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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watched the 2022 Netflix Resident Evil series this week. Loved it, thereby absolutely solidifying my self-declared claim that I love even crap zombie media - 4.2/10 on imdb and 54% on Rotten Tomatoes 😅🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️ so, um, just me who is disappointed it didn't get renewed for a second series then...

Image from the Resident Evil 2022 Netflix series showing a rather large crocodile.

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Jaroslav Švelch @electroslav.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you ever wanted a taste of my book about monsters in games, here's a neat new excerpt on the @mitpress.bsky.social Reader about the melancholy of the monster killer and about who's the real monster in video games. The book is now 3 years old and it was nice to revisit it.

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The Strange Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

From “Shadow of the Colossus” to “Undertale,” video games have turned one of their oldest rituals into an ethical dilemma.

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Delighted to have 2 awesome new PhD students this yr - both funded via different schemes. @danimcfawns.bsky.social is exploring human-nonhuman relations in Pokémon, @johnsear.bsky.social is creating game-based interventions in public spaces w/ @bomlab.bsky.social. Send cool/relevant stuff their way!

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Taking Up Space @takingupspacegames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For three years, Taking Up Space has created a space for women and gender-diverse people in games to connect, share and build. This year, we’re expanding that mission with a half-day conference open to everyone — welcoming all listeners to take away and implement the lessons shared by our speakers.

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exciting news! Myself and @bettibo.bsky.social are series editors for our UEP series on Critical Studies in Games and Culture 🥳🎮🕹♟️🥅 Feel free to reach out to us directly to have a chat about your ideas and whether they would be a good fit! More info at www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/...

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Critical Studies in Games and Culture

Series editors: Bettina Bódi, University of Birmingham and Poppy Wilde, Birmingham City UniversityCritical Studies in Games and Culture is dedicated to exploring the political, cultural, and social si...

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's always fun when I buy a new game and set it to download, forgetting that my internet speed is absolute trash and requires 3-5 business days to get going 😔 #ControlResonant

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On holiday with my family - Mum, Dad, brother, and two miniature dachshunds - in the north of France. Second time playing The Grimwood and this time I have (so far) refrained from calling anyone names... *so far* 👀

A candlelit tabletop displays The Grimwood card game in play. Several black game cards are laid out, including cards labelled "Swamp", "Path", "Clearing", and "Mage", alongside the game's deck, setup card, and rules leaflet. Three large white pillar candles, two glasses containing drinks, and a warm, low-light atmosphere create an immersive, gothic woodland ambience that matches the game's dark fantasy theme. Alt text from ChatGPT.

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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

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Ludomusicology Research Group @ludomusicology.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

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

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Reminder as the deadline approaches..

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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 🎲🎲🎲

Tabletop scene of a cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game setup. Spread across a wooden table are Shadowrun materials, including a “Zipfile: Dwarf Decker” character dossier booklet featuring illustrated cover art, an open rulebook, a large fold-out map of a compound, character sheets, pink-and-black dice, a pen, and handwritten notes on lined paper.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 19/02/2026

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

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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:

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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...

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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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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

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

Photo of the challenge climb game The Climbers, photographed with a softly blurred indoor background. A small wooden figure stands atop a tall stack of colorful rectangular blocks arranged like a stepped tower on a round table, with additional blocks scattered at the base. (Alt text from ChatGPT)

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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) 🐙🏴‍☠️

A cup of hot chocolate with intricate leaf-shaped latte art sits on a saucer with a spoon, placed on a light-colored table. Behind it, a colorful pirate-themed board game is set up, with game pieces, cards, and tokens arranged around the board. The game is "Feed the Kraken". Alt text via ChatGPT.

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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...

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Animex Symposium on Game Cultures and Net Zero

We're seeking submissions for proposals for 20-minute conference presentations from across the fields of animation, VFX and games.

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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

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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.

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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!

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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...

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Cultural Activism & Alternative Politics Reading Group: “Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment” (Graff & Korolczuk, 2022) – BCMCR

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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

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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...

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Taking zombie studies seriously with a Dead Red Zombie cocktail!

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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 👩🏼‍💻

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

A photo of several sets of dice used for Dungeons and Dragons (from D4s up to D20s) coloured black and gold, purple and gold, teal and gold, iridescent green and gold.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 02/09/2025

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! 🦉

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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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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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

Outdoor courtyard seating area with brick flooring, green plants along the wall, and a laptop on a round table under a large umbrella. The laptop screen shows a presentation slide. In the background, through large glass doors, people are sitting indoors at a table beneath a chandelier, and are watching the same presentation slides projected to a full room of people. A decorative wall fountain and potted shrubs add detail to the courtyard.

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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...

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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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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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...

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Keynoting at the Interactive Games PGR Conference – BCMCR

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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 👇

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Autoethnography and Authenticity, and Making Friends with Death: DiGRA 2025 conference – BCMCR

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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 😛

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Anna Wilde @annawilde.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Studying anything death-related for #PhD or #Masters? Join us for an informal Zoom on all things death-related - cemeteries, grief, bereavement, death and dying - all welcome. JULY 30th, 9 - 10AM free tickets here deathandsociety.org/eventsandgro... #death #dying #research #PhD

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

petition links www.change.org/p/tell-maste... action.aclu.org/petition/mas... petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

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Sign the Petition

Tell MasterCard, Visa & Activist Groups: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢 If your game got: • Deindexed • Removed • Payouts turned off Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you. 🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece. 🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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!👩🏼‍💻

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Looking forward to kicking off this year's Interactive Games PGR conference today with my keynote "Posthumanism and Post-PhD: theory in the aftermath". Some really interesting papers lined up throughout the day, should be a great event! @investigatedot.bsky.social #GameStudies #IGPGR25

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investigate.games @ YSJ @investigatedot.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day! 🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Day zero of #DiGRA2025 down 🥳 great presentations in the avatar aesthetics workshop this morning, then I had the pleasure of being "senior respondent" for three really interesting projects presented at the PhD Consortium this afternoon. Already wondering if I'll need to nab another free notebook...📝

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Just seen #28YearsLater. Not what I was expecting (though Idk what that would have been) but an excellent return of the franchise more in keeping with Days than Weeks was. Superb acting, and I hadn't realised another sequel is in the works already! Makes sense - those characters need more attention!

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Another great morning of presentations at the Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities conference. Our "Class, Culture, and Consumerism" panel covered 2nd wave black metal, anti-capitalist comic con experiences, punk women, and the notion of normalcy in youth geographies #TIS25 @bcmcr.bsky.social

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Yesterday afternoon (Day 1 of the #TIS25 @bcmcr.bsky.social conference) was fantastic - some really cool explorations of horror and monstrosity, including an excellent analysis of Nightbitch and a preview screening of a documentary, then the Transgressive Game Cultures panel with my fellow gamers!

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Fantastic first morning of the @bcmcr.bsky.social #TIS25 conference. We've had presentations exploring transgressive bodies and subversive genders through furriest, bots, veganism, the good samaritan, India's Hijras, trans and non binary youth, menstrual cooking, and mediated drag cultures. 🐶🤖🍃✝️🇮🇳👱🩸💃

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

First paper of our Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities conference #TIS25 and we are already transgressing standard presentation styles - Reuben Mount co-presents their paper with their fursona @vanguardhusky.bsky.social (pictured on screen, and talking to the room) @bcmcr.bsky.social

Reuben Mount is sitting on the edge of a white cabinet in a classroom or conference room. He is holding a cup and wearing a lanyard with a name badge. Behind him, a large screen displays a slide that reads "Q2: How does VRChat interplay with this?" alongside a cartoon drawing of a humanoid husky character - his fursona, Vanguard. The background of the slide features stylized figures of people in muted colors. The room has a modern design with a whiteboard and papers on the wall.

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BCMCR Events @bcmcr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We are officially live! Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities conference has now kicked off with our opening remarks by conference co-chairs Dr Poppy Wilde and Dr Matt Grimes! #TIS25 @poppywilde.bsky.social Keep an eye on here to hear about the panels of our conference for the next two days!

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