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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️
@canopyrobin.com
Professional tree enthusiast with a PhD about it.
Not being super professional here.
I make botanical pride pins.
canopyrobin.com/links
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One year ago today, I sold my first pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com and set out to fund my trans healthcare expenses sustainably by creating a small business alongside my fulltime job. This quoted thread shares the 17 designs and 106 variations I've made since then!

Please check them out! 🏳️‍⚧️
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I need to sell 28 more of these before Christmas if I want to break even on the design. We're over half way there so fingers-crossed that new people keep wanting them!
I really wasn't exaggerating when I said my Christmas tree pride pins were detailed. Each of these baubles is just over 2mm! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Snake Edition, past year
Garter Snake
Dekays Brown Snake
Corn snake
Rat snake
Copperhead

Timber rattlesnake is a lifer for me, I've worked in their habitat for more than a decade now and have never seen one wild 🥲
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Small-clawed otter
Clouded leopard
Bear Cuscus
Leatherback turtle
Orangutan
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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I don't think I've been to 5 gigs so: 5 animals I've seen in the wild

Raccoons (Toronto)
A chipmunk once (Toronto)
Grey seals (Blakeney)
Red squirrels (Alston and the Highlands)
New Forest Ponies (the New Forest)

Also 5 wild waterfowl I've seen today:

Swans
Grey Heron
Cormorant
Moorhen
Coot
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Small-clawed otter
Clouded leopard
Bear Cuscus
Leatherback turtle
Orangutan
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Actually successfully forced myself to the gym for the first time in months. All my fitness is gone 😅
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Look at these amazing stickers, patches and pins!! Holy shit this is so good. Made by @canopyrobin.com, these are gorgeous. We've been here the whole time!

The loop-de-loop is from the variety show Game Changer from Dropout, the funniest such show I've ever seen (except Run BTS 🤭)
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
Green turtle
Magnificent Bird of Paradise
Purple Spotted Swallowtail
Rothschild's giraffe
Tawny Hermit Crab
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Small-clawed otter
Clouded leopard
Bear Cuscus
Leatherback turtle
Orangutan
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild.

* Formica sanguinea - a wood ant in the UK
* Myrmica schencki - a UK Nationally Scarce ant which has distinctive bell-shaped scapes
* Asian hornet - France (Brittany and Normandy)
* Long-eared hedgehog - Iraq
* Eurasian lynx - Turkey
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Small-clawed otter
Clouded leopard
Bear Cuscus
Leatherback turtle
Orangutan
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild. These may not be the rarest, but each of them were incredibly special encounters.
Golden eagle
Grey seal
Dolphin
Pine marten
Sparrowhawk
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Small-clawed otter
Clouded leopard
Bear Cuscus
Leatherback turtle
Orangutan
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Should ecologists be worried about the carbon footprint of their own use of “AI” and LLMs?

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint
Click on the article title to read more.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Small-clawed otter
Clouded leopard
Bear Cuscus
Leatherback turtle
Orangutan
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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One year ago today, I sold my first pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com and set out to fund my trans healthcare expenses sustainably by creating a small business alongside my fulltime job. This quoted thread shares the 17 designs and 106 variations I've made since then!

Please check them out! 🏳️‍⚧️
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Moths are my friends!!! ₊✩‧₊˚ ཐིཋྀ ˚₊✩‧₊
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I need to sell 28 more of these before Christmas if I want to break even on the design. We're over half way there so fingers-crossed that new people keep wanting them!
I really wasn't exaggerating when I said my Christmas tree pride pins were detailed. Each of these baubles is just over 2mm! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just tried setting up a tiktok shop so that I'm not just on Etsy but wow that's a bad platform for small sellers 🙃
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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My entire knowledge of woodcocks is this video (sound on)
youtu.be/mKM0P9gWx7k?...
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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And finally, today, one year after launching my first LGBTree pride pin to help fund transition, I'm launching another tree!

This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!

canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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If you've been enjoying #NationalTreeWeek as much as we have and don't want the fun to be over, we have good news!

For those local to Leeds, @canopyrobin.com will be representing the team with a talk on Christmas tree communication at Quantum Sauce next tuesday! 🎄
oldwoollen.seetickets.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Happy #NationalTreeWeek from me and the various tree pins, I sell at canopyrobin.etsy.com 🌳🎄🍃 #SciArt
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Someone who bought pins recently just sent me some extra money on my tipping link as allyship!! That's so lovely and means so much 😭
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Someone on tiktok said I seemed overwhelmed and stressed recently. I felt so seen
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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If you need festive gifts for people (in addition to books from your local indie publisher/bookshop) then you should definitely buy them badges.

Robin's badges are absolutely stonkingly lovely, amazing quality, and brought me so much joy (even though the one I bought's not even for me!)
On November 17th last year I sold my first enamel pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com in an attempt to create a new stream of income that might eventually cover the expenses of trans healthcare instead of perpetual GoFundMes 🏳️‍⚧️

As we approach the anniversary, I'm going to celebrate one design each day
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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There's still time to join our online LinkedIn Clinic on 3rd December. Book your spot now!

www.big.uk.com/event-6410654
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Say what you will about the new songs they put in Wicked For Good but this one did get my ass as a foreign trans woman that built my life in the UK
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Love my pair of frogs which arrived on Friday. The purchased Aromantic one on the right and a free mirror universe "Imperfect" one on the left.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM