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mrhunsaker.bsky.social
Behavioral neuroscientist turned teacher for students with visual impairments
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Read my lawsuit against the Utah Legislature over the decision to deny me press credentials for the 2025 session. www.utahpoliticalwatch.news/utah-politic...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

For and Utah based folks. Since we have a bill in the state legislature to eliminate unions for anyone working in teaching or the public sector (incl UTA). Please sign this petition from the UEA and hunt down relevant others for firefighters, UTA, etc. myuea.org/advocating-f...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

One thing about the TikTok ban nobody is talking about…I won’t be able to tell the youths not to sleep in their contacts anymore. This is a sad day for both ophthalmology and the world.

submitted 44 days ago • 22 comments

One of my secret joys in life is posting a skit to TikTok with a joke about vis*ne and waiting for a gen z comment asking why it’s so bad for you, then gleefully answering, thereby tricking young people into learning ophthalmic pathophysiology. They are taking this away from me.

submitted 44 days ago • 30 comments

What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 50 days ago • 9 comments

Wow, it's the 5th anniversary of the #9ReplyGuys thread on Twitter, posted by me & @shrewshrew.bsky.social. #WomenInSTEM who post about harassment & sexual misconduct get a lot of misogynistic replies. We (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵

submitted 547 days ago • 50 comments

Anyway…so people are apparently ingesting and vaporizing methylene blue and I just can’t with the wellness grifters any more

submitted 52 days ago • 82 comments

They're trying to attach AI shit to anything & everything that's good and useful.

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

Early science career peeps: Rejection absolutely hurts. No matter where you are in a career. Junior, mid, and senior. Trust me on this.

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Check out a new interview with me for The Guardian where I talk about becoming a MacArthur Fellow and my thoughts on the upcoming Administration. Many thanks to Maanvi Singh for interviewing me! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

I once was having a difficult convo with a representative of a foreign country, presenting facts he did not like, and he picked up one of the weights he kept on his desk and started flexing

submitted 60 days ago • 35 comments

Sheriffs are the beating heart of the right-wing's plan to enact violent, racist deportation plans.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

“In the United States, ASL just surpassed German to become the third most studied language at the postsecondary level, but there are only a handful of tenure-track positions across the nation for actual deaf people.” Many marginalized folks will recognize this pattern… Also, fuck Makaton

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

So many authoritarians take refuge in Florida. 🤔 Bolsonaro hid out there aftesr he lost the election to pretend he was not involved in his Jan 8 coup attempt.

submitted 66 days ago • 28 comments

The only “problem” that AI is designed to “solve” is waged labor.

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

I invest in, and buy products from companies that I can be proud of.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion

submitted 68 days ago • 306 comments

Putting the picture of this covid test through all the photo filters at once to see if I'm still positive like it's a western blot I'm trying to publish in Nature

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

Tis the Season, Mask up.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Seeking help! No matter how many keywords/names u search related to this story the article doesn't appear on Google This was a front page A1 story I wrote for WaPo on how smear campaigns and abuse women journalists endure are a press freedom issue. Can someone explain why it won't appear on Google?

submitted 71 days ago • 62 comments

It’s funny when a centibillionaire donates 1m to the inauguration. It’s like the median American donating a couple dollars. It means nothing to the centibillionaire. But it impresses Trump, who is a fake rich person.

submitted 70 days ago • 47 comments