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mbhunzaker.bsky.social
Researcher just doing her best to build toward kinder, healthier online spaces | Currently: Staff Researcher @ New_ Public | Previously: Safety/Integrity Research @ Facebook, Twitter x Birdwatch, Google; Sociology @ NYU, Duke
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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

One of the coolest jobs in social media right now IMHO

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Reposting for morning Bluesky folks 😄 Details in the 🧵 and job description link -- please share broadly with researchers you think might be interested and a good fit!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The Local Lab team at New_ Public is hiring for a Staff Researcher! The team's at a really exciting stage of developing a new pro-socially oriented platform, focused on supporting local community & connection- with lots of opportunity for research to inform strategy! newpublic.org/jobs/staff-r...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

BREAKING: The court has granted our request for a temporary restraining order to stop the federal government from unlawfully sharing personal financial data with DOGE. This must now stop, pending a full hearing, and any downloaded data must be deleted.

submitted 20 days ago • 65 comments

What is the purpose of this neutral, no context, both sidesy framing? Who is this for? Maybe someone should buy npr a Wired subscription. 🤨

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

1. Show up. Go to the places Musk is taking over, bring cameras, demand to find out what's going on and where it breaks the law. 2. Refuse to allow standard business to continue unimpeded. Deny unanimous consent, delay votes, etc. 3. Be public about how illegal all of this is 4. Lay out a plan

submitted 25 days ago • 197 comments

For anyone who hates the idea of phone calls (hi, fellow millennials!), sitting on the fence about calling your representatives -- a pro-tip that if you call on the weekend/outside of hours you're likely to get a voicemail vs having to talk to a live person.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I keep thinking re: the years of blue-state residents thinking they were immune from these politics, alternately telling people living in red states to call our legislators and seeing us as a write-off, a joke or just stupid--

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

Uhm, what???

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

submitted 28 days ago • 279 comments

Trying one more time for the morning bluesky crowd. Was really hoping someone in my network would have (evidence informed) advice 🤞

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on. First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/

submitted 30 days ago • 52 comments

Sending such love & care to my former Twitter colleagues being forced to re-live this chaos & heartbreak, now at higher stakes & grander scale 💙 If there's something I learned in my experience, it's that the cruelty & the chaos is the point. Take care of yourselves and try not to get lost in it.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

A sincere (if uninformed 😳) question: Say I want to contact my representative with regards to *waves arms* going on, and live in an area w no elected Dem senators or representatives (thanks, gerrymandering) at the nat'l level. Who would be the most effective person/offices(s) to contact?

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

*stares into the void in platform safety veteran*

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

To balance out the higher than usual volume of tech skeets from this acct, please enjoy this update from Sage. He’s so proud he figured out his little puzzle toy 🥰

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Who are the 60,000 voters being challenged by Justice Griffin in NC's state supreme court race? I did a brief analysis to find out. Available at the link below. #ncpol www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fxt46...

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

"Several fact-checkers over the years have suggested to Meta how it could improve this labeling to be less intrusive and avoid even the appearance of censorship, but Meta never acted on those suggestions." -- @factchecknet.bsky.social www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

And surely Meta’s going to let folks re-run all those studies that found no effect under old algos/enforcement systems now with the announced changes 🤨

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments