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Bridgette Clarkston
@bridgette.bsky.social
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. 🤩
A table covered in many dried seaweeds Three people standing in front of Science World Three cyanotype papers with seaweeds being exposed to sunlight, overlooking False Creek
April 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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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.
A table with a half-built puzzle and feedback form A window with legs visible behind a table. A window with legs visible behind a table.
April 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Student seaweed presses looking 🤩🤩🤩. Many of these destined for @beatymuseum.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
A pressed red seaweed blade with holes like Swiss cheese. Pressed seaweeds on sheets of paper Pressed red seaweed on herbarium paper pressed kelp on herbarium paper
April 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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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...
A black and white line drawing of a five-ribbed kelp, Costaria costata
January 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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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
A preserved rockfish being measured with calipers A glass sea sponge on a black foam mat A museum curator pointing to a drawing of a rockfish on a whiteboard A museum curator showing snail shells stored in a cabinet
January 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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This is what it produced with the prompt “Draw a bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) with all parts labelled”
An illustration of a bull kelp seaweed with parts labelled. It was drawn by an AI and so doesn’t actually look anything like a real kelp, and the words are mostly nonsense.
March 19, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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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! 🧪🦑
A cross-stitch of three brown seaweeds A guess-who style card game featuring seaweeds. Two long white skirts spread out in the sunshine with cyanotype paint on their edges. A cyanotype-printed fabric with seaweeds printed in white on the blue backgrojnd
March 18, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Plastid-chomping sea slug! Teeny, ~5mm long, found on Codium fragile.
A small green sea slug crawling across a branch of the green seaweed Codium.
March 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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I asked ChatGPT to draw a seaweed and this is the nightmare it returned.
A nightmarish digital illustration of a “seaweed” with eyes riding a bicycle.
March 15, 2024 at 3:53 AM