Bridgette Clarkston
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Bridgette Clarkston
@bridgette.bsky.social
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.
Playing with Postelsia. 🤩
June 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
@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
View from inside the Postelsia (sea palm kelp) forest. 🤩🌴💦
In Ucluelet, BC.
June 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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
June 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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. 🤩
June 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Desmarestia herbacea from
Hornby Island, IRL and #cyanotype form. #phycologyfriday
June 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Cards for our hosts on Hornby Island. Made by my UBC students 🤩💙
#phycologyfriday
#cyanotype
June 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Lunchtime play! 💙🌸🎨
Cherry blossoms and a baby Macrocystis (giant kelp). Just cause they’re springtime beauties.
June 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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
June 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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!
June 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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
June 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I love my kid’s school 🏳️‍🌈
June 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Student #seaweed presses looking very good this year! 🎉 So cool to see the fruits of all their hard work this semester.
April 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Another student project: Todd the Tardigrade learns about algae by eating their way through the phyla
April 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Student #algae projects — this one a Pokémon-inspired set of #seaweed cards. 🤩🤩
April 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Preparing baby Nereocystis (bull kelp), all lab-grown, for the cyanotype workshop at the International Seaweed Symposium.
April 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So much fun teaching cyanotypes to the Future Science Leaders program at Science World! 📸🌿🎨
Doing it with one of my students and my oldest kiddo a wonderful bonus. 🤩
April 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Soliciting student feedback on our hallway activities (🧶🧩🖍️🪭) in a super profesh way 😂. Plus a few of the many feet that stop by the puzzle table.
April 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Student seaweed presses looking 🤩🤩🤩. Many of these destined for @beatymuseum.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
April 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I need some joy and maybe you do too. So here’s a lovely (and accurate!) colouring page 🖍️🌿for the five-ribbed kelp, Costaria costata.
Made by a former student, CC BY-NC-SA. More here: linktr.ee/seaweedteach...
January 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Over the moon about our new Natural History Collections course. Learning by doing, guided by expert curators. This week we explored the marine invertebrates and fish collections. @beatymuseum.bsky.social @ubcbotany.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This is what it produced with the prompt “Draw a bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) with all parts labelled”
March 19, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Student creative algae / seaweed projects taking shape! Tasked with teaching, inspiring others as a way to share what they’ve learned about algae beyond the classroom. Best part of the semester! 🧪🦑
March 18, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Plastid-chomping sea slug! Teeny, ~5mm long, found on Codium fragile.
March 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM
I asked ChatGPT to draw a seaweed and this is the nightmare it returned.
March 15, 2024 at 3:53 AM