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".

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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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.

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.

#phycologyfriday

Bridgette Clarkston@bridgette.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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...

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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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...

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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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. 🤩

Adi Khen@adlysia.bsky.social · last yr.

Red, brown, and green seaweeds #PhycologyFriday

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