*NEW ISSUE* *NEW YEAR* *NEW PLATFORM* @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Vol. XIII, No. 1 (Mar. 2026) is out! 2 essays & 2 book reviews! escholarship.org/uc/analoggam... -- now, housed on @ucirvine.bsky.social Libraries' @escholarship.bsky.social portal! #analoggamestudies #gamestudies #escholarship

So thrilled to be invited by Evan Torner & Celia Pearce to this... @indiecade.bsky.social #PlayableTheatre Symposium, March 23-24, 2026, In-person at the University of Cincinnati: www.indiecade.com/playablethea...

@NCTE_CCCC just passed an important resolution at their annual conference: "BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom." www.linkedin.com/posts/melani...

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Inside the mysterious life of the woman who designed the world’s most famous tarot deck www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

@4sweb.bsky.social welcomes & hosts @litsciarts.org at #4S2026 in Toronto, October 8-10: www.4sonline.org/slsa_2026__t... -- scholars & artists are invited to submit abstracts to one of four SLSA Streams: 1) Technology; 2) Ecologies; 3) Play; 4) Arts & Literature. The deadline is April 30, 2026.

TODAY: I am thrilled to welcome @alisonstine.bsky.social back to @ohiouniversity.bsky.social to visit with my #ENG2320 #SpeculativeAppalachia class & to hold a public discussion of her writing...Thanks to @ohioenglish.bsky.social, English HTC, OHIO Honors, and WGSS for co-sponsoring the event!

/FACEPALM: U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Ping Institute to feature presentation by Edmond Chang on March 3: www.ohio.edu/news/2026/02... @ohiouniversity.bsky.social @ohioenglish.bsky.social

#GenerationAnalog2026 "GREEN" CFP EXTENSION to Sunday, March 8, 2026, by end of day! analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #gameinlab #analoggamestudies

Last day (though tomorrow sometime is fine, too) to submit an abstract for #GenerationAnalog2026! This year's theme is "GREEN." analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #gameinlab #analoggamestudies #analoggames #greengames

Scientists Found AI’s Fatal Flaw—The Most Advanced Models Are Failing Basic Logic Tests Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, and the scientists making these models. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a703...

Love seeing how a half hour interview get boiled down: Ohio Equal Rights Campaigns Two Amendments for November Ballot: www.thepostathens.com/article/2026...

Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of The Washington Post Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime www.thenation.com/article/soci...

No, Punxsutawney, no.... www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/w...

SADNESSES: Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...

I don't like this is for a commercial... but I do like it because it warms my melancholic soul... www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3o5... #ladygaga #misterrogers #wontyoubemyneighbor

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click www.nature.com/articles/d41...

KULA Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: Citational Politics and Justice: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku... #citationaljustice #academia

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

A new year reminder to submit to #GenerationAnalog 2026! Deadline is two months away on March 1: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #analoggamestudies #gamestudies #greengames #green

CFP: Special issue: New Perspectives on Men and Masculinity in Gaming: septentrio.uit.no/index.php/el...

CFP: The Palgrave Handbook of Virtual Reality Literature: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...

World reacts to US bombing of Venezuela, ‘capture’ of Maduro www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

A.I. Is on the Rise, and So Is the Environmental Impact of the Data Centers That Drive It: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Why #mediastudies #rhetoricalawareness #criticalthinking #feminism #humanities are important: Wild Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories After Last Album Was Coordinated Effort, Report Claims www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

I wasn't going to teach The Hunger Games in my Speculative Appalachia class... but now... www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

#PlayStoryPress Book Talk: Suzanne Richardson @oozegod.bsky.social & Ed Chang share about Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons: playstorypress.org/2025/12/18/p... #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dnd @analoggamestudies.bsky.social

Not much has changed...really: A decade on from Game.rgate, how has the games industry changed for women? www.gamesindustry.biz/a-decade-on-...

More of my childhood going into that good night... and one of my gay awakenings... farewell, Buck... www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32V...

NEW PUBLICATION: Excited to be a part of this @jcmsjournal.bsky.social dossier on "#TeachingGameStudies," edited by Ryan Banfi, featuring a lot of friendlings including @Patrick LeMieux & Stephanie Boluk, Soraya Murray, and others: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach...

Top 10 Video Games of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/a...

In this week's @ohiouniversity.bsky.social @ohioenglish.bsky.social Faculty Roundup: www.ohio.edu/news/2025/12...

#HolidayGiftIdeas for your #videogames #analoggames #ttrpg #gamestudies friends... Video Games, Literature, & Close Playing: www.routledge.com/.../Chang...... & Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w...

A December reminder to submit to #GenerationAnalog 2026! Deadline is (only) three-ish months away on March 1: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... :) @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #GameInLab

Listening to #AlendaChang on Hidden Levels #5: "Press B to Touch Grass": 99percentinvisible.org/episode/hl-0... -- you can listen here: pod.link/394775318/ep... #hiddenlevels #minecraft #videogames #environmentalgames #podcast @99pi.org

Thanks for having us!

South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster futurism.com/future-socie...

Was just talking about him... Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

The poem... the horror... the horror... www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...

Reading Games, Playing Stories: A Book Talk with Edmond Y. Chang & Timothy J. Welsh, Tuesday, 12/2, 4:00-5:15 PM, UW OSC Presentation Space: lib.uw.edu/openscholars... #videogamestudies #gamestudies #closeplaying #newbook #booktalk

Hilars...

Congrattsssssssss....

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social & #GameinLab present Generation Analog 2026, July 16-17, GREEN will be this year’s conference theme... Abstracts due by March 1, 2026: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... #analoggamestudies #generationanalog2026

Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation: Poll abcnews.go.com/Politics/ame...

I especially like this quote about kids and games: "At the end of the day, kids love to play games, but they don’t need RPGs like a group of adults do. The thing that kids need when they play games is a framework for resolving disputes, but they don’t need a framework for creating fiction."

Just leaving this here: Harvard's endowment was valued at $56.9 billion for fiscal year 2025...

Thanks to Asian American Studies for the invite... UPCOMING TALK: "Race, Queerness, and Gaming While Asian," November 13, 2025, 4-5:320 PM, Denney Hall, Ohio State University asianamericanstudies.osu.edu/events/race-...

Look at all the larpssessesss... The full list of #goldencobrachallenge2025 submissions have been posted... this year's theme is "Connection and Community"... including my weirdo larp "Hands Across (Another) America"... www.goldencobra.org/submissions2... #freeformlarp

OPINION: I resigned from the military because of Trump www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...