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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Here are some starters: 👾I made these gifs of myself 📚I’m a licensed psychologist - I just passed the EPPP (like the bar for psych) 👩🏻‍🏫I teach forensic psych 📝My lab is launching a catch check change skill game 👗My dress has pockets #GamesForChange2025

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Hello - I’m at #GamesForChange2025 repping scholarship in games & health RIT! Please come say hello if you see me :)

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Today - Saturday! I’ll be talking alongside Jared Kilmer, @profnoctis.bsky.social, Anthony Urena and @wanderingshrink.bsky.social on representations of masculinity in games! Details: 👨‍💼Sat, 6pm, Bobcat: Dads Lads and Games: Learning about fatherhood monstrosity and masculinity from games (13+)

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Today - Saturday! We are covering different topics in FFVII! Sat, 12-1, Condor SOLIDERs, Monsters, and Materia Things 👹Justin - JENOVA ❤️‍🩹 @anthonyurena.bsky.social - stigma 🧛 @wanderingshrink.bsky.social - Vincent 🗡️ @lallysup.bsky.social - Cloud 🎶 @vpcowboy.bsky.social - music 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 me - caregiving

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Today! I am supporting @crev.bsky.social & @wanderingshrink.bsky.social in discussing found family & belonging in FFVII! Here are the panel details: 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Friday, 3pm, Bumblebee: The World’s Most Dysfunctional Found Family: The Psychology of Belonging in Final Fantasy VII (13+) @rittigers.bsky.social

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Lal @lallysup.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today is the day! The good, the bad, and the stigmatizing: Drug use in games at 6:30 in the Arachnid theater with @celestes-psych.bsky.social , @wanderingshrink.bsky.social , and @silnan.bsky.social . #PAXEast #PAXEast25

Opening slide for pax east panel The good, the bad, and the stigmatizing: Drug use in games.

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today! I’ll be supporting @lallysup.bsky.social in discussing substance use in games, alongside Shane Tilton and @wanderingshrink.bsky.social Here’s the information: 🏥Thursday, 6:30, Arachnid: The Good The Bad and The Stigmatizing: Drug Use in Games (13+)

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today! I’ll be speaking alongside @kellidunlap.bsky.social, @drkowert.bsky.social, and @wanderingshrink.bsky.social on research & findings in games and health. Here are the details: 👩🏻‍🔬Thursday, 5pm, Dragonfly: 100cc of Games Stat! What we know about games and health (13+)

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I’ll be presenting at @pennyarcade.bsky.social PAX East this week! Here is my presentation schedule :) it is an honor to represent @rittigers.bsky.social and @ritscience.bsky.social

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Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Recently went back to relive the magic of this FABULOUS hashtag#PAXEast panel from 2022 and I'm sharing here incase you want to relive the magic too. @chrislpsych.bsky.social @wanderingshrink.bsky.social @celestes-psych.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZk7...

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Psychology in Final Fantasy VII: Trauma and recovery

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Hello ! We are comparing learning from a digital, narrative game to a psychoeducational pamphlet. This takes about 25 min and you must be > 18 years to participate. There is a post-participation raffle. The link to participate can be found here: rit.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

On the Psych of Dream (Daddies)? I was interviewed by @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social for @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social on romance in games! We cover Uncharted & LoU to @gamegrumps.bsky.social’s Dream Daddy & our DTx game from @rittigers.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/3TRw...

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Lessons with Daddies

Love Letters · Episode

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Meredith Goldstein @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social podcast episode is very good for having feelings and joy and growth … while doing commutes and folding laundry. I hope you listen. pod.link/1354140820/e...

The Love Letters podcast. The latest episode is called “Ready Player One.”

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hello, friends! My @officialgdc.bsky.social presentation, What's New in Games Research?, is Thurs 3/20, 3:30pm! I am beyond excited to share approaches & findings alongside the work of Reed Devany, @nicovaldiviahennig.bsky.social, & @nickballou.bsky.social - and to represent @rittigers.bsky.social!

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It has been over 20 years since I studied whether fruit flies are impacted by devices in middle school. Next week I will present at @officialgdc.bsky.social on a game I designed & tested that teaches mental health skills. Happy #WomensHistoryMonth! #WomenInSTEM @rittigers.bsky.social

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

An international woman’s day miracle? I ran into an article by an amazing women in STEM, colleague, & friend, @drkowert.bsky.social, in @wired.com magazine while I took a quick break from marching. Video: The Discovery In this video: Dr. Kowert’s article on games, safety, and health

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I would go to an entire exhibit that on the art of models designed to represent internal states and beliefs. Look at this one that I just ran into:

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here's a fun mythic shout out: I'm not sure if it's intentional, but Elisabet Sobeck (Horizon Zero Dawn) shares a name with Sobek, the ancient Egyptian alligator god of war, reunion, and fertility. Sobek could be fierce/hostile but was also a protective deity.

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A numinous experience happens when familiar, casual events of every day life are connected to a symbolic, mythic parallels. The tethering of the mundane & the mystical can be revealed thru ritual. - One of my favorite, underrepresented concepts: Rudolf Otto's the Idea of Holy

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Editing for the Psychgeist of Pop Culture (@drkowert.bsky.social) is truly a pleasure - I get to re-up on my cosmogony & metaphysics/religious studies background. Every time I reread these classic books it makes me excited for the mythic structures & figures that populate our everyday lives.

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Hey everyone! I loved speaking on romance in games at PAX East and PAX West last year - but I want to balance representing this topic with making room for many voices. If anyone is submitting on this topic at PAX this year, please reach out and let me know - maybe I can help! :)

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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Game dev community: It's time to make your voices heard. Votes are now open for the 2025 Independent Games Festival Audience Award! Polls are open through Jan. 31 at 11:59pm PT. Send in your vote today! #IGF2025 gdconf.com/news/igf-202...

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Our lab has a customizable, digital therapist that me & my husband @vpcowboy.bsky.social provided vocals for. We ran our first pilot test & I am cleaning data - users *sometimes* really liked the voice! Found it soothing. I need to find out if it was mine or Dash's! This is now a competition.

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’ve been deferalizing a group of 5 kittens that appeared on my stoop - we’ve neutered, vaxxed, dewormed/fleed them but I’m fostering so we can get them into some happy (& warm!) homes! They are not ready yet, but here is a nice picture of Samwise the cat showing that everything is going well!

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Rochester Institute of Technology @rittigers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A #research team led by @ritscience.bsky.social professor Joel Kastner has obtained the clearest three-dimensional view of one of the most photographed images in the night sky, the Ring Nebula. #space #nasa #science #STEM

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RIT professor leads research showing true structure of the iconic Ring Nebula

RIT Professor Joel Kastner leads a research team that determines the true three-dimensional structure of the iconic Ring Nebula.

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am so excited to share that I’ll be presenting data from my research into using DTx games to teach emotion regulation skills at @officialgdc.bsky.social as part of #WhatsNewInGamesResearch. Ty to @rittigers.bsky.social for their support for this work!

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Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

We are never, ever going to stop loving Taylor Swift. From her chart-topping music, to her advocacy, explore her incredible legacy in The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Taylor Swift, OUT NOW! Consider this our birthday present 🥳 Happy Birthday, Taylor! playstorypress.org/books/the-ps...

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The Psychgeist of Pop Culture – Taylor Swift – Play Story Press

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

What does Taylor Swift have in common with the Def Poetry Jam and the oracle at Delphi? Check out how I worked myself into a fever pitch (pun intended) in this chapter on the cognitive science, social psych, & music theory behind Taylor Swift's music. Co-authored w @vpcowboy.bsky.social

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It is time for my very basic Strava stats for the year. One of the the things I love about Strava is that many of my close friends exercise quite a bit (my cousin regularly does 30+ a week) … but my stats can be best described as present.

Stats card from OP detailing exercise stats from an app called Strava.

Per the card, OP exercised on 65 days, for a total of 18 hours, and 99 miles

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I was stuck in traffic during golden hour (5pm) on the way back from #PAXunplugged last week

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In 2007, my hs bf & I went to see Sicko, a documentary that details the horrors of US healthcare, bc we both wanted to work as medical doctors in the future. That was almost 18 yrs ago; he is an MD & I am a psychologist. The flaws in the medical system have not been corrected.

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

A drawing of a whale flying through rainbow aurora and shooting stars out of its blowhole. The caption reads, "I'm sorry it it's painful, but your empathy and sensitivity are exactly what the world needs."

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Happy birthday to my amazing partner @vpcowboy.bsky.social For Dash’s birthday today, I hope everyone has a lovely, thoughtful day! 🐋💖🧠

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Hey, everyone! I had such an amazing time at #PaxUnplugged! I meant to get back there today but unfortunately my partner @vpcowboy.bsky.social sprained his ankle (on his birthday weekend!) ❤️‍🩹 We are recouping at home today.

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Dr Celeste Sangiorgio | DTx Games for Mental Health @celestes-psych.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I downloaded the right app for my casenotes, right? 😜😜

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