A new paper on a carved cement wall at Ponta dos Corvos, Portugal — co-authored by @tmcasimiro.bsky.social — reads 60 years of names, dates and symbols as contemporary rock art and a layered record of collective memory.
How should we study — and preserve — sites like this?
bit.ly/4rcWQsw
A great range of games!
Back in 2018 I went on a hunt and could only find 1 lab based research game so this an excellent curated list.
Can I put you in touch with the project lead? (My role was in supporting the #SeriousGame design whereas she is the expert in Humanitarian Law etc.)
Her longer announcement is here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
No but it could be!
25.02.2026 10:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ceasefire: a toolkit for trainers and educators. Title page showing a range of people interacting with the Ceasefire toolkit.
The CEASEFIRE! Toolkit for #peace educators is here!
Free to download from CEASEFIRE! Peace Game Project, the Toolkit makes it effortless for you to integrate the #PeaceGame into existing curricula.
ceasefire-theta.vercel.app
#FORRT (Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training) now has a #games portal where you can find games to help you teach research skills and also add your own #Games4Research.
Open Research Games Portal
forrt.org/games/
#edtech #openResearch #openScience #HE #ResearcherDevelopment
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The comments by Jim Ratcliffe are not only offensive and harmful but blatantly incorrect, and will stir further hate and division. Working with organisations such as Show Racism the Red Card, Migrant Voice has – as part of the -"Migration. Making Britain Great" campaign -highlighted that the diversity of the Premier League, and migrants playing in it, is a strength that is reflected in Britain's communities. Immigration doesn't undermine a country's character; it enhances it. British culture, including football, is based on migration, on adapting and evolving to new ideas. That is something to be celebrated, not condemned. Nazek Ramadan Director, Migrant Voice
Our Director, Nazek Ramadan, speaks out about Jim Ratcliffe's racist and divisive comments.
"Immigration doesn’t undermine a country’s character; it enhances it. British culture, including football, is based on migration, on adapting and evolving to new ideas."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A buddy, with an excellent track record of intense and intimate games, is running a small LARP in the Scottish Highlands in December and maybe you might be interested?
coffinroadslrp.co.uk/dark-and-lon...
An interesting paper "When work becomes a game: the moral costs of gamified labor" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Gamification
15.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Quantum Tycoon, an educational video game for discovering #quantum computing web.ub.edu/en/web/actua... #GameBasedLearning
15.02.2026 10:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
if you’re just starting out in games, it’s never been easier to *make little guy walk around*
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Excited to share a new op-ed @insidehighered.com on autism and academic hiring. I argue that sociability and hireability aren’t the same thing, and that universities can take concrete steps to make hiring fairer for autistic scholars.
#Autism #HigherEd
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
I was talking to @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social about the diffusion of different game cultures & their ties to creator/influencer cultures, especially based on which are most/ least resistant to monetization.
(All are very human & thus subject to a lot of Scene Bullshit, but capital shifts a lot)
THE FIRST 3 YEARS PROJECT
Inspired by first3yearsproject.com
In my class on games as cultural industries, 60 students created a white paper on the first years as a games worker. Good practices, production processes, and labour issues.
Please share!
tinyurl.com/first3yearstcm
Well, the first chapter alone is worth the £8.99. Thanks for plugging the book, it's not a subject I know much about to be honest so I'm looking forward to educating myself on the rest.
12.02.2026 08:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A5 #LTHEchat great minds @louiserees.bsky.social - I was thinking : Paul Hanstedt
Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World
This infographic titled "The Women of the Periodic Table" highlights ten women and their contributions to element discovery. A central periodic table marks specific elements in green and orange, with lines connecting them to names and portraits. Featured scientists include Marie Curie (polonium, radium), Marguerite Perey (francium), and Clarice Phelps (tennessine). It traces history from early pioneers like Harriet Brooks to modern teams including Dawn Shaughnessy and Darleane Hoffman.
Today is the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 👩🔬 This graphic highlights women of the periodic table, the elements they discovered, and the two elements named after women.
Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪
Ooo go on then.
Even if I do have to install a whole new audiobook app for it. Maybe there will be some other good stuff on there too.
Extract from policy briefing document showing quotes on the topic of increased racial literacy.
Coming soon! Policy briefing document that captures community responses about #Glasgow history and identity. We hope that it can strengthen #Scotland ’s commitments to racial literacy, cultural #inclusion, and wellbeing.
Watch this space!
@sit-gsa.bsky.social @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social
A copy of the book ‘Ancient Egypt in Video Games’ edited by Jennifer Cromwell
Always exciting to get the latest delivery off @dgb-history.bsky.social’s ‘Video Games and the Humanities’ conveyor belt!
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Join the waitlist for Affective Atmospheres — 18–19 Feb at Civic House, Glasgow.
A free, in-person conference Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk
🔗 placememory.net/affective-at...
📣Apply for Small Grants Funding!
Are you looking to conduct research into social or cultural history? Do you need support with archival visits, organising a conference, or buying specialist equipment?
⏰Our next funding deadline is 1 March
socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
Human Creativity in Game Development, the Next Decade with Alexander Horowitz (EA)
Belatedly sharing this keynote from our PG taught research symposium from last September. A realistic but positive focus on the value of human-centric skills & shaping the industry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLge...
Digital badge with the text STEM Ambassador, 100 Hours of Engagement
Ooo, look! STEM Ambassador, 100 Hours of Engagement badge :-)
Yay me!
#sias2026 @scotstemambassador.bsky.social
Reminder that this free interactive about the Empire Exhibition of 1938 is available from radar.gsa.ac.uk/10458/
Click Details for download instructions and Documents for the zip file itself. Enjoy and lmk what you think :-)
youtu.be/cb8jIWaDI64
#Glasgow #history #Empire #Scotland #playfulLearning
awful AI shitslop image of a train in a sort of Scottish looking city that's blue and has a logo on the side formed of a lightning bolt in a thick circle
that same logo in its original blue and red colours, which happens to be the literal flag of the British Union of Fascists
Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists.
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
Poster text reads: I volunteered! Between 1st February 2025 and 31st January 2026, I volunteered to help inspire Scotland's next generation in STEM.
I love being a #STEMAmbassador ! Can wholly recommend :-)
STEM Ambassadors in Scotland Week is 2nd - 5th Feb #SAISWeek26
Alt text so you don't have to type it yourself:
I volunteered! Between 1st February 2025 and 31st January 2026, I volunteered to help inspire Scotland's next generation in STEM
Emmanuel Guardiola and I talked to Rudolf Inderst (@gamestudies.bsky.social) about our book Video Games and Mental Health on his podcast New Books in Game Studies
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
You can now listen to the episode in the link below!
newbooksnetwork.com/video-games-...
“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”
Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
