Kat Schrier

I'm speaking at The AI Summit New York! 10-11 December | Javits Center

Come join me in NYC at #TheAISummit New York. invt.io/1bxbz92nrle. I'll be talking about:
*AI
*Ethical creative production
*Innovation in media, games, and more
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#games #media #AI #ethics

Careers at Marist - Marist University Thank you for your interest in a career with Marist University!

CLOSING SOON! Review begins on November 3rd.

♥️ We are hiring a #games / #UX faculty member at #MaristUniversity's game program, a top 50 Princeton Review undergrad-only program.

Teach #gameprogramming #leveldesign #businessofgames #UX and/or #VR & more.

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Love and Deepspace Devs Respond to Player Complaints That Their Dark-Skinned Custom Characters Are Invisible in Cutscenes - IGN Love and Deepspace has been out for almost two years now, but its playerbase is growing increasingly exasperated over a persistent issue impacting players with dark-skinned custom main characters: the...

for the last two years, players with dark-skinned custom MCs in Love and Deepspace have had to deal with their characters being poorly lit and often entirely invisible in some of the game's cutscenes, and they're begging the devs to do something about it:
www.ign.com/articles/lov...

Vote for no 6-7, special congrats to the first who knows the reference!!

Don't forget to vote! Election day is coming up on November 4th! (And there may be early voting near you, too). #vote

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Want to teach? Make/research games? Apply to teach at Marist #Top50 #GamesProgram. It's for:

🎮 People who make games.

🎲 Game researchers who also love to teach.

🕹️ Those who love both.

Review of applications begins on November 1st.

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#facultyjobs

See you there on June 26th at 4 pm in the Innovation Room! Also, connect with me if you want to get together in NYC and talk about #games #ethics #socialimpact #AI #design & more. So excited!!! 💗 🎮

I can't wait for my favorite conference next week, @gamesforchange #G4C #G4C2025!! 🌍 💗 I'll be speaking at a panel alongside some very inspiring people, Lien Tran, Theresa Loong, and Gordon Bellamy about inspiring the next generation of game creators! 🌟 🎲

Thank you to Dr. Karim Azizi and his colleagues at #ISAMM, and my U.S. Embassy hosts, Sami Saaied and Rihab Attafi. Thank you also to World Learning for supporting this experience.
I miss Tunisia and its beautiful people and culture. It's all the more reason to keep supporting Fulbright Program!

Tunisia is filled with:
*Lovely, warm people 😀
*Lovely, warm weather ☀️
*Lovely, warm architecture 🪬
*Lovely, warm food 🍲
*Lovely, warm community 🇹🇳
*Lots of cats! 🐈
I'm so lucky to have had this amazing experience!

I'm back from my amazing #Fulbright in beautiful #Tunisia. Here are some photos of my wonderful experience, which included teaching faculty at #ISAMM Institut Supérieur des Arts Multimédia de la Manouba and doing workshops at the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia. 🇹🇳🇺🇸🇹🇳🇺🇸

Fulbright board resigns citing interference by Trump administration All members of the board that oversees the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Program, which facilitates international educational exchanges, have voted to resign over alleged political interference from President Donald Trump's administration, the board said on Wednesday.

This is such devastating news. It is *especially* heartbreaking 💔 as I just returned from a Fulbright program, and I saw firsthand how enriching and important it is for innovation, cross-cultural community, and diplomacy. 🌍 www.reuters.com/business/med...

Trust me, you gotta watch #Paradise - it's so good. Love the writing, story, acting, sets, music, mystery, concept, everything! Sterling, Julianne, James! Ep 7 is one of the best episodes of TV ever. Go. Watch. Now.

Embarrassed by our country. Also, reading between the lines, and judging from the Oval Office reality show, it's clear that we are headed for WW3. (Likely, a war manufactured by the admin to get the US back on economic track.)

I'm so embarrassed to be an American now.

So, nothing special. I'm writing a scholarly publication on a few educational games. I do this often enough. In the byline, however, I need to write my institutional affiliation and the country in which I primarily work.

First time I felt deep shame when identifying this country as being the U.S.

My just-turned-five-year-old can't read, write, or do math. But, he asked me today to explain the differences in symptoms among RSV, norovirus, the flu, and coronaviruses.

(Tell me how bad this winter has been without telling me...)

Hmm interesting! Watching it now! Thanks for sharing

I remember being at MIT and one of the professors saying that MIT was a "true meritocracy" -- as if it were a good thing. I looked around and that was the moment when I stopped believing in it.

Thank you Lorri!! Your words mean a lot. We matter!!

Teens Playing These 4 Online Games Are Exposed to Harassment, New Report Says A new ADL report reveals concerning issues with online games. Here's what parents can do.

Good news! They updated the article with an attribution to me as the researcher of the work. www.parents.com/teens-harass... Thank you for your encouragement!

Thank you, Rekha, for the support! It is overwhelmingly devastating to do this research. But, it's important for us to do it and share it with the world.

Devastated to learn from my colleague Don Romesburg that the Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies Department is being eliminated, and all its tenured faculty are being fired, as part of “budget reductions”. wgs.sonoma.edu

Thank you for sharing this important work about #online #games -- and making these more #caring #compassionate spaces.

Thank you - that means a lot. I hope we can connect in real life at some point soon.

Yes. It's disheartening but not surprising. At some point it's comical but mostly just frustrating. Thank you for your comment!!

Playing with Hate: How Online Gamers with Diverse Identity Usernames are Treated

Playing with Hate: Report by Prof. Kat Schrier @katschrier.bsky.social

"We asked 15 young adults to play 4 online games (Valorant, Counterstrike 2, Overwatch 2, Fortnite) with different identities (Jewish and Muslim; then national IDs Chinese, Mexican, Israeli)."

www.adl.org/resources/re...

Thank you for sharing this!! It really means a lot!

Playing with Hate: How Online Gamers with Diverse Identity Usernames are Treated

I've struggled with whether to post this. Look, I know I am a *nobody.* But I spent 1 yr+ doing this research.

I am trying to remain grateful for the coverage of this important work. What do you think?

Link to my research: www.adl.org/resources/re...

Repost my post in solidarity!

Teens Playing These 4 Online Games Are Exposed to Harassment, New Report Says A new ADL report reveals concerning issues with online games. Here's what parents can do.

I've been invisibilized!! (yes it's a word lol)
Parents.com covered my research on #online #games (yay). But, they didn't mention me in the article. I'm the sole author of the research.
Meanwhile, only men were interviewed to talk about my research.
www.parents.com/teens-harass...

❣️ We found prosocial behavior in about 1/2 of the sessions - so there was often a mix of good and bad in the games.

💙 How can we make games more caring spaces?