinahazard.bsky.social @kaarinahazard.bsky.social 
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura @sksfinlit.bsky.social Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura on vuonna 1831 perustettu tieteellinen seura ja kulttuurijärjestö, joka harjoittaa ja edistää suomalaisen kulttuurin ja kulttuuriperinnön tutkimusta ja tunnetuksi tekemistä. Seuraa myös @skskirjat.bsky.social.
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
M.Brückner @mellowne.bsky.social Game spaces & production environments, DEI, players of games, media anthropology.
Game Scholar & Instructional Designer
From: 🇩🇪 - Currently: 🇫🇮
Minna-Liisa Salonsaari @minnaliisas.bsky.social PhD in Cultural heritage studies, Museum curator, mother
• nature, animals, bicycling, forests, history, cultural heritage, folklore, books, culture, music•
Pori, Finland 🇫🇮
Yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutettu @yhdenvertaisuus.bsky.social Diskrimineringsombudsmannen
Finnish Non-discrimination ombudsman
Ovttaveardásašvuođaáittardeaddji
https://yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutettu.fi/
Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social #academicsky HCI: boardgames & hybrids, interaction, evaluation, distanced play. Play. IGA Jury. OMG. Spiel. Shoes. Handbags. Random rants. This is all me, not work official. Dr. She. 
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
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
erix verkaaik @oddhours.bsky.social (they/them) • researching gamemaking communities • co-organiser of Squiggly River • occasional gamemaker • https://odd-hours.net/ • 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Outi Länsman @outilansman.bsky.social 📍Sää´mm📍Säämi📍Sápmi:
📷, ✍️, 📣, 🌲= Luonnonmetsät Sápmi
Luonnonmetsät Sápmi @luonnonmetsatsapmi.bsky.social Asiaa ja valokuvia Saamenmaan lainsuojattomista ikimetsistä.
luonnonmetsatsapmi.fi #metsänpuolella
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/
Anne Liljeström @anneliljestrom.bsky.social An outreach astronomer by day, here for other sciences and history, mental health, human rights, LGBTQ+, climate. 🎲🎮🍋🪨💤 | Agender, demi. FIN/EN, they/them.
🖊️📘Miksi Kuu ei putoa? Lasten kysymyksiä avaruudesta https://tinyurl.com/miksikuu
📷 Mikko Käkelä
Tarja Halonen @presidenthalonen.fi Presidentti Tarja Halonen / Former President of Finland Tarja Halonen
https://presidenthalonen.fi/
Dr. Helga D. Ísfold Sigurðardóttir @isfold.bsky.social Game researcher, PhD. Posts in English, Icelandic, Norwegian. She/her 🦓🇧🇻🇮🇸
Leo Stranius @leostranius.bsky.social Toimitusjohtaja, kirjailija ja yhteiskunnallinen vaikuttaja. Ekologisen elämän edelläkävijä. Triathlonisti, äänikirjojen kuuntelija ja kahden lapsen isä. 🌍🏊🚴♂️🏃
Eevi Korhonen @silliet.bsky.social Principal Narrative Designer @Housemarque. CONTROL, Returnal, SAROS.
I like weird things. Bigots need not follow.
She/her
Satu Seppä @satuseppa.bsky.social Projektipäällikkö, YTM, HuK
Taru – Tampereen yliopiston viestintätieteiden tutkimuskeskus
Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunta
Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com 📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin.
🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
ENDGAME project @endgame-project.bsky.social Project at @gameresearchlab.bsky.social funded by the RCF. We investigate game cultural participation and agency in specific local and cultural contexts. https://projects.tuni.fi/endgame
Logo: @piisamisiili.bsky.social
Banner photo: SEUL ry/Katja Tähja
Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Transnational & global history, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory & urban history. Cape Town - NYC - Chicago - London – Berlin | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social Game Writer & Narrative Designer. Solo-developing a card-based RPG-lite inspired by Finnish mythology. Previously The Tribe Must Survive, Surviving the Aftermath, etc.
www.nikonikkilanarratives.weebly.com
Suomen yliopistojen rehtorineuvosto Unifi @unifiry.bsky.social Unifi on yliopistojen yhteinen ääni ja yhteistyön foorumi
Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social Game designer, gaming entrepreneur, game programmer, and games scholar.
(Photo: www.henrysoderlund.com)
Nicole Braida @nicolebraida.bsky.social Film and media independent researcher & Content Specialist. Still wondering. 
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Nick Taylor @nickttaylor.bsky.social Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
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.
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
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com Since 1768.
Tiedetäti (Dr. Laura Nissin) @tiedetati.bsky.social A research enthusiast
Classicist at Helsinki University
#ancienthistory #classics #Latin she/her
Ceterum censeo neoliberalismum delendum esse
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
@klaakso.bsky.social @klaakso.bsky.social 
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Ihmisoikeusliitto @ihmisoikeusliitto.bsky.social Ihmisoikeusliitto (Finnish League for Human Rights) vahtii perus- ja ihmisoikeuksien toteutumista Suomessa. https://ihmisoikeusliitto.fi/
@katirissanen.bsky.social @katirissanen.bsky.social 
Joonas Palsio @jontte.bsky.social traceur, ludologist, drama instructor, wanderer, mtg enthusiast, boardgamer & whatnot
Helsingin Sanomat @hs.fi Luotettavaa journalismia vuodesta 1889.
Tapahtuiko jotain? Vinkkaa meille: hs.online@hs.fi
Jussi Jalonen @jojalonen.bsky.social Sotahistorian ja Itä-Euroopan tutkija, FT, dosentti, länsisuomalainen. Military historian, Scholar of East Europe, Ph.D, associate professor, Western Finn.- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Timo R. Stewart @timostewart.bsky.social Conflict, religion & politics from a historian's perspective.
Author: #LuvatunMaanLumo #ValterJuvelius #HistoriaKarttoina
Tieteentekijät @tieteentekijat.bsky.social Tieteentekijät on tieteen, tutkimuksen ja korkeakoulutuksen parissa työskentelevien ammattiliitto. Science rules!
www.tieteentekijat.fi 
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
PiisamiSiili @piisamisiili.bsky.social 30 | 🇫🇮 | She/They | ArtStation: PiisamiSiili | Tumblr: piisamisiiliart
Mark, the Oni @markmaletska.bsky.social Hi, I’m Mark Maletska (he/him), game studies scholar working in queer/trans game studies!
Oras Tynkkynen @orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi Tamperelainen vihreä kansanedustaja, eduskuntaryhmän pj. ja kaupunginvaltuutettu. Yrittäjä, YTM. Kiinnostuksen kohteena estää ihmiskuntaa rientämästä naama edellä kohti rotkoa. Mielipiteet omia, jakaminen ei tarkoita tukemista.
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Thais Weiller @thaisweiller.bsky.social I make games and complain in three different languages ⚫ the person who started the war with the Dominion ⚫50% of
@joymasher, 💯% tired
Anu Koivunen @anukoivunen.bsky.social Media Scholar, Professor of Gender Studies, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies @UniTurku, Finland.
#pyöreäpöytä @radiosuomi
#mediakolumni @SuomenKuvalehti
Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social (Anthropologist/Researcher of)Game Developer(s)
Mikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.social I do game narrative stuff. Also some other narrative stuff! Also just stuff.
Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social 📟 Sociologist studying nostalgia to reimagine the future. Club Penguin, Frutiger Aero, and the "vision" & "value" of y2k-inspired thrift stores.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Tommi Tossavainen @tommitossavainen.fi He/Him. Planning Officer: National Audiovisual Institute, Feminist, Game Educator, Public Speaker, and Entrepreneur. #medialiteracy #mediakasvatus #pelikasvatus #peliviikko #kyminlinna
lillisihvonen.bsky.social @lillisihvonen.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher and research team coordinator in Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies
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.
Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social Associate Professor in Information Studies @ Tampere University, Finland. Conducting research, teaching, and supervision on scholarly communication, open science, and meta-research.
Heikki Tyni @t-hex.bsky.social 
Olli Sotamaa @sotamaa.bsky.social proper grumpy professor // creative labour scholar // football enthusiast // middle-aged soulboy // tampere män
Julián Gutiérrez Carrera @gutierrezcarrera.bsky.social Doctoral student researching representations of suicide in videogames.
Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social Tampere University Game Research Lab, officially established in 2002, is a leading centre for multidisciplinary research into games, play, and their numerous applications. Read more about us: https://gameresearchlab.tuni.fi
Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social Reader, writer, translator, professional nerd, game scholar, larper, feminist.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, Stalker RPG, Astraterra, Chernobyl Mon Amour
Photo by Chiara Cappiello.
Tuija Siltamäki @siltamaeki.bsky.social Vapaa toimittaja & kirjailija. Olkaa hyvä ostakkee kirja!
https://www.siltalapublishing.fi/product/kosketus/
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/
Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social Feminist game and media scholar. Associate Professor of Game Studies and Director of STAR Lab at Brock University.
Agata Waszkiewicz @agatawaszkiewicz.bsky.social Game scholar, therapist in training, mental health advocate. Makes art on the side.
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.
Robin L. Zingarelli @BDiGRA26 @robinzingarelli.bsky.social Doctoral researcher working on transgender representations in video games, game designer, London based coffee enthusiast.
Lankoski @lankoski.bsky.social Professor, D.Arts. Game researcher.
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
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.
Sabine Harrer @sabha.bsky.social °• Hertha-Firnberg scholar uni wien & Uppsala uni games department °• play, race & social justice: PI of white-play.com
Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.com
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Mia Consalvo @miac.bsky.social Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much. 
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
JenOnTheMove 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @jenonthemove.com Exploring the country using every station as a gateway to lesser known places, sharing my journey via YouTube | parkrun addict | https://youtube.com/@JenOnTheMove | she/her
@jorgeoceja.bsky.social @jorgeoceja.bsky.social 
Pekka Heljakka @pekkaotus.bsky.social 
Vera Mikkilä @veramikkila.bsky.social Tieteen parhaaksi! Tutkimusrahoitusta ja kehittämishommia Suomen Akatemiassa. ETT, johtava asiantuntija.
Soma Basu @somabasu.com Anthropologist of outsourced selves and distributed humans.
somabasu.com
Torill @torillelvira.bsky.social Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.
Solip Park @solippark.bsky.social Game researcher (Doctor of Arts) at Aalto University and University of Jyväskylä. Researching migrants in the game industry and gamer & game dev culture in Korea and Finland :)