Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊
@drkelpy.bsky.social
Salish Sea Institute Fellow | ocean prof (lit, history, ecology) | Pacific + polar | feminist dive guide | nudi nerd | Seattle/Coast Salish Land | pubs/syllabi: kellypbushnell.com
📚 Current research: Cultural history of basking sharks in the NE Pacific!
📚 Current research: Cultural history of basking sharks in the NE Pacific!
Reposted by Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊
“Under colonization, the total mass of pink salmon and chum salmon dropped by 40 percent. Forage fish — such as herring, eulachon, surf smelt, and anchovy — declined by 99 percent, and sturgeon were nearly wiped out.”
e360.yale.edu/digest/pacif...
e360.yale.edu/digest/pacif...
Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife
e360.yale.edu
July 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“Under colonization, the total mass of pink salmon and chum salmon dropped by 40 percent. Forage fish — such as herring, eulachon, surf smelt, and anchovy — declined by 99 percent, and sturgeon were nearly wiped out.”
e360.yale.edu/digest/pacif...
e360.yale.edu/digest/pacif...
Some quiet underwater moments from this week of good viz: perennial fave ratfish, Taylor’s sea hares so massive they weigh down their blades of eelgrass, and so many jellies that the entire surface layer felt like a big soft invisible ball pit.
June 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Some quiet underwater moments from this week of good viz: perennial fave ratfish, Taylor’s sea hares so massive they weigh down their blades of eelgrass, and so many jellies that the entire surface layer felt like a big soft invisible ball pit.
Reposted by Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
I finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter a few weeks ago— it’s absolutely extraordinary.
My review of @sgj.bsky.social's 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,' is up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. It confronts the haunting specter of American genocide through the vampire tale, charting the depths of trauma & vengeance in the wake of the Marias Massacre.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...
How Can You Stop a Country from Happening? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Billy J. Stratton examines Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.”
lareviewofbooks.org
June 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter a few weeks ago— it’s absolutely extraordinary.
June 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Reposted by Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊
#BlackHistoryMonth Reading
"What does it mean to paint slavery iconography onto a pair of walrus tusks, and what is at stake in considering the Arctic as a landscape connected to Black enslavement?" - Bart Pushaw
niche-canada.org/2022/09/01/f...
#envhist #arthistory #arctic
"What does it mean to paint slavery iconography onto a pair of walrus tusks, and what is at stake in considering the Arctic as a landscape connected to Black enslavement?" - Bart Pushaw
niche-canada.org/2022/09/01/f...
#envhist #arthistory #arctic
Fugitive Ivories, or, Enslavement and the Walrus
What is at stake in considering the Arctic as a landscape connected to Black enslavement?
niche-canada.org
February 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#BlackHistoryMonth Reading
"What does it mean to paint slavery iconography onto a pair of walrus tusks, and what is at stake in considering the Arctic as a landscape connected to Black enslavement?" - Bart Pushaw
niche-canada.org/2022/09/01/f...
#envhist #arthistory #arctic
"What does it mean to paint slavery iconography onto a pair of walrus tusks, and what is at stake in considering the Arctic as a landscape connected to Black enslavement?" - Bart Pushaw
niche-canada.org/2022/09/01/f...
#envhist #arthistory #arctic
Along the lines of how one sour patch kid would kill a pilgrim…
(Epigraph to Ch. 44: “I would not creep along the coast, but steer / Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.”)
(Epigraph to Ch. 44: “I would not creep along the coast, but steer / Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.”)
Reading one (1) page of Middlemarch would kill the average tech executive
February 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Along the lines of how one sour patch kid would kill a pilgrim…
(Epigraph to Ch. 44: “I would not creep along the coast, but steer / Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.”)
(Epigraph to Ch. 44: “I would not creep along the coast, but steer / Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.”)
What’s the best fish in the Salish Sea, and why is it the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)?
January 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
What’s the best fish in the Salish Sea, and why is it the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)?
Today I'm tuned into this symposium on the North Pacific Right Whale (one of the world's rarest and most endangered whales) facilitated by the wonderful folks at @nprightwhale.bsky.social!
www.northpacificrightwhale.org/symposium
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www.northpacificrightwhale.org/symposium
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Symposium | Save the NPRW
www.northpacificrightwhale.org
January 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Today I'm tuned into this symposium on the North Pacific Right Whale (one of the world's rarest and most endangered whales) facilitated by the wonderful folks at @nprightwhale.bsky.social!
www.northpacificrightwhale.org/symposium
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www.northpacificrightwhale.org/symposium
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Spectacular postdoc opportunity at WHOI, in science OR policy, generally #coastal or specifically #Arctic!
🧑🏽🔬 Searching for the perfect #postdoc? We’re currently seeking applicants specializing in #IndigenousKnowledge Systems for a 2-year position.
Consideration will begin soon! 📲Find out more and apply today: go.whoi.edu/ikp-postdoc
#hiring #joinus #stemjobs #dei
Consideration will begin soon! 📲Find out more and apply today: go.whoi.edu/ikp-postdoc
#hiring #joinus #stemjobs #dei
January 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It’s the first day of Winter Quarter and I’ve got the best classroom in town!
BIOL110 is my interdisciplinary Salish Sea marine bio course, anchored in ecology but with an arts/hum kaleidoscope for a lens.
And happy to be at Highline supporting an 80% BIPOC and 60% first-generation student body!
BIOL110 is my interdisciplinary Salish Sea marine bio course, anchored in ecology but with an arts/hum kaleidoscope for a lens.
And happy to be at Highline supporting an 80% BIPOC and 60% first-generation student body!
January 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It’s the first day of Winter Quarter and I’ve got the best classroom in town!
BIOL110 is my interdisciplinary Salish Sea marine bio course, anchored in ecology but with an arts/hum kaleidoscope for a lens.
And happy to be at Highline supporting an 80% BIPOC and 60% first-generation student body!
BIOL110 is my interdisciplinary Salish Sea marine bio course, anchored in ecology but with an arts/hum kaleidoscope for a lens.
And happy to be at Highline supporting an 80% BIPOC and 60% first-generation student body!
1. Dolphins swirling around us in the Red Sea
2. Hairy frogfish doing “the yawn” in Indo (then a 💩) 🤦♀️
3. Humpback mum and calf in the ice in Greenland
4. Polar bear mum grabbing a seal for her cubs in Nunavut
5. Basking sharks, a leatherback, and my first right whale from the deck of SSV Cramer!
2. Hairy frogfish doing “the yawn” in Indo (then a 💩) 🤦♀️
3. Humpback mum and calf in the ice in Greenland
4. Polar bear mum grabbing a seal for her cubs in Nunavut
5. Basking sharks, a leatherback, and my first right whale from the deck of SSV Cramer!
What are the 5 most memorable wildlife sightings of your life? I've had some incredible encounters: aardvark, platypus, velvet worms, blue whales, honey badger
January 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
1. Dolphins swirling around us in the Red Sea
2. Hairy frogfish doing “the yawn” in Indo (then a 💩) 🤦♀️
3. Humpback mum and calf in the ice in Greenland
4. Polar bear mum grabbing a seal for her cubs in Nunavut
5. Basking sharks, a leatherback, and my first right whale from the deck of SSV Cramer!
2. Hairy frogfish doing “the yawn” in Indo (then a 💩) 🤦♀️
3. Humpback mum and calf in the ice in Greenland
4. Polar bear mum grabbing a seal for her cubs in Nunavut
5. Basking sharks, a leatherback, and my first right whale from the deck of SSV Cramer!
ᐅᖓᒋᕙᒋᑦ 💙 Christmas Eve marked five years since we lost Kelly Amaujaq Fraser.
She was a fiercely caring and loyal friend, a brilliant artist, teacher, activist and musician who reached far beyond the Arctic. (1/3)
She was a fiercely caring and loyal friend, a brilliant artist, teacher, activist and musician who reached far beyond the Arctic. (1/3)
December 27, 2024 at 2:05 AM
ᐅᖓᒋᕙᒋᑦ 💙 Christmas Eve marked five years since we lost Kelly Amaujaq Fraser.
She was a fiercely caring and loyal friend, a brilliant artist, teacher, activist and musician who reached far beyond the Arctic. (1/3)
She was a fiercely caring and loyal friend, a brilliant artist, teacher, activist and musician who reached far beyond the Arctic. (1/3)
My all-time favorite, by Tim Andraka. Season’s eatings, and toothy kisses under the abyss-tletoe from me and mine to you and yours!
December 24, 2024 at 9:23 PM
My all-time favorite, by Tim Andraka. Season’s eatings, and toothy kisses under the abyss-tletoe from me and mine to you and yours!
Arctic and Antarctic folks! I’m in this one along with a bunch of way ❄️cooler❄️ (sorry) people.
December 11, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Arctic and Antarctic folks! I’m in this one along with a bunch of way ❄️cooler❄️ (sorry) people.
Rest in power Nikki Giovanni 💙
December 10, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Rest in power Nikki Giovanni 💙
Today’s whimsical holiday sea-scene: Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii) looking skyward in front of Strawberry Anemones (Actinia fragacea). These colors look like they belong in the tropics, but they’re right here in the Salish Sea in 51F water! #fishmas #marinelife
December 9, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Today’s whimsical holiday sea-scene: Grunt Sculpin (Rhamphocottus richardsonii) looking skyward in front of Strawberry Anemones (Actinia fragacea). These colors look like they belong in the tropics, but they’re right here in the Salish Sea in 51F water! #fishmas #marinelife
🚨 New basking #shark paper alert:
"High-emission scenarios predict northward shift in basking shark habitats" in the N. hemisphere, incl. to sub-Arctic waters. ⬇️
(PS Join me at global #baskingshark conference in Galway this May!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
"High-emission scenarios predict northward shift in basking shark habitats" in the N. hemisphere, incl. to sub-Arctic waters. ⬇️
(PS Join me at global #baskingshark conference in Galway this May!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Global distribution prediction and ecological conservation of basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) under integrated impacts
Global climate change presents substantial threats to marine ecosystems, with particularly profound impacts on widely distributed migratory species. T…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 7, 2024 at 10:17 PM
🚨 New basking #shark paper alert:
"High-emission scenarios predict northward shift in basking shark habitats" in the N. hemisphere, incl. to sub-Arctic waters. ⬇️
(PS Join me at global #baskingshark conference in Galway this May!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
"High-emission scenarios predict northward shift in basking shark habitats" in the N. hemisphere, incl. to sub-Arctic waters. ⬇️
(PS Join me at global #baskingshark conference in Galway this May!)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Melibe leonina (hooded, a.k.a lion’s mane #nudibranch) on my dive in the front yard today. This luminous loogie gulps plankton with rows of cirri on its oral hood
and, as you can see, the current is bringing plenty (and keeping us both rockin and rollin!) #marinelife
and, as you can see, the current is bringing plenty (and keeping us both rockin and rollin!) #marinelife
December 5, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Melibe leonina (hooded, a.k.a lion’s mane #nudibranch) on my dive in the front yard today. This luminous loogie gulps plankton with rows of cirri on its oral hood
and, as you can see, the current is bringing plenty (and keeping us both rockin and rollin!) #marinelife
and, as you can see, the current is bringing plenty (and keeping us both rockin and rollin!) #marinelife
Reposted by Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊
I wanted to share a recent paper out from some good friends Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Jeffrey J. Brooks, Ph.D. and Hillary Renick.
The benefits of #Indigenous-led social #science: A mindset for #Arctic #sustainability
It is free to access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The benefits of #Indigenous-led social #science: A mindset for #Arctic #sustainability
It is free to access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The benefits of Indigenous-led social science: a mindset for Arctic sustainability
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The benefits of Indigenous-led social science: a mindset for Arctic sustainability
www.nature.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:02 PM
I wanted to share a recent paper out from some good friends Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Jeffrey J. Brooks, Ph.D. and Hillary Renick.
The benefits of #Indigenous-led social #science: A mindset for #Arctic #sustainability
It is free to access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The benefits of #Indigenous-led social #science: A mindset for #Arctic #sustainability
It is free to access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“Women always blame their bodies, men just blame the gear.”
On scuba, and bodies, and belonging:
Yesterday we lost Kelleen Lum, one of the best dive instructors (and instructor of instructors) this blue planet has ever known. I want to share one of the many profound things she said to me.
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On scuba, and bodies, and belonging:
Yesterday we lost Kelleen Lum, one of the best dive instructors (and instructor of instructors) this blue planet has ever known. I want to share one of the many profound things she said to me.
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November 22, 2024 at 8:46 PM
“Women always blame their bodies, men just blame the gear.”
On scuba, and bodies, and belonging:
Yesterday we lost Kelleen Lum, one of the best dive instructors (and instructor of instructors) this blue planet has ever known. I want to share one of the many profound things she said to me.
1/
On scuba, and bodies, and belonging:
Yesterday we lost Kelleen Lum, one of the best dive instructors (and instructor of instructors) this blue planet has ever known. I want to share one of the many profound things she said to me.
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