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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Me: to study the humanities is to cultivate a fuller understanding of the mind as we seek to find meaning in the past, present, and future of our individual and collective existence Them: are you happy Me: god no

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social interview scholar of digital rhetoric, game design, & Native studies Dr. Wendi Sierra: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #nativestudies #media #gamedev #indiedev #language #futurism

Album cover-style image for The Worldbuilding Workshop Companion Podcast depicting a pencil-holding hand hovering above a city skyline. The podcast features conversations between co-authors Stephen Slota and Trent Hergenrader.

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Trent Hergenrader @thergenrader.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Classes start Monday. I guess it’s time to look up where, when, and what I’ll be teaching.

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social debate whether digitizing artifacts (particularly to train #LLMs) justifies the loss of their physical forms: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #genAI #museum #history #library #mediastudies

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Stephen T. Slota @steveslota.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Those who listen to the end will be treated to my *favorite* part, where @thergenrader.bsky.social clicked his heels, spun in a circle, and said @chrislhayes.bsky.social's, @colinwoodard.bsky.social's, and @volts.wtf's names three times in a mirror, hoping they would appear. 🔮🥲 #attentioneconomy

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Stephen T. Slota @steveslota.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is *exactly* what @thergenrader.bsky.social and I were talking about on this week's episode of @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social! Framing is a deliberate choice that deeply influences how people form world narratives, especially wrt available attention, time, and/or digital info literacy skills.

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social go deep on the unique opportunities and challenges of worldbuilding in #STEM classrooms: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #highered #science #education #K12 #chemistry #physics #biology #math #enged

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social retrace the books, articles, & other thought-provoking media that have most inspired their scholarship: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #highered #research #reading #learning #education #K12

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social interview award-winning Latin and classical history educator @kballestrini.bsky.social: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #teaching #Latin #ACTFL #classics #Rome #history #languageed

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social contemplate the creation & spread of “unrealities” fueled by algorithmically charged mis- and disinformation: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #teaching #literacy #media #comms #fakenews

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Stephen T. Slota @steveslota.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

When @thergenrader.bsky.social and I say we're doing an episode of @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social about United States history, this is what we mean:

A comic book drawing of a giant, green, disembodied George Washington head floating through the sky above Washington DC while firing lasers out of his eyes and burning the Capitol building to ground.

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social apply their worldbuilding framework to the United States in a conversation about the country’s semiquincentennial: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #teacher #history #UShistory #July4

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social review the (2017) Exploding the Castle book chapter “The Inevitability of Epic Fail” and discuss its implications for worldbuilding: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #teacher #edtech

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social talk tabletop roleplay to break down its affordances for collaboration, reflection, & creative writing: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #teacher #learning #teachered #ttrpg #gamedev #rpg

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Billionnaires buy all the media to keep Republicans in power so that they remain billionnaires. Democrats taxing billionnaires down to non-billionnaire status is the gentlest of the solutions. If not, we head to Jacquerie/Guillotine/St. Luigi territory. So, @democrats.org, get aggressive next admin.

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social interview @uconn.bsky.social #edtech scholar Dr. Michael Young abt #GenAI impacts on #K12, #highered, & corporate education: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #teacher #learning #teachered

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social and @thergenrader.bsky.social talk shop about personal favorite digital role-playing games and how they reveal their worlds through interaction: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #gaming #rpg #roleplay #gamedev #storytelling

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social interview classics scholar @tinperegrinus.bsky.social about recombinatorial storytelling in ancient epics & cooperative adventure card games: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #gaming #education

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social discuss the ins and outs of #accessibility as relates to worldbuilding, design practices, & the broader educational ecosystem: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #UDL #disability #design #education

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social and @thergenrader.bsky.social honor May the 4th/Revenge of the 5th by expressing their love of (and frustrations with) the best example of transmedia storytelling on earth: Star Wars www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

**Beginning NOW!** Join the stream for a fun-filled discussion about hopeful speculative fiction and worldbuilding concepts/strategies with @worldanvil.com, @thergenrader.bsky.social, and @steveslota.bsky.social ! Twitch: www.twitch.tv/worldanvil YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tH...

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Writing Hopeful (+ Evidence-Based!) Speculative Fiction with Trent Hergenrader & Steve Slota

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

TOMORROW (SATURDAY) MAY 2 at 2:00PM ET Join @thergenrader.bsky.social & @steveslota.bsky.social for a Q&A about hopeful speculative fiction w/@worldanvil.com's @worldanvil.bsky.social! Twitch: www.twitch.tv/worldanvil YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tH... #EduSky #gamedev #education #teaching

Promotional image for the World Anvil Podcast featuring images of authors Trent Hergenrader and Stephen Slota. The episode is titled "Ask the Expert: Writing Hopeful Spec-Fic."

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This week's episode features the third in a three-part series where @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social construct a storyworld to demo the collaborative #worldbuilding process! www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #highered #design #education #teaching #gamedev

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This week's episode features the second in a three-part series where @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social construct a storyworld to demo the collaborative #worldbuilding process! www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #highered #design #education #teaching #gamedev

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A gigantic billboard beside a road shows (at life-size) an enormous, grand building. Text beside it reads:
"Foundation For Astonishingly Extravagant Gestures"
a sticker below adds
"Coming Soon"
Dwarfed by the billboard is a shabby little building with a sign reading
"Institute of Pragmatic Solutions"

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

For this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social cooked up something REALLY special: The first in a *THREE-PART SERIES* demoing the collaborative #worldbuilding process from beginning to end! www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #highered

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social and @thergenrader.bsky.social achieve escape velocity to soar beyond the book's pages and discuss the related (critical!) subject of transmedia storytelling: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #highered #teacher #k12 #writing

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social and @thergenrader.bsky.social interview their colleague, friend, and author of The Worldbuilding Workshop's foreword, @edufuturist.bsky.social: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #highered #faculty #teacher #academia

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Trent Hergenrader @thergenrader.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Felt cute. Might delete it later.

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social embrace their inner Waldorf & Statler to deconstruct the book's epilogue while entertainingly grousing about the current state of #highered: www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education #teacher #k12

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 22/03/2026

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Trent Hergenrader @thergenrader.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

So… I guess I’m excited to watch #Tottenham play #Wrexham at least twice next season? #THFC

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

In this week's episode of The Worldbuilding Workshop Podcast, @steveslota.bsky.social and @thergenrader.bsky.social debrief on the debriefing process described in the book's fifteenth chapter, “Wrap-Up and Critical Reflection": www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education

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Stephen T. Slota @steveslota.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

What could be more fun than me and my good buddy @thergenrader.bsky.social talking through the best way to bring a worldbuilding project to the satisfying, fulfilling conclusion learners deserve? We hope you've enjoyed the show thus far—thanks for listening! #EduSky #design #assessment #teaching

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

In this week's episode of The Worldbuilding Workshop Podcast, @steveslota.bsky.social and @thergenrader.bsky.social provide a professorial profile of performative play practice in their deconstruction of "Chapter 14: Role-Play"! www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #roleplay

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Stephen T. Slota @steveslota.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Another fun chat with my pal @thergenrader.bsky.social, including nods to @dndbeyond.com, Free League's @vaesen-rpg.bsky.social, and Vampire: The Masquerade as well as @codingconduct.cc, @brendaromero.bsky.social, and @hbo.bsky.social's The Rehearsal! ✨ #EduSky #education #highered #k12 #roleplay

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

How can professors teach with worldbuilding? Here's our full conversation w/ @thergenrader.bsky.social and @steveslota.bsky.social , touching on pedagogical practices, artifacts, support structures, disciplines, and more. youtu.be/Ytu_VJ-uWsE?... @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Don't miss this conversation between @steveslota.bsky.social, @thergenrader.bsky.social, and the fabulous @edufuturist.bsky.social! Their Q&A covers the ins and outs of #worldbuilding as well as its implementation in a range of #teaching and #learning environments! #EduSky #education #teacher #K12

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 @steveslota.bsky.social and @thergenrader.bsky.social will be joining today's Future Trends Forum with @edufuturist.bsky.social to talk shop about all things worldbuilding from 2:00 - 3:00p ET! Use the quoted link to listen in, ask questions, and connect with other attendees! 🌎

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social and @thergenrader.bsky.social (re)simulate the brainstorming and co-authorship process behind the book's thirteenth chapter, “Simulations"! www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #teaching #simulation #gamedev #education

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

In this week's episode of The Worldbuilding Workshop Podcast, @steveslota.bsky.social and @thergenrader.bsky.social hop, skip, and jump through the creation of wiki entries for complex, coherent, and convincing worlds! www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #design #teaching

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social meditate on metanarrative leads and apply their characteristically zen thinking to The Worldbuilding Workshop’s eleventh chapter, Constructing the World Narrative! www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

In this week's episode, @steveslota.bsky.social & @thergenrader.bsky.social sing @wikipedia.org's praises while commiserating over the death of truth. Join their impassioned discussion abt “Wikipedia as a Model for Worldbuilding": www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #education

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The Worldbuilding Workshop @wrldbuildingwrkshp.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

In this week's episode of The Worldbuilding Workshop Podcast, @steveslota.bsky.social playfully ponders @thergenrader.bsky.social's project planning pop-quiz as the pair probe Chapter 9, “Class Preparations"! www.theworldbuildingworkshop.com/podcast/epis... #EduSky #teaching #pedagogy #highered

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Stephen T. Slota @steveslota.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

@thergenrader.bsky.social coming in hot with questions about whether his course-planning process comports with contemporary learning science and best practices for instructional design (spoiler: somehow, it does!). Find our convo wherever you get your podcasts! #EduSky #K12 #design #worldbuilding

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