I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "Enshittifcation." Next book "Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI." Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
PostDoc at University of Oxford.
Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
A new think tank for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com.
sotf.org.uk
Meta-scientist and psychologist. Senior lecturer @unibe.ch. Chief recommender @error.reviews. "Jumped up punk who hasn't earned his stripes." All views a product of my learning history. If behaviorism did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
Imperial College London, psychiatry, cognitive science, mental imagery, youth mental health, digital tools.
Professor @ University of Washington Information School. Computing, learning, design, justice, kitties, tacos, coffee, gender, politics, and transit. I write at amyjko.medium.com. I maintain wordplay.dev, bookish.press, adminima.app, reciprocal.reviews.
The world's largest professional organization advancing #computing as a science and profession. Also on Mastodon | LinkedIn | Meta | YouTube | Instagram.
acquisitions editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
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Psychology & behavior genetics. Author of THE GENETIC LOTTERY (2021) and ORIGINAL SIN (coming 3.3.2026). Speaking as an individual
asst prof of computer science at cu boulder
nlp, cultural analytics, narratives, communities
books, bikes, games, art
https://maria-antoniak.github.io
He/they. I teach about Game Design, Technoscience, & East Asia at CMU. Belatedly joining this thing to keep up with my creative & academic communities (comments my own).
I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Senior Writer at The Ringer 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 occasional podcast host (22 Goals, Truthless) 🦉 whippet fancier
https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
A Life Well Wasted, I Come to Shanghai, always in the kitchen. Music, books, and games. Lexington, VA. www.alifewellwasted.com
https://icometoshanghai.bandcamp.com/album/low-pressure
narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
Visual funkateer
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/luis_melo/
www.partyinthefront.com
https://www.behance.net/partyinthefront
At the 1976 meeting of the Board, it was decided that a formal organization of a Society for Mathematical Psychology was desirable.
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 (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance) (MIT)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
Official account of SciBeh.org - we are an academic volunteer organisation drawing on behavioral science to build better digital tools for science and foster a collective intelligence approach to science communication with policy makers and the public.
Research Scientist at the University of Washington based in Brooklyn. Also: SFI External Applied Fellow, Harvard BKC affiliate. Collective Behavior, Statistics, etc..
We are the leading international network for scholars and practitioners dedicated to advancing sustainability transitions research.
Follow our page to stay updated on the latest research, events, and insights!
https://transitionsnetwork.org/
Artist, Matte Painter, Goblin Artificer.
Queer 🏳️🌈 ADHD✨ He/Him
Tip jar: ko-fi.com/chriswilsonart
Making data & AI work for people & society.
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A horror game club podcast hosted by @gracemachine.bsky.social and @bluestrose.bsky.social
http://spookygame.club
Postdoctoral Researcher | HCI | more the quiet observer type 🙃
Neuroscience postdoc | ISTBI, Fudan University #shanghai | Studying learning & naturalistic decision-making | video games + neuroimaging + computational modeling
I do a lot of stuff because my brain has too many chemicals. 1994 ⚧ it/its
I have 12 birthdays a year because of a medical mishap: https://youtu.be/OEirbqQjynU
https://suricrasia.online/
artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
A networking and knowledge-sharing organisation for the UK tabletop gaming industry. Established professionals and aspiring contributors welcome!
Find more information and sign up for our newsletter here: https://uktin.carrd.co/
Critic. Tabletop columnist at The AV Club and Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Chief Creative Officer: http://Spryfox.com
Blog: http://lostgarden.home.blog
@Danc@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game Design: Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken, Cozy Grove, etc
Full Time: Prof @ University of Washington
Intrusion, Inclusion, and Dilution FTW
Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
(Associately??) Professing #hci #creativity #toolsforthought #metascience at UMD INFO and HCIL
#immigrant (🇲🇾 ➡️ 🇺🇸 ) #firstgen academic
Building @discoursegraphs.bsky.social #atproto 🤝 #openscience
https://joelchan.me
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
Maker of Artificial Intelligence, Player of Games, Citizen of the World, Student of Philosophy, Writer of Pretentious Lists.
Reader in AI in Games at the University of Hertfordshire.
Research Director, Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University, r/AskHistorians moderator
I study how to make the internet freer and safer— and how to help the helpers on the ground making that possible. She/her
https://citizensandtech.org/
A brand new funding and support programme for UK-based artists, designed to help them develop their art by using immersive technologies. https://immersivearts.uk/
Research director @Inria, Head of @flowersInria
lab, prev. @MSFTResearch @SonyCSLParis
Artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, sciences of curiosity, language, self-organization, autotelic agents, education, AI and society
http://www.pyoudeyer.com
Freelance writer + editor • words @ Edge, GamesRadar+, Epic Games etc • ex-RPS, PLAY Mag, PC Gamer • she/her/ace
🧩 Editor @thinkygames.com
🎙 Co-host @indieventurepodcast.co.uk
📖 Author of COCOON: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk
📧 rachelwatts150[a]gmail.com
I'm an artist, love graphic, fairy tales and northern forest.
https://www.patreon.com/KononenkoElena ✨
The rePLAY Lab is committed to the advancement of digital games & entertainment technology through user research. Director:
@wallnergue.bsky.social
#gamesUR #gameAnalytics
Professor of Visual Analytics who does datavis, visualization storytelling and natural travel. Did I mention visualization?
A Canadian cartoonist/filmmaker, Mr. Annable is the creator of the Grickle Channel, and co-director of Laika’s The Boxtrolls. Represented by Hansen Literary.
Worked on games like The Suffering, The Church in the Darkness, and Homeworld: Vast Reaches. Wrote Game Design: Theory & Practice. Now Studio Creative Director at FarBridge on dark new things.
Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
textiles + crafts + wearable tech + audio
Associate Prof at Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London.
Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
UX, Product, AI 🪐 Currently a Principal AI Content Designer in FinTech. Opinions are my own and questionable.
Found in central London, wearing velvet clothing, and spilling coffee everywhere. 🏳️🌈 and 😴
#contentdesign #productmanagement #ux #tech
I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
Bringing together the leading experts in AI for the video games industry.
http://www.aiandgamesconference.com
AI and Games Conference is organised by Game AI Events CIC: a UK-based non-profit that hosts events for game AI developers in Europe.
Historian of technology & dad joke aficionado who lived w/a great little gray rabbit until recently (RIP).
I won’t share AI generated content, except to critique it.
In person I’ll be wearing a KN95. If you care about me put one on too.
www.marhicks.com
Cognitive scientist, associate professor at Aarhus University.
Predictive Processing, Emotion, Play, Recreational Fear, Cognitive Development.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dyson School of Design Engineering
Imperial College London
https://fourier.space
Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician.
🎓 PhD in Games and Affective Computing | 🎮 Assistant Professor @ SDU Metaverse Lab [https://gdlt.sdu.dk/staff/] | 🎲 game goblin [http://goblingoulash.com] | 🌈 he/they
English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. http://www.plasticbag.org
Product & innovation for IoT & clean energy tech. Works at @energysyscat.bluesky.social (views my own). Lead author of Designing Connected Products (O'Reilly). She/her
Researcher, teacher, gamer, knitter, grandmother.
President of DiGRA, NYU Game Center Prof, gamer, author, mom, cosplayer, RPG nerd.
Prof Digital Media & Communication, University College Dublin, Ireland. Co- PI ADAPT Research Centre & Algowatch project. Researching people & games, tech & AI.
Designer, researcher and professor at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Researching games for health and science communication.
Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
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.
Lecturer and researcher in game studies. Gardening and woodworking enthusiast. Devourer of video games and audiobooks. Wife to my wife. She/they.
Professor at @AU_SOC, Director at @AUGameCenter, President at @theHEVGA. Personal acct. he/him
Game scholar, game design praxiologist, ludic gallerist. And other things.
Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much.
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
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
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!)
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" .
proper grumpy professor // creative labour scholar // football enthusiast // middle-aged soulboy // tampere män
Game researcher from Jagiellonian University in Krakow
This is a police hating and human existence loving account
Whenever I do satire everyone thinks its news and whenever I do news everyone thinks it's satire so good luck with these posts I guess
On Mastodon: Criminalerin.jorts.horse
She/they/guy
http://maxread.substack.com
Communication science, media psychology, and game studies at the University of Twente. He/him
Words for sale.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen/
Comics: https://bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6kLb
Website: www.kierongillen.com
🎮 tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
🌐 acegikmo.com
🎥 youtube.com/@acegikmo
🏗️ Shader Forge / Shapes / https://half-edge.xyz
📡 ex-founder of Neat Corp
my kids:
🥪 @toast.acegikmo.com
🥗 @salad.acegikmo.com
🐈⬛ @thor.acegikmo.com
Psychologist. Sr Assoc Director Teaching & Learning @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social. Author of SPARK OF LEARNING, HIVEMIND, & MIND OVER MONSTERS
Writes about emotions, teaching, brains. Enjoys speculative fiction, Halloween, and the sea. sarahrosecav.com
Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
Passion for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience @ MPI CBS
Visit our website for upcoming events & a great collection of past talks: https://www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
