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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social · 16h

Strange Horizons will be opening for fiction submissions in just one hour! 🎉🎉🎉 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/su...

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Fiction Submission Guidelines

How to submit a story to Strange Horizons.

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 28/09/2026

Never give up on your dreams. Not because giving up is hard, but because you’ll learn how easy it is, how few ramifications there will be, how little other people cared about your dream in the first place, how addictive quitting will be now that you know it’s always an option.

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An unattainable goal of mine is to teach a historical fencing class for the @dimension20.dropout.tv cast and crew

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The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ssssssssss The Golden Cobra Challenge 2026 is OPEN for sssubmissions. Ssubmit by October 15th! www.goldencobra.org

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Golden Cobra Challenge

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Taught @decafjedi.com 's Video Game Soda Machine Project and the accompanying journal article, then assigned my students to go on a video game scavenger hunt and write a short analysis to accompany their soda machine screen shot. I'm the most delighted i've ever been while grading grading

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

putting my journal editor hat on: one of y'all #fanstudies people please write me something for @journal.transformativeworks.org about the apparently universal fandom of Dolly Parton.

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

*NEW ISSUE* *SEPTEMBER 2026* Analog Game Studies Vol. XIII, No. 3 is out! escholarship.org/uc/analoggam... -- featuring: Evan Torner, Alex Roberts & Stephen Shapiro, Cameron Kunzelman, Lucy Roach, & Kathryn Volz, and Helen Roche @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Jrnl #analoggamestudies #ags

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies Global South media studies with expertise in Latin American, African, and/or African diasporic media cultures apply.interfolio.com/191793

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 27/08/2026

I'm spending this semester trying to convince my students that the True Meaning of Game Studies™ is asking weird questions, not getting "correct" answers.

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Still looking for 2 more for a panel on Fighting Games for #SCMS !

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Still looking for 2 more for an #SCMS27 panel! Currently the panel is at a crossroads for theme. It will either be about Fighting Games or War Games, depending on interest. If you're interested please reach out Panel submissions are due on the 28th, so please let me know asap!

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Interested in narrative data visualisation? We're looking for a PhD candidate to join our team at the Center for Digital Narrative, with me and @lauragarrison.bsky.social as supervisors. Apply by 30 August! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, August 30, 2026

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ACADEMIC JOB POSTING: A great, tenure-track media industry studies position (Assistant Prof level) amongst a great program and super-cool people at UC Irvine. Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10332

recruit.ap.uci.edu

Assistant Professor of Film and Media Industry Studies

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#TBT to "Playing with AI Chat: Positioning 'Dangerous' Language Model Futures through Interactive Fiction," published in 2023 by T&T alum @jackademia.bsky.social and faculty @lucidbard.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social. Take a look! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Playing with AI Chat: Positioning “Dangerous” Language Model Futures through Interactive Fiction | Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Keep journals open-access, non-profit, and managed at minimal cost for the scholarly community and for posterity. Rent-seeking in academic journals must be called out and resisted. bsky.app/profile/robi...

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Electronic Literature Organization @eliterature.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Register by July 10 to join us for our 2026 conference, entirely online, free with active membership. July 15-18, hosted by U Central Florida

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I should remake my Gamer Foucault bot

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Editing the ELO 2026 proceedings this week (as fast as I can). The last time I did this was for the 2024 Online conference which was (to my knowledge) the first time. In 2024 we had 5 submissions. This year we have almost 30! Thanks to everyone who sent something in!

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Retsuko Overwhelmed by Paperwork

Alt: Retsuko (an animated red panda) Overwhelmed by Paperwork

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Cody Mejeur @cmejeur.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Excited to share the CFP for Into the Fog: Essays on Dead By Daylight, under contract with McFarland Press! Hoping to get a wide variety of submissions. Abstracts due July 30! See linked CFP for more details. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BN5... #DeadByDaylight #GameStudies #Horror

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Just found out I have a substantial chunk of university money to spend by the end of the summer. What are some academic books, preferably in games and/or media studies, that you like? Plug your own books, plug your friends books!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

What they are doing is actually amplifying a PR campaign which inaccurately recasts AI resistance movements as based on poetics, rather than resource allocation, cognitive & social costs, extraction & enclosure. People aren't angry because the million-monkey machine can maybe pound out a Macbeth.

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sneak Peek at my lecture slides for this week

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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We need extra assistance as part of reviewing for Electronic Literature Collection 5 (github.com/eliterature/...). Please contact us (elcvol5@gmail.com) if you can read any of the following languages + willing to provide a short review of a work: Swedish Korean Gujarati Norwegian Catalan Tamil

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 22/04/2026

[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This has been restored! Thanks to folks in Mexico who'd made a copy and re-shared it with me... not sure how it got deleted but it's back! Open biblio that anyone can copy/paste and add to (please add anything that fits!) CRITICAL DATA CENTER STUDIES docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Critical Data Center Studies

Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; S...

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Myself and @mtrc.bsky.social are running a workshop on Games and Archaeological Play (GAP) at FDG 2026! Short papers of up to 4 pages are due by April 5th. We are interested in any work that broadly relates to video game archaeology. See the full CFP here: gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

belltowerhouse.org

Belltower House Artist Residency

Belltower House Artist Residency is a gift of creative sanctuary in southern New Mexico.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.

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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Did you know the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5 now has a blog? As we we hit milestones, we will be doing short posts to update what is happening and our next goals. February 2026 Update: eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/bl...

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production) jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115

Graphic advertising an TT Asistant Professor position in Emergent Media at UT Dallas. Depicts a woman wearing a VR headset with a fantasy Background. A QR Code links to the application

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production) jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 28/01/2026

Do I know artists who work in an 18th century style of illustration who might take on a modest proposal (so to speak)? (would love to see portfolios)

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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

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The Quiet Year (box set)

The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...

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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 24/01/2026

Me: So the Drukhari are the evil elves that need pain and suffering to nourish their souls. Friend: So it’s like Monsters Inc. Me:

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Today is my birthday and all I’m asking for is for you to support and/or talk about your favorite Ranged Touch show or project! Patreon.com/rangedtouch

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

GOING BOX MODE 📦 Pleased to share the intro to our CSMC Special Issue on games + Sofia's theory of "container technologies." From solar gaming & trucking sims to hot tub streams & apocalypse bunkers, 13 articles square up for an expanded definition of gaming cultures: doi.org/10.1080/1529...

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Containing games

Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Wolves good. Not a movie or show, just, like, the animal. Wolves. They're pretty cool.

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The list of what we've previously covered on Shelved by Genre is: Book of the New Sun The Earthsea Cycle A Unit on Junji Ito The Herald Mage Trilogy Burning Chrome + The Sprawl Trilogy A Canticle for Leibowitz Dr. Bloodmoney Brown Girl in the Ring A Unit on Alan Moore An array of Hallmark movies

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Lis @thewritegame.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment? We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The submissions portal for our next @eliterature.bsky.social conference, which will be fully online including performances and a hypertext electronic literature exhibition, is now open at stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/ - please submit an abstract by January 15th to join us!

ELO 26: (un)supervised - graphic by PD Edgar

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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The deadline for Electronic Literature Collection 5 has been extended from 6 January 2026 to 31 January 2026! eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/

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Call for Submissions

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.

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