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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD

@whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social
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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.

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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🧪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...
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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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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
For World Menstrual Health Day, I wrote about this, from a professional and experiential standpoint. 🧪
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The Future Blood Farm
The latest fury of menstrual stem cell hype and its possible repercussions
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
My chapter in print! Finally received my contributor copy of the Routledge Companion to Performance and Science! 🧪
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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.
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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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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Saving this for later.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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! 🧪
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ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.blacksky.app · 11/05/2025
In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of Björk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My latest Substack post!
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Practicing (the) Craft
Tracing a lineage from surrealist myth-making to feminist biotech worldbuilding.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Reposting for my own research project interests, but my friends and followers may find this relevant, too.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I have a chapter in this newly published book, Blut (Blood), published by Akademie Hallein, Austria. Find out more here: schmiedehallein.com/archives/377...
A book cover image for the newly published YnselBuck, Blut, published by Akademie Hallein.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Where do I sign up?
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/whitefea...
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Staying Rooted in the Real: Place, Process, and Presence
AI stole my voice, influencers misread the science (again), a horse taught me botany, and I raised a barn.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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.”
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gynepunkLAB as medical performativity — School of Machines, Making, and Make-Believe
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Cosima Herter @cosimaherter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 07/02/2025
It's #SuberbOwl weekend and yes, this account will bring the owls 🦉
Bearded man clutches an owl, with a fish in its mouth.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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. 🧪
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I’d love to know if trimethylamine was one of the compounds she identified.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Influencer Feminism and the Viral Grab
the viral grab at bloody miracles, biotech vampirism, and Nosferatu
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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!
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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. 🧪
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Patricia Watts @patricialeawatts.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’ve created an ecoartspace members art and science starter pack go.bsky.app/Si47knb
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Best crowd ever!! 😌🫶
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Looking forward to giving this talk in Cyprus next week!
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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”
A Substack asset showing a preview image of a tarot card called The Creatrix, part of the Blood Riot! tarot deck by WhiteFeather Hunter. The title of the Substack post is also displayed: A year on fire, and the Blood Riot ahead. The link to the Substack is shown: whitefeatherhunter.substack.com
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Coming soon! My next talk in January. 🧪🐡
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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.
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Counter organs
the kitchen counter as anatomy lab (or domestic techno-porn suite?)
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Really enamoured with this 3D print I did of an anatomical uterus today!
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I had the privilege of participating in this ritual. 𖤐
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Reposting this so that I can come back to it later and perhaps learn something.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Does someone have a Starter Park of science museums or institutions? Because @telus-spark.bsky.social, Calgary's science centre has joined the chat. 🧪
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a man with a mustache and a suit says " it 's science "
ALT: a man with a mustache and a suit says " it 's science "
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This but make it WOMAN ON A BICYCLE. Ahem.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just hung this work again after being in storage for 3 years! From my 2018 project, Salivam. Large format print on mylar, mounted on a custom light box. This is an SEM capture of Bacillus cereus from my saliva, cultured on collagen. The microbes have degraded the collagen with proteolytic enzymes. 🧪
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Always so many relationships between textiles and computation. Love this article that makes a connection between two quipus that store the same data in different configurations. Also love that some of them were made with human hair yarn, like my early textile works made of handspun human hair.
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Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Post something before you start following people. That helps them know you're really "here" and that you might not be a bot. Reposting is okay when it's meaningful, but a lot of reposting just looks like a bot.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hi, I’m WhiteFeather. I’m too smart for my own good, or I must be cheating. There’s no way I could have written that on my own.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m actually pretty tickled to have one of my AI renderings written about in this review of one of my current exhibitions (in Brooklyn). Also, an introduction to a new art term I haven’t seen before: Techpressionism. What do you think of the term?
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Art Spiel Picks : Art and Technology NYC Exhibitions November 2024 – Art Spiel
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Charlie Tweed @charlietweed.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The call is open for the Digital Ecologies III: Machine / Material / Land symposium and exhibition taking place on July 24-25 2025 in Bath. I am curating the Machine Futures strand. sites.google.com/view/digital... #digitalecologies #artandtechnoligy #soil #land #food #machines #criticalai
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Crazy stuff in PNAS dental plaque bacterium 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘪 can divide into an unprecedented 14 daughter cells at once—then each daughter cell starts growing immediately in a rare process called multiple fission, achieving 0.5 mm per day of expansion www.snexplores.org/article/bact...
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These mouth bacteria use a new type of cell division to make 14 cells at once
The newfound strategy seen in C. matruchotii might help oral bacteria recover lost territory after each eviction by toothbrushing.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
After being alerted that there are hundreds (thousands) of scraper accounts on Bluesky lifting content, I’ve deleted posts where I directly uploaded images of my work since all images have a direct download option. I suppose the best strategy is to only post links to my website and process photos.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Dear SciArt 🐡 skywalkers, I have a question that I’d love your carefully considered answers to. I’ve noticed a division between artists (and scientists) who use AI for assorted purposes, and those who are “strictly no AI.” Can you tell me which camp you fall into, and why? I’d love to know more!
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Karen Boyle @profkarenboyle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Excited to announce 3 #AcademicJobs in Humanities at Uni Strathclyde funded through the Charlotte Lythe bequest. I'm new here, so appreciate your help in getting the word out! The jobs are in History, Media and English/Creative Writing. Details below in my first bsky thread (drumroll please...)
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#kitchenscience 🧪 #DIYbio About to test run my 3D printer before taking it to the lab at the Ottawa Heart Institute to start modifying it into a bioprinter.
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WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Do you see what I see? 👀 #gestaltprinciples
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Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
✨ I’ve finally gathered enough amazing researchers to create a BlueSky starter pack for those studying the female reproductive tract! Please follow, share widely, and (self-)nominate anyone who should be included. Let’s grow this community together! ✨ 🧪 go.bsky.app/FyubCiJ
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I started a #NativesinSTEM starter pack. If you want to be added, tell me a little bit about yourself, including who your people are and what you study go.bsky.app/4hoZMPV @taramcallister.bsky.social I'll try to figure out how to turn this into a feed too.
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Bill Farley @archaeologytube.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
For new BlueSky users: It's always ritual. Every single post is ritual behavior.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 17/11/2024
It did, finally, this year: bsky.app/profile/gree...
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