Mary Beth Hunzaker

How has no one said hurricane/highway shark yet? 😮 That’s like *the* boilerplate light hearted (aka comms friendly) example lol

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrica...

Job: Staff UX Researcher, Local Lab | New_ Public We are seeking a Staff UX Researcher, Local Lab to join our team! This role is an essential part of our Local Lab, a small, cross-functional product team dedicated to developing a new community platfo...

Do you have exceptional user research skills, strategic thinking abilities, and a collaborative mindset?

If you're passionate about creating more engaging, inclusive, healthy, and impactful online communities, you might be the perfect Staff UX Researcher for our Local Lab.

(Alt text- the video shows a senior morkie dog eating his birthday cake off a white plate)

This grumpy little old man turned 12 yesterday, and celebrated with a yogurt frosted chicken rice cake and an afternoon of barking out the window at neighbor kids to get off his lawn 🥰

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

One of the coolest jobs in social media right now IMHO

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!

My opinion may be a bit biased, but it's a great opportunity for impact on a really timely project in the US today! (Also a great opportunity to join a super collaborative, kind team). 💜

Please share broadly with folks who you think might be interested and a good fit! 🙏

See the JD for more info, but some key points. The role is:
- Mixed Methods (qual leaning, ideally w solid quant survey design & analysis experience)
- Highly cross-functional (working closely w design/prod/eng to develop & implement recs)
- Fully remote (US or CA) in a fully remote org

Job: Staff Researcher, Local Lab We are seeking a Staff Researcher, Local Lab to join our team! In this role, you will drive strategic research initiatives while leading tactical studies to refine and evaluate our approach. You'll be...

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...

Resist List They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Hopescroll through stories of people’s noncooperation against Trump’s coup. Jump to databases of noncooperation or trackers of ligitation and impact. Follow our social media accounts to stay updated.

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.

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.

What is the purpose of this neutral, no context, both sidesy framing? Who is this for?

Maybe someone should buy npr a Wired subscription. 🤨

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

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.

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--

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Uhm, what???

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.

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

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/

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.

- The Rep representatives for my area? (is there any way that's actually productive?)

- Other elected Dems? (my understanding is this isn't encouraged)

- Dems at the state level?

- Something/someone else?

I tried to search for an answer, but given the state of search these days 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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?

*stares into the void in platform safety veteran*

A small morkie dog standing on a blue and white carpet, looking proudly into the camera after extracting one on the stuffed squirrels from his acorn-shaped puzzle toy.

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 🥰

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...

An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later - Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...

"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...

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 🤨