Laura Levy 👾🔬✨
@drlauralevy.bsky.social
🎓 PhD human factors psych 🐝 Previous Blizzard, Amazon Games, Georgia Tech Research Scientist 👾 #GUR #HCI 🤷🏻♀️ John McCain put my first game on his "naughty list" 💬 my own thoughts/opinions 🇺🇸🇨🇱🇸🇪
It’s beginning to look a lot like an Overwatch 10 year anniversary party! 🥳✨
Tease me for my pieces of flare but today it worked a charm. New stakeholder and they immediately recognized which game I support, which team I’m on, that I play on controller, and a support main. Also came from Atlanta and knows esports. I present my professional biography, in lanyard form.
Are you in southern California or Baja? Let the USGS know if you felt the sonic boom from the Artemis re-entry! DYFI link: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 6mo agoThe thunderous vibration will likely take place between 5 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Pacific Time, the USGS said.
Two days shy of my Amaversary, I join my dev brethren in the end of this Amazon Games chapter. What an honor to work with friends that are also colleagues I admire, make some games, & do research that mattered. 15+ yrs in games/tech & ready for the Next Thing! 🧵 www.linkedin.com/in/drlaurale...
Hey folks. I was impacted by the layoffs at Amazon today. If you or someone you know is in need of a UX Researcher with multiple years of experience leading or supporting research initiatives, games or otherwise, please DM me or reach out to me on LinkedIIn. www.linkedin.com/in/cdwheelock
Picard: computer, energize ChatGPT: energizing, sir Picard: we are still here ChatGPT: My apologies, you are right. I thought you energized but you are still here. You are energized now. Picard: Nope, still standing here. ChatGPT: Ah, I see the issue now. Energizing now.
Happy 64th birthday to the man who makes us want to believe, Fox Mulder. How do you think he and Scully are celebrating? Sweet potato pie? #TheXFiles
a man in a suit and tie with the letter s on his tie
Alt: Fox Mulder with short dark brown hair and sideburns wearing a light blue shirt, dark blue tie and black suit jacket smiles and shrugs
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Announcing a game is a huge milestone for folks in the gaming industry and I am hyped that we've announced March of Giants today! See our announcement here: www.amazongames.com/en-us/news/a... Sign up for our upcoming Alpha here: playmog.games/requestMOGac...
March of Giants, a New Free-to-Play War MOBA From Amazon Games Montreal, Begins Closed Alpha Testing
Players in North America can request access now to provide feedback on a brand-new competitive MOBA for PC from the team behind Rainbow Six Siege.
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Learn more and request access for the upcoming Closed Alpha at MarchOfGiants.com
March of Giants
A Free-To-Play 4v4 War MOBA
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What have I been working on for the past couple years, besides comics? Alongside @jacksonlanzing.bsky.social and @collinkelly.bsky.social, I've been a writer on a brand new free-to-play AAA game from the team that brought you Rainbow Six: Siege. Get ready for MARCH OF GIANTS!
my boss: hey nice job! my brain: you cannot compliment me in a way that matters
"Wow, I'm so stressed out today. I wonder why. My job is neat." : realizes I've been listening to non-stop enemy aggro music in my headset for 5 hours in this playtest : "oh"
This is the THIRD paper I've seen in the last year that uses people's data in a way that is deeply ethically problematic. If games scholars keep doing this it is going to seriously harm everyone's ability to do research with online gaming communities as they start closing off to scientists.
Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)
Discord has evolved from a gaming-focused communication tool into a versatile platform supporting diverse online communities. Despite its large user base and active public servers, academic research o...
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Another week, another research ethics controversy. TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized. But let's unpack this one... 🧵 www.404media.co/researchers-...
Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.
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"Hey babe, get a load of this [I DON'T REALIZE WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY IS SO STUPID] stupid humanities thing" (enter computer scientist that you wouldn't expect to know a lot about humanities things) 👨🏫: that's a post-modern theory of yap yap important to yap theory Kuhn yap Popper yap me: ...oh
a close up of a woman 's face with the words `` fine '' written next to her .
Alt: A close up of the artist, Rhianna, pouting on camera with text below that reads "fine"
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Was watching Bill Nye with my son yesterday—the kind of science education creativity and spirit that's currently being extinguished. Credits hit hard when the NSF logo came up.
____________________ | | | SIN ISN’T REAL. | | | | YOU ARE GOOD. | | | |___________________| | | (\__/) | | (•ㅅ•) | | / > | |
So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!
It’s so cool how fast this technology has improved and continues to improve our lives every day 🥰 @kcrw.com
all academics hit a point where you must make the difficult decision to title your paper either - TOWARDS ... [an understanding of yap yap] OR - BEYOND ... [whatever you're doing and not what I'm doing] when, inevitably, you've committed both sins you become a Dean or a husk, who's to say really
It took a lifetime of academia to instill and only 1.5 years out to finally stop thinking of the year in semesters. I’ve never felt more truly at peace. The year is mine to fritter away without boundaries! Corporate America saved one soul today. 🥳