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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 27/09/2026

Tonight @thewritecupsj.bsky.social - Saint John Voices open mic readings for #prose and #poetry. Sign up at 6pm, begins at 630pm. Going to read a few pieces from my chapbook, “Days in Microgravity”, and listen to some great local authors. Hope to see you there! #canlit

Book open to first page reading, “Days in Microgravity”, “poems”, my name, and the publisher name, “Emergency Flash Mob Press Chapbook No. 13.”

Picture of my chapbook on the shelf at The Write Cup Cafe with other poetry books.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 09/09/2026

Super weird to have a book I wrote in front me while I have coffee - but it’s happening! Now available @thewritecupsj.bsky.social. Thanks Shannon for giving this little guy a place to land in town. #SaintJohn #NewBrunswick #poetry #CanLit #chapbook #thewritecupbookstorecafe

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 03/09/2026

Repping, and penning a new review for, @theseaboardreview.ca at @thewritecupsj.bsky.social cafe and bookstore. Always a great place to roost while #writing and a strong supporter of #SaintJohn, #NewBrunswick, and #Canadian #literature. #CanLit

Curly haired woman in a bookstore with laptop on lap, wearing a grey cardigan and black tshirt

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 26/07/2025

East Coast Bistro is easily the best restaurant in Saint John send skeet. Clockwise from bottom right: Smoked salmon/goat cheese/dill quiche; pain au chocolat; double chocolate puff pastry pop tart; vanilla crueller; ham/pesto/cheese croissant. #NewBrunswick

A wood cutting board with five pastries sitting on checkered wax paper.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 08/06/2025

And in Saint John, 12K customers out for…reasons.

GIS map of Saint John with neighbourhoods blacked out that are experiencing a power outage on a hot sunny day

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 08/06/2025

If you need a new lunch box, the Grand Bay-Westfield Town Yard Sale has you covered.

Blue and white Coleman lunch box with “Saint John Sexual Health Centre, 28 Richmond St” written in Sharpie on top.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 06/06/2025

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.

Napoleon Dynamite slapping his brother Kip in the face.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 23/05/2025

Always a genuine LOL when the flight crew says to “check the board for your connection status” on arrival at YSJ. Ma’am, I don’t think Vet’s Taxi has a codeshare with Air Canada.

A tiny airport at night, as seen from the plane.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 12/05/2025

I loved my visit to DC, but then it wasn’t overrun by overt fascists.

A black and white photo of the U St station on the DC Metro in June 2019. The ceiling is curved and indented like an ice cube tray. The train runs along the right hand side to the vanishing point, exaggerated in effect by the ceiling. More joyous is the lack of Nazis patrolling the concourse.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 11/05/2025

Who is this dude? He blocked me too.

Mr Crabs squinting at a chalkboard that says “0 days without nonsense”.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 06/05/2025

First time* getting #covid19 and it sucks. (*Admittedly, that I know of. But any time I’ve been sick in past 5 yrs, I’ve taken test, and always negative. This one didn’t even make it past the Test line 🫠)

Mocking SpongeBob meme with the text “Just a cold” over his head.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 05/05/2025

Day 72 into #The100DayProject, and all the #dinosaurs are complete: painted two coats, then wrapped with embroidery floss, before clear coat. (Click photo to see the panoramic.) Next steps: Distribution, video of project, then upload to website with info. #100DaysOfDinos

A panoramic photo of 100 toy dinosaurs painted with greenish-black glitter paint, then wrapped with different colours of embroidery floss. The colours run from white, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, indigo. With a few rainbow and biro/ace thrown in 😊

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 16/04/2025

I’m at an open mic poetry reading @thewritecupsj.bsky.social - Hot Bottled #Poetry on Local 107 - and randomly decided to sign up for my first reading! 😅🫠 (The theme is “Family” and I’m going to read “Acts of Preservation”, because nothing says warm and fuzzy like family trauma 😂) #CanLit

People sitting on couches and comfy chairs in a cafe with pink walls and white ceilings as two men prepare a microphone for an open mic night.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 16/04/2025

A sudden influx today of new followers. Not sure why but welcome! I’m Bryn (she/her). Live in #NewBrunswick in Menahqesk (Saint John). Some things I post on: 🩵 Writing poetry, writing #BookReviews, #Birds photography, #FlyTying) 🩵 Sharing #SciArt 🩵 #PatientEngagement

A splendid yellow warbler on an apple tree resplendent with white blossoms.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 13/04/2025

Thanks to some quality deer hair locally harvested from Alex Swartman #FlyFishing Bushwhacker, easily whipped up these Deer Hair Caddis on #16 Classic Dry hooks. (Recipe: Tightline Video) #WomenWhoTieFlies #SciArt #NewBrunswick

Shot of tan and black deer hair caddis dry fly on a tiny #16 hook in a vise, with blurred supplies on table in background.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 06/04/2025

After organizing all the new goodies from LG Fly & Rod in Clair, #NewBrunswick, had to do one tie. Dark Montreal on #8. #WomenWhoTieFlies #FlyTying #FlyFishing

Dark Montreal on a #8 hook. A claret-coloured fly with a brown and white turkey wing.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 06/04/2025

Local #SaintJohn #FlyTying representing at the Moncton Sportsmen Show. Cassie Ross did a great job leading us through a few #trout patterns. She’s been a great ambassador for the craft and support for me. 💕🐟🐡 #WomenWhoTieFlies #FlyFishing

Woman with short hair sits at table, demonstrating fly tying (with a TV screen showing close ups of her vise behind her).

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 03/04/2025

Made a few on a size 10 to get the hang of it. (Will have to be used later in our season!) Thanks for the inspiration @aarnegranlund.bsky.social! #FlyTying #WomenWhoTieFlies #SciArt

Glittery body dry fly with white poly yarn wing and post, with hackle parachute.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 30/03/2025

Full house at Wasted Day Brewing for the International Fly Fishing Film Festival - the first showing in #SaintJohn! Congrats Arliss and @rossgalbraith.bsky.social for a successful event! #FlyFishing #FlyTying #IF4

Close to 70 people in a room with stone walls and pillars painted with green hops. A man on a stage introducing films on a screen behind him.

Local fly fisherman against a bar with brick walls and lime green pipes, speaking before the start of the festival.

Men laughing and drinking beer, sitting together on a brown leather couch with a hot pink abstract canvas on a brick wall.

Close-up of the crowd chatting and drinking beer at intermission.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 29/03/2025

Spring has officially arrived in #SaintJohn. 🥰

Text reads: The Saint John Harbour Bridge will be reduced to one lane of traffic in each direction starting March 32, 2025 to allow for the continuation of multi-phase work on the project. During this work, the on-ramp and off-ramp from Chelsey Drive will also be closed to traffic. Delays are expected for traffic in both directions approaching the bridge during this period.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 28/03/2025

Last night, kicked it back old school with the classic Woolly Bugger fly. #SciArt #FlyTying #WomenWhoTieFlies

An olive green and gold bead head woolly bugger in a vise up close, with blurred supplies in background.

Six olive green and gold bead head woolly buggers in a row in cork board, ready.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 23/03/2025

When Party City is woefully underprepared for a Happy #Hysterectomy party. (The manager said it’s the strangest day she’s ever had, and I feel good about that.) 🧪 #SciArt #Endometriosis #Uterus

A piñata of Blue the Dog, of “Blues Clues” fame.

A uterus piñata with happy kawaii eyes and mouth, using the inverted head of the Blue piñata and moving the ears up to become fallopian tubes and ovaries. It’s now covered in various pink crepe papers cut into fringe, with red crepe flowing from the cervix. I’m not sorry at all.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 20/03/2025

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Cast of “Under the Umbrella Tree”, a Canadian children’s show from 1987-1993. The picture is the human lady, Holly, with three anthromorphic puppet roommates: an iguana named Iggy, a blue jay named Jacob, and a gopher named Gloria. Together they lived in an Ottawa suburb.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 16/03/2025

Day 22 of #The100DayProject. All the dinosaurs have been painted their glitter top coats! Next steps: accessories, numbers, placement. #100DaysOfDinos #SciArt

100 toy dinosaurs arranged on laminate floor. They are painted a green-gold shifting glitter top coat over matte black.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 14/03/2025

Happy #PiDay! This year’s offerings: Steak and Guinness with a lemon meringue chaser. 🧪

White plate with portion of Steak and Guinness pie and whipped potatoes.

Slice of lemon meringue pie on white plate with man eating another slice in background.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 11/03/2025

The finest in hotel television. Oh, #Canada.

The Littlest Hobo - German Shepherd/Husky cross - points his nose to a door in a building on fire, as a firefighter follows him through the smoke.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 09/03/2025

Trying another new fly: Wickham Fancy dry fly in a few hook sizes. #FlyFishing #FlyTying #WomenWhoTieFlies #SciArt

A dry fly in a vise with various supplies blurred in the background. The fly is on a dark #12 hook with yellow tail, gold foil body with reddish bushy feathers secured with brass wire and white duck feathers as wings. It’s a weird critter.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 09/03/2025

Sometimes #FlyTying is a bit frustrating - I guess as much as #FlyFishing, at times? Trying to get the hang of ribbing with a few #14 Vinyl Rib Chironomids (Recipe: Fish and Forage). #WomenWhoTieFlies

A nymph fly held in a pair of pliers. It has an olive green vinyl ribbed body, neon green tag behind a brass bead head and white yarn jutting from the top.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 02/03/2025

Day 8 of #100DaysOfDinos. All 100 upcycled toy dinos painted the matte black base coat. Also started to make note of possible homes for the finished dinos. #The100DayProject

A toy T-Rex painted black on cardboard. Brush soap, black paint, and brushes lay behind the dino. Behind all this is a wicker basket of 99 more toy dinosaurs, all painted black.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 02/03/2025

New cafe in town: Partridge Island Publishing, a small press based in #SaintJohn #NewBrunswick, opens The Write Cup. @benmcharg.bsky.social and I got some delicious coffee. Looking forward to more time enjoying the space working on my own writing! #IndiePublishing #IndieBookstores #SupportLocal

Storefront of The Write Cup, white walls with black doorframe and black painted “header” that says Bookstore Cafe in white serif font. Sandwich board written in red marker: Now Open! Same People Different Place! Welcome.

A red gumball vending machine next to a white and orange marbleized lamp. Instead of gumballs, there are writing prompts.

Brick wall with chalkboard menu, white glass case with lots of sandwiches and sweets, empty cake stands waiting for treats, and blurred cafe workers by cash register in background.

White plastic orb lamp that looks like dandelion about to seed. Background blurred but shows a top row of books along back wall, a brick column with neon sign that says “But First Coffee” in white blue and pink, and white painted ceiling pipes and vents.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 28/02/2025

Seeing so many bald eagles along the coast. This is from a year ago, but last week I saw 2-3 fishing the harbour in earnest. A strange sight here but perhaps indicative of their increasing numbers here in SJ? #FalconFriday #Birds

Young bald eagle, brownish with outstretched wings, flying against a bright white sky.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 27/02/2025

#The100DayProject 5/100. A few slow days 3 and 4 with only one arm, but tonight finds us with all 65 dinosaurs painted the matte black base coat. Next task: Find 34 more, and begin planning their ‘fits. #SciArt #100DaysOfDinos

A series of matte black painted toy dinosaurs on a blue and white checked tablecloth on a dark brown dining room table.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 26/02/2025

Why does our physical education in Canada NOT teach us to roll into a fall on ice? (Thankfully, only a moderate sprain. Next year I’m buying stocks in driveway salt.)

A tired forty-something standing outside a hospital, waiting for their ride home with splinted wrist raised to camera.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 25/02/2025

Yesterday was 2/100 #The100DayProject. Painted more base coats on the #dinosaurs before and after work. #100DaysOfDinos

Series of toy dinosaurs painted matte black on a piece of corrugated cardboard.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 23/02/2025

Day 1/100 of #The100DayProject #100DaysOfArt. #Upcycled Found 60+ toy dinosaurs at Value Village. Sorted, washed, then painted a few matte black or white. Thought I could rush to glitter coat but learned my lesson. Already, this project is good. Patience and not perfectionist standards.

Closeup of one of 60+ toy plastic dinosaurs being upcycled for an art project. The one in focus is yellow with a long snout and a grimace. Behind it is a green spiky one. Then the horde is blurry.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 18/02/2025

The spiffy Mickey Finn on a #10. Made several of these streamers for the trout and pickerel snackle box. #FlyFishing #FlyTying #WomenWhoTieFlies #SciArt

A streamer fly in a vise. The hook shank is wrapped in silver flat foil with a spiral silver rib. The wing is two strips of yellow tail fur sandwiching a strip of red tail fur. The head is black thread and glossy from the sealant.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 16/02/2025

More early hatch snacks for fishy friends: Little brown stoneflies, #14 and #16, with grizzly hackle and soft brown dubbing. (Recipe: Jim Misiura) #FlyTying #FlyFishing #WomenWhoTieFlies #SciArt

Tiny brown stonefly for fly fishing in a vise, with blurred supplies in background. It has a white and brown wing from grizzly hackle feathers pulled against the grain to make a curved “wing”, a brown body, and a fuzzy collar made from the same feathers.

Plastic case with compartments showing five stoneflies in size #14 and five in size #16.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 14/02/2025

Building up the stores again. 🐛🐟 Started with a bunch of these little fellows - Walt’s Worm on a #14 nymph hook, camel 6/0 thread, and hare’s ear dubbing in olive. #FlyTying #SciArt #FlyFishing #WomenWhoTieFlies #Fishing

An olive green fly in a vise, with lots of hairs sticking out to make it look “buggy” to a trout. In the blurred background is a plastic tote of fly tying materials.

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Bryn Robinson, PhD @brynphd.com · 12/02/2025

Welcome to Canadian #weather. Part of a forecast for the Maritimes this Thursday. (Is this #SciArt? 😅) www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7456247

Picture of two donuts to depict possible winter weather in the Maritimes on Thursday, February 13. The left donut is glazed and the caption reads, “Freezing Rain: Glaze of ice” and the right donut has rainbow sprinkles and a caption reading, “Ice Pellets: Sprinkles of ice”. The top of the photo states: Freezing Rain vs Ice Pellets. And now I’m hungry.

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