Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻

@dezene.me

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

My Duo avatar in a Spain outfit. And a QR code to follow me.
Map of central and southern BC and the Island showing a lot of red dots.
Acoustic guitar leaning against a blue siding wall. Brick porch. Dozing Bengal tabby cat.
UNBC agora shiny with rainwater. Yellow and green Muskoka chairs in the image.
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Honeybee frame showing brood, honey, and pollen comb. And a few dozen busy bees.
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."
A dragonfly resting on my hand.
Rogers sugar bag.
A black bear (with light fur) standing by a path and a tree.
A honeybee
Our tortie cat, Pfizer, in a box.
Tabby cat in a cat bed.
Downtown Toronto with the CN Tower.
Front cover of “Insectopolis” by Peter Kuper
« Il s'intéresse à l'écologie et rêve d'un avenir plus vert. » “He's interested in ecology and dreams of a greener future.”
An axolotl just chilling.
Vintage butterfly drawings.
Artemis II lift off.
La Vie des abeilles, par Maurice Maeterlinck.
Beer and nachos.
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
White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag
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?"
The “Grok and third party collaborators” section of the X privacy settings with all of the boxes unchecked.
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
A pair of brown leather cowboy boots.
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."
"Distracted boyfriend meme" Girlfriend: "existing Canadian research programs." Boyfriend: "Government of Canada" Other woman: "Good political vibes"
Cat on the front steps by Christmas lights.
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."
Juvenile female moose standing in snow next to a railing and a cinder brick wall.
Graphical abstract shaped like a spiderweb with the following figure heading: "Ecosystem services provided by spiders. These services are categorised into four main types: (I) Provisioning; (II) Regulating; (III) Supporting; and (IV) Cultural."
Pumpkin carved with the LA Dodgers logo.
“But he admits he might not have moved back to Canada were it not for the program.”
“The largest funding of research and development has traditionally been the federal government. But data from the World Bank shows that Canada now ranks sixth out of seven G7 countries in science funding, and sits below the OECD average. "The Canadian government is not really very supportive of research overall." said Mak who says too many Canadian ideas and the jobs they create are lost to other countries. "We have to fund fundamental science that will drive technologies... that can help Canada. We cannot sit back and just read the newspaper and find out what other people have done and that we have missed."
“UHN, which includes Toronto General, Toronto Western and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, raised $30 million in philanthropic donations to fund the campaign, the first and one of the largest in the country to date. So far, a hospital official says that 25 scientists from the U.S., Europe, Japan, New Zealand and Canada have accepted offers. Another 75 position are expected to be filled in the coming months. "It's about sending a message," said Brad Wouters, Executive Vice President of Science and Research at UHN. "Canada wants to be a place that preserves and promotes science, in stark contrast to what's happening in the United States right now."”
A sow bug.
Sedges (yellow) in the foreground. Calm water. Flanked by conifer forest. Blue sky and white clouds. Mountain with snow in the distance.
Burned forest landscape. Charred trees. Green grass. Blue skies.
Moon over a peaceful lake. Some stars. Mountains. Fog rolling in. Nighttime.
Jane Goodall reaching out to a baby chimpanzee, with the chimp reaching back. Hands are on the verge of touching.
UNBC BioBlitz 2025 poster. See the link in this post to join the project.
A bug from the family Coreidae. In other words, a coreid. This particular species is Syromastus rhombeus. The photo is a brown insect in a green leaf. Photo by Jean-Jacques Milan • CC BY-SA 3.0
A western toad, Anaxyrus boreas, hiding in some leaf litter on the UNBC campus.
A mixed stand of urban trees in autumn. Colourful leaves, and a touch of fog in the upper branches.