Ben Eisenkop, better known by his Reddit pseudonym Unidan, is an American ecologist.
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Unidan became popular on the social media website Reddit as the "excited biologist" who answered questions and explained concepts related to biology and ecology before being banned.
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Unidan was banned from the website for vote fraud – using multiple secret accounts to increase the popularity of his own posts and decrease the popularity of competitors' posts.
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Unidan was a doctoral student there from 2011 until 2018, but left before completing his doctoral degree.
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Unidan worked as a graduate instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Binghamton University, teaching courses in biology, ecology, and environmental science.
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Unidan performed doctoral research on ecosystem ecology, studying how communally roosting crows in New York affect the environment.
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Unidan is a collaborator on an upcoming book "Great Adaptations, " which teaches concepts of evolution to kids.
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In July 2014, Eisenkop's Unidan account was banned from Reddit for using alternate accounts.
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Unidan used them during discussions in which he upvoted his own comments and downvoted comments from users with which he was debating.
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