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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · Jul 19

“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.”

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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 · Jun 28

In contrast, a good take:

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jun 28

This is… a bad take.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

www.newyorker.com

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jun 22

More on Taylor’s sea hares from Nautilus this April!

Here in Puget Sound we’ve seen more, and larger individuals, this year than in my lifetime.

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Sea Slug, Climate Change Warrior

A species of sea hare has an impressive tolerance for heat and a penchant for gene mixing

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jun 22

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 · Jun 19

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.

davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Jun 19

@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.

kottke.org @kottke.org · Jun 19

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

Billy Joe Stratton @billyjstratton.bsky.social · Jun 15

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.

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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.”

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jun 15

Ok we do have one king in Seattle. #ichiro #nokings

Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jun 15

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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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · May 15

Hey Michelle, I’m current working on the history of basking sharks in the Pacific, but most of my research heretofore has been marine monsters in the British Isles, so if I can’t help I should be able to point you in the direction of someone who can!

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · May 6

That was the exact nudi portfolio I had under Fauntleroy ferry dock this week! The Cockerell’s were an especially fun surprise— I’d only seen them subtidal heretofore! Great pics!

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Apr 4

Can’t wait to read!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Feb 21

#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

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#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?

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Feb 18

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.”)

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · Feb 18

Reading one (1) page of Middlemarch would kill the average tech executive

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Feb 18

Can’t wait to read Dolly!

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jan 23

Oof.

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jan 22

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 · Jan 15

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

www.northpacificrightwhale.org

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jan 14

My favorite read yet of 2025.

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jan 11

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

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · Jan 11

🧑🏽‍🔬 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

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jan 8

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jan 7

Can’t wait to read!

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jan 7

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 · Jan 6

(And a bonus #6 for our Giant Pacific Octos here in the Salish Sea that are pretty common if you know how/where to look but never ever get old! 🐙)

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Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social · Jan 6

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!

Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Jan 4

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

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