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!
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.
“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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Ok we do have one king in Seattle. #ichiro #nokings
This is… a bad take.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
I finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter a few weeks ago— it’s absolutely extraordinary.
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.
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
In contrast, a good take:
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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.
nautil.us/sea-slug-cli...
Video
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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 🌊
Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊
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-...
Billy J. Stratton examines Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.”
Thanks to all who turned out to hear me talk about sharks and culture!
Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊
Jan 22 at 4:30-5:20 pm learn about the History of #SalishSea Basking Sharks from @drkelpy.bsky.social Kelly Bushnell PhD. Free registration alumniq.wwu.edu/index.cfm/ev...
