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.

A blue and white photographic print of sea palm seaweed with the phrase “the tide waits for no one”.
A view of the stipes of the sea palm kelp looking up from the base.
A set of cards on a ring. The front card says “Hornby island seaweed knowledge cards”.
A fan-shaped red seaweed pressed on white herbarium paper
A blue cyanotype of Desmarestia
A cyanotype print (blue and while photographic print) showing cherry blossoms and a baby giant kelp in white, with a blue background.
A person kneeling at a tidepool, floating a red seaweed onto paper
A close up of cyanotype prints hanging from Rope
Cyanotype print of seaweeds and the words “in our diversity lies our greatest potential”
A sign with a Pride+ flag and slogan “all humans are equal”
A collage of pressed seaweeds
A page of a comic book about a tardigrade who learns all about algae.
A selection of seaweed-themed Pokémon cards
Baby Nereocystis on a sheet for drying
A table covered in many dried seaweeds
A table with a half-built puzzle and feedback form
A pressed red seaweed blade with holes like Swiss cheese.
A black and white line drawing of a five-ribbed kelp, Costaria costata
A preserved rockfish being measured with calipers
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.
A cross-stitch of three brown seaweeds
A small green sea slug crawling across a branch of the green seaweed Codium.
A nightmarish digital illustration of a “seaweed” with eyes riding a bicycle.
Two people walking in the water at low tide on a rocky beach at night.
An AI generated bull kelp colouring page, which looks more like a tree or even an oyster mushroom with a vaguely oceanic background.
A bingo card for identifying algae species
A scuba diver in a Santa Claus suit waves to a young child
A hoodie with the letters U B C in a mushroom-print fabric.
Corey Garza giving a presentation, standing in front of a large screen with a slide saying “Game of Drones” and “automation is coming”.
A filamentous green alga against a black background, viewed under a dissecting microscope. The green filaments are thin, highly branched and illuminated from beneath, making them almost glow.
A table with a question prompt asking visitors to indicate “how many people did you talk to at the welcome back event”. There is a tub of colourful Pom poms and cups for people to use with labels in front “1-2”, “3-4”, “5”, “6”.
Two people standing in front of the UBC alumni building, posting an open letter to the doors. One person wears a sign saying “prof on strike for climate”
A chess set made of clear resin with seaweeds embedded in each piece and throughout the board. Next to it is a Lego set of diversely colored mini figs and the label “everyone is awesome”
Looking up at a mature leafy tree, with wide spreading branches and many large green leaves. A blue sky behind.
And office door and window with very little posted on them besides two blue seaweeds and a folder of colouring pages.