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George Farmer
@cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
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Doctoral Researcher & VL @ University of Westminster

Psychology of video games - motivations & mental health effects.

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George Farmer @cybergamepsych1.bsky.social · Nov 16
I noticed a lack of #cyberpsychology feeds over here. So I made one!

Please pin or like the feed if you find it useful and/or want to keep up to date with everyone in Cyberpsychology on Bluesky!

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📣 PhD/ECR researchers who are a part of the BPS Cyberpsychology section - several small grants are open to support your research and/or dissemination of research! The deadline is 5/12/25 so make sure to put something in soon.

#Cyberpsychology #PhDers #PhDfunding #ECRs #scholarshipopportunities
bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social BPS Cyberpsychology @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social · 7d
Exciting News! We are now offering several small grant funding opportunities to our section members who are post-graduate (PhD) or early career researchers 🌟

For full details and how to apply, visit our micro-site and head to the 'Funding' tab @ bit.ly/4hVNVbD

#Cyberpsychology #ECRs #PhD #grants
A promotional graphic from the British Psychological Society’s Cyberpsychology Section announcing “Scholarship & Research Fund for post-graduate (PhD) & early career researchers.” It states that several small grants will be offered in 2025 to support pump-priming and dissemination of research. The aim is to help members conduct studies, organise events that may lead to larger projects, or disseminate existing work. It includes a link to more information (bit.ly/4hVNVbD) and highlights an application deadline of 5 December 2025. The design features a purple and blue gradient background with the BPS Cyberpsychology Section logo.
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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annayahprosser.bsky.social
If you missed our launch webinar for the Psychgeist of ther Legend of Zelda yesterday, you can catch up with the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPlv... 🎮 #gamestudies #zelda #psychgeist #games
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social
🌟Excellent opportunity for Cyber section members🌟

The BPS is seeking members to join the #AI Task Group, which will play a central role in shaping guidelines for psychologists working with AI.

🔗 Full details, contact info, and interest submission form at: bit.ly/bps-AI-task-group

#Cyberpsychology
Graphic announcement for an opportunity from the British Psychological Society titled “Call for cyber psychologists.” It invites psychologists to join the BPS AI task group to help shape BPS guidance on how psychologists understand, respond to, and engage with AI technology in clinical and applied settings. The deadline for statements of interest is the 5th of December 2025. It provides application details at bit.ly/bps-AI-task-group and contact information for the practice team at PracticeTeam@bps.org.uk. The graphic design features dark blue and teal abstract wave patterns with light green and white text, and the British Psychological Society logo at the bottom left.
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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catherinetalbot.bsky.social
Excited our new paper is out!

#OlderAdults using a co-designed social-connectivity app showed reductions in depression after 4 weeks, but no change in loneliness & anxiety

Interviews revealed self-reflection, self-analysis, and re-appraisal as key processes #DigitalHealth

doi.org/10.1080/1360...
Older adults can re-appraise loneliness using a social connectivity app: a mixed method intervention study
Older adults face an elevated risk of social isolation, loneliness, and poor psychological health. This mixed methods study evaluates a trial of an intervention app designed to protect against lone...
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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thevideogamelibrary.org
The latest #Psychgeist entry has arrived!

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA 🗡️

I’m SO excited to read it this weekend ♥️

Thank you @annayahprosser.bsky.social @drkowert.bsky.social 🙏
A book called the Psychgeist of pop culture, the legend of Zelda sitting on top five other books in the same series. The background is a mountain landscape.
October 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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nicolleness.bsky.social
DiGRA 2026 has been announced! This conference around digital games scholarship is one of the bigger ones and really worth visiting.

📅 14-18 June 2026
🌸 Location is Maynooth, Ireland
📣 Abstracts/full papers due on 1 December

More info: www.digraconference2026.com #gamestudies
DiGRA 2026 Conference | Maynooth University, Ireland
Join the DiGRA 2026 conference at Maynooth University, 14–18 June 2026. Theme “Intersectional Pleasures.” A global hybrid event for game research, culture, design, and industry.
www.digraconference2026.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
The Zelda edition of the Psychgeist series is now available!

I co-wrote the first chapter, which explores how the Zelda games can teach us to be self-determined.

The book is free to download and read 🙂

lnkd.in/eQ2KSSgB

#gamestudies #PhDsky #PsychSciSky #Cyberpsychology
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October 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
Artificial Intelligence discovers not one, but TWO amygdala in the brain. More at 10.
dsquintana.bsky.social Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Sep 18
I give this AI generated image I found on LinkedIn a 3 out of 10 because at least the brain is facing the right way
An AI generated image of a brain with many errors
September 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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wgaeast.bsky.social
The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social
Another free event for BPS members that might be of interest to our cyber section exploring online safety for young people, screen time, and mental health📱🤳

📅 Date: 26 September 2025, 12:30pm - 2:30pm

You can register at: www.bps.org.uk/event/smartp...

#Smartphones #Mentalhealth #Cyberpsychology
Smartphone use and young people | BPS
This event will explore a holistic approach to technology use in adolescents.
www.bps.org.uk
September 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social
📢 Call for Submissions: Cyberpsychology Bulletin
Researching cyberpsychology? We want your insights of cutting-edge research in the field!

Submission info:
📝 Article of 500 words
📅 Deadline: 3 Oct 2025
📧 Submit via email: cyberpsychbulletin@bps.org.uk
#CyberpsychologyBulletin #CFP #Cyberpsychology
September 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
Looking for folks who would be interested in writing a blurb or reviewing a book about the psychology of The Legend of Zelda series!

Who knows, maybe @matthewmercer.bsky.social would be interested?
August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

This project has truly been a labour of love, but I'm eternally grateful for the support and guidance of my co-authors @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social and Chris Fullwood.

Very glad that these voices and stories have a home.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/dig...
Frontiers | “It's a good distraction from the mayhem of reality”: a reflexive thematic analysis on the role of video games to support coping during a crisis
IntroductionVideo games have been shown to offer psychological benefits to gamers during times of stress. One recent, salient example of a stress-inducing ev...
www.frontiersin.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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johntrterry.bsky.social
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.
July 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
Can confirm that the bulletin is a fantastic way to get word of new and exciting research out there!
bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social BPS Cyberpsychology @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social · Jul 29
📢 Call for Submissions: Cyberpsychology Bulletin
Researching cyberpsychology? We want your insights of cutting-edge research in the field!

Submission info:
📝 Article of 500 words
📅 Deadline: 3 Oct 2025
📧 Submit via email: cyberpsychbulletin@bps.org.uk
#CyberpsychologyBulletin #CFP #Cyberpsychology
Digital Poster with text: Call for Submissions: Cyberpsychology Bulletin Are you doing research in Cyberpsychology? Would you like to share your insights and contribution to the growing knowledge within the field by submitting your work to the Cyberpsychology Bulletin, the official publication of the BPS Cyberpsychology Section? You may be investigating topics around social media, digital mental health, the impact of AI, influencer culture, gaming and gamers, VR, digital relationships or the ethics of cybersecurity and privacy. If your work explores how digital technology shapes and is reshaping human behaviour and cognition in some way, then we’d be interested to hear from you. Submit an article of 500 words via email: cyberpsychbulletin@bps.org.uk and help us foster discussion and knowledge-sharing of cutting-edge research across our community!
July 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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apajournals.bsky.social
Looking to submit your manuscript to a journal? 📚 Browse calls for papers from APA Journals spanning the breadth and depth of psychology: bit.ly/3DCe67D

#PsychSciSky #Psychology #Neuroskyence #EduSky #AcademicSky
July 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
You know, AI isn't so bad once you ignore the moral implications, the educational implications, the environmental implications, the economic implications, the epistemological implications, the...
nickseaver.website Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · Jul 21
uh oh, things are happening dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
CHI Al shaming is a social phenomenon in which negative judgements are associated with the use of Artificial Intelligence (Al). This includes comparing someone's work with Al-generated work as a means of disparagement, voicing suspicion or alleging that someone has used Al to undermine their reputation, or blaming the poor quality of an artefact on Al use. Common justifications of Al shaming include recourse to Al's societal harms, its technical limitations, and lack of creativity. I argue that, more fundamentally than any of these, Al shaming arises from a class anxiety induced in middle class knowledge workers, and is a form of boundary work to maintain class solidarity and limit mobility into knowledge work. I discuss the role of Al shaming in protecting the privileged class of knowledge work and its attendant harms.
July 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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digitalgoodnet.bsky.social
Our Internationalisation Lead, @joncong.bsky.social, has co-guest edited a Special Section on True Costs of Misinformation for the International Journal of Communication.

Read the edition here:
ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc
July 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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leonxiao.com
CfP: Beyond Game Mechanics at City University of Hong Kong

Dates: 8–9 October 2025 (offline participation only)

[Extended] Submission Deadline: 31 July 2025

www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/events/beyon...
Call for Participation: Beyond Game Mechanics | School of Creative Media
Call for Participation: Beyond Game Mechanics Location: School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Date of Event: October 8-9, 2025 (offline participation only) [Extended] Submission Deadl...
www.scm.cityu.edu.hk
July 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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agreenpsych.bsky.social
Publication news 🥽

The third study from my PhD has been published in Applied Cognitive Psychology.

For those of you who attended #Cyber25 this is the quantitative element of my talk

Next stop: thesis submission!

doi.org/10.1002/acp....

#cyberpsychology
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July 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
Our extended abstract is now available in the DiGRA Library! We describe our thoughts on save-scumming, which will (eventually) become a fully-fledged article on our exploratory qual work.

@derryacademic.bsky.social @jonesrincon.bsky.social

dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...
Save-Scumming: A Novel Exploration of Video Game Play | DiGRA Digital Library
dl.digra.org
July 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
A bold step for open research 🟨🟪👣

Wellcome has joined the Barcelona Declaration. A big move from one of the world’s leading research funders. With persistent identifiers and open metadata policies, they’re helping shift how research is recognized and rewarded.

🔗 wellcome.org/news/wellcom...
Wellcome announces suite of open research measures | News | Wellcome
John-Arne Røttingen, Wellcome’s chief executive, made a series of announcements regarding the global health research foundation's open research methods
wellcome.org
July 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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apajournals.bsky.social
New special issue on trauma in the modern age of technology from Psychological Trauma, covering familiar (cyberbullying, online child sexual exploitation, telehealth) and developing (AI, facial recognition) topics as they relate to trauma. Learn more: bit.ly/45QRJHo #PsychSciSky #AI
July 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social
Huge congrats to our #cyber25 award winners! 🎉 Best Presentation – Yunhao Hu, Best Work in Progress presentation – Evelyn Murray, Best Poster – Megan Gallagher and Best Dressed – Morgan Tidy. You can check out the abstracts of their award winning in the online abstract book!
July 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
cybergamepsych1.bsky.social
Very surreal experience when your research is cited and you're in the audience!

First time (and hopefully not the last) this has happened.
July 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM