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Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
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#AltAc job: www.asianstudies.org/call-for-app... #AcademicSky

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

To coincide with the holiday season, we present a series of posts based around the theme of ‘toys’. First up, @javariafarooqui.bsky.social looks at #Barbie in Pakistan. Stay tuned for more to come over the month.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, bummed our panel on cozy domesticity and craft didn't make it into SCMS 25! We had a great international slate of panelists too.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Contingent Magazine is now accepting pitches for its December issue exploring the relationship between Star Trek and history. Click through or read down the thread to learn more!

submitted 101 days ago • 10 comments

I’m VERYYYY excited to announce that the Video Game Publishing Agreement Template Kit I wrote in collaboration with Aerial Knight Studio (a WELL-known Detroit based indie game studio) is NOW LIVE and FREE for developers! Check it out below! 🥹 www.aerialknight.com/publishing-a...

submitted 101 days ago • 46 comments

Anyone in my network know people with a degree in STS? I have lot of questions. Pls reshare 🥹 #BlackAcademics #STS ☺️ Also my mom would be SOOO proud I’m perusing a PhD.

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications! The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪 www.sciencewrite.co.uk

submitted 101 days ago • 10 comments

More for nonfiction and academic writers, but: Think of your audience as smart but lazy.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Periodic reminder that WE ARE HIRING 3 full-time positions in Games and Animation at U of Cincinnati. Review starts Jan 1. Here are the 3 positions: Tenure-track: jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna... Educator, Game Design: jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna... Educator, Animation: jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

If you see this, quote with your first anime! Yup--Sailor Moon quite literally changed my life since it encouraged me to study Japanese and pop culture.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Introduce yourself as an anime character... (but, you know, like she is in fic...not as much canon...)

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Job Position, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Digital Technologies, University of Toronto (Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy) jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1) Gen AI and independent digital artists 2) Fan-made rap music about anime characters

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment