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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Thanks to all who turned out to hear me talk about sharks and culture!

Me talking in front of a lecture hall with a black and white image of a basking shark protected onto the screen. I’m wearing a plaid flannel and looking very northwesty.

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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

“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...

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Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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.

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter a few weeks ago— it’s absolutely extraordinary.

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Seattle showing up as usual! 70,000 on this gorgeous PNW day. 🌲🌊✊ (The monorail even gave us a beepbeep and everyone lost their minds 😹💙) #nokings #noICE

My sign, which reads “No one is illegal on stolen land,” in front of the Space Needle.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

#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

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Fugitive Ivories, or, Enslavement and the Walrus

What is at stake in considering the Arctic as a landscape connected to Black enslavement?

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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.”)

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What’s the best fish in the Salish Sea, and why is it the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)?

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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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Symposium | Save the NPRW

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Spectacular postdoc opportunity at WHOI, in science OR policy, generally #coastal or specifically #Arctic!

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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!

Tall blonde female teaching in front of classroom wearing a plaid flannel shirt because she thinks it strikes the right tone between scholarly and outdoorsy.

Classroom window which looks out onto Puget Sound. It’s a calm gray misty day.

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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!

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Since July, we’ve been visiting this enormous GPO (Giant Pacific #Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini) caring for her eggs in her den… (1/5)

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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)

Us in Tromsø November 2019: A blond woman (me) and a woman with black hair (Kelly Fraser) looking at the camera with big smiles.

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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!

A cookie cutter shark reimagined for Christmas with its mouth in three different festive shapes: candy cane, tree, and gingerbread man! It’s shown biting a concerned-looking great white.

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Arctic and Antarctic folks! I’m in this one along with a bunch of way ❄️cooler❄️ (sorry) people.

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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

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Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, PhD @sauyaq.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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...

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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

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

“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/

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Started my day at Pacific Marine Expo here in Seattle with three excellent panels: 🔊 Quiet Sound’s work to lessen the impact of vessel noise on SRKWs 🦦 Seaweed’s integration into the global blue economy ⛴️ Marine decarbonization (esp. alternative fuels)

Expansive exhibit floor at pacific Marine Expo.

A slide which reads “Admiralty Inlet Voluntary Slowdown for Large Commercial Vessels”

A title slide for the panel “Seaweed’s Integration into the Global Blue Economy”

A title slide for the panel “Marine Decarbonization: A PNW Approach”

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thanks @tessahill.bsky.social for creating this one! 🌏🌊💪💙 go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

One can definitely sympathize with Bulkington who steps foot back in America after four years at sea, looks around, and immediately goes back to sea.

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hi! I'm Kelly, aka Dr. Kelpy to my students. I teach and write about ocean biodiversity from a historical/cultural perspective, combining archival research with my underwater experience as a dive pro to help connect people to our one global ocean.

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