Developer of open source software for the humanities. Maker of FairCopy, EditionCrafter, and Juxta. Partner at Performant Software Solutions LLC.
Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Posts too infrequently to have a brand. • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. • see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵 • he/him
Webdev slowly turning into a gamedev
I'm a stuffed cow that has been traveling the globe since 1999. I will share one new adventure every day. Follow along!
Retired absent minded professor. Darwin award semifinalist. Ancora imparo. Note: I don't respond to DMs.
You have a diskette, and you want to start fresh. So you run “INIT HELLO” on your Apple II and you get a clean slate.
INIT HELLO, V2 is coming to the System Source Computer Museum north of Baltimore, Maryland, June 19–21, 2026.
HCI Prof at CMU HCII: thecoalalab.com
Research on:
- technologies to augment human thinking and learning
- participatory & responsible AI
- human-AI interaction
Writer, walker, software archaeologist. Back in the day: Editor of Acorn User, Editor of h2g2.
I love analysing old code, and my aim is to create the best code disassemblies you have ever seen.
Purveyor of Elite/Lander/Revs hacks.
www.markmoxon.com
Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
The Georgetown University Wargaming Society (GUWS) provides a venue for current and aspiring wargamers to learn more about wargaming and build their professional networks. 🔗 www.guwargaming.org
non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Founder of Back-to-Iraq.com, OG crowdfunded war correspondent, writer, editor, strategist.
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/callbritton/
• https://christopherallbritton.com
Queer Nerd PhD of Educational Philosophy. Perma (& often paid) GM. Improviser. The games we play & the stories we tell will save us & democracy. TTRPGs are what the world needs.
STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Postdoctoral Researcher in Design, HCI, Futures and Social Computing at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University
Current: role of values and ideologies in the design of technologies.
Active at the Research Professionals Union
https://felix.science
Creative Director at Leder Games. Classics enthusiast.
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. CSCW 2026 will be in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 10–14, 2026: https://cscw.acm.org/2026/.
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She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Director of the HCIL. General Chair for CSCW 2025. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com
Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
Since 1980, Steve Jackson Games has been creating tabletop classics like GURPS, Car Wars, Munchkin, and more. Where are we headed next? Stay tuned. #PlaySJGames https://linktr.ee/stevejacksongames
Postdisciplinary games academic: Make/study/teach the playful, weird, wonderful and radical. (he/him)
#criticaldesign #speculativedesign #designfiction #gamedesign
Projects:
https://ben.kirman.org
One of the world's top schools in information science. Offering degrees in Informatics, Library and Information Science (MLIS), Information Management (MSIM), and Museology, and doctorates in information science. Seattle, WA.
https://ischool.uw.edu/
Librarian, Grappler, Diagnosed ADHD late in life, TTRPG'S
Podcast: Daydreaming about Dragons
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daydreaming-about-dragons
Blog: Githyanki Diaspora
https://githyankidiaspora.com/
Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of the @hagleycenter.bsky.social. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal.
I can't explain myself, not just like this. I'm a complicated person, sometimes I'm nice, and sometimes I'm nasty. Naval history (BPF) Lego, Arsenal FC. Minor greek deity (salad dressing). Meanjin/Brisbane on Yuggera/Turrbal land. AI slop = block. He/Him.
I study animal and environmental history of Mongolia. Ph.D. he/him.
Pixel thrower, avocado fan, slacker, cis she/her
Expert in milksteak and ghouls.
Director of IMGD at WPI. Game design, generative AI, computational craft, generative design, feminist tech, mom stories. she/they
PhD. Post-Doc Researcher in Organisational Psychology. University of South-Eastern Norway.
Hybrid background (MSc OrgPsych, MA ClinPsych, some HCI and CogSciences...) and so hybrid interests.
Building personalized Bluesky feeds for academics! Pin Paper Skygest, which serves posts about papers from accounts you're following: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest. By @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and @nkgarg.bsky.social
Read my books: http://amzn.to/36pzbf9 Freelance editor, writer, poet, humorist. OEF veteran by way of BFE. Admin: The Aiming Circle. Opinions & jokes my own. https://linktr.ee/randysherpabrown
The dumbest and weirdest video game show on YouTube since 2007 | 📧 stopskeletons@gmail.com
📬 PO Box 3261 Seattle WA 98114
The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
Claflin University Associate Professor of History; AAIHS President; Co-Host *Our New South* podcast; Modjeska Simkins School Lead Instructor; historian, writer, Star Trek fan
Game designer, teacher, writer, artist, probably in that order.
https://www.darkbolt.com
PhD student at the University of Bristol looking at ancient Carthage in games. Higher Education professional. Founder of Posthumous Punic Memes for Salty Carthaginian Teens. Views my own.
🔗 https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/edward-hammond
I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
Celebrating the worst in games since 2025.
Stay tuned comrades x
admin @emarlow.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).
(he/him/his) Assistant Professor, Poet: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies
travisclau.com
Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society of SHOT. SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge will take place virtually on Sept 25-27. See details and CFP here: https://meetings.sigcis.org/
Mostly retro and vintage computing content, I guess.
www.masswerk.at
🇨🇦 Emergency management practitioner. Master of Arts in Disaster and Emergency Management. Public servant working in support of the agriculture industry of BC. Views are my own.
meat muppet, somehow dr., maintenance & repair & luddism, voluntarily de-convenienced.
this is the most professional account i have.
if i block it's because your profile reads like a bot.
she/they/anything but he.
•community safety+support steward @ Blacksky
support@blacksky.app
•poet, educator & scholar
•abortion doula
•trap feminist
•disability fellow @ Disability Culture Lab
🌐 kalyncoghill.com
🧠 hoodratscholarship.com
Poetry is life distilled. -GB
Archaeologist. Ancient Games. Syracuse Basketball. Cheese. Sneakers. Gay stuff. he/him
TTRPG geek. Writer. Blogger. Left. LGBTQIA+ Ally. No-AI Art. Minneapolis, MN. I host a website about TTRPGs , worldbuilding, and storytelling. Check us out @ https://chaoticanwriter.com.
Lawyer, veteran. Ex-baby historian, current litigator, lapsed social scientist, still playing TTRPGs. Unabashedly pro-cat because cats are awesome. Various thoughts, some well articulated in 🇺🇲/🇩🇪.
📍Chicago, IL, Vereinigte Staaten, Terra
Professor of Gambling Research and Policy at the University of Glasgow. Co-chair of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling.
🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is here!!! 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue
Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
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/
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.
Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
Grandmother Fish (Macmillan 2016), the first book to teach #evolution to preschoolers, plus science games for kids (www.grandmotherfish.com). Over the Edge, #TTRPG of surreal urban danger (atlas-games.com/overtheedge). D&D 3E, Ars Magica, Everway, etc.
PhD Candidate @ CMU HCII | Critical Computing + STS + Queer Art | he/they | https://jtaylor.lgbt | On the Job Market
Asst. Professor of Game Design. Sword Nerd. (Secretly a Tekken and Wrestling account) He/They/Any
Associate Professor of Film, Television, & Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Author of Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade & Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11. Co-editor of How to Play Video Games.
He/Him. Indy TTRPG designer who has been providing free PDF content to the table top gaming community for almost 30 years.
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
CEO, Metadata Game Changers | Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science. Nerd out about infrastructure, field stations, and metadata. https://erinrobinson.info
your friendly neighborhood roguelike conference since 2015. https://roguelike.club + https://www.youtube.com/@roguelikecelebration
🧠🌶️♾️🦋🌈
I love playing games, everything from chess (poorly) to Fortnite (poorly)
YouTube for quick reviews, how to plays, and ongoing design projects:
https://www.youtube.com/@philgoyette1982
Also mrgoyette@wargamers.social on Mastodon
Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture
Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
(he/they) Scholar. Geek. Nova Scotian. 🌍 Libraries (#GLAM), medical humanities, history/public history, neurodiversity and disability studies. 🌍 Geekier at: @willow0wisp.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง
https://andrewalanjohnson.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming
The Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design @citystgeorges.bsky.social, University of London conducts leading user-centred research. Home of the MSc HCID. https://hcid.city/ #HCID2025: https://hcidopenday.co.uk/
paddington stan account | writing books & making games
cracks (2024): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216596625
Games/Game Design/Game Studies, Nutrition, Psychology, Aging, The Warren, Larpbus, Nanoworld, 200WRPGC, he/him.
Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist. Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc. I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek. Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player. Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
designing services and systems. building stuff in my backyard.
partner at https://october.systems
Toronto
Born in Warsaw. Studied design at Köln International School of Design. Indie game designer now. IGF finalist. Teaching Game Design. 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱 He/Him
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@krystman on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Seeking adventures from the archives of the past, one story at a time. I love taking a look at the history of RPGs, the tales they spin, and in shining a light on these from time to time in my threads. Let's explore together!
A platform to share hacks and translations of retro games.
Website: https://romhack.ing
Patreon: https://patreon.com/Romhackdoting
Discord: https://discord.gg/9m8AnzdTMv
The official BlueSky page for the unofficial Rochester, NY Discord Server
Our server members ROC! https://discord.gg/rochester
Follows/likes/posts/reposts are relevant to the ROC area and ≠ endorsements
Profile photos via Yassine Khalfalli (unsplash)
🏴 Anarchist
🔒 Cybersec Consultant | 💻 Senior Fullstack Dev
🌐 Founder: www.riotnation.click
☕ Sustain the Resistance: https://ko-fi.com/riotnation
⚡🏳️🌈 Ⓐ🩼
We prepare our graduates to become world leaders who will expand the frontiers of science and mathematics. #STEM
International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
I do human-computer interaction, mainly, and play music for fun. Well, and a lot of other stuff. But HCI is useful as a way to find me.
Lecturer in Computing at University of Dundee! 💻👨🏫 Doing HCI research. Scottish. Metalhead. Cheerful Goth. Tamer of haggises. Impostor academic. Occasionally irate. Fuelled by coffee/chocolate/whisky. ☕🍫🥃. he/him
♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ PhD student @ umich researching accessibility, diy tech, AR
she/her
jayl.in
Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
HCI PhD student @UCSC
kittykaa.github.io
Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
Assistant Prof at University of California Santa Cruz in Computational Media. PhD. HCI & Accessibility. I study the intersection of people, play, & tech. she/they, opinions own
https://kateringland.com
Assistant Professor @ Harvard SEAS specializing in human-computer and human-AI interaction. Also interested in visualization, digital humanities, urban design.
Fan site for The One Ring RPG by Free League. Immerses yourself in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, exploring themes of heroism, fellowship, and the struggle against the Shadow. Journey through lands of wonder, peril, and epic adventure.
I'm an academic in Information Sciences, background in computational astrophysics. I tend to post about academic stuff, open source, politics, tabletop roleplaying games, MS-DOS and occasionally the 1975 Joe Don Baker movie "Mitchell."
🎲Board game designer🎓Grad student studying 💾 bits and bytes 🖥️⚙️Operating systems📈mathematical finance
Weekly playtesting: https://arborius.online/discord
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
undisciplined historian of science and technology. ✶
