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The Journal of Geek Studies is a place for sharing knowledge and #geekness. Come check our #science news, read our #scicomm articles and, maybe, write for us.
You can find us at https://jgeekstudies.org/
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Ma nouvelle étude est en ligne ! Je vais devoir pas mal jongler aujourd'hui entre communication en français et en anglais, priorité au public francophone à travers un fil pour résumer ce travail ! ⬇️🦉

Merci encore à Rodrigo et l'équipe du JGS pour leur accueil !
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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🎮 Can a video game save a species? 🦜

Our new piece, by @floriannechekuv.bsky.social, explores how the game Jack Barau blends play and purpose to spotlight #conservation in Réunion.

Read the full article: jgeekstudies.org/2025/11/11/c...

#geekstudies #indiegames #seriousgames #gamingforgood
Can conservation really be effective through video games? A case study on Jack Barau and some perspectives
Florian Verdier Independent Researcher, Sens, France. Email: fverdier.ei (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Almost half of the world’s population plays video games (Buijisman, 2024). Whether the exp…
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November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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vgdensetsu.bsky.social
I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/
Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.
October 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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We've got a new article! 🦀

@aumpuma.bsky.social examines how
@aggrocrabgames.bsky.social's Another Crab’s Treasure reflects real-world ecological concerns through gameplay, from scavenged gear to toxic waters.

#geekstudies #marinebiology #pollution #environment #crabs
When trash stops being a treasure: pollution and its effects in Another Crab’s Treasure
Abraham U. Morales-Primo Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Hospital General de México, Mexico City, Mexico. E-mail: aump.puma (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Marine e…
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November 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
i just remembered that some people got genuinely upset when i pointed out that live action little mermaid's sebastian would die underwater
joabaldwin.com Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · Oct 3
Outrageous! The moon rotation in this shot of
The Lion King remake implies it was shot far into the northern hemisphere. What happened to realism? Literally unwatchable.
Screenshot of shot with the full moon rising in front of Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa. Below are three moon diagrams showing the proper orientation of the moon from the northern hemisphere, equator (Kenya) and southern hemisphere. The moon from the film is aligned to the northern hemisphere version because realism means nothing any longer.
October 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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🚨 New article! 🎉

J. Hepper explored social media discussions to understand how #cyberpunk lexicon enters public discourse about real-world events.

#GeekStudies #MediaStudies #Shadowrun #PopCulture
When cyberpunk leaks into the timeline: megacorps, memes, and Rheinmetall as a real‑world case study
Jens Hepper Independent researcher, Northeim, Germany. Email: jens.hepper (at) rlsb (dot) de Download PDF Pop culture increasingly provides the metaphors—and sometimes the scripts—that shape public…
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September 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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echinoblog.bsky.social
*laugh* So, it turns out there is an Antarctic brittle star, Ophiosteira bullivanti that bears more than a casual resemblance to STARYU! #pokemon #echinoday ha ha! 😂
September 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
The 10 Best Marine and Aquatic Species in the Star Trek Universe| Happy Star Trek Day, nerds!
The 10 Best Marine and Aquatic Species in the Star Trek Universe
Take a deep dive into the ocean life of Star Trek.
www.startrek.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Ever wondered how many molluscs live in the @magic.wizards.com multiverse? 🐌

No? Well, but our researchers did — and we have a brand-new "fantasy-meets-taxonomy" paper about it!

Come take a look at the article: jgeekstudies.org/2025/08/24/m...

#MolluscMonday #GeekStudies #MagicTheGathering #MTG
Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering
Rodrigo B. Salvador1, Natan C. Pedro2, Mark A. Carnall3 1Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo,…
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September 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Was this new research funded by Elizabeth Báthory? 😆

🧪 #scicomm #vampires #FGO
Scientists Identify How Young Blood Reverses Aging in Human Skin Cells
The idea of taking blood from the young to rejuvenate the elderly is getting an increasing amount of attention from scientists, and a new study has shown how some of the youthful properties of our ski...
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August 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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historygamesnet.bsky.social
The HGN team recently chatted with Rytis Jadzevicius of @fluxogames.bsky.social about their upcoming game, Book Smugglers. A decision-driven, point-and-click adventure set in 19thC Lithuania, the game blends resource management with historical storytelling:

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Interview with Fluxo Games on "Book Smugglers" | Historical Games Network
The HGN team recently spoke with Rytis Jadzevicius of Fluxo Games, based in Vilnius, Lithuania, about the studio’s forthcoming historical game, Book Smugglers.  Set in 19th Century Lithuania, the game...
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July 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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🚨 New article out now! 🚨
By ‪@beelzebruno.bsky.social

Can we predict competitive Pokémon VGC leads using Latent Semantic Analysis? 🧠🔍

#GeekStudies #PokemonVGC #DataScience #CompetitivePokemon
Predicting competitive Pokémon VGC leads using Latent Semantic Analysis: a data-driven approach to team matchups
Bruno Luvizotto Carli Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. brunolcarli (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Competitive Pokémon battles often hinge on the initial selection of Pokémon…
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July 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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🚨Our 1st 2025 issue is complete!🚨
Explore the latest in geeky research, with interviews with game devs and articles on Tintin, #StarWars, #IndianaJones et al., Pokémon, and #StudioGhibli.

Check it out 👉 jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol...

#GeekStudies #scicomm #geekculture
Vol. 12(1): June, 2025
Journal of Geek Studies –Vol. 12(1): to be published on June, 2025 The Blood on Our Controllers: how the game industry relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Interview with H. Caubet Pp. 1-5. …
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June 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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🚨 New article alert!
Ecocriticism meets anime in this piece by Audrey Aguirre.
The article explores the environmental toll of war through the haunting beauty Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

#GeekStudies #AnimeStudies #StudioGhibli #Miyazaki #風の谷のナウシカ #スタジオジブリ #アニメ研究
Wilted lands and wounded worlds: visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Audrey Aguirre Upland High School, Upland, CA, USA. Email: audrey.a.aguirre (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Past studies on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ; Topcraft, 1984) have prim…
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June 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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"The road to repairing sharks’ reputations [post-Jaws] has been long and full of obstacles, and in many ways, it’s a blueprint for how we might reframe other misunderstood or maligned species."
June 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
jgeekstudies.bsky.social
You can turn any shape into a die thanks to a study showing a way to calculate the probabilities for any shape.
#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #rpg #ttrpg
Want To Use Dragons As Dice? Now You Can, Thanks To Math
Dungeons and Dragons and Dragons.
www.iflscience.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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jordancollver.bsky.social
A hard truth of science communication is that knowledge and attitudes (to say nothing of behavior) are not intrinsically linked.

A panel from my 2017 comic on the intersection of science and religion, free to read: jordancollver.myportfolio.com/comics #sciart
Cartoon of a pile of books with two legs and arms poking out from the bottom. A single book falls from above. The person says "OoOh I think I get it now." Caption text reads: "...that if you just present people with enough of the right information, then they'll automatically reach an informed decision and change their mind."
June 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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"As a free piece of software preloaded onto every system, it would function (...) as a welcome tour for new owners, packed with little interesting nuggets of information and secrets to find. It could even help inspire the next generation of hardware engineers. But only if they see it."
#STEM
Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Is A Surprising STEM Showpiece (But It Should Still Be Free)
The Switch 2 Welcome Tour could be a neat, approachable way for students to learn concepts of industrial design--but only if they see it.
www.gamespot.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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A nice story of game preservation. 🎮
One Of The Rarest Video Games Ever Has Been Preserved Online
You may not know the name of this incredibly rare game, but now you can play it online.
www.gamespot.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
Just learned that the paper I wrote with @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social to debunk the connection between #dinosaur fossils and #griffin #mytholgy was among the most-read papers from Sage Publishing last year. If you missed it, it's open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A griffin, with the face, forelegs and wings of an eagle, and the neck, body, legs and tail of a lion, poses next to an (idealised) emerging skeleton of Protoceratops, a fossil species proposed on spurious grounds to be the inspiration for the griffin myth. Surrounding them is the Gobi desert, the home of Protoceratops fossils.
May 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Happy #GeekPrideDay / #TowelDay 🎉

It's a great opportunity to read all the cool #GeekStudies we've published this year. 🤓 Take a look around, you're bound to find an article you'll love: jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol...

And remember: don't panic and always carry a towel!
Vol. 12(1): June, 2025
Journal of Geek Studies –Vol. 12(1): to be published on June, 2025 The Blood on Our Controllers: how the game industry relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Interview with H. Caubet Pp. 1-5. …
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May 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Today's The birthday of the coolest palaeontologist ever: Mary Anning. 🥳🎂
And we have just the article for the occasion, describing Anning's life and work, and also her incarnation as a heroic spirit in Fate/Grand Order. 😉

#FGO #FateGO #palaeontology #fossils #メアリーアニング
Mary Anning: fossil collector, paleontologist, and heroic spirit
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wellington, New Zealand. Email: salvador.rodrigo.b (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Mary Anning (1799–1847) was a British fossi…
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May 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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New article alert! 🚨
🧬 Ever wondered about the science behind the Pokémon virus?
Come check out some fascinating ties of the Pokérus virus with real-world biology: jgeekstudies.org/2025/05/01/p...

#geekstudies #scicomm #Pokemon #Virology
Pokérus: unraveling the biology of the Pokémon virus
Abraham U. Morales-Primo Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional, Autónoma de México, Hospital General de México, Mexico City, Mexico. Email: aump.puma (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Since th…
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May 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The bite force is strong with this one!

Reposting our recent study by @taphonomist.bsky.social and myself investigating the biomechanics and bite of the Rancor. jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i... in @jgeekstudies.bsky.social‬

Happy May the 4th!!!!

#StarWarsDay #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou
May 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM