Here are some starters: 👾I made these gifs of myself 📚I’m a licensed psychologist - I just passed the EPPP (like the bar for psych) 👩🏻‍🏫I teach forensic psych 📝My lab is launching a catch check change skill game 👗My dress has pockets #GamesForChange2025

Hello - I’m at #GamesForChange2025 repping scholarship in games & health RIT! Please come say hello if you see me :)

Today - Saturday! I’ll be talking alongside Jared Kilmer, @profnoctis.bsky.social, Anthony Urena and @wanderingshrink.bsky.social on representations of masculinity in games! Details: 👨‍💼Sat, 6pm, Bobcat: Dads Lads and Games: Learning about fatherhood monstrosity and masculinity from games (13+)

Today - Saturday! We are covering different topics in FFVII! Sat, 12-1, Condor SOLIDERs, Monsters, and Materia Things 👹Justin - JENOVA ❤️‍🩹 @anthonyurena.bsky.social - stigma 🧛 @wanderingshrink.bsky.social - Vincent 🗡️ @lallysup.bsky.social - Cloud 🎶 @vpcowboy.bsky.social - music 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 me - caregiving

Today! I am supporting @crev.bsky.social & @wanderingshrink.bsky.social in discussing found family & belonging in FFVII! Here are the panel details: 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Friday, 3pm, Bumblebee: The World’s Most Dysfunctional Found Family: The Psychology of Belonging in Final Fantasy VII (13+) @rittigers.bsky.social

Today is the day! The good, the bad, and the stigmatizing: Drug use in games at 6:30 in the Arachnid theater with @celestes-psych.bsky.social , @wanderingshrink.bsky.social , and @silnan.bsky.social . #PAXEast #PAXEast25

Today! I’ll be supporting @lallysup.bsky.social in discussing substance use in games, alongside Shane Tilton and @wanderingshrink.bsky.social Here’s the information: 🏥Thursday, 6:30, Arachnid: The Good The Bad and The Stigmatizing: Drug Use in Games (13+)

Today! I’ll be speaking alongside @kellidunlap.bsky.social, @drkowert.bsky.social, and @wanderingshrink.bsky.social on research & findings in games and health. Here are the details: 👩🏻‍🔬Thursday, 5pm, Dragonfly: 100cc of Games Stat! What we know about games and health (13+)

I’ll be presenting at @pennyarcade.bsky.social PAX East this week! Here is my presentation schedule :) it is an honor to represent @rittigers.bsky.social and @ritscience.bsky.social

Recently went back to relive the magic of this FABULOUS hashtag#PAXEast panel from 2022 and I'm sharing here incase you want to relive the magic too. @chrislpsych.bsky.social @wanderingshrink.bsky.social @celestes-psych.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZk7...

Hello ! We are comparing learning from a digital, narrative game to a psychoeducational pamphlet. This takes about 25 min and you must be > 18 years to participate. There is a post-participation raffle. The link to participate can be found here: rit.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

On the Psych of Dream (Daddies)? I was interviewed by @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social for @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social on romance in games! We cover Uncharted & LoU to @gamegrumps.bsky.social’s Dream Daddy & our DTx game from @rittigers.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/3TRw...

This @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social podcast episode is very good for having feelings and joy and growth … while doing commutes and folding laundry. I hope you listen. pod.link/1354140820/e...

Hello, friends! My @officialgdc.bsky.social presentation, What's New in Games Research?, is Thurs 3/20, 3:30pm! I am beyond excited to share approaches & findings alongside the work of Reed Devany, @nicovaldiviahennig.bsky.social, & @nickballou.bsky.social - and to represent @rittigers.bsky.social!

And we’re running around GDC! So exciting!

@vpcowboy.bsky.social and I made it to San Francisco!

It has been over 20 years since I studied whether fruit flies are impacted by devices in middle school. Next week I will present at @officialgdc.bsky.social on a game I designed & tested that teaches mental health skills. Happy #WomensHistoryMonth! #WomenInSTEM @rittigers.bsky.social

An international woman’s day miracle? I ran into an article by an amazing women in STEM, colleague, & friend, @drkowert.bsky.social, in @wired.com magazine while I took a quick break from marching. Video: The Discovery In this video: Dr. Kowert’s article on games, safety, and health

My phone just autocorrected ‘I’m writing a paper right now’ to ‘I’m writhing a paper right now’ - which made me feel surprisingly validated in my writing process

I would go to an entire exhibit that on the art of models designed to represent internal states and beliefs. Look at this one that I just ran into:

Here's a fun mythic shout out: I'm not sure if it's intentional, but Elisabet Sobeck (Horizon Zero Dawn) shares a name with Sobek, the ancient Egyptian alligator god of war, reunion, and fertility. Sobek could be fierce/hostile but was also a protective deity.

A numinous experience happens when familiar, casual events of every day life are connected to a symbolic, mythic parallels. The tethering of the mundane & the mystical can be revealed thru ritual. - One of my favorite, underrepresented concepts: Rudolf Otto's the Idea of Holy

Editing for the Psychgeist of Pop Culture (@drkowert.bsky.social) is truly a pleasure - I get to re-up on my cosmogony & metaphysics/religious studies background. Every time I reread these classic books it makes me excited for the mythic structures & figures that populate our everyday lives.

Hey everyone! I loved speaking on romance in games at PAX East and PAX West last year - but I want to balance representing this topic with making room for many voices. If anyone is submitting on this topic at PAX this year, please reach out and let me know - maybe I can help! :)

Game dev community: It's time to make your voices heard. Votes are now open for the 2025 Independent Games Festival Audience Award! Polls are open through Jan. 31 at 11:59pm PT. Send in your vote today! #IGF2025 gdconf.com/news/igf-202...

Our lab has a customizable, digital therapist that me & my husband @vpcowboy.bsky.social provided vocals for. We ran our first pilot test & I am cleaning data - users *sometimes* really liked the voice! Found it soothing. I need to find out if it was mine or Dash's! This is now a competition.

I’ve been deferalizing a group of 5 kittens that appeared on my stoop - we’ve neutered, vaxxed, dewormed/fleed them but I’m fostering so we can get them into some happy (& warm!) homes! They are not ready yet, but here is a nice picture of Samwise the cat showing that everything is going well!

A #research team led by @ritscience.bsky.social professor Joel Kastner has obtained the clearest three-dimensional view of one of the most photographed images in the night sky, the Ring Nebula. #space #nasa #science #STEM

Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I am so excited to share that I’ll be presenting data from my research into using DTx games to teach emotion regulation skills at @officialgdc.bsky.social as part of #WhatsNewInGamesResearch. Ty to @rittigers.bsky.social for their support for this work!

We are never, ever going to stop loving Taylor Swift. From her chart-topping music, to her advocacy, explore her incredible legacy in The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Taylor Swift, OUT NOW! Consider this our birthday present 🥳 Happy Birthday, Taylor! playstorypress.org/books/the-ps...

What does Taylor Swift have in common with the Def Poetry Jam and the oracle at Delphi? Check out how I worked myself into a fever pitch (pun intended) in this chapter on the cognitive science, social psych, & music theory behind Taylor Swift's music. Co-authored w @vpcowboy.bsky.social

It is time for my very basic Strava stats for the year. One of the the things I love about Strava is that many of my close friends exercise quite a bit (my cousin regularly does 30+ a week) … but my stats can be best described as present.

I was stuck in traffic during golden hour (5pm) on the way back from #PAXunplugged last week

In 2007, my hs bf & I went to see Sicko, a documentary that details the horrors of US healthcare, bc we both wanted to work as medical doctors in the future. That was almost 18 yrs ago; he is an MD & I am a psychologist. The flaws in the medical system have not been corrected.

Happy birthday to my amazing partner @vpcowboy.bsky.social For Dash’s birthday today, I hope everyone has a lovely, thoughtful day! 🐋💖🧠

I clicked the little sun and got a delightful surprise!

Hey, everyone! I had such an amazing time at #PaxUnplugged! I meant to get back there today but unfortunately my partner @vpcowboy.bsky.social sprained his ankle (on his birthday weekend!) ❤️‍🩹 We are recouping at home today.

I downloaded the right app for my casenotes, right? 😜😜

Will you be at PAX Unplugged? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to study the gaming space at the academic level? Come talk about it with us this Friday in the Mothman Theater at 1pm!