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Bridgette Clarkston
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Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Co-author of Pacific Seaweeds book. All algae, almost all the time. She/her. Slowly transitioning from @funnyfishes on Dumpster Fire site.
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 12
So proud of this collaborative product: a set of #seaweed knowledge cards for Hornby Island, BC, made with kids from the local school (using many of their photos!), the HI Natural History Centre, UBC biology undergrads, @ubcbotany.bsky.social and @beatymuseum.bsky.social
A set of cards on a ring. The front card says “Hornby island seaweed knowledge cards”. A set of cards on a ring. The front card shows a red seaweed with an insert photo of the close-up of the bumpy texture of the seaweed.
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Just published our #Seaweed Knowledge Cards for Hornby Island, BC as an #OER 🎉 Excited for this work to be used by others. Seaweed knowledge for all! 🥳 @ubcbiology.bsky.social @beatymuseum.bsky.social

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Seaweed Knowledge Cards for Hornby Island, B.C.
A set of seaweed knowledge cards for a selection of local seaweeds found around Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada. Includes information about common English and scientific names (with pronouncia...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Playing with Postelsia. 🤩
A blue and white photographic print of sea palm seaweed with the phrase “the tide waits for no one”.
June 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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@adlysia.bsky.social found these bumpy, more rounded wide bladelets at the base of an Egregia in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island. Could they be sporophylls?
June 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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View from inside the Postelsia (sea palm kelp) forest. 🤩🌴💦
In Ucluelet, BC.
A view of the stipes of the sea palm kelp looking up from the base.
June 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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#phycologyfriday
bridgette.bsky.social Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 12
So proud of this collaborative product: a set of #seaweed knowledge cards for Hornby Island, BC, made with kids from the local school (using many of their photos!), the HI Natural History Centre, UBC biology undergrads, @ubcbotany.bsky.social and @beatymuseum.bsky.social
A set of cards on a ring. The front card says “Hornby island seaweed knowledge cards”. A set of cards on a ring. The front card shows a red seaweed with an insert photo of the close-up of the bumpy texture of the seaweed.
June 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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So proud of this collaborative product: a set of #seaweed knowledge cards for Hornby Island, BC, made with kids from the local school (using many of their photos!), the HI Natural History Centre, UBC biology undergrads, @ubcbotany.bsky.social and @beatymuseum.bsky.social
A set of cards on a ring. The front card says “Hornby island seaweed knowledge cards”. A set of cards on a ring. The front card shows a red seaweed with an insert photo of the close-up of the bumpy texture of the seaweed.
June 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
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June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Beauty of a Cryptopleura seaweed press, made by a grade 7/8 student during a recent outreach trip to Hornby Island, assisted by students from @ubcbiology.bsky.social. Destined for the @beatymuseum.bsky.social. 🤩
A fan-shaped red seaweed pressed on white herbarium paper
June 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Desmarestia herbacea from
Hornby Island, IRL and #cyanotype form. #phycologyfriday
A blue cyanotype of Desmarestia Acid weed held up by two people
June 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Cards for our hosts on Hornby Island. Made by my UBC students 🤩💙
#phycologyfriday
#cyanotype
June 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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#PhycologyFriday, with a (poor) attempt to place some macroalgae in a 🌈PRIDE🌈constellation. Well, well. Anyways, happy pride everyone 🏳️‍🌈
June 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness

Paul et al. 2025 BioScience

"Despite their potential for contributing to pandemic preparedness, natural history collections are underused"

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Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness
Five years after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we have the opportunity to gather lessons learned about needed infrastructure for predicting, und
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June 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Lunchtime play! 💙🌸🎨
Cherry blossoms and a baby Macrocystis (giant kelp). Just cause they’re springtime beauties.
A cyanotype print (blue and while photographic print) showing cherry blossoms and a baby giant kelp in white, with a blue background.
June 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Pressing #seaweeds right on the beach! Fantastic job by the Hornby Island grade 7/8 class. Many beautiful specimens collected, destined for the @beatymuseum.bsky.social. Equally fantastic job by our UBC crew of students and Beaty staff who helped the kids. 🤩 @ubcbiology.bsky.social
A person kneeling at a tidepool, floating a red seaweed onto paper A stack of herbarium supplies sitting on driftwood, with several people in the background Students pressing seaweeds on the beach A child sitting barefoot next to a tidepool, taking notes, with a quadrat in the tidepool overtop a pile of seaweeds
June 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Such a joy to take a crew of UBC students to Hornby Island. We worked with the local school to collect and preserve seaweeds for the @beatymuseum.bsky.social. And of course had to do some #cyanotype prints!
A close up of cyanotype prints hanging from Rope A group of people on a lawn in front of a small building. There is a display of cyanotype prints strung along a rope behind the group. A child kneeling with a piece of painted paper and seaweeds on top. The paper says “take chances. Make mistakes. Get messy.” A table covered with dried seaweeds ready for printing
June 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Lovely #seaweed #cyanotype, lovely message. Made by a grade 7 student during a recent outreach trip to Hornby Island, BC, a collaboration with UBC students and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum 💙
@ubcbiology.bsky.social @ubcbotany.bsky.social @beatymuseum.bsky.social
Cyanotype print of seaweeds and the words “in our diversity lies our greatest potential”
June 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I love my kid’s school 🏳️‍🌈
A sign with a Pride+ flag and slogan “all humans are equal”
June 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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1/ Just in time for #WorldOceanDay:

Check out our new study in #npjOceanSustainability taking critical first look at whether Canada's kelp forests can be a source of natural climate solutions.

We offers a blueprint for other countries looking to do the same.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
June 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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You've got ~a week left to pre-order our collab w/@franzanth.bsky.social, Bigger Than Binaries!

I'll order some extras in orange in a limited size range because I lack a warehouse, I have only a room full of lizards.

Printed locally on 100% cotton.

Get 'em while you can! squidfacts.bigcartel.com
2 versions of the same design, all of which say "Biology is bigger than binaries", with a central image of a bee, a clownfish, and a lily. The one on. the left is pink, the right is orange,
May 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Exciting (?) news! #cosewic has finally assessed the state of #pycnopida as #endangered. It’s an important step to getting this species federal status and therefore protection. Pycnos are so important to BC’s marine ecosystems and kelp forests. #conservation #iucnredlist #canada #sara
May 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Student #seaweed presses looking very good this year! 🎉 So cool to see the fruits of all their hard work this semester.
A collage of pressed seaweeds A pressed red seaweed with many small round holes Two pressed seaweeds on paper Two stacks of seaweeds drying in plant presses, with box fans beside them.
April 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Another student project: Todd the Tardigrade learns about algae by eating their way through the phyla
A page of a comic book about a tardigrade who learns all about algae. A second page of a comic book about a tardigrade who learns all about algae. A third page of a comic book about a tardigrade who learns all about algae. A fourth page of a comic book about a tardigrade who learns all about algae.
April 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Student #algae projects — this one a Pokémon-inspired set of #seaweed cards. 🤩🤩
A selection of seaweed-themed Pokémon cards Two seaweed-themed Pokémon cards about the giant kelp Two seaweed-themed Pokémon cards about red seaweeds Two seaweed-themed Pokémon cards about green seaweeds
April 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Preparing baby Nereocystis (bull kelp), all lab-grown, for the cyanotype workshop at the International Seaweed Symposium.
Baby Nereocystis on a sheet for drying Baby Nereocystis on a sheet for drying
April 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Ahhhh, so gorgeous! Let the seaweeds cleanse your feed. 🤩
adlysia.bsky.social Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · Apr 18
Red, brown, and green seaweeds #PhycologyFriday
April 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM