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medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
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glory to (the point) god for the #wnba. spreading the good news about women’s basketball + eating the rich.
new to bsky, old to scrolling too long on the internet. / i write and podcast about video games at @punishedbacklog.bsky.social and elsewhere.
fmr. community at Double Fine Productions | ex journalist (kotaku) | blue rogue | they/she | I write freelance stuff sometimes now
yennefer and judy alvarez propaganda machine | writing and social media/community @sunsetvisitor.studio, community @blacktabbygames.com | game design consultant | opinions mine | GLAAD emerging developers '26 | GDoC scholar '24 | future class ‘20
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I run games-focused site exalclaw.com | Weak against soft cookies | he/him
Also seen at AV Club Games, Unwinnable, Stop Caring, etc.
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I write things and put them on the internet.
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Video games freelance writer & journalist. Gaming, motherhood, drinks. She/her.
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historian | japanese empire, environment, borderlands | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
electroacoustic noise / sonic ethnography / Expedition Content (w Veronika Kusumaryati, 2020); 47 Gates (w Bhob Rainey, Erstwhile Records 2024) / Local Locations (KWMR) / https://ek.klingt.org
Award-winning disability reporter | Words:
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big-brained culture writer. i've covered games and internet culture at polygon, gamespot, verge, npr, wired, and lots of other places; alum and occasional guest at minnmax 😈🏳️🌈 - looking for work
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Games, manga, tech, music, crit, comics, etc.
Bylines: Inverse, The A.V. Club, Vulture, WSJ, Popular Mechanics, Runner's World
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Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Writing on bodies, rituals, and social history in the Roman Empire
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writer, editor. ✍️ in ny times, sf chron, vox, and more. past: culture editor @ polygon, contributing editor @ catapult, writer @ vice. taiwanese american. actually just two small rabbits in a trenchcoat
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your neighborhood feminist crank // freelance media critic // Community mod for @Aftermath.site and @mothership.blog // game photographer //(she/they)
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She/her. Formerly senior entertainment writer and editor at Polygon. Founded The Mary Sue Dot Com way back in 2011. Writer/editor. For contact and more, check out: https://susanapolo.com/
Graduate Student | Department of Religious Studies | McMaster University | Indian Buddhism, Monastic Law, and Sanskrit/Tibetan Literature
She/her. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Historian of Buddhism in South Asia and the United States
Author, Of Ancestors and Ghosts (OUP 2024): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/of-ancestors-and-ghosts-9780197748909
Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
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formerly games editor at polygon, deputy editor at hearst mags, and a buncha other stuff. DM or reply for email!
Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog, podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. formerly: Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. bonus side hustle: writing electro-pop music. she/her.
Founder of Psychgeist. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
writer, critic, & theorist; games & literature; bylines in the LA Review of Books, Gamers with Glasses, Bright Wall/Dark Room; lecturer in media arts & design at the University of Chicago; he/him; read my newsletter, "Critical Theorycraft," at www.patf.io
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
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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.
The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
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A peer-reviewed journal on games/gaming related to culture and society*
Official journal of IASGAR
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Author, Cowboy Apocalypse (2025) & Godwired (2012). Prof of Religious Studies @ Ithaca College, mom & caregiver, disgruntled idealist, loud introvert. Religion, gaming, politics, media, film.
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Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Play scholar, among other things
Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Sociologist & Computer Scientist
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Quaker, Choctaw, vegetarian, cat lady. Former librarian, currently disabled by ME/CFS.
She/her
Sawyer Seminar postdoc at Tulane, Ph.D. in religion from Columbia, researcher of evangelical girlhood, and stress-baker extraordinaire
Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
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Researching and writing about American Christianity, gender, media, and politics.
Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School.
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. PNW. he/him
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Old Feelings, New England
Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
@chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
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Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics.
Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Assistant Professor of Religion - Whitman College | South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism | Religious Authority; Religion and Music; and Religious Experience.
Book: Dancing in My Dreams (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/)
I'm a religious studies professor. I study new religious movements, exorcism, and satanic panic, among other topics. https://sites.google.com/view/joseph-p-laycock/
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
a website, betrayed by god.
queer vegan straightedge. free palestine. him.
https://stillness.digital && https://strange.website && https://henry.codes && https://strangersbyspring.com
Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his.
Scholar of medieval Chinese literary and manuscript culture (mostly Dunhuang), occasional potter, avid bad tennis player.
Senior AI reporter at The Verge.
5+ years covering the AI industry's power dynamics, societal implications & the arms race at large.
Previously: CNBC, Morning Brew, Protocol, etc.
Contact me securely on Signal: haydenfield.11
Journalist @404Media.co
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Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Critical Asian Studies publishes scholarly articles that challenge accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves.
https://digitalorientalist.com
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Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
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Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller. Will not take your ish.
Professor, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, 4e Cognition and Artificial Intelligence; Science Fiction Fan, Cyborgologist, Retired Knitter, Comic Book Reader, 4ad records fanatic. Wanna see me nerd out about music stuff? @musicephemera.bsky.social
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Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at UW-Madison | Religious Studies | Director, SLA Doctoral Program | Researching language, identity & Islamic media in East Africa
May all beings find peace.
PhD in American Religion | Resist and be kind | Proud liberal, socialist, feminist, hippie | Here for horror movies and constant existential issues | Death-positive | Probably thinking/writing about grief right now.
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center preserves Buddhist literature for the world. Using state-of-the art technology, BDRC is the leading digital archive of Buddhist texts, working with local partners to provide free access for the global community. bdrc.io
Nara’s Buddhist arts | art history PhD
個人的なアカウントです
History of Religions Prof., Buddhism, Drikung Kagyu, Spinner of fibers wool, Bees
The American Society for Premodern Asia, founded in 1842 as the AOS, promotes research in the languages & literatures of West, Central, South & East Asia, & North Africa, incl. philology, epigraphy, linguistics & material culture. https://www.aspa1842.org
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author, marshall scholar, phd @ Yale
sinophone + asian american lit
BABEL, YELLOWFACE, etc...
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This is my academic feed for posting Buddhist philosophy, theoretical neurobiology, and aesthetics.
Horror and metal posting at https://bsky.app/profile/neuronaraka.bsky.social
Professor of Buddhist Studies. Author of Yasodhara and the Buddha (2021) and The Gathering (2023). Karate enthusiast. Goofy and serious and a Gemini.
teacher, anthropologist, mom / Religion Dept @ Wesleyan U / author of Buddhists, Shamans and Soviets: https://academic.oup.com/book/27356?login=false
teacher, author, peacenik. www.maryjanerubenstein.com https://bit.ly/Astrotopia, https://bit.ly/WorldsWithoutEndMultiverse, https://bit.ly/Pantheologies, https://bit.ly/StrangeWonder, https://bit.ly/EntangledWorlds
Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Professor @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde), University of Vienna.
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; 🗃️
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immigrant. grad student in community health sciences at UManitoba. just trying to make this place better. (he/him/y'all)
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Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
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