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Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

could you imagine getting that gift from her? If I could legitimately claim that Dolly Parton gave me boobs it would be the only thing anyone knew about me, like I could be a Harvard grad and you'd never know it

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I met so many amazing, wonderful, brilliant, and kind people at Save the Games 2026 hosted by @borman.bsky.social and I would love to keep in touch! Chris made this spreadsheet and would love for you to share whatever contact info you feel comfortable with!

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’m soooo glad people got this reference

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Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Saw a great talk on museum collecting of video games and there's a survey for Alysha's PhD research you all can take as gamers, fans, curators, researchers, game developers, and practitioners. She said she's looking for more North American respondents! researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We saw this and I swear to god the surface looks like the shittiest cheapest plastic Halloween decoration. Not even a blow up Halloween decoration

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

And she got SO much shit for it, people on the internet telling her to “push through” and saying she was “weak” and that sort of barfy entitlement to her body and labor for spectacle and national pride

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I thought I spotted you in passing! Yeah, there were so many people to see and I wish we had gotten to catch up! I hope all is well with you and yours

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Alternately, trees are one of the best parts of the Midwest

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Midwest does trees right. And trees are rad

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

@floreustebius.bsky.social I was somehow unaware of your paper using palimpsest as a framework. That is one of my favorite words, and if I didn’t already know you and how cool and brilliant you are, this alone would make me badger @bardicknowledge.bsky.social to introduce us

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I also reviewed Tim’s book (it is fabulous and an excellent exemplar of how a case study of a game can say things about much more than just that game) and I am super stoked to see a copy of the nostalgia book I co-edited in the wild!

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I second this! We drove three hours to get to the concert, and we had a blast. The second encore, unamplified, was such a flex—almost a literal mic drop Also hats off to your crew, the production quality was fabulous

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

For clarification, the one in the tree is the one who claimed the planter.

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I really can’t criticize them. If someone tried to steal my food I’d get defensive too, and my metabolism is a smidgen slower!

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This little one had claimed an entire planter and every fifteen minutes or so another would try to sneak in. They’d only get a few sips before they got dive bombed

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The Rockies are so beautiful it’s unreal

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Thank you! Estes Park, CO, I think it is a broad tailed hummingbird or a related species, but we’ve been traveling so I haven’t gotten to do much research yet. It was so fun to watch them and hear them chirp at each other as they defended their flowers

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Ok, @franklehman.bsky.social I see the appeal of photographing birds, at least when it can be done in a lovely pollinator garden on a pleasant riverwalk

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I needed help, because I don't know how to sew, so I asked a member of my choir who does if she would help me and she said yes. We then coordinated schedules to find a time that worked for both of us

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My blessèd mother in law had a computer problem, so she asked me, and I helped her, and now she can log in to her account

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I cleaned out my pantry, and after I removed a bunch of boxes of crackers that contained 1.5 stale crackers (recycling the cardboard, of course), my pantry has more available space and it is easier to find things

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I have baked baguettes in preparation!

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 04/07/2025

When I think about the stupid mistakes LLMs make with words sometimes, (cf. the strawberry problem, fabricating quotations, or mixing up terms etc.), there's a well-known Old English riddle that comes to mind. It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI... 🧵

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.

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I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca...

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henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Make Weird Stuff.

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Making Weird Stuff is one of the things that keeps me going. It can be the same damn task, but if I have to do it for work? Draining and terrible. For absolutely no purpose or utility? Life giving. Making Weird Stuff is one of the best things about being human, along with connecting with others

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I like to think this being speechless in wonder at the possibilities open to you—realizing how many things you can JUST MAKE IF YOU WANT TO is exhilarating.

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If you email me (Sarah at academicformatting dot com) I’ll send you the .otf files so you can engage in your own incomprehensible hijinks!

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I also coded her litterae ignotae as the bold version of the font, so you can install both and swap back and forth between incomprehensible to non-scholars and incomprehensible to basically everyone with a quick cmd+b

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Also I think my favorite word so far is hijinks

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I took a few liberties in the interest of legibility (see the rather sharp u as a v, found in numbering) but you can just straight up install it on your computer and type things much faster than Hildegard’s secretary could have written them

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Extremely Relevant: because everything is terrible I needed an intense dose of Whimsical Creativity and therefore created a font based on the Wiesenbaden Codex. Here is Hildegard von Blingen’s Pink Pony Inn (excerpt):

Lyrics from Hildegard von Blingen’s “Pink Pony Inn,” a stylistic parody of Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club.” They are set in red type on a cream background, and the typeface is a little irregular and hard to read, as it is based on letterforms found in a medieval codex

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

And now I’m done with my weird metaphors

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Online community can be a lifeline, especially for people who live in the boonies. But having an internet connection doesn’t solve the issue of accessibility, it just makes it a little less bad. If you’re starving, a Cheeto is better than nothing, but it is certainly not as good as a full meal.

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The internet is a wonderful thing and also a cesspit. Is virtual community important to me? YES. I am grateful that I can stay connected to my friends all over the place. Would I prefer to hang out with them in person? ALSO YES.

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

As you go forward, build these priorities into the structures ahead of time instead of tacking them on at the end, because it’s usually a lot less stressful to build things ahead of time than to jerry-rig them in the moment.

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

So what is most important? What are you willing to sacrifice? If you have enough $$, then it’s an easy choice to throw money at the problem. But I doubt many of us are in that situation.

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Do I think this is important? YES, and that’s why I am willing to contribute my time and expertise and gear to make things happen. But not every conference has two techy friends (me and Ryan) who can cover basically all the bases and also carry around too much gear.

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

So, what is the reason you’re having a hybrid/virtual conference? Is it so that folks who would otherwise be unable to attend have access to something? That’s better than nothing, for sure. But you have to pick 2 at most

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Do I enjoy attending online as much as in person? No, but is it better than not attending at all? VERY YES. Do young scholars who really need these CV lines also have limited $$? VERY YES. Is childcare free? VERY NO. Does this limit my access? VERY YES.

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Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey @sarahpcphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

However, this is not to say that I think hybrid conferences are BAD. As someone who has no funding (independent scholar!) and who has children, I am well aware of the access issues of in-person only conferences.

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