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!https://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3mdmfwue6vk2pThanks to all who turned out to hear me talk about sharks and culture! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2026 03:57 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdmfwue6vk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lsp2e5u4tk2mThis is… a bad take. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence28 Jun 2025 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsp2e5u4tk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3ls6ft5vsbc2aSome 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.22 Jun 2025 06:10 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls6ft5vsbc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lrqqfvmpkk2vI finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter a few weeks ago— it’s absolutely extraordinary. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jun 2025 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrqqfvmpkk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lrmqnfarx22kOk we do have one king in Seattle. #ichiro #nokings15 Jun 2025 05:35 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrmqnfarx22khttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lrmkdd6das2sSeattle showing up as usual! 70,000 on this gorgeous PNW day. 🌲🌊✊ (The monorail even gave us a beepbeep and everyone lost their minds 😹💙) #nokings #noICE15 Jun 2025 03:42 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrmkdd6das2shttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3liicycwfd22wAlong 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.”) [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Feb 2025 22:33 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3liicycwfd22whttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lgf6x5s7s22kOof. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jan 2025 05:53 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgf6x5s7s22khttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lgclvfushc22 What’s the best fish in the Salish Sea, and why is it the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)?22 Jan 2025 05:07 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgclvfushc22https://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lfsjszju6c25Today 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 🐋 https://www.northpacificrightwhale.org/symposium15 Jan 2025 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfsjszju6c25https://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lfisgqlgls2fSpectacular postdoc opportunity at WHOI, in science OR policy, generally #coastal or specifically #Arctic! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jan 2025 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfisgqlgls2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lf6ken5h722jIt’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!07 Jan 2025 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf6ken5h722jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lezvoywnxc2d1. 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Jan 2025 00:43 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lezvoywnxc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3leybxo2uz226Since July, we’ve been visiting this enormous GPO (Giant Pacific #Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini) caring for her eggs in her den… (1/5)05 Jan 2025 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3leybxo2uz226https://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3leavmtjc622jᐅᖓᒋᕙᒋᑦ 💙 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)27 Dec 2024 02:05 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3leavmtjc622jhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3le3exd4p5k2qMy all-time favorite, by Tim Andraka. Season’s eatings, and toothy kisses under the abyss-tletoe from me and mine to you and yours!24 Dec 2024 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3le3exd4p5k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lcysipyipk2xArctic and Antarctic folks! I’m in this one along with a bunch of way ❄️cooler❄️ (sorry) people. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Dec 2024 03:23 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcysipyipk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lcxyutmkss25Rest in power Nikki Giovanni 💙10 Dec 2024 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcxyutmkss25https://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lctwwnmqfc2tToday’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 #marinelife09 Dec 2024 04:59 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lctwwnmqfc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lcqpzqk2ck2z🚨 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!) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989424005146?via%3Dihub @whysharksmatter.bsky.social07 Dec 2024 22:17 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcqpzqk2ck2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lcjhmmp5i22hMelibe 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!) #marinelife05 Dec 2024 00:58 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcjhmmp5i22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lbktwe4asc2v“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. 1/22 Nov 2024 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbktwe4asc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lbjbrdyaak2vStarted 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)22 Nov 2024 05:48 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbjbrdyaak2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lbj2a6udac2kThanks @tessahill.bsky.social for creating this one! 🌏🌊💪💙 go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Nov 2024 03:33 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbj2a6udac2khttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3laxvhfntk22hOne can definitely sympathize with Bulkington who steps foot back in America after four years at sea, looks around, and immediately goes back to sea. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Nov 2024 07:52 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3laxvhfntk22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/drkelpy.bsky.social/post/3lasraumxq323Hi! 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.13 Nov 2024 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:efxecmh4fc7oftpig3hkiqxz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lasraumxq323