Emil Hammar
@elhammar.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher. Game studies, political economy, platforms, cultural memory, critical race theory, production studies, postcolonialism
What could possibly go wrong corp.roblox.com/newsroom/202...
Roblox Requires Age Checks for Communication, Ushering in New Safety Standard | Roblox
Roblox Requires Age Checks, Limits Minor and Adult Communication
corp.roblox.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What could possibly go wrong corp.roblox.com/newsroom/202...
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“Blå Kors Danmark har nu lukket for ansøgninger til årets julehjælp, og aldrig før har så mange familier rakt ud efter hjælp. I alt har 23.253 familier søgt om julehjælp, hvilket er næsten 2.000 flere end sidste års rekord på 21.285 ansøgninger.”
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Ny trist rekord: Over 23.000 familier har søgt julehjælp | Blå Kors Danmark
Kontanthjælpsreform og dyrere dagligvarer rammer de mest udsatte familier hårdt, lyder det fra Blå Kors Danmark.
via.ritzau.dk
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
“Blå Kors Danmark har nu lukket for ansøgninger til årets julehjælp, og aldrig før har så mange familier rakt ud efter hjælp. I alt har 23.253 familier søgt om julehjælp, hvilket er næsten 2.000 flere end sidste års rekord på 21.285 ansøgninger.”
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So excited that my first book “Video Games and Gender Assemblages:
Understanding Gamergate and Beyond has been released!” A digital edition is forthcoming - do get in touch if you’re interested :) www.bloomsbury.com/au/video-gam...
Understanding Gamergate and Beyond has been released!” A digital edition is forthcoming - do get in touch if you’re interested :) www.bloomsbury.com/au/video-gam...
Video Games and Gender Assemblages
In this book, Sian Tomkinson examines why, despite around half of gamers being female, highly-gendered stereotypical assumptions pervade the video game industry…
www.bloomsbury.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So excited that my first book “Video Games and Gender Assemblages:
Understanding Gamergate and Beyond has been released!” A digital edition is forthcoming - do get in touch if you’re interested :) www.bloomsbury.com/au/video-gam...
Understanding Gamergate and Beyond has been released!” A digital edition is forthcoming - do get in touch if you’re interested :) www.bloomsbury.com/au/video-gam...
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Three (3) new postdoctoral game studies positions are now open for applications. These are related to the exit phase (2026-27) of the CoE-GameCult, and positions will situated in the Tampere University Game Research Lab, COMS/ITC, Tampere University.
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3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)
tuni.rekrytointi.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Three (3) new postdoctoral game studies positions are now open for applications. These are related to the exit phase (2026-27) of the CoE-GameCult, and positions will situated in the Tampere University Game Research Lab, COMS/ITC, Tampere University.
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The EU’s failure to present a concrete climate action pledge at Wednesday’s United Nations Climate Summit in New York raises doubts over the future of the battle to stop global warming, MEPs from across the political centre have warned.
Cross-party criticism of Europe’s poor showing at UN climate conference
Cross-party criticism of Europe’s poor showing at UN climate conference
“By delaying our 2040 target, the EU puts global climate ambition at risk,” the green lawmaker Lena Schilling said
dlvr.it
September 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The EU’s failure to present a concrete climate action pledge at Wednesday’s United Nations Climate Summit in New York raises doubts over the future of the battle to stop global warming, MEPs from across the political centre have warned.
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Can we interest you in being radicalized rather than leading you into despair
August 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Can we interest you in being radicalized rather than leading you into despair
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“Søgningen til de 4 store velfærdsuddannelser er faldet med 4%. På sygeplejerskeuddannelse er optaget 8% færre. Situationen er grotesk.”
“CBS og DTU, der uddanner kandidater direkte til beskæftigelse, må ansøgere afvises selv om erhvervslivet efterspørger uddannelserne.”
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“CBS og DTU, der uddanner kandidater direkte til beskæftigelse, må ansøgere afvises selv om erhvervslivet efterspørger uddannelserne.”
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Stor reform har vist sig at være en kæmpe fiasko
Logikken bag universitetsreformen er bristet.
politiken.dk
July 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
“Søgningen til de 4 store velfærdsuddannelser er faldet med 4%. På sygeplejerskeuddannelse er optaget 8% færre. Situationen er grotesk.”
“CBS og DTU, der uddanner kandidater direkte til beskæftigelse, må ansøgere afvises selv om erhvervslivet efterspørger uddannelserne.”
politiken.dk/del/EctJjrAE...
“CBS og DTU, der uddanner kandidater direkte til beskæftigelse, må ansøgere afvises selv om erhvervslivet efterspørger uddannelserne.”
politiken.dk/del/EctJjrAE...
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Kreitzer and Sweet-Cushman have a great summary of the research here. I am not joking in the least when I say it's easier to detect instructor gender than teaching or learning in evals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching: a Review of Measurement and Equity Bias in SETs and Recommendations for Ethical Reform - Journal of Academic Ethics
Student evaluations of teaching are ubiquitous in the academe as a metric for assessing teaching and frequently used in critical personnel decisions. Yet, there is ample evidence documenting both meas...
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July 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Kreitzer and Sweet-Cushman have a great summary of the research here. I am not joking in the least when I say it's easier to detect instructor gender than teaching or learning in evals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Please share widely: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone," a spokesperson for @glaad.bsky.social said in a statement.
New from me: LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy this week. The company says it's underlying rules have not changed but advocates say it's part of a trend to loosen rules meant to protect vulnerable users.
LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy
LinkedIn quietly changed the language of its hateful conduct policy this week, removing a line that referenced a prohibition on misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals.
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July 31, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Please share widely: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone," a spokesperson for @glaad.bsky.social said in a statement.
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you're gonna wanna make sure your game is as friendly to payment processors as possible, something like an online casino that connects 10 year olds to 45 year old roleplaying partners
July 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
you're gonna wanna make sure your game is as friendly to payment processors as possible, something like an online casino that connects 10 year olds to 45 year old roleplaying partners
So they’re just going to genocide over two million people, half of them children? And we are supposed to just continue our lives? And people are somehow able to laugh and live and go to work? What a horrible world we are in
July 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
So they’re just going to genocide over two million people, half of them children? And we are supposed to just continue our lives? And people are somehow able to laugh and live and go to work? What a horrible world we are in
In retrospect it’s weird how the equivalent to “Rhodesia and French Algeria and apartheid South Africa are good and should be protected at all costs and have a right to exist” has been the mainstream position wrt the entity since the 1950s.
July 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
In retrospect it’s weird how the equivalent to “Rhodesia and French Algeria and apartheid South Africa are good and should be protected at all costs and have a right to exist” has been the mainstream position wrt the entity since the 1950s.
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“Den danske økonomi har aldrig haft det bedre, alligevel lever 50.000 børn i dag i fattigdom. Ny forskning viser samtidig store konsekvenser af at vokse op i fattigdom. Det kalder på politisk handling.”
Kronik af @ulrikbeck.bsky.social @thomaswilken.bsky.social
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Kronik af @ulrikbeck.bsky.social @thomaswilken.bsky.social
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Børnefattigdom er en dårlig forretning og et fælles ansvar
Den danske økonomi har aldrig haft det bedre, alligevel lever 50.000 børn i dag i fattigdom. Ny forskning viser samtidig store konsekvenser af at vokse op i fattigdom. Det kalder på politisk handling.
jyllands-posten.dk
July 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“Den danske økonomi har aldrig haft det bedre, alligevel lever 50.000 børn i dag i fattigdom. Ny forskning viser samtidig store konsekvenser af at vokse op i fattigdom. Det kalder på politisk handling.”
Kronik af @ulrikbeck.bsky.social @thomaswilken.bsky.social
jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik...
Kronik af @ulrikbeck.bsky.social @thomaswilken.bsky.social
jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik...
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We’re excited to announce that the online panel discussion for our Gender theme will take place on 29 July, 16:00-17:30 UK time, featuring @tesswatty.bsky.social (chair), @katexe.bsky.social, @andreaskjeldsen.bsky.social and a third, mystery panellist. Tickets at buytickets.at/historicalga....
July 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We’re excited to announce that the online panel discussion for our Gender theme will take place on 29 July, 16:00-17:30 UK time, featuring @tesswatty.bsky.social (chair), @katexe.bsky.social, @andreaskjeldsen.bsky.social and a third, mystery panellist. Tickets at buytickets.at/historicalga....
Boiling in a heatwave while my government ramps up military spending for no reason, cutting down environmental ambitions, and facilitating an almost two years genocide incl. tens/hundreds of thousands of children, while i’m reading about mass layoffs in the games industry
July 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Boiling in a heatwave while my government ramps up military spending for no reason, cutting down environmental ambitions, and facilitating an almost two years genocide incl. tens/hundreds of thousands of children, while i’m reading about mass layoffs in the games industry
@brendansinclair.bsky.social hey Brendan just wanted to say how much I appreciated your work at gi biz. I just thought about it today and how much I’m missing it. What you did was really great for so many of us readers
July 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@brendansinclair.bsky.social hey Brendan just wanted to say how much I appreciated your work at gi biz. I just thought about it today and how much I’m missing it. What you did was really great for so many of us readers
“Are you saying that this evil Chtulu entity that will destroy all living beings in the universe does not have a right to exist?”
July 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“Are you saying that this evil Chtulu entity that will destroy all living beings in the universe does not have a right to exist?”
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Just want to go on the record to say that if a military org is committing a known genocide and shooting the folk they are starving in camps as they line up for food, I think they are fair game for a chant calling for their death.
June 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just want to go on the record to say that if a military org is committing a known genocide and shooting the folk they are starving in camps as they line up for food, I think they are fair game for a chant calling for their death.
This pre-print research article by Jiesi Ma on the mass layoffs and economic turbulence the games industry has undergone the last 3 years is really gold osf.io/preprints/os... #gamestudies
June 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This pre-print research article by Jiesi Ma on the mass layoffs and economic turbulence the games industry has undergone the last 3 years is really gold osf.io/preprints/os... #gamestudies
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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
bit.ly
May 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Going through Dmitri Williams' "old" research article on the games industry when PC and console platforms hadn't converged yet, the genre diversity segmentation reflects my own experience in the late 90s with PC game genres (RTS, sim, point n click adventures) versus console genres
May 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Going through Dmitri Williams' "old" research article on the games industry when PC and console platforms hadn't converged yet, the genre diversity segmentation reflects my own experience in the late 90s with PC game genres (RTS, sim, point n click adventures) versus console genres
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Not many people know this, but Denmark is almost worst in the world in terms for inequality in dental health. Esben Øzhayat’s research field is social dentistry : uniavisen.dk/en/taking-on...
Taking on dental shame and inequality in Denmark
Denmark ranks among the worst for dental health inequality — and it can lead to isolation and shame. Meet a researcher who is driven by a sense of fairness, working to help the elderly and the vulnera...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Not many people know this, but Denmark is almost worst in the world in terms for inequality in dental health. Esben Øzhayat’s research field is social dentistry : uniavisen.dk/en/taking-on...
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As Brendan says later down in his thread, the major problem here is the profit motive - there's really nothing you can do about "deprofessionalization" without addressing what it does to corrode creative labour.
Very interesting to see the game industry talk about this phenomenon as 'deprofessionalisation'. Definitely more visible now in the wake of all the layoffs, but really this has been unfolding for 15+ years now as both platformisation and gigification.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-de...
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-de...
The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East
PAX East felt like a warning: explosively successful games by solo devs and small teams are great, but it could lead to a dearth of vital specialists.
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May 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
As Brendan says later down in his thread, the major problem here is the profit motive - there's really nothing you can do about "deprofessionalization" without addressing what it does to corrode creative labour.