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Sara M. Grimes, PhD
@smgrimes.bsky.social
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Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
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A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
smgrimes.bsky.social
I'm receiving QUITE a few emails from ChatGPT expressing interest in coming to my university to do a PhD under my supervision. While flattering, I just don't have the bandwidth to supervise a GenAI tool in this capacity atm. But I wish them all the best in their hunt for a suitable grad program.
October 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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srirachanikorn.bsky.social
Sending this #CfP out into the ether again #othernetworks

Looking for #videogames #gamestudies #retrogames #artists #gamedev folks who would like to contribute a chapter for a book on "Games and Nostalgia for the Future"

📍 750 words abstract by Nov 3
Find the call and form here: shorturl.at/ValXq
CfP: Nostalgia for the Future Book
Nostalgia for the Future? Any books on this? No? Let's write one, together.
shorturl.at
October 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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itsthebrandi.bsky.social
The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work

www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...
October 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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agaitcheson.bsky.social
Next stop Montreal! So excited to go to @qgcon.bsky.social the Queerness and Games Conference

This is an event I've wanted to go to for years, so to go there *and perform* there is a dream come true 😀

Look who's on-stage 3pm Sunday!! ✨😁✨
qgcon.bsky.social The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social · Aug 29
Resharing to add the Sunday #QGCon schedule of events as well!
September 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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okomotive.ch
Herdling is OUT NOW! We’re stoked to finally invite you on this journey 🐐🦬🐏⛰️
Get the game now on Steam, Epic Game Store, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S or Game Pass, links below!

We’ll give away 5 Steam keys among everyone who reposts this 🎉🎉🎉
August 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
smgrimes.bsky.social
Is the discursive move from "assistants" to "agents" just a way to deflect from the lack of predictability, how poorly instructions are followed, ongoing lack of truly helpful applications? And is it agent like "free agent" or middleman who represents talent for a commission/fee? Either I guess.
June 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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mgg.bsky.social
I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦

(I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.)

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The history of Canada in Heritage Minutes - YouTube
Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event
www.youtube.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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danmcquillan.bsky.social
Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=...
We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!
June 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
Early heads up!

I'm organizing a queer SFF reading/party on Thurs August 14 at 7 PM in collaboration with @townhallseattle.bsky.social and @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social.

Featuring @annaleen.bsky.social, @andreahairston.bsky.social, Becky Chambers, @ceciliatan.com, me, and one more person TBA.
May 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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childrenandscreens.bsky.social
Happening #LIVE: Panelist Sara Grimes @smgrimes.bsky.social, PhD, describes different types of parasocial play that children experience during online games — and how that gameplay is brought into other areas of their lives. #VideoGames 🎮
May 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
smgrimes.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this talk next week!
childrenandscreens.bsky.social Children and Screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social · May 14
How are youth gamers carving out spaces for themselves online? 🎮

Learn about gaming culture and how youth are playing, relating, and creating in these spaces from Sara Grimes
@smgrimes.bsky.social, PhD, at the next free #AskTheExperts webinar on May 21 at 12pm ET.

REGISTER💻 bit.ly/4jH9rRN
#AskTheExperts webinar "Growing Up Online: Understanding Youth Internet Trends, Subcultures, and Relationships" on Wednesday, May 21 at 12pm ET via Zoom. Title of webinar is accompanied by the laughing emoji and melting emoji. Four images connected through a geometric web. To the right of the graphic, 'Meet the Panelist -- Sara Grimes, PhD, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and Full Professor, Communication Studies at McGill University — To present on: children’s play and creation in online games, and what culture looks like in these spaces.
May 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Who Wore It Better, Met Gala 2025 celebrities or Duke University Press book covers?
Ava DuVernay or Work! by Elspeth H. Brown? #MetGala
Ava DuVernay poses on a blue floral carpet at a formal event, wearing a dramatic black-and-white gown with a full skirt and horizontal silver stripes, a white blouse-style bodice with puffed sleeves, a black wide-brimmed hat, and a netted veil. Her hands are on her hips as she stands confidently in front of a floral backdrop and photographers. Overlaid on the image is the book cover for Work! A Queer History of Modeling by Elspeth H. Brown, featuring a black-and-white photo of a poised Black model in a sheer, striped gown with outstretched arms. Ayo Edebiri stands smiling on a floral blue carpet at a formal event, wearing a striking black-and-white gown with a dramatic deep V neckline and an eye-catching red beaded design that loops around her neck and drapes down the front in a large U-shape. She pairs the look with a black floor-length coat with wide lapels and extended train-like sleeves. Behind her, photographers and onlookers are gathered near a wall of white flowers. Overlaid on the image is the book cover for Good Night the Pleasure Was Ours by David Grubbs, featuring a bold, abstract image of concentric black and red arcs on a white background above a stylized cityscape with train cars. Cardi B poses on a floral blue carpet at a high-profile event, wearing an opulent green velvet coat dress with intricate textures, beaded details, and ruffled trim in a slightly lighter green. The coat is open at the front to reveal black trousers or a skirt underneath, and she accessorizes with a dramatic afro hairstyle and a white flower brooch. She stands confidently against a backdrop of cameras and floral arrangements. Overlaid on the image is the book cover for Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life by Sarah Jane Cervenak, featuring a ser ene photo of a Black woman standing in a shallow stream surrounded by lush greenery, wearing a green-and-white patterned dress and casting a fishing line, with forested hills rising in the background. Chappell Roan poses on a floral-patterned blue carpet at a formal event, wearing a vibrant, hot pink sequined pantsuit with a bold zigzag pattern. The flared pants have dramatic slits at the bottom, and the fitted jacket features a plunging neckline. Her voluminous red hair and theatrical eye makeup complete the striking look. Behind her, other attendees and photographers can be seen. Overlaid on the image is the book cover for The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bonnie Ruberg, featuring bold yellow and pink typography and an illustrated anthropomorphic figure in a dress with a snarling wolf head held aloft, dripping blood, in a surreal, graphic art style.
May 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
smgrimes.bsky.social
Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR
April 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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jathansadowski.com
I'm thrilled that this huge paper is now out — Machine's Eye View: Postmodern Data Science and the Politics of Ground Truth

I advance a critical theory of the epistemic politics of machine learning by tying it postmodernism and actuarial data science journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Machine's Eye View: Postmodern Data Science and the Politics of Ground Truth - Jathan Sadowski, 2025
This paper advances the critical analysis of machine learning by placing it in direct relation with actuarial science as a way to further draw out their shared ...
journals.sagepub.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
smgrimes.bsky.social
A film that takes place where you’re from
April 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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blairaf.com
Why is AI governance so often ineffective at preventing AI from harming people and the planet? My new paper Transfeminist AI Governance addresses this question, now out in this month's issue of First Monday: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
Abstract for a paper entitled "Transfeminist AI Governance". The abstract reads: "This paper re-imagines the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through a transfeminist lens, focusing on challenges of power, participation, and injustice, and on opportunities for advancing equity, community-based resistance, and transformative change. AI governance is a field of research and practice seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harms caused by AI systems. Unfortunately, AI governance practices are frequently ineffective at preventing AI systems from harming people and the environment, with historically marginalized groups such as trans people being particularly vulnerable to harm. Building upon trans and feminist theories of ethics, I introduce an approach to transfeminist AI governance. Applying a transfeminist lens in combination with a critical self-reflexivity methodology, I retroactively reinterpret findings from three empirical studies of AI governance practices in Canada and globally. In three reflections on my findings, I show that large-scale AI governance systems structurally prioritize the needs of industry over marginalized communities. As a result, AI governance is limited by power imbalances and exclusionary norms. My reflections reveal that re-grounding AI governance in transfeminist ethical principles can support AI governance researchers, practitioners, and organizers in addressing those limitations."
April 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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heardislandgov.bsky.social
Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!
April 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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jathansadowski.com
Yet another shell game of fictitious capital and speculative valuation by one of the biggest con men out there. The chapter of my new book on Innovation is all about how financial engineering is the real core competency of Silicon Valley.
vantazach.bsky.social vantazach @vantazach.bsky.social · Mar 28
well ok then

"@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt)…"
screenshot of an elon musk tweet with the quoted text and and bunch of other stupid shit
March 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Surveilling the scene.
March 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Happy Tuesday!
Drawing of a woman running through a field about to throw a punch. Caption: I would like for things to spiral into control every once in a while.
February 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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davidarobertson.bsky.social
It's #BellLetsTalk today. Normalizing and talking about mental health illness. Yesterday, we launched All the Little Monsters, my memoir about mental health. Today, let's continue the conversation.

www.harpercollins.ca/978144347240...
All the Little Monsters - David A. Robertson - Paperback
With humour, warmth and heartbreaking honesty, award-winning author David A. Robertson explores the struggles and small victories of living with chronic anxi...
www.harpercollins.ca
January 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I wrote a love letter to my mom and about her struggle with dementia

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738849...
January 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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sivav.bsky.social

I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt.

newrepublic.com/article/1903...
Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?
Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.
newrepublic.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM