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Research on gender faces growing pressure worldwide — a reality game studies scholars know well, from #Gamergate to ongoing harassment. PhD candidates Tom Legierse and Ida Martine Gard Rysjedal call for a network of care among gender and games researchers.

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Cc @aftermath.site

WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE

This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.

we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.

Keeping America Great: The Importance of Broadening Participation in STEM This review highlights how research aimed at increasing women's interest and achievement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is critical to U.S. national interests. STEM exper...

Keeping America Great: The Importance of Broadening Participation in #STEM by @tiffanyito.bsky.social Abigail M. Folberg @charlottemoser.bsky.social & @evaspietri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/spc3...

Wu, C., & Chang, C.-H. (2025). How multiplayer online games can yield positive effects on individual gamers, gaming companies, and society as a whole. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12. doi.org/10.1057/s415...
Big title, big claims, big statistical model
cc @celestialsem.bsky.social

YouTube video by JasperDasper Debunking Transphobia

youtu.be/JiOc0r31-Os?...

two older women are talking in a living room with a poster on the wall that says " why i need " ALT: two older women are talking in a living room with a poster on the wall that says " why i need "

First steps...

Picard management tip: When a policy is doing more harm than good, you must examine and revise that policy. It may require simplification, or it may require greater sophistication. Either way, you must change it.

I don’t have to read this piece to know that women are getting blamed for all the ways men made work worse to punish women for entering their workplaces.

Stagnated or declining wages? Gig work? Sexual harassment? All reflective of men’s hostility to women in public life.

There’s no such thing as “conservative feminism.”

They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.

Extremists Are Cashing in on a Youth-Targeted Gaming Website White supremacists and other extremists have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars through a youth-targeted, video livestreaming service called DLive, according to a researcher of online, far-righ...

More on the platform and this whole sordid episode here: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

It's zero mentions of 'dopamine'

Model science here. Finds that nudges work in a survey experiment - but then discovers mostly null effects when tested in a more ecologically valid setting.

Kudos to authors and editors for a) pipelining to ecologically valid settings and b) publishing null results.

tinyurl.com/5dmjr8v9

Ouch

MEPs to discuss protection of children and adolescents online | News | European Parliament In a hearing on Tuesday, MEPs and guest speakers will analyse key challenges and EU policy solutions to better protect minors in digital environments.

in case you're wondering: there was a livestream where 'Dopamine' was mentioned quite liberally
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Going to start listening and count how many times 'dopamine' is mentioned

Understanding the Vocal Health of Voice Actors in the Video Game Industry: A Survey Study of Vocal Symptoms, Impacts, and Demographics To characterize the demographics of video game voice actors (VGVAs), their health, occupational behaviors, and report the prevalence, frequency, and i…

Very happy to share our study on the vocal health of voice actors in video games!

Voice actors are elite vocal athletes who face unique vocal health challenges. Research, education, and training are needed to support the profession and their performances.

#voiceactor #vocalhealth #videogames

screenshot of youtuber dogen and the thumbnail of his most recent video titled "On the Rise of Anti-Foreigner Sentiment in Japan"

the way i could write an essay about dogen's (youtuber who does japanese language and culture content) newest video. it has me all up in arms lol. ill have to sort out my thoughts in more detail but just a few comments here

The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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The association between academic pressure and adolescent mental health problems: A systematic review Academic pressure is a potential contributor to adolescent mental health problems, but international evidence on this association has never been synth…

The association between academic pressure and adolescent mental health problems: A systematic review

By Thomas Steare, Carolina Gutiérrez Muñoz, Alice Sullivan, Gemma Lewis

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

YouTube video by Scandalous Games Podcast Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 3: Klaatu, barada, nightly news

New episode of Scandalous Games is live! We continue our look at anti-TTRPG moral crusader Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons with the help of Matt Shoemaker, recently-published author of an extensive history of GenCon.

NEW: In a recent Oxford-led study by @mmosleh.bsky.social, researchers analysed millions of social media posts containing links to news stories, across seven different social platforms.

Read the full research paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Won’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough? Determinants of Disengaging From Mobile Media Apps in Daily Life
@aliciaernst.bsky.social & @annastockmann.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0093...

Gotta call in @cjferguson1111.bsky.social because I forgot to bookmark one of his posts about dopamine. Band-aid wise throw them another lawyer buzzword

So I listened to the commission... What irks me the most is the repetitive linking of dopamine and digital media use

Come do your PhD with me at Imperial College in London! The LISS DTP funds 3.5y PhD tuition and stipend (+1y masters), deadline Jan 23:
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By coincidence, I was doing some literature review and stumbled upon the rejection-identification hypothesis that is relevant to your book

I wrote a book and it has a cover now! (Pre-order up, available Feb 5, 2026)

www.bloomsbury.com/us/fractured...

Ragins, B. R. (2024). Allyship, authenticity and agency: The Triple A Model of Social Justice Mentoring. Current Opinion in Psychology, 60, 101920. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...