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Senior Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
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will pooley
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my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
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Dr Selena Wisnom
15 days ago
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Skot Armstrong
19 days ago
A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE, now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
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Rose Ruane
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Jack Orchard
about 1 month ago
Very excited to share that on November 10
@discoxford.bsky.social
are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with
@carrythezero.bsky.social
, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and
@emarlow.bsky.social
:
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
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Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-games-archives-and-preservation
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QM_UCU
about 1 month ago
*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*. If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
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yesterday a student said something about chatgpt in my hearing, and without working out if it was a positive or dismissive comment I said "oh don't sully the air of my classroom with that name" and continued with my slide. the way the group murmured in response sounded like they were on my side 🤞
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Eddie Robson
about 1 month ago
There's something very "Ford Prefect" about a process that arrives at "Harper Collins" as a sensible name for a pornbot
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thought i'd be kind as an editor and quickly drop the proper in-text references in place of this chapter's "ibid." and "op. cit", but halfway through it i am: i) regretting my choices, ii) firmly opposed to the use of "ibid." and "op. cit" by anyone ever, and iii) stopping for lunch
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Dr Eve Hayes
about 2 months ago
Having studied
#digitalID
in depth for my PhD and written a book about this way before anyone had even flagged it as a problem - this a TERRIBLE idea. We have been warning the UK government about the dangers of digital ID for years. No one listened.
#digitalidentity
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme
The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g54g6vgpdo
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Nina Heise
about 2 months ago
The CfP for the 1st themed issue of our journal Fandom | Cultures | Research is out & I'm especially excited for this one, since it combines two of the things I'm most interested in:
#fanstudies
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#memorystudies
. Added bonus: a workshop in Marburg in Feb 26.
journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...
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Call for Abstracts - Themed Issue 2/26 & Accompanying Workshop: “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance” | Fandom | Cultures | Research
https://journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announcement/view/74
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it's the Friday before teaching starts next week, aka the perfect time for the summer's last mint Cornetto from the freezer as a pre-dinner snack
about 2 months ago
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Vanguard, the Husko
2 months ago
My friend and colleague
@lerelle.bsky.social
needs research participants for their PhD project. The research focuses on intersectionally minoritised queer people's experiences using dating apps. So could you please take a look at this and share it if you can? (1/3)
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I did hesitate before deleting (change is scary?), but I've done it
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Dr Vanessa
2 months ago
I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.
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dr. cat
2 months ago
I know just the book for you
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I'm also looking forward to this, which starts tomorrow and is why I just speed-walked across FRA make my connection
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Looking forward to this!
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Official account for the conference series "Video Game Cultures"
3 months ago
Our publication for VGC 2023 is on its way! You can already check out the wonderful cover and website here:
www.sidestone.com/books/explor...
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Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures @ Sidestone Press
This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary col...
https://www.sidestone.com/books/exploring-new-horizons-in-video-game-cultures
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Official account for the conference series "Video Game Cultures"
3 months ago
Are you curious what's behind the presentation titles for VGC 2025? Here's a little sneak-peak (also known as abstracts 😉):
videogamecultures.org/2025-abstrac...
#videogames
#gamestudies
#academia
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2025 Abstracts & speaker bios – Video Game Cultures
https://videogamecultures.org/2025-abstracts-speaker-bios/
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added my ISBNs/details to the list last week 💪
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3 months ago
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the to-do list is overwhelming, but hopefully knuckling down to get through some screening (11 episodes left of this current case study!) will make me feel like i'm making progress
3 months ago
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John Bull
3 months ago
Happy Clearing, for all who celebrate.
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Dr Daniel Sheppard
3 months ago
🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday
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Santiago Mayer
3 months ago
Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point. Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.
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Matt Denny
3 months ago
In addition to this, I'm always slightly put off by the product makers claiming something has PhD level intelligence when personally I see my PhD as a marker of obsession, endurance, and spite
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VGDensetsu
3 months ago
Upon receiving her BAFTA award, Yoko Shimomura gave an interview to The Guardian in which she stated that Capcom's sound divisions (one per department: arcade and consumer) in the late 80s were not only composed mainly of women; they were led by women.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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From Street Fighter to Final Fantasy: Yoko Shimomura, the composer who put the classical in gaming’s classics
With a four-decade career beginning at Capcom in the 8-bit era, Shimomura is one of the most acclaimed names in gaming. She recalls her early struggles – and explains why her beloved classical music f...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jun/20/yoko-shimomura-interview-composer-street-fighter-final-fantasy
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Ed Zitron
3 months ago
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
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Maytera Marble
3 months ago
So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
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Official account for the conference series "Video Game Cultures"
3 months ago
Planning your stay for the VGC in Prague? Here's some important information for you!
videogamecultures.org/vgc-2025-upd...
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VGC 2025 Updates and information – Video Game Cultures
https://videogamecultures.org/vgc-2025-updates-and-information/
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Aftermath
4 months ago
Board game company fucks around (announcing new Harry Potter game), finds out (when fans revolt and media announce boycotts):
aftermath.site/harry-potter-j...
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Got paid the biggest compliment today: sent a published chapter of mine to a friend (relevant to her own work), and came back to a series of DMs enthusiastically quoting bits back 🥰
4 months ago
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Autistic Science Person
4 months ago
People do not understand the impact these data centers have on the environment and everytime I hear someone using AI for a completely mundane task they could do themselves, I think about what we're giving up for this "convenience."
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ttv/xxxcrazymikexxx
4 months ago
Made this cute little website over the past month in my spare time. So many fish have been drawn!!! No idea where they're all coming from. A real field of dreams moment :)
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Gareth Watkins
4 months ago
I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
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Julia Carrie Wong
4 months ago
A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book
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Bob Whitaker
4 months ago
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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Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned
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...
https://www.historyrespawned.com/home/2025/7/21/reviewer-2s-review-of-red-deads-history
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innes
4 months ago
this is extremely fucking funny but also i cannot stress enough that LLMs are just outputting stuff that looks kinda like the stuff they've been trained on and when you ask them why they did something, they're just outputting even more stuff that looks kinda like the stuff they've been trained on
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#BruceSterling
4 months ago
*If you're a writer or journalist, this is probably the most reasonable denunciation of LLMs as a grave social evil that you're likely to see this season
www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
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The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
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Tom Ewing
4 months ago
Normal person: It’s a tapestry Tapestry expert: It’s an embroidery! Me, banging table: IT’S A COMIC
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Tom Apperley
4 months ago
CFP Hybrid Symposium: The UK Tabletop Role-Playing Game Scene – Histories, Cultures, and Legacies - 16th September,
@coegamecult.bsky.social
Tampere University, Finland (and online) Full details in attachments.
#ttrpg
#boardgames
#wargames
#minatures
#gamebooks
#videogames
#history
#gamestudies
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Tom Ue
4 months ago
Turn this off if you still have an
Academia.edu
account.
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Thomas Cheney
5 months ago
funny how the lesson we can learn is always 'low regulation' and never 80% of residents live in subsidized public housing
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The UK has a lot to learn from speedy Singapore
Rather than emulate the city state wholesale, policymakers should select from its tool kit
https://on.ft.com/3G1We7i
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It's me, I'm game researchers! I talked about a chapter for the book I'm definitely writing, focused on how engaging with VR games (as represented in recent Chinese dramas) is framed as transgression
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5 months ago
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Aysha
5 months ago
I told you guys
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Matt Denny
5 months ago
I have tweeted many variations of this over the years, but that is because it is true. The best writing advice I ever got was when my PhD supervisor told me "Matt you are not Derrida" and gave me a shortbread biscuit
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Furry Studies
5 months ago
Small update from us at Furry Studies! 🦉 The deadline for the Call for Papers has been extended until Monday 30th June to give you all a little more time to get your abstracts in! More info:
furrystudies.org
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Call for Papers - Furry Studies 2025
We encourage the submission of proposals for academic papers, short workshops, practice-based activities, performances, showcases, and pre-formed panels.
https://furrystudies.org
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Stephen Gallagher
5 months ago
On the 25th anniversary of the show
@paranoidstylist.bsky.social
uploaded his in-depth article on BUGS and its position as "an unacknowledged influence on a later generation of stylish, issue-led thriller series of the 2000s"
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dr. cat
6 months ago
JOB KLAXON: teaching fellow in film studies (fixed-term 1 year), U of Birmingham. closes 24 June.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI241/t...
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Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at University of Birmingham
Apply now for the Teaching Fellow in Film Studies role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI241/teaching-fellow-in-film-studies
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