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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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Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
BC reviews post-secondary sector for "opportunities for structural and programmatic realignments and/or rationalization" to "reduce programmatic duplication across institutions" & "Identify opportunities for consolidation of institutions" as "significant structural realignments are likely required".
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Province reviews public post-secondary system to ensure long-term sustainability
The Province is launching an independent review to strengthen the public post-secondary education system and ensure it is sustainable and well-positioned to support people in British Columbia and B.C.’s economic growth.
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Nimblenewt @nimblenewt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Trying to ID some nifty seaweeds in my new seaweed book, and having the same problem I have when I try to look up a word in a dictionary: I start reading, lose track of time, forget what I was looking up to start with, and then annoy people with weird trivia for the rest of the day.
A photo of the cover of Pacific Seaweeds by Louis Druehl and Bridgette Clarkston, featuring a lovely roiled pile of beached bull kelp in front of some grey rocks that are strangely free of both barnacles and winkles, unlike all the wave-bashed rocks around here that are thick with them (also limpets). It's a great book, it is teaching me about my very first epiphytic seaweed find!!!
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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 oercommons.org/courseware/l...
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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 · 16/06/2025
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 · 15/06/2025
@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 · 15/06/2025
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 · 14/06/2025
#phycologyfriday
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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 · 09/06/2025
" 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...
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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 · 08/06/2025
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 · 07/06/2025
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 · 07/06/2025
Cards for our hosts on Hornby Island. Made by my UBC students 🤩💙 #phycologyfriday #cyanotype
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Trine Bekkby @trinebekkby.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#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 · 06/06/2025
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" academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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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 · 05/06/2025
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 · 05/06/2025
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 paperA stack of herbarium supplies sitting on driftwood, with several people in the background Students pressing seaweeds on the beachA 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 · 05/06/2025
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
RopeA 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 · 04/06/2025
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 · 04/06/2025
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 · 04/06/2025
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 · 23/05/2025
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 · 18/05/2025
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 · 23/04/2025
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 seaweedsA pressed red seaweed with many small round holesTwo pressed seaweeds on paper Two stacks of seaweeds drying in plant presses, with box fans beside them.
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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.
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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 kelpTwo seaweed-themed Pokémon cards about red seaweedsTwo seaweed-themed Pokémon cards about green seaweeds
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Ahhhh, so gorgeous! Let the seaweeds cleanse your feed. 🤩
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psaalgae.bsky.social @psaalgae.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Good news! The PSA Membership Committee is able to offer a handful of additional free and discounted PSA memberships! Please read the instructions on the PSA website (www.psaalgae.org/membership-i...) and apply by May 1st using the indicated form. Recipients will be notified by the end of May.
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psaalgae.bsky.social @psaalgae.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Are you an artist? In excitement for this year’s meeting, we are opening up a logo competition! The theme is “Sustainability!” ¿Eres un artista? Con motivo de la reunión de este año, ¡abrimos un concurso de logotipos! El tema es «¡Sostenibilidad!» www.psaalgae.org/meetings/202... #sustainability
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psaalgae.bsky.social @psaalgae.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Are you excited for the 2025 PSA Annual meeting? ¿Estás emocionado por la reunión anual de PSA 2025? psaalgae.org/meetings
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
So excited to get working on this project!
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Beaty Biodiversity Museum @beatymuseum.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Lisa Matthias's microscopic landscapes at the Beaty, by Anna Pontin. www.ubyssey.ca/culture/lisa...
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Lisa Matthias's microscopic landscapes at the Beaty
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is an objectively strange place for an art exhibit. The building, more bunker than gallery, is a dense centralized archive of plastinated, taxidermied and otherwise prese...
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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 seaweedsThree people standing in front of Science WorldThree cyanotype papers with seaweeds being exposed to sunlight, overlooking False Creek
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Varoon Supratya @varoon-supratya.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A rarity in Canadian waters: Laminaria sinclairii at French Beach, BC. #laminaria #phycologyfriday #kelp #seaweed #intertidal #marinelife #science #marinebiology #algae
A dense cluster of brown kelp hangs from a half submerged rock. Long dark stipes rise from a hidden rhizomatous holdfast and terminate in straplike, translucent blades
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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 formA window with legs visible behind a table. A window with legs visible behind a table.
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jensmith11.bsky.social @jensmith11.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy #PhycologyFriday #Seaweed #Art
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jensmith11.bsky.social @jensmith11.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Happy #PhycologyFriday #Kelp #Seaweed #SeaweedArt
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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 paperpressed kelp on herbarium paper
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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The office hour wandering scarf project is wrapping up for this school year! Made it well past Blaire’s door and within 1 metre of @bridgette.bsky.social ‘s office #teaching #EduSky
Celeste wrapped up in a super long ridiculous multicolored scarfThe scarf stretched down the hallway floor past office doors
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Montreal will continue the largest pedestrian street program in North America, committing $12mil to 9 pedestrian streets over 3-years. “These projects are not only good for the economy, they also contribute directly to the quality of life of the population.” @valplante.bsky.social
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John Williams @stillhopejw.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I discovered a web site which tells many facets of the kelp forest story, doing an amazing job of it — with images, video, words, references, and no advertising. It also has menus to let you choose different perspectives, such as region, forest community members, restoration, etc. bullkelp.info
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The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp
This web-based book celebrates the power of art and science to tell the story of kelp forests on the North Pacific Coast.
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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 calipersA glass sea sponge on a black foam matA museum curator pointing to a drawing of a rockfish on a whiteboard A museum curator showing snail shells stored in a cabinet
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Amazing work!
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Oh, hey, it’s Taxonomist Appreciation Day! To all y’alls who have been building and maintaining essential collections, reconstructing evolutionary histories, and giving us the tools to understand biodiversity, thank you! May your effort be rewarded with jobs, grant funding, and honor.
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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
We're co-hosting a webinar: Mobilizing Environmental DNA (eDNA) for Management in the Northeast Pacific. Please join us if you are a marine scientist or manager and would like to learn more about eDNA us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
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 seaweedsA 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
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George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
reposting to 🧪 cause it's a very cool paper
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
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.
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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
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.
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