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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻

@dezene.me
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🪲 Professor 🪰 University of Northern British Columbia 🕷️ Insect ecologist 🐝 conservation, biodiversity, natural history 🐛 Opinions are my own 🐞 linktr.ee/dezene 🦋

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 05/09/2026
True. But I mean, if they try to be just perfectly niche, like QS, they might have a chance at semi-relevance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%C3%A...
"Québec solidaire was founded on 4 February 2006 in Montreal by the merger of the left-wing party Union des forces progressistes (UFP) and the alter-globalization political movement Option Citoyenne, led by Françoise David.[14] It was formed by a number of activists and politicians who had written Manifeste pour un Québec solidaire [fr], a left-wing response to Pour un Québec lucide. Pour un Québec lucide presented a distinctly neoliberal analysis of and set of solutions to Quebec's problems, particularly criticizing the sovereignty movement as distracting from Quebec's real issues and the Quebec social model as inefficient and out-of-date. Pour un Québec solidaire presented an alternate analysis, and later its writers formed the party Quebec solidaire, taking its name from the manifesto."
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 02/09/2026
Interesting candidate for Prince George city council. I can see the “keeping the community safe” part. A bit skeptical about the transparency tbh. 🦇
Council election sign for “Bruce Wayne.”
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 26/08/2026
Burns Lake is kind of near that red blob in the middle of the orange in the center of the province.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 26/08/2026
These are lightning strikes within the last 15 minutes (red) or half-hour (yellow) near Burns Lake, BC. #bcstorm ⚡️
A map with a few thousand mostly red and a few yellow dots. Radar pattern as well.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 23/08/2026
Of to jam with friends. A couple of my case stickers fit my mood nicely today. 🤘🏼
A guitar in a case and an amp. Stickers on the case. Several of the stickers. One with a cat pushing trump off a table. The other that says “radicalized by decency.”
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 14/08/2026
Is Micrasterias furcata really that tasty? @inaturalist.bsky.social: www.inaturalist.org/photos/23751...
Micrasterias furcata by Lena Struwe. More information at the iNat link in the post.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 13/08/2026
This goes for Canada as well. We have a 2024 ioniq5, which we got for a great price. It's amazing and saves us $ every day. Huge range, very fast charging, +++get-up-and-go. We can use any charging station in N. America – Tesla (only if needed) or otherwise. >95% of the time we charge at home.
Our "Abyss Black" 2024 ioniq5.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 31/07/2026
Met a new friend at a stop along the Coquihalla. @inaturalist.bsky.social record: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Columbian ground squirrel, up close.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 29/07/2026
A beautiful garter snake friend on the UNBC campus. @inaturalist.bsky.social observation: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
A garter snake, partly coiled, resting in some vegetation.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 27/07/2026
post a perfect album from the 90s
Les Vulgaires Machins

« Vingt-Quatre Quarante »

( 1998 )
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 19/07/2026
My Duolingo avatar is all decked out for the big game today. 🇪🇸 (Follow me there and I’ll follow you back. I’m learning 🇫🇷 .) invite.duolingo.com/profile-shar...
My Duo avatar in a Spain outfit. And a QR code to follow me.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 18/07/2026
In case anyone’s wondering about the 🔥 🌲 🔥 🌲 🔥 situation in BC. The red dots are out-of-control.
Map of central and southern BC and the Island showing a lot of red dots. 
110 active wildfires. 94 started in the last 24 hours. 29 declared out in the last 24 hours. 54 declared out in the past 7 days.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 01/07/2026
Happy Canada Day from Lheidli T’enneh | Prince George BC 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 22/06/2026
Nothing beats a quiet Sunday afternoon with a guitar and a cat.
Acoustic guitar leaning against a blue siding wall. Brick porch. Dozing Bengal tabby cat.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 20/06/2026
UNBC always looks great. This afternoon, add a bit of drama.
UNBC agora shiny with rainwater. Yellow and green Muskoka chairs in the image.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 19/06/2026
Not often we get a tornado watch in this neck of the woods. 🌪️
Quote: Yellow Watch - Tornado
for Prince George

Issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada
Meteorological Service of Canada, CA
3:52 p.m. PDT ven., juin 19, 2026

 Conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms which may produce tornadoes. Strong winds, large hail and heavy rain are also possible.

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Significant damage or destruction to infrastructure, homes and the natural environment is possible.

Tornado watches are issued when conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to BCstorm@ec.gc.ca or post reports on X using #BCStorm.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 12/06/2026
A few of our UNBC library roof honeybees. 🐝
Honeybee frame showing brood, honey, and pollen comb. And a few dozen busy bees.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 03/06/2026
You can find a lot going on in a single wild rose blossom if you look closely. 🌸 🐝 🪲
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 31/05/2026
There’s always a lot of work to do in the spring around here. 🐜 🐜 🐜 Western thatching ants, Formica obscuripes. @inaturalist.bsky.social observation: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 30/05/2026
Look this absolutely elegant creature, just found in a human-constructed tunnel, 25 m below the surface on a Greek island. 🦗 🇬🇷 Article 🔗 www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts... Peer reviewed paper 🔗 jor.pensoft.net/article/1879... 🪲 🪳 🧪 🌍
From the figure heading in the peer reviewed paper:

"Individuals of the newly discovered Dolichopoda balrogi sp. nov. in the artificial tunnel of Kastellorizo on 17 October 2025. A. Female individual. B. Male individual. C. Juvenile. Photo credit: K. Kalaentzis."
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 29/05/2026
Met another new friend on my morning walk. 🦌 @inaturalist.bsky.social 🔗 www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 29/05/2026
Comings and goings at one of the UNBeeC hives this afternoon. We were pulling frames to see if the queens in each hive were active. 🐝 🫅🏽 👸🏻 🐝
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 28/05/2026
One of our busy UNBeeC honeybees filling up on crabapple nectar and pollen on a beautiful day. 🌸🐝💓
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 28/05/2026
I meet a lot of great new friends on my carbon-neutral commute. @inaturalist.bsky.social observation: www.inaturalist.org/observations... 🪲🪳🚶‍♂️
A dragonfly resting on my hand.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 28/05/2026
Making sugar water for the campus honeybees 🐝. I always find it funny that Roger’s Sugar is based out of Canada’s big four cities: Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver, and… Taber.
Rogers sugar bag. Montréal, Toronto, Taber, Vancouver written on the bag.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 27/05/2026
A little friend on a crabapple this afternoon. These trees are buzzing with pollinators, including our UNBC campus honeybees. 🦋 🌺 🐝 🪲 🪳
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 22/05/2026
I often meet friends on my carbon-neutral commute. 🌲 🐻 🚶‍♂️
A black bear (with light fur) standing by a path and a tree.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 21/05/2026
Setting up the UNBeeC hives for the summer. 🌼 🐝
A honeybee HivesSetting up hives. Bees at a hive entrance.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 17/05/2026
Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone.
Our tortie cat, Pfizer, in a box.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 16/05/2026
A little kitty I met on Queens West in Toronto earlier today 💕
Tabby cat in a cat bed.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 15/05/2026
A few Toronto photos as I wander about after a great week at the annual @csee-scee.bsky.social meeting.
Downtown Toronto with the CN Tower. Queens West. Empty shoes inexplicably in the foreground. A brick building behind. A Colorful mural in Kensington Market. Two guys standing in the doorway of a brick building on Queens West.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 14/05/2026
I was at the game!
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 02/05/2026
Something tells me I’m going to like this graphic novel. 🪲 🪳
Front cover of “Insectopolis” by Peter Kuper
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 05/04/2026
I’ll take this as Duolingo’s little Easter 🐣 wish to me, and to all of us. Happy Easter, everyone. A better future is possible, and we have the privilege to help to work towards it. 🌍 🌎 🌏
« Il s'intéresse à l'écologie et rêve d'un avenir plus vert. »

“He's interested in ecology and dreams of a greener future.”
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 05/04/2026
Met a cute little axolotl yesterday. 💕
An axolotl just chilling.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 04/04/2026
Describe your Bluesky account with a single image
Vintage butterfly drawings.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 02/04/2026
👈🏼 🚀 Popular media science Day-to-day science 🧪 👉🏼
Artemis II lift off.Someone doing email.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 01/04/2026
I'm reading this book right now, which nicely combines my love of insects with some French practice. 🐝 One passage early in the book stood out to me. After writing about previous scientific studies of honeybees in his day, Maeterlinck wrote: (Original passage and translation in the 🧵.) 🪳🪲🧪🌍
La Vie des abeilles, par Maurice Maeterlinck.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 20/02/2026
Very quiet university pub on the Friday of reading break, having my own little celebration for completing four years on NSERC’s Ecology & Evolution Discovey Grant Evaluation Group — three of those years as co-chair. It’s been great reading about so much amazing Canadian research. 🧪
Beer and nachos.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 17/02/2026
BC budget document, Page 161: www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2026/pdf/202...
Page 161 from the linked budget document, with a section (frozen budget) on initiatives to enhance student access highlighted.

Link: https://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2026/pdf/2026_Estimates.pdf
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 24/01/2026
The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole. 🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻‍❄️
White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 23/01/2026
Anikin and Padme meme.

"We're focused on developing faster..."

"Prioritizing green infrastructure and the environment, right?"

Stares

"Prioritizing green infrastructure and the environment... right?"
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 10/01/2026
One more… 3. Go into your “Privacy and safety” settings and set as much as you can to prioritize privacy. In particular, turn off all the Grok permissions.
The “Grok and third party collaborators” section of the X privacy settings with all of the boxes unchecked.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 05/01/2026
An orchid diagram. Yellow with orange spots. 

Specifically Psychopsis sanderae. 

—

"Curtis's Botanical Magazine" vol. 137 (Ser. 4 no. 7) tab. 8374
(http://www.botanicus.org/page/442056)

Via: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psychopsis_sanderae_(as_Oncidium_sanderae)_-_Curtis%27_137_(Ser._4_no._7)_pl._8374_(1911)_(cropped).jpg
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 01/01/2026
Received this pair by Alberta Boot as a Xmas gift back in the early-90s. I’ve resoled them once. Still going strong >30 years later — wore them to a New Year’s party last night.
A pair of brown leather cowboy boots.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 23/12/2025
When aquatic insects emerge, they leave their moulted exoskeletons behind. Why not collect those and sequence the residual DNA to see who was living in the water? Cool new paper (Open Access) by Dworatzek et al. 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🪲🪳🧪🌎
Fig. 1 caption from the paper: "Figure 1. Comparison of two sampling methods: A, three emergence traps located on the pond and one emergence trap located on the creek; and B, workflow of exuviae collection. Diagram created in BioRender (https://BioRender.com/b21n111) by S. Dworatzek."Fig 2 caption from the paper: "Figure 2. Differences in operational taxonomic unit richness across sample types: A, box plots of operational taxonomic unit richness for each of the six samples, with average operational taxonomic unit richness indicated above each box plot and significant differences indicated by *; B, average overall operational taxonomic unit richness for emergence and exuviae pond samples, with error bars representing the standard error; and C, Venn diagram representing the number of unique and overlapping operational taxonomic units for each location and sampling type."Fig 3 caption: "Figure 3. Tree map representing the species richness of arthropod taxonomic orders and families in each sample type: A, emergence trap samples; and B, exuviae samples. Insecta is shown on the left; Arachnida is shown on the right; orders are separated by colour; families are separated by label. The size of each box corresponds to the relative number of operational taxonomic units per group."
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 15/12/2025
I love our ioniq5. I’ll never buy a fossil fuel car again.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 11/12/2025
"Distracted boyfriend meme"

Girlfriend: "existing Canadian research programs."

Boyfriend: "Government of Canada"

Other woman: "Good political vibes"
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 03/12/2025
Pfizer, all ready for the holidays. 🎄 🐈‍⬛
Cat on the front steps by Christmas lights.
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 28/11/2025
See, also: 🔗 watersheds.ca/fireworks-an...
Quote from the figure heading: "Conceptual diagram of the effects of fireworks on the environment, from immediate disturbance of birds and other animals, through to rapid pollution of air quality by particulate matter, and deposition of perchlorates and heavy metals into soil and water
where they can transfer to humans or bioaccumulate in food chains."
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