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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 4d

on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22d

In London, hate will never win.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 23d

* Active inference meets uncertainty and attentive absorption in games
* Using PCG for Metastudies (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...)
* Reward cues/juicy feedback across games and gambling

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 23d

Imperial opened its President’s PhD Scholarships (first deadline Nov 3): bit.ly/3JW2xuW
Ping me to apply for a scholarship on:
* Competence/empowerment/learning progress in games: models and DDA
* The appeal of aleatoric uncertainty in games: models and tests
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President's PhD scholarships

Information about these fully-funded scholarships for PhD applicants of any nationality at Imperial.

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Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com · Aug 11

We’ll be hosting GachaCon 2026, a hybrid academic conference on gacha games with Genshin Impact as the theme, on 12–13 February 2026 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🇨🇳

Call for Papers: tinyurl.com/gachaconcfp

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 28d

Great PhD/postdoc opportunity with a wonderful group:
The Autotelic Interaction Group by @creativeendvs.bsky.social at Aalto has 1 PhD and 1 postdoc working on computational social intrinsic motivation – apply by Sep 30!
www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

Doctoral Researcher and Postdoc positions to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM) | Aalto University

The Autotelic Interaction Research (AIR) group at the Dept. of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland is looking for 1 Doctoral Researcher (2+2 years) and 1 Postdoc (2 years) to work on Computational Social Intrinsic Motivation (SIM)

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 29d

Annoyed by gross/sexist/AI/... slop in mobile game ads?

Now is the time to write about it!

Submit to @acmgames.bsky.social Special Issue on Game Advertising, submission deadline Oct 31.

All details here: dl.acm.org/journal/game...

GAMES: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE | ACM Digital Library

Games: Research and Practice offers a lighthouse for games research – a central reference point that defines the state of the art on games and playable media across academic research and industry practice. Inclusive in community, discipline, method, and game form, it publishes major reviews, tutorials, and advances on games and playable media that are both practically useful and grounded in robust evidence and argument, alongside case studies, opinions, and dialogues on new developments that will change games. It embraces open science and scholarship and actively champions new and underrepresented voices in games and playable media.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Sep 5

And obviously, delusion and naïveté responsibilise the user, when really this is a case of “technology cons people with no prior experience in it.”

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Sep 5

I find the delusion framing strange, which implies disordered perception. This is more innocent credulity of the mark of a conman? As in, the fault is in believing what the conman says, not in misperception or misconstrual.

CNN @cnn.com · Sep 5

They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion: https://cnn.it/4mHkJH0

They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion | CNN Business

James, a married father from upstate New York, has always been interested in AI. He works in the technology field and has used ChatGPT since its release for recommendations, “second guessing your doct...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 16

Going back to 1969 to tell Foucault that in the future, everyone will know he was 100% right that "discourse” can produce itself without “a thinking … subject.”

But also in the future we will care less about that principle than the practical consequence that students can cheat on homework.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · Aug 25

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Aug 21

Want to work with the Smart Data Donation Service (sdruk.ukri.org/data/smart-data-donation-service/) on donated Google Play or YouTube data?

UKRI has 6 fellowships for impact-driven research working with services like ours – do reach out!

ukri.org/opportunity/smart-data-research-uk-fellowships/

Smart Data Research UK Fellowships

Apply for a fellowship to undertake innovative and impact-focused research using smart data. Projects should address a significant real-world challenge which is relevant to the UK.

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Antti Oulasvirta @oulasvirta.bsky.social · Aug 20

📢The open access version of our book is available now via OUP's site: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 18

Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 18

In Britain video games generate more revenue (£4.3bn) than the film (excluding streaming) and music industries combined (£3.4bn).
economist.com/britain/2025...

Britain is a global gaming superpower

Can it remain one?

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Aug 15

Your weekly UK HE equivalent of doomscrolling. A good sobering summary and assessment.

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Aug 14

NEW from me today... In case you missed it earlier, I'm in the @politicalquarterly.bsky.social asking 'Where Next For Britain's Universities?' The answer: a very long and grim retreat. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Where now for Britain's Universities?

Although the financial crisis facing the United Kingdom's universities is by now well known, the detailed reasons behind it have been less prominent in public and political debate. It is true that fr...

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Aug 12

#tormentnexus

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is the first page I turn to when I’m showing people @molcher.bsky.social’s book about Judge Dredd and modern policing: shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB...

“Let every man know that citizenship is a privilege - not a right!”

A quote from Judge Dredd in 1979 and the British Home Office in 2021

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Mol is Serving Up Disaster👨‍🍳 @molomoot.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hey folks I am opening emergency commissions. My partners ebike was just stolen and they use it for work daily.

I'll draw anything (Not hateful). My strengths are monsters, mice & maps. More examples below.

Varied price points available.

Please comment / message if you're interested.

Black and white ink drawing of goblin wizard

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Aug 9

Does cultural evolution generate more diverse and interesting work over time if fragmented into sparsely connected ecological niches? Eg, is cinema better for US/HK/JP/… cinemas having co-evolved with only sparse exchange over pre-globalisation decades?

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Aug 5

🎓 PhD Studentship Alert 💰

Want to do a fully funded PhD in serious games? 🕹️

We have a studentship open at Imperial on using service design to create games for undergraduate science curricula.

Apply by August 17, UK home students only.

Full details 👉 bit.ly/games-phd-25

@ & DM open, pls share!

Designing applied games for deep conceptual learning in undergraduate science curricula – a service design perspective at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Designing applied games for deep conceptual learning in undergraduate science curricula – a service design perspective at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Aug 7

Jaakko, Evan, how do you handle games research outside the humanities in that historiography, if at all? Psychology/psychiatry, comms, computing, anthropology, education, … my mind goes galaxy brain at the idea of making historical meaning out of that.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Aug 7

Uuuuuh, is that … available somewhere? Else I think this calls for book number 12.

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Aug 6

Enjoying SeGAH'25, the IEEE conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, and decided to go for a spicy take as keynote: Why are serious games still stuck in promise land?

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Groundhog Day: Seeking Process in Gaming for Health

Keynote for IEEE SeGAH 2025, the 13th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, August 6, 2025 in Manchester, UK. These …

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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · Aug 6

On that note, the Royal Soxiety has opened Faraday Discovery Fellowships (up to £8m over 10y) to support intl senior academics to come to the UK: royalsociety.org/grants/farad...