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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls

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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

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Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social · 23h ago

Who's up for a good old fashioned (but short, bc I'm tired) paper thread? Thrilled to be in this special issue of Gender & Society (an absolute dream!), where we propose a feminist-inspired extension of how to theorize and model the spread of ideas in science + journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What Gets Lost in Translation? Epistemic Tensions between Translation and Diffusion in Practice-Oriented Scholarship Abstract This paper proposes a feminist-informed metascience theory to explain the interconnected processes of idea creation, translation, and diffusion. Drawing on feminist critiques of science centered on perspective, power, and praxis, we develop a creation–diffusion model that jointly examines how ideas are created and then how the content of ideas influences their spread across academic fields. Using a nationally funded gender equity program as a case of a practice-oriented knowledge-production community, we analyze how gender equity research concepts were translated and diffused through the program-funded publications. We operationalize substantive engagement with gender equity research using word embeddings and Concept Mover’s Distance. Then, with additional contextual variables, we measure (1) the predictors of this engagement (ideas) and (2) the impact of engagement on citation counts and citation interdisciplinarity (the diffusion process) across social science and STEM fields. Our findings show that, in addition to context, the content of the idea matters for diffusion: Engagement with critical dimensions of gender equity research, such as feminism and structural concepts, diffused less often, whereas other dimensions, such as gender and methods, achieved broader uptake. Our empirical findings highlight the role of perspectives and epistemic power in shaping both knowledge production and diffusion. Our theoretical framework and methods demonstrate how metascience can incorporate feminist theory directly into diffusion studies, and why it should.
Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Introduction to a special issue on feminist metascience and open science by Christin Munsch and @divreyes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Abstract This introduction brings feminist scholarship into conversation with metascience and open science. Drawing on feminist epistemology, we argue scientific reform is not a neutral technical project. Rather, practices intended to improve rigor, transparency, and accessibility may also expose marginalized scholars and research participants to harm, reproduce inequality, and facilitate hostile scrutiny, particularly in the current political environment. These tensions point to the need for feminist metascience and feminist open science. We define feminist metascience as the study of how gender and intersecting relations of power shape the production, evaluation, circulation, and correction of scientific knowledge, and we define feminist open science as an approach to transparency that remains attentive to care, protection, and risk. We offer these definitions and the articles in this special issue as a starting point for larger conversations about how feminist scholarship might contribute to emerging debates over scientific reform.
MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag.bsky.social · yesterday

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a southeast asian esoteric marxist-leninist technoccultic tropical gothic science fantasy take on xianxia and spirit cultivation. play as kung fu commies, daoist grenadiers, buddhist gunwitches, digital devil wizards, all against the heavens

10k swords coverkatalonan spreadproletariat spreaddevelopment of the self "iN PLACE OF OLD BOURGEOIS SOCIETY, WITH ITS CLASSES AND CLASS ANTAGONISMS, WE SHALL HAVE AN ASSOCIATION IN WHICH THE FREE DEVELOPMENT OF EACH IS THE CONDITION FOR THE FREE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL"
Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop@backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 2d ago

Last week, SPINE won a gold ENNIE for Best Solo Game. It's the first year that this category has been available. You can watch to my acceptance speech below or read the transcript, which explains why I am grateful for this new category. Watch ▶️ : www.youtube.com/shorts/x92Bs...

ENNIES: SPINE Acceptance Speech Transcript

ENNIES Best Solo Game Acceptance Speech for SPINE Watch the Acceptance Speech on YouTube Get your copy of SPINE Transcript My name is Asa Donald, and I am honored to accept the award for Best Solo Game for this year’s ENNIES for spine: A dark solo TTRPG about losing yourself in a book. I’d like...

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Joey ‘Detchibe' W. 🏳️‍⚧️@thestacks.ca · 6d ago

As a reminder: 💛The Stacks is open for pitches & paid writing!💛 I'm looking for writing on obscure games history, art history, sex/gender, and more Full guidelines + rates: thestacks.ca/submissions

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Joey ‘Detchibe' W. 🏳️‍⚧️@thestacks.ca · 2w ago

This month in The Stacks, Molly Quell (@mollyquell.bsky.social) takes us through a history of image manipulation, from giant vegetables to disappearings to fairies. thestacks.ca/posts/2026-0...

Dr. Emily Price@emilyprice.bsky.social · last wk.

For this month‘s column I got so mad about the AI videogame smell machine that I made a perfume and videogame pairing list:

Stu Horvath@stuhorvath.com · last wk.

In what is the oddest piece we've run in a long while @emilyprice.bsky.social presents a number of perfume and videogame pairings for your olfactory delight. "For a while I’d had two conflicting desires: finding a daily (or regular) scent and trying out the weirdest smells I could."