Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA

nearly ten years ago i participated in the first manifesto jam and i'm so glad @haraiva.bsky.social kept the ball rolling for #manifestojam2026 presenting: YOU HAVE TO BE A PERVERT a prayer for myself and anyone else who needs to hear it aerialshading.itch.io/you-have-to-...

#CGSA2026 came to an end, and like every year, it's bittersweet. I'm exhausted but also feel energised by seeing my friends and welcoming new people to our wonderful community. Much like this plushie and myself, we are silly geese. But also serious scholars, swear!

for both Pride and #manifestojam, I created the sauna manifesto - because in this era, more than ever, I think we need more gay/queer/trans sex/body/everything games and we need them now: deathmeetauthor.itch.io/the-sauna-ma...

I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!

💚 Assistant Professor Aparajita Bhandari from @uwaterloo.ca tagged team with PhD student Brandon Blackburn from @ucirvine.bsky.social for 10 weeks! 👽 Together, they examined the role of SLIME and GOO in #videogames #pixelart #gamedev 🍿 Join them this Tuesday 19th May at 12pm ET: shorturl.at/u1vjt

Talking about the history of videogame in Quebec on TV? ✅ NGL was kinda nervous 😅 www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

"All of the complexity of the topic is being flattened, as though it's really simple,” they [a lecturer] said of the snippet Atomic made of their lecture. When they assign this topic to students, it comes with dozens of pages of peer reviewed academic papers, they said. Atomic provides none of that"

⚡Lightning talks⚡ from the Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approach symposium, hosted by @discoxford.bsky.social, are now available My talk (starting at ~43:30) consists of some early thoughts on preserving pornography games amid sex panics and deplatforming. youtu.be/NTmntdhI6B8?...

The "Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches" lightning talks from @discoxford.bsky.social are now online! 📡You can hear me (quickly) talk about the Satellaview starting around 1:09:30. ⚡And great talks from @videogamehistorian.bsky.social, @jeanketterling.bsky.social, and more!

Planning to go to 4S in TORONTO this October? Study GAMES? Then you should apply for this open panel put together by me and @thechristinet.bsky.social. Abstracts due April 30!

For the first time in our 9-year history: WE ARE HIRING! We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

hey ho #gamesstudies folks - the @cgsaacej.bsky.social are proud to launch our MULTIPLAYER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM. 10 weeks pairing where skills are *mutually shared: learning and teaching - our pairs covered #gamedev, #academic #writing, #gradschool #PhD #research #funding tips... More to come soon 👀

Do you want to write about or cover Toronto Games Week 2026, happening from June 11-17th? We'd love to hear from you... and have media passes! Fill out our media & content creator application in order to be considered! forms.gle/woGM4EjvjFWL... 📸

The University of Saskatchewan’s College of Law (est. 1912) is looking for its next Dean (i.e., head). Located in Saskatoon, Canada, the College is the only law school in the province of Saskatchewan. We have JD and LLM programmes. Read more at this posting:

We are hiring our next Dean of Law at @usask.ca. Come be my boss! universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Our book with @jenmadelene.bsky.social and @kattiid.bsky.social is not only out, but available for OA downloading. Voilà!

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I’m not at SCMS, but if you are you should go to this!

Somewhat unbelievably we are in the last year of the study! It's been incredible to follow the journeys of folks graduating into a very challenging context and hearing how they manage the changing world of gameswork. Keep up with the project and more publications to come here: first3yearsproject.com

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

Myself and @mtrc.bsky.social are running a workshop on Games and Archaeological Play (GAP) at FDG 2026! Short papers of up to 4 pages are due by April 5th. We are interested in any work that broadly relates to video game archaeology. See the full CFP here: gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

Feminist Studies is hiring! Details on managing editor position are here: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69890/f...

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Had a fun ⚡lightning⚡ talk about the Satellaview today! If you're interested in reading more on Nintendo's nineties satellite experiments, check out the article I wrote for Critical Studies in Media Communications: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (I can send you a PDF if you DM me)

Thanks to @discoxford.bsky.social + organizers for a great symposium! We'll be posting the slides and link to the recording of this talk up on our project website (www.pppproject.com) once it's available. But, if you're working this issue either formally or informally, I'd love to hear from you!

I'll be presenting "How can we preserve pornography games amid sex panics and deplatforming?" on Thursday. This ⚡lightning talk⚡ is still in the 'asking the question' phase, and I'm excited to be thinking through it with this great group! Join us!

Want to learn more about videogame preservation? 🕹️The University of Oxford is hosting 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 & 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 this Thursday! ⚡I'll be contributing a Satellaview lightning talk (@jeanketterling.bsky.social + @videogamehistorian.bsky.social will also join the lightning round).

STS folks, @alexross73.bsky.social & I are leading an open panel for 4S 2026 (in Toronto!) on games vs./as reactionary politics 🎮 WarGames references & re-imaginations of gamer capital galore! Submit your 250-word abstracts via the @4sweb.bsky.social system & message us with any burning questions 🔥

Thanks to Ukie for taking our concerns seriously, and a huge thanks to @kendraserra.bsky.social for their tireless legal work on this. They deserve to be considered a folk hero. Never thought this would happen. Stand up for your rights, folks!

Thank you to all the fabulous people who helped make this happen!

I'm in a cool book filled with cool people, come hang out with us at the virtual launch this Friday!

"It also proposes ending provincial funding to Mount Allison to have it become 'an independent Canadian premiere university' — in other words, a private institution." ... " This is shocking and sickening.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @susanholtnb.bsky.social Dear Premier Holt, Mount A has been recognized as the #1 undergrad university in the country for 26 of the past 35 years. Why would the province ever want to give this up? Education is the best investment.

This is the first in a series of four articles coming over the next couple months on The Stacks, because... 💛The Stacks is now open for pitches & paid writing!💛 I'm looking for writing on obscure games history, art history, sex/gender, and more Full guidelines + rates: thestacks.ca/submissions

With your help we've narrowed the gap to just under $1K with TWO HOURS left to go. Every bit counts: www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal 👉 Text a friend who loves games. 👉 Post the stream link 👉 Drop into chat and make it lively 👉 Raid us if you’re streaming 👉 Give direct: donate.romchip.org

Spreading the news about a call for submissions, for new kinky queer literary journal called the Orange Hanky Review. 🧡 @whippersnapped.bsky.social OHR is looking for fiction, poetry, memoir, and essays... previously published work or older pieces are welcome. www.orangehankyreview.com

Catastrophic higher education news in New Brunswick: the Liberal government of my MLA @susanholtnb.bsky.social is potentially going to cut 10% of the budget for universities—$50M across 4 schools when much *more* funding is needed, not less. The impact would be devastating. Please share, NBers.

The new torontogamesweek.com site for 2026 is live! Created by @omarieclaire.bsky.social with assets illustrated by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social, you can play around on the website, while also finding information about our upcoming event! You might even find a few easter eggs if you click around 👀

We've got FOURTEEN new essays coming in the next issue! Returning writers and new! A broad range of subjects, from the encroaching wave of censorship and its history, to interviews with developers and video essayists, to AI-generated intimacy, to horror, NTR, TTRPGs, and so much more! Aaaaaaaaa!!!!

Sharing this one last time before the survey closes at the end of February. If you had an NSFW game posted to Steam or itch.io in July, consider participating in our survey.

💾The Games & Storage special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication is officially out! 📚Thanks to editors @nickttaylor.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, and Robyn Hope for putting this together. 📡Be sure to check out my article on Satellaview restoration, 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴!

Incredibly timely and powerful report out today from @publicpubics.bsky.social and @internetmaggie.com laying out the debanking challenges faced by adult industry workers in Canada

🔥new report on debanking in Canada by @internetmaggie.com and @publicpubics.bsky.social

We are hiring at UNB Law! Contact me if you’d like more information. www.unb.ca/hr/_assets/d...

Was your pornographic, lewd, erotic, NSFW, or sexual game hosted on Steam or itch.io in July 2025? If so, consider participating in our online survey about the impacts of the changes to NSFW platform policy. More info about the project, the research team and how to participate at www.pppproject.com

Discord is "rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all users’ accounts to a 'teen-appropriate' experience unless they demonstrate that they’re adults." www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

Want to come work in my Film Studies department in Ottawa, Canada, for a year? Application deadline is March 6. All areas of specialization welcome. Please spread the word! @carleton.ca carleton.ca/deputyprovos... #filmstudies #jobopportunity

"This will be great, if the funding comes through."