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Heather Bruce

@arthropodlegs.bsky.social
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Professor @ University of British Columbia 🇨🇦 🧪 I use arthropod outgrowths as a model to understand evolution over half a billion years. #EvoDevo 1st gen student from low income family, community college grad, neurodivergent. Everything's homologous lol

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Alexandra Weber @toedtoad.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Thanks! I'm always excited whenever people are interested in our new model! #EED2026 @arthropodlegs.bsky.social
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
when Colin Mochrie used Richard Simmons as a prop and pretended he was a jet ski … like … buddy, do you have any idea what that LOOKS like?
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Firefly reboot! #Firefly Animated Series! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/a...
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Animated ‘Firefly’ Reboot in Development From Nathan Fillion, 20th TV Animation
Original series creator Joss Whedon gave his blessing for the new iteration of the show that would be run by Tara Butters ('Agent Carter,' 'Dollhouse') and Marc Guggenheim ('Arrow,' 'Flash') and invol...
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
bwncnews.com/we-keep-tell...
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We Keep Telling the Wrong Story When He Kills Her
Kellye Beathea - When a Black woman is killed, why do we center the man who did it? A sharp look at misogynoir, patriarchy, and media framing.
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Good thing the shrimp didn’t drown! www.tiktok.com/@forlorncrea...
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The story of the “unsinkable” Shrimptanic! Happy Valentines. #shrimp #lowpoly #aquarium #animation Ship Model by Union
TikTok video by ForlornCreature
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Sir, a second bird is at the feeder
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Matt Ferrell @mattferrell.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What do you think about vertical farming? Check out our video on it, here: youtu.be/8sOEB2m0m9Y Or check out the page on our website, here: undecided.tech/why-this-vertical-fa…
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Mali 💤 MCM London G-23 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
What's he saying?
Simple watercolour painting of a black cat yelling about something clearly very important
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Marina Mueller 🇨🇦 @marinamueller935.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
American Red Squirrels were abundant today & quite vocal! (sound up 🔈) #mammals #sqrlpix
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 28/03/2026
Researching books to send to a friend who's under the weather and I just think there should be a book equivalent of an Edible Arrangement somehow a Legible Arrangement
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Or perhaps pterophorid moths?? Queens appreciate a good moth.
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bugweirdo🪲🦋🐝 @bugweirdo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I know beauty exists because bugs are so full of it💞 . #bugs #myart #arthropods #biology #art
This is a drawing of multiple pink arthropods on a light pink background. In the middle of this drawing there's a text "pink bug club". Each arthropod is labeled with their scientific name. Bugs shown are: gyponana gladia, phromnia rosea, asphaera quadrifasciata, cheilomenes aurora and cheilomenes bidentata,thomisus onustus, microphotus angustus, cubaris cherry blossom, dryocampa runicunda (aka rosy maple moth), hymenopus coronatus (aka orchid mantis),aedophron rhodites,cithaerias aurorina snd brachycybe rosea
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 25/03/2026
#Inca counting device for #WorldMathsDay Called khipus, theses knotted string devices were used to keep track of census information, tribute and inventory, displaying the complex Indigenous accounting practices within and beyond the pre-Hispanic Andes. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Two pieces of string, each with many strands of knotted string coming from them.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
💚 Bruce Springsteen will perform at the No Kings rally in Saint Paul on Saturday, March 28.
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
What a beautiful flower scarab...found right here in N. Carolina! Meet Gnorimella maculosa, the only species in the genus here in the US. [size: ~1/2"] Thanks to Wilson Laney for collecting/bringing it to me! [Apparently it's not often seen; I had not heard of it] #Scarabaeidae: #Cetoniinae
A scarab beetle sits on a white background. It has a reddish-orange base color with black spots on the wing covers, and a mask-like black marking on the thorax.A scarab beetle sits on a white background. It has a reddish-orange base color with black spots on the wing covers, and a mask-like black marking on the thorax.A scarab beetle sits on a white background. It has a reddish-orange base color with black spots on the wing covers, and a mask-like black marking on the thorax.A scarab beetle sits on a white background, facing away from the viewer. It has a reddish-orange base color with black spots on the wing covers, and a smile-like black marking on the plate covering the tip of the abdomen.
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed.
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Cliff Swallows gathering mud to make nests! #BirdOfTheDay #FourOrMore Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, OR
Birds with white bellies, burnt orange on the chin, tan on the brow, and a blue cap. They are standing next to a muddy puddle gather mud in their beaks to make nests.
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Finally! katiecouric.com/health/liliu...
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The Speculum Is Getting a Much-Needed Upgrade
Two women have developed a female-friendly alternative.
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Sobering but inspiring speech from 🇨🇦 PM Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum "Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu"
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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I joke that I prefer to use the GCMS that nature gave me (my nose) when determining if a fridge item has gone bad. But what scientific equipment would our sense of smell and taste be closest to? Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)? Gas chromatography mass spec (GCMS?) Something else? 🧪
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
youtu.be
Six Things You DIDN'T Know Canada Invented
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Kids loved playing with toys in #Roman times too! Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology
Close-up of a terracotta horse on four wheels, a rider is sitting on its back.
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Postmedia is a problem! Please sign this petition to ask the House of Commons to require that Canadian news outlets be majority owned by actual Canadians, not American hedge funds with foreign enemy interests. #CanadaSky Petition closes soon! Feb 18, 2026 www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-6821 - Petitions
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Cannot believe I forgot about my single sighting of a Pauropod, in North Carolina a few years ago 🥹 Pauropods are minuscule Myriapods (eg, millipedes, centipedes, etc), silly little soil guys. This one is long, others are really short and stubby. I love them, I need more
Weird little pale grubby looking creature with 2 branches antennae and like 12 legs, roaming the Wet Wood World
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
#StarTrek #Muppets
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Billy with his latest art project. #Caturday
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Massive protests continue in Iran! Keep it up, take back your country! 💚🤍♥️🦁🌞
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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 08/01/2026
More advice for #cats concerning #birdflu outbreaks in your area ⬇️
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Cladonia lichens among moss. NWT, Canada. #lichen #moss #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of several grey Cladonia podetia growing from green thallus. The lichens are growing among Polytrichum moss plants which are green.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Well, more cute is needed I see. How about a teeny Wood Froglet peeking? #herps 🌿
A very small brown frog peeks out from under a water lily leaf.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
See a fox 🦊 Post a fox 🧡 (or two!)
Two red foxes sitting facing each other in the snow. They are like bookends.
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
@crustaceansociety.bsky.social Can anyone ID these terrestrial wigglies? Maybe harpacticoid copepod? From here www.reddit.com/r/Entomology...
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Shrimp welfare ♥️🦐 youtu.be/VNbIKtGMoaA
youtu.be
Charity for Shrimps? Ronny Chieng Explores the Limits of Effective Altruism | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
“The secret that scientists don’t want you to know about!” 🧪
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Oh wow, I’m reading an old 1921 paper from a morphologist I really admire, GC Crampton, and it’s the proceedings from the Cambridge Entomological Club, which I just gave a talk at last year! Makes me feel connected to all the scientists who came before me ♥️ 🎶It's the ciiiiiircle of Sciii! 🎶🦁 🧪
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Caption this highly accurate scientific situation 😆 🧪
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
There isn't a straight up fried potato crab to symbolize latkes, but Aethra edentata is sometimes called the potato chip crab, and you can see why from its shape. It's a not too distant relative of Calappa 3/3? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
Dorsal view on black background of a crap that's shaped like a potato chip, all legs and body parts except back pair of legs are covered by it's carapace. The color is uhhh a moldy potato color
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Here is your Wednesday Weevil, waving. It's a broad-nosed weevil, (unsure of the species), that I spotted on a dirt road in the mountains of Colombia in '23. I initially moved to pick it up because I thought it was a small piece of trash, like a bit of shiny candy wrapper. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky
A closeup photo of a beautiful, sparkling turquoise weevil on a mossy stick against and orange background.
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Canada lynx
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Lots of cardinals around lately. They command attention with that red #birds 🌿
A bright red bird with a pointy crest looks towards the camera as it sits in a small sapling.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A new ornament recognizing employees of federal agencies who have dissented against ongoing damage to their agencies. NSF, NIH, USAID, VA, EPA, FEMA, CDC, NASA in place of honor next to Heinz ketchup bottle. Courage is Contagious @standupforscience.bsky.social #BethesdaDeclaration
A Christmas ornament with federal employees who wrote dissented against policies of the current administration including NSF, NIH, USAID, VA, EPA, FEMA, CDC, and NASA.
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
reading about genAI slop brokers makes me want to draw more weird manual art. extremely realistic brachiosaurus reconstruction for you
drawing of Brachiosaurus, a long necked quadrupedal dinosaur, rendered in colorful squares of green and blue with a subtle gradient getting lighter towards the underside
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Heather Bruce @arthropodlegs.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Never gonna Q’apla you up #StarTrek youtu.be/MA_v0YMPN9c
youtu.be
jIyIntaHvIS not qajegh - Klingon Rick Roll Parody
YouTube video by Commedia Beauregard
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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