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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Gotta jet to my next meeting! My next meeting: 🐈🚀

Me (a brunette woman) smiling next to a graphic featuring Jetpack Cat (a cat with a Jetpack)

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s beginning to look a lot like an Overwatch 10 year anniversary party! 🥳✨

Picture of the Overwatch hero, Mercy, with her outstretched arm. A plate with a pachimari cupcake is being extended to her.

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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/...

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PlayStation Park @playstationpark.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Snow Sled 'Tomb Raider II' PlayStation

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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...

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Colin Wheelock @satchamobob.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 13/10/2025

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.

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XFilesNews @xfilesnews.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

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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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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 09/10/2025

My user research friends can probably relate

Presentation slide with presenter in front. The slide reads: "The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out"

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Trevor Smith @trevzorftw.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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...

amazongames.com

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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Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲 @jodyhouser.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Learn more and request access for the upcoming Closed Alpha at MarchOfGiants.com

marchofgiants.com

March of Giants

A Free-To-Play 4v4 War MOBA

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Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲 @jodyhouser.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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!

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Oh, The Freemanity!!! @freemanity.blacksky.app · 08/08/2025

The f*&%ing library.

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autogynephagia @cas.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

my boss: hey nice job! my brain: you cannot compliment me in a way that matters

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"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"

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 21/05/2025

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.

arxiv.org

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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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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-...

404media.co

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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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"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

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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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NPR @npr.org · 12/05/2025

You count on the NPR Network. THANK YOU to our supporters who are showing we can count on you too. If you haven’t given yet, it’s time to join the movement to defend public media. Donate now: n.pr/3EYClNR

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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.

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The Godless Critter @thegodlesscritter.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

____________________ | | | SIN ISN’T REAL. | | | | YOU ARE GOOD. | | | |___________________| | | (\__/) | | (•ㅅ•) | | / > | |

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Aaron Schmit @theaaronschmit.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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!

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Tom Sizemore as Cerrito in Heat saying "Well ya know, for me, the action is the juice," crudely Photoshopped to instead read "Well ya know, for me, the gameplay IS the vibes."

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s so cool how fast this technology has improved and continues to improve our lives every day 🥰 @kcrw.com

A screen shot with dark blue borders and a faint ghostly blue in the middle. The top text shows the voice prompt to Siri, "Siri who is this". Siri's reply is, "This is KCRW. This track is called 'Music'."

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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. 🥳

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠 A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home! TO BE CONTINUED…

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The thing about yapping unknowingly on a hot mic in front of leadership is, if this had happened earlier in my career I’d be devastated — but it didn't, so now everyone knows how I feel about Bayesian vs frequentist statistics uncertainty and if that isn't career goals, I don't know what is! 😌

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Tomás Grau de Pablos @tomgaar.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Empezando por fin este clásico.

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Pasteur's Quadrant drives US research Traditional academia = Bohr Industry = Edison National labs/applied academia = Pasteur Real societal impact is Pasteur's quad Basic research (how disease works) inspired by need (prevent death) = innovation (vaccine) We're losing a better future for all

A figure. The horizontal axis states "Relevance for immediate applications". The vertical axis states, "Relevance for generatlized knowledge". The top left quadrant is Bohr's pure basic research, the top right quadrant is Pasteur's use-inspired basic research, the bottom left is simply called Tinkering, and the bottom right is Edison's pure applied research.

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"We believe, however, that given the high societal importance of this topic, it was crucial to conduct a study of this kind, even if it meant disobeying the rules." - authors If you ever find yourself using a utilitarian justification for your ethics, stop...drop...and GTFO of research tysm bb 😘

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Henrik Warpefelt @warpefelt.com · 28/04/2025

This experiment is a textbook example of "Just because we can doesn't mean we should" research. Doing this without community consent and buy-in is wildly inappropriate. Not only does it risk harming respondents, it also poisons the well for other, more serious, researchers. Absolutely unacceptable.

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Former ethics professor here! The 1st formulation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative has your eyes glazing over already but this is a fantastic example of Kant's divining morality from logic tldr producing a paradox like this means the action (cheating) is NOT moral so basically spiritual death 🫠

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Grandpa was an astrophysicist. Up at 5am, pocket protector on, off to campus to build radio telescopes for NASA and UF, sketched antenna diagrams on napkins at dinner, then stayed up fixing neighbors’ TVs/radios. For free. Grandma: he’s tinkering again 🤷🏻‍♀️ Love on the spectrum, y’all.

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Johanna Pirker @joeyprink.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

And HELLO #fdg25 and welcome everyone in Graz at @tugraz :-) Details: fdg2025.com #fdg25

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Günter Wallner @wallnergue.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My PhD student @letian-wang.bsky.social hitting the stage at #fdg25 to present his work on the use of live companion apps of #eSports games.

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Sahar Mirhadi @saharmirhadi.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Travelling to Austria for #FDG ✈️ starting in Vienna then Graz! I’m presenting as part of the Doctoral Consortium showcasing my research to date alongside a poster 📰 Excited to chat games, share ideas & connect with like minded folks! #FDG2025 #Games #gamesresearch #HCI #gamestudies #PhD #PhDlife

foundation of digital games conference
april 15-18 2025

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Johanna Pirker @joeyprink.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

PANIC MODE activated.. this is the week that we welcome soooo many fantastic international games researchers in Austria for #fdg2025... so.. HELLO and WELCOME everyone I am SO excited and nervous :-) Details: fdg2025.com #fdg25

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Riemer van Rozen @rvrozen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The keynote on 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 at the 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 will be delivered by @jorisdormans.bsky.social 🗓️ Tuesday, April 15 at 10:30 (CEST) 📍 University of Vienna, #FDG2025 🔗 Full program: livegamedesignworkshop.github.io #GameDesign #GameDev #IndieDev #Roguelite #PCG

livegamedesignworkshop.github.io

Workshop on Live Game Design

Homepage, news and updates.

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Letian Wang @letian-wang.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

My research news - I am excited to announce that my paper (co-authored w/ @wallnergue.bsky.social and Claire Dormann) on player perception of using #esports live companion apps is accepted at #FDG2025. My presentation is on April 16, in the afternoon game analytics session at TU Graz. Stay tuned!

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Like any good former museum professional, everything is tacked down with earthquake putty. Except this bookend...which is now freshly tacked down with earthquake putty. 😌

The top fo the image indicates a 5.0 magnitude earthquake in San Diego County on April 14, 2025 at 10:08am. A three image graphic shows a stick figure following the instructions to Drop! Cover! Hold on!

The second image beneath shows a row of books in a bookshelf, which have mostly been tipped over to the right. A bookend with a brass sailboat has been pushed to the far edge of the shelf under the weight of the shifting books.

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Let's go, Jackets! 🐝 This is a fantastic example of the kind of exciting innovations that come from transdisciplinary technology research when you involve a variety of expertise in science and engineering! Proud to have been part of this team from my time back at Tech. 🐬Happy dolphin day!🐬

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

good. finally the middle-aged cinephiles going to evening shows of Minecraft can watch in peace.

BBC headline Cinema bans children from Minecraft evening shows

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Laura Levy @BlizzCon! 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hey it's that ethics professor you had that time! Remember in class we learned that a core tenant of Social Contract Theory is that it is upheld and participated in by ✨ RATIONAL AGENTS ✨ meaning that you need not tolerate or collaborate with anyone NOT upholding the social contract! A+, y'all!