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...

Playing with Postelsia. 🤩

@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?

View from inside the Postelsia (sea palm kelp) forest. 🤩🌴💦 In Ucluelet, BC.

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

" 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...

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. 🤩

Desmarestia herbacea from Hornby Island, IRL and #cyanotype form. #phycologyfriday

Cards for our hosts on Hornby Island. Made by my UBC students 🤩💙 #phycologyfriday #cyanotype

#PhycologyFriday, with a (poor) attempt to place some macroalgae in a 🌈PRIDE🌈constellation. Well, well. Anyways, happy pride everyone 🏳️‍🌈

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...

Lunchtime play! 💙🌸🎨 Cherry blossoms and a baby Macrocystis (giant kelp). Just cause they’re springtime beauties.

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

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!

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

I love my kid’s school 🏳️‍🌈

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...

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

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

Student #seaweed presses looking very good this year! 🎉 So cool to see the fruits of all their hard work this semester.

Another student project: Todd the Tardigrade learns about algae by eating their way through the phyla

Student #algae projects — this one a Pokémon-inspired set of #seaweed cards. 🤩🤩

Preparing baby Nereocystis (bull kelp), all lab-grown, for the cyanotype workshop at the International Seaweed Symposium.

Ahhhh, so gorgeous! Let the seaweeds cleanse your feed. 🤩

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.

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

Are you excited for the 2025 PSA Annual meeting? ¿Estás emocionado por la reunión anual de PSA 2025? psaalgae.org/meetings

So excited to get working on this project!

Lisa Matthias's microscopic landscapes at the Beaty, by Anna Pontin. www.ubyssey.ca/culture/lisa...

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 rarity in Canadian waters: Laminaria sinclairii at French Beach, BC. #laminaria #phycologyfriday #kelp #seaweed #intertidal #marinelife #science #marinebiology #algae

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.

Happy #PhycologyFriday #Seaweed #Art

Happy #PhycologyFriday #Kelp #Seaweed #SeaweedArt

Student seaweed presses looking 🤩🤩🤩. Many of these destined for @beatymuseum.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

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

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

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

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...

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

Amazing work!

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.

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...

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! 🧪🦑

reposting to 🧪 cause it's a very cool paper

Plastid-chomping sea slug! Teeny, ~5mm long, found on Codium fragile.

I asked ChatGPT to draw a seaweed and this is the nightmare it returned.

Stoked to share that the final paper from my MSc is out today! We looked at how integrating tides, currents, and species-level morphology can help increase the accuracy of kelp detection with remote sensing. Check it out! doi.org/10.3389/fenv...

Munch marks! This turban snail has been scraping the rock with its radula as it feeds on algae, & its activity is recorded in a series of grooves in the soft rock substratum. #MolluskMonday