Katherine Buse

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

Society for Literature, Science and the Arts folks: I'm running for member at large! I'd be thrilled to represent you. To me SLSA is a weird, wonderful interdisciplinary home & a space for supporting each other that makes it all feel worth it. Votes are due 5/1 - thanks for considering! (link 👇)

Caves of Qud Hugo Award finalist for Best Game or Interactive Work

Caves of Qud is a Hugo finalist for Best Game or Interactive Work!! 🚀🚀🚀😎😎😎🍄🍄🍄

LIVE AND DRINK :)

Chapter 2: The Working Planetologist Chapter 2: The Working Planetologist was published in Practices of Speculation on page 51.

Ho... some are straight-up unapologetic about it. @kbuse.bsky.social had an interesting take on the cross-fertilization between the fields.
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

For folks interested in 4S this year, @kbuse.bsky.social, Ari Gass, and I are running a track for Game Studies and STS. Consider applying!

Ever since I was a boy I knew I wanted to be part of a tendency in recent criticism

The 2025 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing: a Case for Caves of Qud By Jason Grinblat

Are you a SFWA member or do you know one? I wrote a case for nominating Caves of Qud for the 2025 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing.

(please repost)

kitfoxgames.medium.com/the-2025-neb...

UChicago Cinema & Media Studies is hiring a Professor of Design at the Asst or Assoc level! We are looking for practitioners in visual design and/or digital media making. Apply by the end of the month. More details including a full EoE/Vet/Disability Statement are at apply.interfolio.com/153358

Come teach for UChicago's Media Art and Design program! We're looking for a Lecturer in Media Arts and Design practice (as well as media theory and history, potentially). Apply by the end of the month. More details including a full EoE/Vet/Disability Statement are at apply.interfolio.com/148866

A screenshot of a google search The search bar says, “food names end with um” Al overviews are experimental. Learn more Here are some fruit names that end with "um": Applum, Bananum, Strawberrum, Tomatum, and Coconut.

Love what google is up to these days

the same cycle but as a spiral going down to 'IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE'

A more advanced model, thanks to my increased access to raw computational power

Strange blobs in Earth’s mantle are relics of a massive collision Impact with a body called Theia 4.5 billion years ago left remnants deep inside Earth — and also created the Moon. Impact with a body called Theia 4.5 billion years ago left remnants deep inside Ear...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Collision video

Can’t stop thinking about her

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCDw...