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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

UCSC is hiring a new teaching professor of sound + media art! Full info is here: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02127

Job flier for ucsc assistant teaching professor position in sound and media art

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Working with my lab students on a new card game for use in ttrpgs to procedurally model being lost in a labyrinth.

An overhead view of a card game with three draw decks.

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Last day to submit for the festival of monsters 2026! A talk, a panel, a game to play- does it explore monsters? We want to see it!

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Extended to April 20th, monster friends!

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The call for presentations/papers and play sessions for the 2026 Festival of Monsters is now open! www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2026cfp If you have a talk on monsters in culture or something monstrous to play, we want to hear from you! Abstracts due April 10th!

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2026 Call for Proposals — The Center For Monster Studies

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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2026 Call for Proposals — The Center For Monster Studies

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The deadline is tomorrow (11/14/25)!

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Reposting! Do you know someone working at the intersection of Interactive Art, Performance, and Games? We’re hiring!

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Another great wrap on the Festival of Monsters. I hope to see more panel pitches from folks studying/designing monsters in games next year!

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Had a blast running a horror adventure using the Dread TTRPG system tonight for some of the Festival of Monsters folks. I hope we can add a bit more monstrous play/games to our future conferences!

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hey narrative folks my team is looking for a narrative designer to come work with me in Iceland! If you have solid storytelling fundamentals, some technical experience, and live ops or adjacent experience, we are looking for someone like you! careers.ccpgames.com/en/postings/...

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Narrative Designer

Job Opening: Narrative Designer at CCP Games in Reykjavík.

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Reposting! Do you know someone working at the intersection of Interactive Art, Performance, and Games? We’re hiring!

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Spread the word! We have an open Assistant Professor search in my department of Performance, Play & Design, which combines Theater, Dance, and Games faculty in the Arts Division at UCSC. This position would teach in our Art and Design: Games and Playable Media BA program. recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01998

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Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games (Initial Review Date 11/14/25)

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

In addition to loving to play this game, thanks to the copy of @shing.bsky.social ‘s A Mending in my lab, I was able to sew a button back on my shirt today

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Elves who live 1000s of years must either a) have sweet fantasy dentures or b) grow new teeth multiple times in life like a shark.

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NPR @npr.org · 18/03/2025

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

They're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sports
Michelle R. Martinelli
For The Win

They’re lying about transgender people in this world. They’re lying about what LGBTQ+ inclusion in society really means, and they’re lying about trans people in sports. They’re lying about a “transgender cult” and “transgender insanity,” about teachers indoctrinating kids with “transgender ideology” and about “making mice transgender.”

Right-wing activists, anti-trans bigots, many politicians, the president — they’re lying to you about many things but especially trans women and girls in sports. They’re lying about transgender athletes supposedly ruining women’s sports, and they’re lying about this being a ubiquitous “problem.”

They are deliberately and strategically lying about trans folks’ lives, about trans athletes and about their own disingenuous motivations for pushing these lies. They don’t care because they keep doing it.

Worse, it’s working.

They're lying about trans people, especially trans women and girls in sports, probably, in part, because the actual data doesn't support their arguments.
Yet several states have their own bans against trans athletes competing in sports consistent with their gender identity, despite expert estimates of fewer than 100 trans high school athletes nationwide. In 2022, Utah's Republican governor, Spencer Cox, vetoed an anti-transgender bill - it was eventually overruled by the legislature - and outlined his rationale. Along with the high suicide rates for trans youth, he noted that of 75,000 high school athletes in the state, four identified as trans and just one student was playing girls' sports. A whole state bill targeting four athletes, but really, one.

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I listen to a few actual plays, but this is my favorite. More of my friends need to listen so we can talk theories! (As fans and/or scholars!)

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We are hiring for a handful of positions in Reykjavik, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what WB just did but still jobs.50skills.com/ccpgames/en

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CCP - Jobs

CCP is looking for new employees.

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

To whomever was in charge of the Beyond Good And Evil joystick text entry design: I still think about it, and wish all controller stick text entry worked like this.

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Saying goodbye to 2024 and feeling accomplished. This year I kept myself, a tiny human, and two cats alive on startling little sleep. Next year I look forward to getting back to: teaching, making, writing, cooking? sleeping?

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We wrapped the Festival of Monsters last month, but I would love to see more games folks next year! If you make, perform, or study monstrous games, I hope you submit a talk for next year! Bonus: October in Santa Cruz is really pretty.

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

Last call for proposals to speak at the UCSC Festival of Monsters in October. If you have a short talk/paper proposal/panel on monsters and culture, join us! We host a ball and everything: monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festcfp

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Have a 20 minute presentation/paper/panel regarding Monsters in Media and Culture? The 2024 Festival of Monsters call is now public! (The festival will be held Oct 16-19 in Santa Cruz, CA). www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festcfp

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2024 Call for Papers — The Center For Monster Studies

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

It’s Giving Day at UCSC and the Center for Monster Studies is asking for support. Help us keep the monster momentum going! t.co/BhCaolioCr

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mattie @mattiebrice.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

my department at UC Santa Cruz is hiring a teaching professor working at the intersection of games and performance with an emphasis on experimental and activist art. reach out to me if you're interested in applying: mattie.brice@ucsc.edu recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01619

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Performance, Play & Design: Assistant Teaching Professor of Art, Technology & Play (initial review N...

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

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Elizabeth Swensen @swensen.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Good morning, new social media. Here is my offering of cats:

A long-haired black cat and a gray tabby sleep curled up together at the end of a bed in filtered, morning light.

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