it happened to me: just responded to a long and articulate student email with "Sounds great!" and nothing else 😅

When you leave the classification part of the process to something lacking a human brain. Am picturing some very confused waste management engineers 😂😬

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Nothing can prepare your soul for the first image ever transmitted onto a television

Douglas Sirk directed a submarine movie, he knew what was up

the MPAA when they decided to switch to NC-17

Back in the summer I changed a fandoms module assessment from a research paper to a presentation about any one fannish object plus a reflection on key concepts in fan studies Result? Currently marking "here's why fan studies is cool" reflections, and thoughtful videos on things student care about

the energy to bring into 2026

Happy Heated Rivalry season finale to all who celebrate! Also, re: #FandomStudies...

Apparently I'm out in paperback! And it looks to be on sale, so if you're looking for a £35 stocking stuffer, boy do I have a recommendation for you... #fanstudies

I have read the article in question (link in comments of the QT) and just want to point and laugh at this para, which implies with a straight face that men are being discriminated against, without acknowledging that men are statistically more likely to apply for jobs they are underqualified for.

If you want another look at the topics presented at VGC 2025, we've got good news: half of the contributions now include a full paper as part of our Online Proceedings 🥳A big thanks to all the authors! Here's the link: videogamecultures.org/2025-abstrac...

now why are you doing my boy dirty with this headline?

The initial image of light coalescing into a bird has big 70s children's tv show about paganism vibes. Just needs a library music backing track

my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE, now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

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-...

*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.

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 🤞

There's something very "Ford Prefect" about a process that arrives at "Harper Collins" as a sensible name for a pornbot

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

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...

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 & #memorystudies. Added bonus: a workshop in Marburg in Feb 26. journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...

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

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)

I did hesitate before deleting (change is scary?), but I've done it

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.

I know just the book for you

I'm also looking forward to this, which starts tomorrow and is why I just speed-walked across FRA make my connection

Looking forward to this!

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...

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

added my ISBNs/details to the list last week 💪

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

Happy Clearing, for all who celebrate.

🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday

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.

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

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...

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.

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?

Planning your stay for the VGC in Prague? Here's some important information for you! videogamecultures.org/vgc-2025-upd...

Board game company fucks around (announcing new Harry Potter game), finds out (when fans revolt and media announce boycotts): aftermath.site/harry-potter-j...

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 🥰

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."

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 :)