Heather Bruce
@arthropodlegs.bsky.social
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
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
Wish I could go back in time and tell him he was right! 🤓
December 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Wish I could go back in time and tell him he was right! 🤓
😂
How did you know that’s exactly what’s being portrayed here??
How did you know that’s exactly what’s being portrayed here??
December 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
😂
How did you know that’s exactly what’s being portrayed here??
How did you know that’s exactly what’s being portrayed here??
Reposted by Heather Bruce
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?
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3/3?
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December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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...
3/3?
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
🤣
Drosophila bristles do be like that tho!
Drosophila bristles do be like that tho!
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Drosophila bristles do be like that tho!
Drosophila bristles do be like that tho!
Reposted by Heather Bruce
Day 4 of my 2025 Favorites: Tiny Leaf With Grabby Hands!
Juvenile Macrocephalini, a somewhat rarely-seen tribe of ambush bugs. He's just a pleasing shape and color and disposition, with his chonky grabby hands he hasn't grown into yet
Juvenile Macrocephalini, a somewhat rarely-seen tribe of ambush bugs. He's just a pleasing shape and color and disposition, with his chonky grabby hands he hasn't grown into yet
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Day 4 of my 2025 Favorites: Tiny Leaf With Grabby Hands!
Juvenile Macrocephalini, a somewhat rarely-seen tribe of ambush bugs. He's just a pleasing shape and color and disposition, with his chonky grabby hands he hasn't grown into yet
Juvenile Macrocephalini, a somewhat rarely-seen tribe of ambush bugs. He's just a pleasing shape and color and disposition, with his chonky grabby hands he hasn't grown into yet
Wurk those eyestalks, shrimp, aw yeah, you got it!
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Wurk those eyestalks, shrimp, aw yeah, you got it!
2n/ Most malacostracon crustaceans, like shrimps and crabs, don’t have these big feathery exopod branches on the thorax, they only have them on the abdomen, where both leg branches look identical and form the swimmerets (think lobster tail swimmers). So it’s so cool to see this!
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
2n/ Most malacostracon crustaceans, like shrimps and crabs, don’t have these big feathery exopod branches on the thorax, they only have them on the abdomen, where both leg branches look identical and form the swimmerets (think lobster tail swimmers). So it’s so cool to see this!