Dr. Rachel Kowert

Tales From Cloud Canyon Educational stories and adventures from Cloud Canyon! Fun, engaging tales that teach kids problem-solving, creativity, and life skills through imaginative storytelling from the mind of Dr. Rachel Kowe...

BRB expanding the empire.

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Tales From Cloud Canyon | Dr. Rachel Kowert A series of short stories celebrating everyday children, doing everyday things, with their everyday abilities.

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I wrote a book series that celebrates the power of the everyday kid, doing everyday things, with their everyday abilities.

The books and audiobooks are FREE to download (avail across platforms)

Explore the world of Cloud Canyon here: www.talesfromcloudcanyon.com

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Honored to be the first guest in the new Play Story Book Talk podcast from Play Story Press to speak about the origin of the Psychgeist of Pop Culture book series.

You can watch the full interview NOW!

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🎮 Playing Games… for Science - YouTube Let's explore the science hiding inside your favorite games....but it'll probably be only the first 10 minutes of them because I can't keep talking while the...

This was one of the best games I played all year. #timeflies

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You get me

Just a friendly reminder, the deadline for submissions for The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: K Pop Demon Hunters is approaching! (December 20)

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Tonight, my kids get a cultural studies lesson.

Europol and partner countries combat online radicalisation on gaming platforms – Referral Action Day removes vast amounts of terrorist, racist and xenophobic propaganda from gaming and gaming-related ... Europol supported eight countries in identifying and removing racist and xenophobic propaganda shared on gaming and gaming-related platforms. The Referral Action Day, involving Denmark, Finland, Germa...

Europol supported eight countries in identifying and removing extremist content on gaming and gaming-related platforms.

This joint action highlights the complexity of tackling terrorist content online on gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms.

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YouTube video by Psychgeist The Psychgeist of Pop Culture | Stardew Valley

HOT OFF THE PRESS

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Tell me you have kids, without telling me you of kids. Also, maintaining my TS street cred.

I got it last Christmas at a thrift store with like a dozen games! She even threw in the small portable TV so I would have something to connect it to!

Had a lovely time on the Voices of Trust Podcast about how to build healthy digital spaces in games

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Tis the season.... @thewitcher.com

Uno was a wild card!

From Gears of War to Uno: the 15 most important Xbox 360 games As the Xbox 360 turns 20, we celebrate its most influential and memorable games – both exclusives, and those that came to the console first

Hi, Keza and I decided on the 15 most important Xbox 360 games. I’m afraid we will not be taking questions

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I AM VERY EXCITED FOR THIS

Getting into the holiday spirit.

This is brilliant! Great job

This plot shows the number of users in the Study 1 sample that self-described as 'addicted' to Instagram versus those who were 'at risk' of clinical addiction. The ratios for the addiction symptom scale are 9:371 and for the perceived addiction 69: 311, suggesting a much greater proportion of users self-perceive as addicted than are actually addicted to Instagram

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨

S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria.

S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse.

Thread below... 🧵

Understanding The Needs Of Video Game Digital Communities — Shine A Light Gaming Gaming communities need leaders who can keep people safe. But most community managers and moderators get zero training before they start. Players expect freedom and protection from harassment and hate...

Digital leadership in games report inadequate institutional support and nearly (96%) independently seek professional development.

I'm proud to say we are building new resources for this community.

...in the meantime, you can learn more here:

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Good thread

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I walked away from my last job profoundly jaded that the voluntary commitments by tech companies to address violent extemism on their platforms and to collectively hold the industry to account together were at best cynically held, and every day since has hit a new low.

I hate it

#GAConf (IGDA-GASIG) Awards 25

Voting closes tonight, last chance to decide the winners of the GAConf accessibility awards!

Voting form and finalists' info here - www.gaconf.com/gaconf-award...

#gamedev #indiedev #accessibility

Nihilistic violence includes violent acts lacking a unifying ideology or political goal, often driven by misanthropy or a desire for notoriety in online communities.
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EXP Talks: Entertainment • Xperience • Psychology - YouTube 🎮 Let's farm some XP for your brain. EXP talks are TED styles talks that deep diver into the topics discussed in the Psychgeist of Pop Culture book series fr...

Have you checked out EXP talks yet?

They are like nerdy TED talks but with more bonus XP brought to you by the editors of the Psychgeist of Pop Culture series.

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How many months is too many months peer review?

Checked in on a submission that's been under review since July and they said they still haven't found a second reviewer 🫠

Psychgeist Where science, video games, and pop culture meet. Hosted by Dr. Rachel Kowert, a psychologist and game researcher, this channel breaks down the science behind your favorite games, shows, and fandom...

I'm inching closer to my arbitrary but important-to-validate-my-efforts goal of 5k subscribers by the end of the year.

Games! Science! 90s game references!

If you already subscribe (thank you!), consider sharing with another Witcher lover in your life!

www.youtube.com/psychgeist

TL;DR November 2025 A compendium of the comings and goings in research, development, and news about our digital playgrounds from November 2025.

t remains so important to show up with scientifically-backed counter narratives to the never-ending-moral-panic about technology and young people.

Here's some fodder for that conversation.

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