Something a little different and very fun with Pokémon!

Journal of Geek Studies@jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Are Pokémon routes and habitats more realistic than you think? 🤔 New research shows that ecological patterns in Pokémon games closely resemble those found in the natural world. #geekstudies #Ecology #SciComm #GameStudies Article by N Stephenson, @shujie.bsky.social, @yarongliu.bsky.social, et al.

Are Pokémon routes and habitats more realistic than you think? 🤔 New research shows that ecological patterns in Pokémon games closely resemble those found in the natural world. #geekstudies #Ecology #SciComm #GameStudies Article by N Stephenson, @shujie.bsky.social, @yarongliu.bsky.social, et al.

Ecological patterns in Pokémon games reflect those observed in the natural world

Nile P. Stephenson1,2,3, Gabriel B. Stephenson4, Shujie Chang1,2, Britta K. Fiedler5, Yarong Liu1,2,6, Ayaka U. Paul1,2,5, Euan N. Furness4 1Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridg…

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I found this site looking up the #cosmicprincesskaguya tag. The article is super interesting read with a ton of sources listed. The entire website has super interesting content on it. Idk there was so many colors of sea bunnies. Apparently they don't even know if they see the same species or not.

Journal of Geek Studies@jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We have a new article! 🚨 @krakenscholar.bsky.social and Carlo Cunha talk about the kawaii sea slug 𝘑𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘢, better known as the “sea bunny, and its place in pop culture. #geekstudies #nudibranchs #marinebiology #超かぐや姫 #CosmicPrincessKaguya #CPK

Don't miss our first issue of 2026. We got six cool articles for all geek tastes. 📖🧵 #geekstudies #scicomm

Vol. 13(1): June, 2026

Journal of Geek Studies –Vol. 13(1): published on June 30, 2026 From Jaws to Baby Shark: an overview of 50 years of sharks in cinema and television Rasia, L.L. Pp. 1-10.  PDF / HTML  Published onli…

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A curious way to go about about it, for sure. "Humanlike tone is based on presentation; anthropomorphism doesn't prove sentience. / Persuasiveness and self-consistency can be measured, yet don't imply real or simulated behaviour."

A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient

Careful, you'll hurt its feelings.

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The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

Happy #GeekPrideDay & #TowelDay! 🎉🎉 What better way to commemorate than catching up on some #geekstudies? Take a look at our ongoing 2026 volume and see what we've been up to so far: jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol...

@pathoftitans.bsky.social introduced a new playable Tylosaurus species to the game, with feedback from the actual paleontologists who described the new species. Their new video includes an interview with Amelia Zietlow, from the @amnh.org, who led the research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0N-...

Tylosaurus rex - New Subspecies & Interview

YouTube video by Path of Titans

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We have a new article fresh out of the transmutation circle! 🚨 Our authors explain how the famous Equivalent Exchange of #FullMetalAlchemist relates to the Conservation Laws of real-world science. #GeekStudies #scicomm #FMA #鋼の錬金術師

On the relation between Full Metal Alchemist’s Equivalent Exchange and the scientific Conservation Laws

Alberto Cortés Navarrete & Dulce M. Morales Independent researchers. Groningen, The Netherlands. Emails: albertocortesnavarrete (at) gmail (dot) com; dules_bast (at) hotmail (dot) com Download …

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An analysis of 141 films since 1919 finds geologists are usually portrayed as likable characters, though nearly a third of on-screen geologists die, most often by murder or geological events. doi.org/hb3tq4

Geologists in films are the good guys... but they often die

It all began with a perfectly ordinary chat over coffee between four researchers. How many films featuring geologists can we think of?

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New from @jgeekstudies.bsky.social "Sea bunnies retained their presence in the pantheon of kawaii animals, and now they are a common sight in souvenir shops and gashapon machines as well as making a few appearances in anime" jgeekstudies.org/2026/05/01/a... #Culture #Nature #SeaSlugs #Biology

A kawaii slug? The sea bunny Jorunna parva in pop culture

Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Carlo M. Cunha2 1Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Po…

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We have a new article! 🚨 @krakenscholar.bsky.social and Carlo Cunha talk about the kawaii sea slug 𝘑𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘢, better known as the “sea bunny, and its place in pop culture. #geekstudies #nudibranchs #marinebiology #超かぐや姫 #CosmicPrincessKaguya #CPK

A kawaii slug? The sea bunny Jorunna parva in pop culture

Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Carlo M. Cunha2 1Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Po…

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A very interesting read about the "new Japonisme", penned by a scholar specialized in the history of modern Western art and Japonisme.

Japan Love: Fad or Japonisme Reborn?

The term neo-Japonisme has some currency today, but is the global popularity of Japanese culture really something to be likened to the Japonisme of the nineteenth century? An art historian looks at wh...

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While in our world, molluscs are the second most diverse animal group. But their representation in game universes (like Magic: The Gathering) is skewed, and someone felt the need to look into that! (and maybe research expense some boosters) 🧪 #MTG Link: jgeekstudies.org/2025/08/24/m...

The partnership between Cairn devs' and "ONF-Acting for the Forest" once again illustrates how video games can contribute to environmental conservation, as I concluded in my previous study. Something I notice more and more -for the good !! #conservation jgeekstudies.org/2025/11/11/c...

Can conservation really be effective through video games? A case study on Jack Barau and some perspectives

Florian Verdier Independent Researcher, Sens, France. Email: fverdier.ei (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Almost half of the world’s population plays video games (Buijisman, 2024). Whether the exp…

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The Game Bakers@thegamebakers.com · 4mo ago

We are partnering with the ONF–Acting for the Forest program to bring back Mountain elms to the Oisans forest in the Alps! In Cairn, Kami’s slopes are lush with life, and so should the Ecrins mountain ridge 🗻 youtu.be/SLpf-atLfIg

Hornet’s silk isn’t just cool, it has parallels in real biology. A science breakdown for Silksong fans, by @aumpuma.bsky.social #GeekStudies #scicomm #HollowKnight

Hornet’s web: weaving the biology of silk into Hollow Knight: Silksong

Abraham U. Morales-Primo Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Hospital General de México, Mexico City, Mexico. Email: aump.puma (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Silk is o…

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I'm building a new home for my writing on Substack. As part of the process, I'm revisiting some older pieces: here's a revised version of my article on Jōmon archaeology in Zelda, originally published in the @jgeekstudies.bsky.social 👇

Jōmon in Hyrule

The 10,000-year-old archaeology behind Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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New article alert! 🚨 An evolutionary take on the fauna of one of gaming’s most loved worlds! Read more: jgeekstudies.org/2026/02/05/m... #GeekStudies #MonsterHunter #scicomm #systematics

Monster Hunter: an evolutionary story

Christopher Sevin Independent scientific educator, France. Email: c-sevin (at) live (dot) fr Download PDF Monster Hunter is a fantasy-themed video game franchise created by the Japanese company Cap…

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🚨New article! Bioethics in #Touhou? @venti-tempest.bsky.social looks into how Eirin Yagokoro fares in terms of medical ethics in her practice. #GeekStudies #GameStudies #TouhouProject #東方 #東方Project

Analysis of Eirin Yagokoro (Touhou Project) from a bioethical perspective

I Gede Eka Agung Agastya Punia Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Mahasaraswati University, Bali, Indonesia. Email: agastya (at) unmas (dot) ac (dot) id  Download PDF Bioethics i…

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Perfect

Veeloxxy Bites@the-episiarch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Whenever I find out a colleague is using LLM to do literature searches and to "summarise" papers

"Researchers are exploring the ways board games and tabletop role-playing games could be used in health and social care interventions." #rpg #dnd #mentalhealth

Study explores wellbeing impact of board games

Researchers find games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Dixit can lead to a boost in confidence.

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Why do some people elect to be trolls? Part of it is attention seeking, but there is a dark undercurrent of traits sending them down that path, including narcissism, trait sadism, and even straight-up psychopathy, all found to be strong predictors for such behavior. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's an interview with Video Game History Foundation's Frank, where we talk about their Sega Channel finds, the NES's launch and lots of other stuff. Just search any podcast app for "RetroRGB Cifaldi", or check out the main post here: https://retrorgb.com/interview-with-vghfs-frank-cifaldi.html

Our 2025 Year in Review! Readers from 185 countries/territories visited the Journal of Geek Studies this year. We appreciate your support! 🤗 Top 10: USA, UK, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Australia, France, India, Japan, China. 🎉 And for the first time, Montserrat and Côte d’Ivoire joined the party!

Ma dernière étude est désormais disponible dans le dernier volume du JGS ! J'y parle pour rappel Conservation animale par le jeu vidéo, ses difficultés, ses enjeux, et ses perspectives !! 🦉

Journal of Geek Studies@jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Can conservation really be effective through video games? A case study on Jack Barau and some perspectives" By @floriannechekuv.bsky.social

It’s officially ‘year in review’ season! Revisit our first 2025 issue and explore all the #geekstudies articles and interviews with game devs.

Vol. 12(1): June, 2025

Journal of Geek Studies –Vol. 12(1): published on June 26, 2025 The Blood on Our Controllers: how the game industry relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Interview with H. Caubet Pp. 1-5.  PD…

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Don't forget to check out our recent contribution to the journal where @palaeostephan.bsky.social and I worked out the bite force of the Rancor from Star Wars! jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...

Is a bone a viable weapon when combating a Rancor? Estimating the bite force of an intergalactic mega-predator

Stephan Lautenschlager1,2 & Thomas Clements3 1School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 2The Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham, UK. 3…

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Journal of Geek Studies@jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We're approaching the year's end, so our 2025 volume is now closed. 🎉 You can check it out at jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol... We have #geekstudies articles about Pokémon tournaments, Magic molluscs, cyberpunk, Another Crab's Treasure, conservation & video games, and steampunk dinosaurs in anime.

We're approaching the year's end, so our 2025 volume is now closed. 🎉 You can check it out at jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol... We have #geekstudies articles about Pokémon tournaments, Magic molluscs, cyberpunk, Another Crab's Treasure, conservation & video games, and steampunk dinosaurs in anime.

Ma dernière étude sur la conservation animale par le jeu vidéo est sorti mi-novembre, où j'essaie de baliser ce qui se fait et ce qui pourrait être fait dans un futur proche. Si vous êtes chercheur ou journaliste dans le JV et que le sujet vous intrigue, n'hésitez pas à venir m'en parler ^^

Journal of Geek Studies@jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎮 Can a video game save a species? 🦜 Our new piece, by @floriannechekuv.bsky.social, explores how the game Jack Barau blends play and purpose to spotlight #conservation in Réunion. Read the full article: jgeekstudies.org/2025/11/11/c... #geekstudies #indiegames #seriousgames #gamingforgood

We have a new article! 🎉 Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology ⚙️🦖 @krakenscholar.bsky.social and @babimt.bsky.social discuss Iguanodon, from its discovery to modern-day interpretations. #GeekStudies #ScienceHistory #GeekCulture #anime #PrincessPrincipal 👉 Read it here:

Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology

Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Barbara M. Tomotani1,2 1Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT – The Arctic Universit…

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