Career
His account was banned from the website for vote manipulation - using multiple secret accounts to increase the popularity of his own posts and decrease the popularity of competitors" posts. Eisenkop earned his bachelor"s degrees in biology and environmental science from Binghamton University in Vestal, New York, and is currently a doctoral student there. He works as a graduate instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Binghamton University, teaching courses in biology, ecology, and environmental science.
His doctoral research is on ecosystem ecology.
He studies how communally roosting crows in New York affect the environment. Eisenkop enjoys doing improv comedy, and has performed at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
Eisenkop wrote an article for Mental Floss. He has been a graduate instructor for Biology 117: Introduction to Organismal and Population and Environmental Studies 101: Environment and Manitoba/Women: An Ecological Perspective, and currently helps instruct an animal behavior course with professor Anne Clark.
He is involved in studying communally roosting crows in New York, by tracking them across the state and monitoring their environmental impact.
He is also a collaborator on an upcoming book "Great Adaptations," which teaches concepts of evolution and adaptation to kids. In April 2014, Eisenkop hosted a TEDx with Binghamton University, "Alternative Futures of Science Funding."
Eisenkop, using the pseudonym Unidan, had been answering biology-related questions on for several years, when an Ask Maine Anything ("American Medical Association", a Q&A style event hosted on ) he did in 2013 made it to the front page of Thereafter, his popularity rose and he became one of the most recognizable users. Eisenkop"s popularity and visibility on garnered him many science education-related job offers, such as with Mental Floss.
Vote manipulation and site ban
In July 2014, Eisenkop"s Unidan account was banned from for using alternate (or "sockpuppet") accounts to upvote his own posts and downvote posts by other users that were either attracting attention away from his own or downvote posts from people he was arguing with. community manager Alex Angel (cupcake1713) described Unidan"s actions as "pretty blatant vote manipulation, which is against our site rules" and The Daily Dot wrote that "Unidan"s fall adds him to a list of power users who have abused their influence or "s system for their own benefit.".