WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD
@whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social
SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @siatsfu.bsky.social PhD in Art and Biotech, UWA (Aus). I work with menstrual stem cells + bioprinting. whitefeatherhunter.ca The Witch in the Lab Coat / BioartCoven #witchesinlabs ☣️ Spandex-free cycling enthusiast.
🧪You may be the altruistic type, but where do you draw the line? Are you considering donating (or selling) your menstrual fluid for stem cell research? Those who don’t menstruate, you might want to consider this, too, if you take interest in longevity culture: open.substack.com/pub/whitefea...
Period Profit and the Techbro Pipeline
Cells from your "donated" menstrual blood may be sold to help a tech bro live forever
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For World Menstrual Health Day, I wrote about this, from a professional and experiential standpoint. 🧪
The Future Blood Farm
The latest fury of menstrual stem cell hype and its possible repercussions
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Thrilled to be delivering a plenary keynote lecture today at the Atlantic Anthropological Workshop in beautiful Dingle, Ireland. @ucc.ie @dublincityuni.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @sacredheartuniv.bsky.social
Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art presents HEXY LAB: Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter × Bruixes Lab [Canada/Italy] ANTI, YAKIKAT [NYC] - 4 Walls, Joseph Sledgianowski [NYC] on Friday the 13th of March Doors 7:30 pm Performances 8:00-10:00 pm 182 Avenue C, Loisaida, NYC
My chapter in print! Finally received my contributor copy of the Routledge Companion to Performance and Science! 🧪
FINALLY IT IS HERE and available for pre-order! 🧪 The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science, with my chapter, Blood Magic in Biotech -- a case study (Ch 23). In this chapter, I discuss my work with 16S rRNA sequencing of my vaginal microbiome over the duration of an entire menstrual cycle.
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science investigates and illuminates the growing international interest in the intersections and interactions between theatre, drama, performance and the sci...
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Saving this for later.
European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
This is my DIY bioprinter in my kitchen, finishing up my first successful bioprint (with this machine) of a clitoris form in a homemade gelatin alginate bioink. I’m pretty sure it’s a world’s first. Tell me this isn’t the sexiest DIYbio you’ve ever seen! 🧪
In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of Björk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.
First, very rough print test with the bioprinter I built (hacked from a 3D printer) and which lives on my kitchen counter. Dinner, anyone? 🧪 Next up are all the refinements with extrusion rate, nozzle gauge, etc., etc., etc. Just using a simple gelatin-alginate bioink I cooked up on my stove.
Reposting for my own research project interests, but my friends and followers may find this relevant, too.
John Manners@jmaus.bsky.social · last yr.Genomic analysis shows that the cherished Australian ‘native’ daisy fleabane is really just another introduced weed #plantscience 🧪
I have a chapter in this newly published book, Blut (Blood), published by Akademie Hallein, Austria. Find out more here: schmiedehallein.com/archives/377...
Where do I sign up?
Policy Options / Options politiques@policyoptions.irpp.org · last yr."As Canada faces an economic aggression backed by an existential threat to its sovereignty, we know we need options. One idea floating around is to become the 28th member state of the European Union." @fredericmerand.bsky.social on what an EU membership would mean: policyoptions.irpp.org?p=116016
Metascience and AI Postdoctoral Fellowships Grants of up to $250,000 (USD) over up to two years will be awarded to social sciences and humanities postdoctoral researchers who study the implication of AI for Science. Deadline: April 10, 2025 @sloanfoundation.bsky.social 🧪 sloan.org/programs/dig...
Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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An important course, especially in the regressive times we find ourselves in, globally. “From an independent research and practice perspective, we will delve into the effects and interconnections of health, technology, gender and difference, artivist/hacker influence and political experimentation.”
gynepunkLAB as medical performativity — School of Machines, Making, and Make-Believe
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I finally had time to read this today. It's excellent. Erudite & provocative in all the right ways. ✨️I'm a big fan of your work @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social
WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD@whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 2y ago
After discovering recently that my voice was cloned through AI and used by advertisers on Meta platforms to sell their products, I stole my voice back and spoofed their ad, using my own similar product that I’d created in a lab in 2018: a skin cream using enzymes I derived from my saliva microbes. 🧪
AI cloned my voice and a company on the Meta platform used it in an ad to sell their beauty products. This IS MY VOICE, with some computer generated words thrown in. I fully suspect that the AI feature used audio from my many long overseas voice calls through Instagram messaging. Beware!
Good morning from paradise! Here on Maui I’m working on a project as part of ecoartspace’s Australian Dialogues — I’m looking at colonial and indigenous trans-plantation of plant species from Australia to the Hawaiian islands over the centuries, and how this has shaped Hawaiian cultural identity. 🧪
I’ve created an ecoartspace members art and science starter pack go.bsky.app/Si47knb
New Substack post: “December 31 will mark the 40-week gestation period of these untouchable materials, hermetically sealed in glass, buried in horse shit, and fed with what I call arcanum sanguinis foemina, or female occult blood—and, menstruation is occult because it is hidden (occulted) knowledge”
Coming soon! My next talk in January. 🧪🐡
Hey, Bluesky, I have a Substack if you’re interested in longer form content! Latest post is written like a vignette, with weird musings in my kitchen-lab.
Counter organs
the kitchen counter as anatomy lab (or domestic techno-porn suite?)
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