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? 270
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 15/06/2025View from inside the Postelsia (sea palm kelp) forest. 🤩🌴💦 In Ucluelet, BC. 050
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 13/06/2025So 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 062
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Beauty 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. 🤩 050
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Desmarestia herbacea from Hornby Island, IRL and #cyanotype form. #phycologyfriday 0121
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Cards for our hosts on Hornby Island. Made by my UBC students 🤩💙 #phycologyfriday #cyanotype 071
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Lunchtime play! 💙🌸🎨 Cherry blossoms and a baby Macrocystis (giant kelp). Just cause they’re springtime beauties. 1111
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Pressing #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 040
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Such 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! 060
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Lovely #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 1100
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Student #seaweed presses looking very good this year! 🎉 So cool to see the fruits of all their hard work this semester. 0111
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Another student project: Todd the Tardigrade learns about algae by eating their way through the phyla 130
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Student #algae projects — this one a Pokémon-inspired set of #seaweed cards. 🤩🤩 3134
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Preparing baby Nereocystis (bull kelp), all lab-grown, for the cyanotype workshop at the International Seaweed Symposium. 071
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 15/04/2025So 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. 🤩 050
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Soliciting student feedback on our hallway activities (🧶🧩🖍️🪭) in a super profesh way 😂. Plus a few of the many feet that stop by the puzzle table. 030
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Student seaweed presses looking 🤩🤩🤩. Many of these destined for @beatymuseum.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 0286
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I 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... 080
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Over 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 0131
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 19/03/2024This is what it produced with the prompt “Draw a bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) with all parts labelled” 100
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 18/03/2024Student 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! 🧪🦑 3246
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Plastid-chomping sea slug! Teeny, ~5mm long, found on Codium fragile. 030
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 15/03/2024I asked ChatGPT to draw a seaweed and this is the nightmare it returned. 330
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 19/01/2024Adobe AI Firefly’s attempt to make a bull kelp colouring page (prompt used: "a simple black and white line drawing of a bull kelp seaweed (nereocystis luetkeana) floating in the ocean"). The best so far, even with a bull kelp colouring page given as reference. Fascinating! #phycologyfriday 010
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 16/01/2024Algae bingo! 🎉 Diving into our first lab with a game. 270
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 28/11/2023Scuba Claus at the Vancouver Aquarium was a big hit with the kiddos! No chance getting them to notice the seaweeds 🤣 040
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 05/10/2023“Game of Drones” and their use in coastal marine ecology 🌊🏝️🧪— Great talk today by Dr. Corey Garza. So glad he could visit #UBC for the Biodiversity Research Seminar Series. 020
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 30/09/2023Talking coenocytic green algae in class this week. So why not a cute local Bryopsis for #PhycologyFriday. 1174
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 29/09/2023Pom poms! Easy, fun way to do an exit survey at a social event. 000
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 15/09/2023Ended our @ubc #climatestrike posting open letter to Board of Governors on their building, calling for more accountability on #climate and #sustainability issues, starting w/more affordable housing now. #ubccanfixit 021
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 01/09/2023Got my #seaweed chess set on display, ready for a new teaching semester. 🌈🤩♟️A student project from last year’s #algae course. Total student creative awesomeness for #phycologyfriday! 040
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 30/08/2023Furthering my denial of how much course prep still to do by tidying my office. Shelves! A sense of control and order! 🤣 030
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 30/08/2023Feeling happy that I get to walk by this beauty on my walk to #algae class starting next week. @polarisdotca.bsky.social you’ll know this one — right outside Hennings Building. 030
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 29/08/2023My office door is cleared, ready for the next wave of student artwork. 🎨🖼️🌲My fav start-of-semester tradition. 140
Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 22/08/2023Hey @drkelp.bsky.social look who I found featured in Kazoo kids’ magazine. Nice one! 🎉 2184