Dr Daisy Abbott
@daisyabbott.bsky.social
Playful & Game-based learning specialist. Interdisciplinary researcher. Serious games for research skills and researcher development. SFHEA, CeLP, PhD.
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Games against Genocide Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
There are 50 TTRPGs to discover for a $10+ donation to @doctorswithoutborders.org and their Palestinian relief efforts.
Purchase the bundle here: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman...
There are 50 TTRPGs to discover for a $10+ donation to @doctorswithoutborders.org and their Palestinian relief efforts.
Purchase the bundle here: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman...
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Games against Genocide Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
There are 50 TTRPGs to discover for a $10+ donation to @doctorswithoutborders.org and their Palestinian relief efforts.
Purchase the bundle here: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman...
There are 50 TTRPGs to discover for a $10+ donation to @doctorswithoutborders.org and their Palestinian relief efforts.
Purchase the bundle here: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman...
Fantastic presentation by Rana Ahmed Amin on "Playing for Peace", #gameBasedLearning for inclusion of minorities and refugees. More of her work here: actegypt.org/tool-kits/
#peaceEducation #gbl #playfulLearning
#peaceEducation #gbl #playfulLearning
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Fantastic presentation by Rana Ahmed Amin on "Playing for Peace", #gameBasedLearning for inclusion of minorities and refugees. More of her work here: actegypt.org/tool-kits/
#peaceEducation #gbl #playfulLearning
#peaceEducation #gbl #playfulLearning
Really fantastic workshop using the Participation Compass, part of a toolkit from d-lab.mit.edu
A very valuable tool for planning participatory #research.
#iceri2025
A very valuable tool for planning participatory #research.
#iceri2025
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Really fantastic workshop using the Participation Compass, part of a toolkit from d-lab.mit.edu
A very valuable tool for planning participatory #research.
#iceri2025
A very valuable tool for planning participatory #research.
#iceri2025
Today I will present our work on POLYVOCAL HISTORIES THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY at #iceri2025
It will be a whistle-stop tour through why I think #AugmentedReality is a particularly good delivery technology for complex and/or contested knowledge.
#academicSky #playfulLearning #gbl #eduSky
It will be a whistle-stop tour through why I think #AugmentedReality is a particularly good delivery technology for complex and/or contested knowledge.
#academicSky #playfulLearning #gbl #eduSky
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Today I will present our work on POLYVOCAL HISTORIES THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY at #iceri2025
It will be a whistle-stop tour through why I think #AugmentedReality is a particularly good delivery technology for complex and/or contested knowledge.
#academicSky #playfulLearning #gbl #eduSky
It will be a whistle-stop tour through why I think #AugmentedReality is a particularly good delivery technology for complex and/or contested knowledge.
#academicSky #playfulLearning #gbl #eduSky
It was lovely to launch our Ceasefire! #seriousGame on Friday, a collaboration between @uofglasgow.bsky.social @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social and Education Evolved.
#gbl #peaceEducation #games #playfulLearning #seriousGames
#gbl #peaceEducation #games #playfulLearning #seriousGames
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It was lovely to launch our Ceasefire! #seriousGame on Friday, a collaboration between @uofglasgow.bsky.social @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social and Education Evolved.
#gbl #peaceEducation #games #playfulLearning #seriousGames
#gbl #peaceEducation #games #playfulLearning #seriousGames
Delighted to share that the Open Research Games Portal by @forrt.bsky.social is now live! You can browse #Games4Research and #OpenScience and add your pedagogical feedback, even add your own #research games.
forrt.org/games/
#GameBasedLearning #GameStudies #acadmicSky #eduSky
forrt.org/games/
#GameBasedLearning #GameStudies #acadmicSky #eduSky
Open Research Games Portal
Integrating open and reproducible science into higher education
forrt.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Delighted to share that the Open Research Games Portal by @forrt.bsky.social is now live! You can browse #Games4Research and #OpenScience and add your pedagogical feedback, even add your own #research games.
forrt.org/games/
#GameBasedLearning #GameStudies #acadmicSky #eduSky
forrt.org/games/
#GameBasedLearning #GameStudies #acadmicSky #eduSky
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Every time discover a new piece on the dangers of LLMs, particularly for research and teaching, I add it to a Zotero library. I figure that I might as well share it, so here's my library of Cautionary AI Tales: www.zotero.org/groups/62758...
October 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Every time discover a new piece on the dangers of LLMs, particularly for research and teaching, I add it to a Zotero library. I figure that I might as well share it, so here's my library of Cautionary AI Tales: www.zotero.org/groups/62758...
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The number of people between 16 and 34 who died or were injured in a work-related incident increased by 76% between 1939 and 1946
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The number of people between 16 and 34 who died or were injured in a work-related incident increased by 76% between 1939 and 1946
Exhibition opens on Friday!
Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives
6 - 15 Nov, 2025, 10:00 - 19:30
The ARC, University of Glasgow
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/empir...
Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives
6 - 15 Nov, 2025, 10:00 - 19:30
The ARC, University of Glasgow
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/empir...
Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives
Discover untold stories of ordinary people living during the British Empire and experience their stories in augmented reality.In 1938, a huge British Empire Exhibition took place in Bellahouston Park,...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Exhibition opens on Friday!
Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives
6 - 15 Nov, 2025, 10:00 - 19:30
The ARC, University of Glasgow
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/empir...
Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives
6 - 15 Nov, 2025, 10:00 - 19:30
The ARC, University of Glasgow
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/empir...
Could you negotiate a ceasefire?
Join us to launch CEASEFIRE! peace game, developed at U of Glasgow with @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social, Education Evolved, Floating Designer, ceasefire experts, and youth peacebuilders.
7 Nov 2-3:30, in person/online.
Email Rebecca.Sutton@glasgow.ac.uk.
Join us to launch CEASEFIRE! peace game, developed at U of Glasgow with @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social, Education Evolved, Floating Designer, ceasefire experts, and youth peacebuilders.
7 Nov 2-3:30, in person/online.
Email Rebecca.Sutton@glasgow.ac.uk.
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Could you negotiate a ceasefire?
Join us to launch CEASEFIRE! peace game, developed at U of Glasgow with @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social, Education Evolved, Floating Designer, ceasefire experts, and youth peacebuilders.
7 Nov 2-3:30, in person/online.
Email Rebecca.Sutton@glasgow.ac.uk.
Join us to launch CEASEFIRE! peace game, developed at U of Glasgow with @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social, Education Evolved, Floating Designer, ceasefire experts, and youth peacebuilders.
7 Nov 2-3:30, in person/online.
Email Rebecca.Sutton@glasgow.ac.uk.
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'I just have talent, Margaret has genius.' CRM
Sexist headline of the week.
A work by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh has been sold at auction and a Scottish newspaper decided to report this by referring to her as ‘wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’.
A work by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh has been sold at auction and a Scottish newspaper decided to report this by referring to her as ‘wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’.
October 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'I just have talent, Margaret has genius.' CRM
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I'm excited to share another exhibition as part of the Being Human Festival (6 – 15 Nov). www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/empir...
@BeingHumanFest is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Full #BeingHuman2025 programme: beinghumanfestival.org/festival-eve...
@sit-gsa.bsky.social
@BeingHumanFest is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Full #BeingHuman2025 programme: beinghumanfestival.org/festival-eve...
@sit-gsa.bsky.social
Empire Retold: Augmented Reality Narratives
Discover untold stories of ordinary people living during the British Empire and experience their stories in augmented reality.In 1938, a huge British Empire Exhibition took place in Bellahouston Park,...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
September 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I'm excited to share another exhibition as part of the Being Human Festival (6 – 15 Nov). www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/empir...
@BeingHumanFest is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Full #BeingHuman2025 programme: beinghumanfestival.org/festival-eve...
@sit-gsa.bsky.social
@BeingHumanFest is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Full #BeingHuman2025 programme: beinghumanfestival.org/festival-eve...
@sit-gsa.bsky.social
Join the launch of the CEASEFIRE! peace game project at University of Glasgow on 7 November 2025.
2-3 pm GMT. Advanced Research Centre University of Glasgow or online.
Followed by a reception and a chance to play-test the game (for those in person).
All welcome.
#GBL #SeriousGames #research
2-3 pm GMT. Advanced Research Centre University of Glasgow or online.
Followed by a reception and a chance to play-test the game (for those in person).
All welcome.
#GBL #SeriousGames #research
October 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Join the launch of the CEASEFIRE! peace game project at University of Glasgow on 7 November 2025.
2-3 pm GMT. Advanced Research Centre University of Glasgow or online.
Followed by a reception and a chance to play-test the game (for those in person).
All welcome.
#GBL #SeriousGames #research
2-3 pm GMT. Advanced Research Centre University of Glasgow or online.
Followed by a reception and a chance to play-test the game (for those in person).
All welcome.
#GBL #SeriousGames #research
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October 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A reminder of our open call for postdoctoral researchers focusing on cultural game studies, closing on Friday this week, 31 October at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2 (Finland time): tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)
tuni.rekrytointi.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Playposium 2026 – British Summer Festival
22–25 June 2026 | University of Exeter, UK
www.playposium.com
22–25 June 2026 | University of Exeter, UK
www.playposium.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Playposium 2026 – British Summer Festival
22–25 June 2026 | University of Exeter, UK
www.playposium.com
22–25 June 2026 | University of Exeter, UK
www.playposium.com
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If anyone is in or around Glasgow on Saturday and wants to hear me talk about my most recent essay on Video Game Worker Unions and Revolution, I'd love to see you there!
notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...
6pm at Broadside in Glasgow!
notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...
6pm at Broadside in Glasgow!
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If anyone is in or around Glasgow on Saturday and wants to hear me talk about my most recent essay on Video Game Worker Unions and Revolution, I'd love to see you there!
notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...
6pm at Broadside in Glasgow!
notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...
6pm at Broadside in Glasgow!
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Now it is official! The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games is now, like, actually, surely, coming out! (This has been in the pipeline since 2018.) I have a piece here on this brand new thing called 'magic circle'. Everyone will be talking about it.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games
Playing games is a basic human activity, and games raise a great number of fascinating philosophical questions. What, exactly, are we doing when we play a game? What is the value of games for human li...
www.routledge.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Now it is official! The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games is now, like, actually, surely, coming out! (This has been in the pipeline since 2018.) I have a piece here on this brand new thing called 'magic circle'. Everyone will be talking about it.
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📣 New blog!
Lucien from @crer-scotland.bsky.social offers tangible actions we can take as public health professionals and policy-makers to combat racialised health inequalities for Black, and other, racially minoritised communities.
gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
Lucien from @crer-scotland.bsky.social offers tangible actions we can take as public health professionals and policy-makers to combat racialised health inequalities for Black, and other, racially minoritised communities.
gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
Black History Month 2025: CRER's manifesto for an anti-racist Scotland
Black History Month 2025: CRER's manifesto for an anti-racist Scotland
gcph.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📣 New blog!
Lucien from @crer-scotland.bsky.social offers tangible actions we can take as public health professionals and policy-makers to combat racialised health inequalities for Black, and other, racially minoritised communities.
gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
Lucien from @crer-scotland.bsky.social offers tangible actions we can take as public health professionals and policy-makers to combat racialised health inequalities for Black, and other, racially minoritised communities.
gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
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My Serious Games Rapid Co-Design Workflow new improved interactive PDF version!
✅ More accessible
✅ Better scaffolding
✅ Prototyping tools list
✅ Triadic Game Design intro
Please have a go & give feedback! gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...
#seriousGames #playfulLearning #GBL
✅ More accessible
✅ Better scaffolding
✅ Prototyping tools list
✅ Triadic Game Design intro
Please have a go & give feedback! gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...
#seriousGames #playfulLearning #GBL
Serious Game Rapid Co-Design Workflow - RADAR
radar.gsa.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My Serious Games Rapid Co-Design Workflow new improved interactive PDF version!
✅ More accessible
✅ Better scaffolding
✅ Prototyping tools list
✅ Triadic Game Design intro
Please have a go & give feedback! gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...
#seriousGames #playfulLearning #GBL
✅ More accessible
✅ Better scaffolding
✅ Prototyping tools list
✅ Triadic Game Design intro
Please have a go & give feedback! gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...
#seriousGames #playfulLearning #GBL
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🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship:
'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre
Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott
Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre
Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott
Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship:
'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre
Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott
Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre
Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott
Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Episode 5 of Who Owns the Clyde, Journey to the Source is available now, featuring Scotland's Makar Peter Mackay, Colombian River Guardians of the Atrato, Barrister for the Earth Mónica Feria-Tinta & more podfollow.com/who-owns-the... @the-empire-cafe.bsky.social
Who owns the Clyde?: EP5 Journey to the Source
Join Jude and Louise as they journey to the source of the Clyde. In this episode they also explore nature rights, both locally and internationally. They meet Guardians of the River Atrato in Co...
podfollow.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Episode 5 of Who Owns the Clyde, Journey to the Source is available now, featuring Scotland's Makar Peter Mackay, Colombian River Guardians of the Atrato, Barrister for the Earth Mónica Feria-Tinta & more podfollow.com/who-owns-the... @the-empire-cafe.bsky.social
My Serious Games Rapid Co-Design Workflow new improved interactive PDF version!
✅ More accessible
✅ Better scaffolding
✅ Prototyping tools list
✅ Triadic Game Design intro
Please have a go & give feedback! gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...
#seriousGames #playfulLearning #GBL
✅ More accessible
✅ Better scaffolding
✅ Prototyping tools list
✅ Triadic Game Design intro
Please have a go & give feedback! gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...
#seriousGames #playfulLearning #GBL
Serious Game Rapid Co-Design Workflow - RADAR
radar.gsa.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My Serious Games Rapid Co-Design Workflow new improved interactive PDF version!
✅ More accessible
✅ Better scaffolding
✅ Prototyping tools list
✅ Triadic Game Design intro
Please have a go & give feedback! gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...
#seriousGames #playfulLearning #GBL
✅ More accessible
✅ Better scaffolding
✅ Prototyping tools list
✅ Triadic Game Design intro
Please have a go & give feedback! gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...
#seriousGames #playfulLearning #GBL
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Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore Games Based Teaching Tools with @dwjames.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2025/10/13/l...
#gamesbasedlearning
#gamesbasedlearning
LTHE Chat 339: Game Frameworks – Teaching Tools for Game Design and Beyond
Join us on Bluesky with guest David James @dwjames.bsky.social on Wednesday 15th October 2025 at 20:00 BST Games Development as a university subject has grown significantly in popularity over the l…
lthechat.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore Games Based Teaching Tools with @dwjames.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2025/10/13/l...
#gamesbasedlearning
#gamesbasedlearning
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Cuz sharing is caring and resource secrecy is for dweebs: For the past week, I've been starting my mornings by doing a lesson from this ridiculously comprehensive Godot Action RPG tutorial.
It's amazing. Dude basically teaches you how to make Legend of Zelda: LTTP.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
It's amazing. Dude basically teaches you how to make Legend of Zelda: LTTP.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Make a 2D Action & Adventure RPG in Godot 4 - Tutorial Series - YouTube
This tutorial series covers how to build a top down 2D game that features action, adventure and light RPG mechanics, using Godot 4 & GD Script.
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Cuz sharing is caring and resource secrecy is for dweebs: For the past week, I've been starting my mornings by doing a lesson from this ridiculously comprehensive Godot Action RPG tutorial.
It's amazing. Dude basically teaches you how to make Legend of Zelda: LTTP.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
It's amazing. Dude basically teaches you how to make Legend of Zelda: LTTP.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...