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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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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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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jul 7
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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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 17
1) Huge YES to previous enthusiasm comments, 2) in a large crowd, repeat questions so all feel included, 3) when appropriate, if asked a super-local question (eg, “where’s the highest diversity of X on the Island?”), invite others to comment, 4) bring props/activity sheets/etc — things to touch!
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 16
Playing with Postelsia. 🤩
A blue and white photographic print of sea palm seaweed with the phrase “the tide waits for no one”.
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 15
@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?
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 15
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.
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 14
#phycologyfriday
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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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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 13
Amazing!
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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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jun 9
" 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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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 8
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
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 7
Desmarestia herbacea from
Hornby Island, IRL and #cyanotype form. #phycologyfriday
A blue cyanotype of Desmarestia Acid weed held up by two people
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 7
Cards for our hosts on Hornby Island. Made by my UBC students 🤩💙
#phycologyfriday
#cyanotype
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Trine Bekkby @trinebekkby.bsky.social · Jun 6
#PhycologyFriday, with a (poor) attempt to place some macroalgae in a 🌈PRIDE🌈constellation. Well, well. Anyways, happy pride everyone 🏳️‍🌈
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Jun 6
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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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 6
Ha! Thanks Peter. Come make one with me next time you’re in Vancouver!
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 6
Thanks!
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 5
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.
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 5
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
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 5
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
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 4
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”
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Jun 4
I love my kid’s school 🏳️‍🌈
A sign with a Pride+ flag and slogan “all humans are equal”
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Jennifer McHenry, PhD @jennmchenry.bsky.social · Jun 4
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...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · May 23
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,
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Kylee Pawluk @kypaw.bsky.social · May 18
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
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · Apr 22
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.
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