WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD
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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.
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The Witch in the Lab Coat / BioartCoven #witchesinlabs ☣️
Spandex-free cycling enthusiast.
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! 🧪
May 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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.
May 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I have a chapter in this newly published book, Blut (Blood), published by Akademie Hallein, Austria.

Find out more here: schmiedehallein.com/archives/377...
April 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
As seen today in Ottawa, part of a protest outside a Tesla dealership.
March 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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. 🧪
February 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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!
January 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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. 🧪
January 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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”
December 30, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Coming soon! My next talk in January. 🧪🐡
December 9, 2024 at 11:58 PM
With most of the supports removed.
December 2, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Really enamoured with this 3D print I did of an anatomical uterus today!
December 2, 2024 at 1:40 AM
On a related activity, what I’ve got up next on the 3D printer:
November 29, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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. 🧪
November 25, 2024 at 2:59 PM
#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.
November 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Oooh, I have a nice lil trilobite segment! It’s great to see the whole thing.
November 19, 2024 at 12:32 AM
And this one! Crossovers between my biotech interests, bodies and phenomenology.
November 17, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Nice occult spread! I have a shelf like that, too. 🥰
November 17, 2024 at 6:13 PM
These are really fun. Is that it?
November 17, 2024 at 3:27 PM
oooh, I have a really interesting book on my shelf on forensic aesthetics called Mengele’s Skull you might like to check out.
November 17, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Artist vs Art
Fun times! The alt text is fun to get creative with, too.
November 16, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Here’s what’s on one of my bookshelves. Please share a photo of yours! 🧪
November 16, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Have you ever seen a moondog? There’s one tonight where I am. Happy full moon #witchsky
November 15, 2024 at 10:42 PM
This! Thank you! I use AI for a first ‘sketch’ to prototype some of my ideas for actual things I plan to build. It’s super useful for giving people you’re collaborating with a visual of what you envision materializing. Here’s an example of a prototype I generated using AI for a thing I will build.
November 15, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Thank you to one of my Insta peeps 🐸 for sending this fascinating research into the frog microbiome. If this doesn’t scream witch’s brew, I don’t know what does. #witchesinlabs
November 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM