Does anyone have any advice on getting a response from @discord.com support? I have been locked out of my account since Friday (stuck in a verification loop) and submitted a support ticket but everyone on reddit seems to say it will take months to resolve 😱 #help #DiscordSupport

I went to a brilliant academic games conference at Falmouth university and spoke to @poppywilde.bsky.social and Dr Ewan Kirkland about the meaning of horror www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Zombies, gore and creepy kids – why we can’t stop playing horror games

As global anxieties multiply, ​v​ideo games from Resident Evil to Mouthwashing are providing rich source material to help decode society’s problems

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We are excited to announce our keynote speaker for #Ludo2026 Dr. @poppywilde.bsky.social, author of "Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities" (Routledge, 2023)! Please find more info on her work via 👉https://www.poppywilde.co.uk/ #ludomusicology #vgm #gamestudies #gameaudio

Join us for Professor Nick Webber's @doktornick.bsky.social inaugural lecture, Afterlives: Players, Game Histories, and the Remnants of Play, on Wed 6 May, 17:30-19:00 (BST)! 🥳 Sign up for either online or in-person (at Birmingham City Uni) attendance here: www.tickettailor.com/events/birmi...

Select tickets – Afterlives: Players, Game Histories, and the Remnants of Play – C192 (lecture theatre), Curzon Building, Cardigan Street, Birmingham City University

Afterlives: Players, Game Histories, and the Remnants of Play – C192 (lecture theatre), Curzon Building, Cardigan Street, Birmingham City University, Wed 6 May 2026 - Professor Nick Webber would like ...

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Reminder as the deadline approaches..

Poppy Wilde@poppywilde.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New FUNDED PhD opportunity with me, @doktornick.bsky.social, and @bomlab.bsky.social on 'Playing in Public: Game-Based Interventions for Sustainability, Community and Environmental Engagement' as part of the CreaTech Frontiers CDA scheme! Deadline: 10 April Details: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...

New FUNDED PhD opportunity with me, @doktornick.bsky.social, and @bomlab.bsky.social on 'Playing in Public: Game-Based Interventions for Sustainability, Community and Environmental Engagement' as part of the CreaTech Frontiers CDA scheme! Deadline: 10 April Details: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...

Great session of #Shadowrun this evening with @doktornick.bsky.social @harriresearches.bsky.social @andrewbell.bsky.social! I still don't feel like I actually understand the mechanics, but great world and characters (and fellow players and GM of course!) 🙌 #TTRPG 🎲🎲🎲

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Bet he isn't. #RedditDown

Mario Anything Bot@marioanything.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Toadsworth is browsing Reddit.

Five puzzles down of 75 from this Christmas present, which includes (entirely believable) scenarios such as "Beans, Pawl McCartney and Clive have each decided that their owner is enjoying life too much. As a result, they have each chosen to consume a plastic bag" www.waterstones.com/book/meowdle...

Meowdle by Gareth Moore, Laura Jayne Ayres | Waterstones

Buy Meowdle by Gareth Moore, Laura Jayne Ayres from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Happy Holidays to all who celebrate! A Boxing Day game of The Climbers here with the Wildes (I may win this round...)

Lovely evening field trip to Game Guru board game cafe for the Game Cultures research cluster! We played Feed the Kraken, me and co-pirate @harriresearches.bsky.social scored a victory against @doktornick.bsky.social @andrewbell.bsky.social @eugeniotriana.bsky.social (+ Will & Mark, non-bskyers) 🐙🏴‍☠️

Deadline for Expressions of Interest for the funded Doctoral Landscape Awards is Monday 17 November at noon. EoIs aren't mandatory, but are encouraged if you're thinking about applying. #PhDfunding #research

Poppy Wilde@poppywilde.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies

I'm keynoting the Animex Symposium next week! My talk is titled "The promises and pitfalls of posthuman and postanthropocene games". It currently consists of a series of bleak, existential questions. And some pics. What more could you ask for?! #GameCultures #NetZero www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/an...

PSA - reminder that #DiGRA2026 submissions due THREE WEEKS TODAY (deadline for full papers and abstracts Monday 1 December). Obligatory "how is so soon??" "what I am going to submit??" panic may now commence. www.digraconference2026.com

DiGRA 2026 Conference | Maynooth University, Ireland

Join the DiGRA 2026 conference at Maynooth University, 14–18 June 2026. Theme “Intersectional Pleasures.” A global hybrid event for game research, culture, design, and industry.

digraconference2026.com

Really enjoyed working on mine + @doktornick.bsky.social co-authored chapter "Autoethnography as Historical Method: A Plague Tale and Authentic Experiences of the Past" for this collection, we presented the work at DiGRA25 + loved discussing the themes + methodology. The ToC for the book looks ace!

Esther Wright@enwright.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

For @bcmcr.bsky.social - wrote about the our university's reading group's thoughts on a book about populist feminism, resistance against anti-gender thought, and affect-based politics. It was a fun conversation! bcmcr.org/research/cul...

Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies

Doctoral Landscape Awards

The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...

bcu.ac.uk

Taking zombie studies seriously with a Dead Red Zombie cocktail!

Obviously I rarely use twitter anymore but any time I am looking at it on my laptop (e.g. for my social media lectures) my little act of defiance is going to twitter./com rather than x./com just as a dig to piss off Elon Musk

Love how some games are like "this game is played with a controller" and I'm like, you *clearly* have not experienced me using a controller. WSAD ftw 👩🏼‍💻

D&D time with the Game Cultures Research Cluster crew 🐲🎲🏰

HOOT! We’ve been a little quiet but we’re thrilled to announce that registration for Furry Studies 2025 in Pacific Lutheran University is NOW OPEN! 👉🏻 furrystudies.org Hopefully see you there! 🦉

Furry Studies 2025 Conference

Furry Studies conference aims to promote global and cross-field collaboration among furry scholars and those invested in this fascinating and diverse community.

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Having a great time at #DDD17 with @annawilde.bsky.social this week! Presented my paper on death games in the "Digital Death I" panel first thing, then the "Digital Death II" panel was so full myself and others watched along on my laptop from the garden behind the conference room! @ddd17.sites.uu.nl

This is appalling - how can the theatre say they are "committed to being an accessible venue for all" when evidence shows this clearly hasn't been the case? BBC News - Broken lift bars disabled visitors from theatre www.bbc.com/news/article...

Broken lift bars disabled visitors from Wimbledon theatre

New Wimbledon Theatre's only accessible lift was temperamental before it stopped working in March.

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Is anyone working on the Online Safety Act and specifically impacts on social media? I'd like to run a class on it this autumn semester for my third year undergraduates. Any resources/ideas/people happy to speak etc. greatly appreciated! #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMedia #OnlineSafetyBill

Wrote up a short piece about the Interactive Games PGR conference that took place a few weeks ago. There really were too many excellent papers to list in detail, but here I share the main idea of my keynote: allowing yourself to experiment and push theory in new directions. bcmcr.org/research/key...

Poppy Wilde@poppywilde.bsky.social · last yr.

Fantastic @investigatedot.bsky.social Interactive Games PGR conference today organised by @caitlinveal.bsky.social and co - so interesting to hear from so many PGRs on the exciting directions their research is taking. So many intriguing ideas and avenues to explore. An absolute pleasure to keynote!👩🏼‍💻

Pretty wild that a month ago was the start of #DiGRA2025 - it all feels like a distant memory! This year I was lucky enough to act as a track chair, respond to student papers in the PhD consortium, and present both a co-authored paper and solo paper. I give a recap of my experiences and work here 👇

Really enjoyed today's @historygamesnet.bsky.social panel on Gender, excellent panelists and engaging discussion. A great way to end the day and a lovely opportunity to paint some (not so) innocent doors while listening 😛

Historical Games Network@historygamesnet.bsky.social · last yr.

This is tomorrow! Featuring @tesswatty.bsky.social, @katexe.bsky.social, @andreaskjeldsen.bsky.social of @verysrsgames.com, and Leandro Wallace. Still a few tickets left! #gamestudies #historygames #gamingthepast