Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The lab and I are halfway through our final data collection trip to the Smithsonian fish collections. So far we have measured 1236 specimens from 483 species in 75 families. Here is one of my favourite so far, a Galapagos four-eyed blenny (Dialommus fuscus) which is amphibious. 1327
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Went to Devil’s Fork State Park to see one of our local endemics today - oconee bells (Shortia galacifolia). They are found only in a few counties in southern Appalachia SC, NC and GA and flower only for a couple of weeks in March/april. 061
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I thought I may have been given gummy gymnotiform fishes or perhaps gummy early vertebrate Haikouichthys based on the package illustrations. Sadly what was inside didn’t live up to the expectations - still tasty though! 050
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Nice find on our dog walk this evening! North American luna moth. 071
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Scissor-tailed flycatcher in South Carolina! They are a breeding pair but their nestlings were predated last week. However, we found what looks to be a new nest in a less exposed position so 🤞 030
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Had great fun making these cakes for our two newly minted Doctors in the Lab. The decorations match their thesis topics - fish teeth and a whale fluke. 020
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 08/06/2025For this world ocean day I was super fortunate to sit and eat breakfast here watching two endangered Hawaiian monk seals foraging. The oceans are the lifeblood of the planet - donate and advocate where you can. 1303
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Lucky shot! Was taking photos of the noddies (seabirds) and they were photobombed by the tuna! Could not have taken this photo if I tried to do so but a very happy accident! 2515
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 17/05/2025We just completed the first of four weeks measuring and photographing 🐠 at the Bishop museum. To my surprise I have found a new appreciation for gobies - so morphologically diverse! Tiny fishes are hard to measure and photograph so the team is looking forward to pseudochromids and labrids soon! 1262
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Just snapped this photo of my dog Rosie and an anole sun basking before the frigid temps hit us in SC. 030
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Does my dog need more toys? No! Unless it is a cute clownfish with its anemone and then yes! Happy fishmas to all who celebrate! 040
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 04/12/2024My phone is a little confused unless it is using the monophyly argument to define fish! 2131
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 05/11/2024When I started the US citizenship process in April I didn’t expect to be able to vote in this presidential election but this newly minted American just voted! 1220
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 12/10/2024A wonderful chance encounter this evening in the neighbourhood - this is the first barred owl I’ve seen or heard here! 041
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 12/02/2024My favourite superb owl of the past year - a sooty owl in the Tablelands close to Cairns during ICVM. 010
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 05/12/2023Proceeding B is moving to double anonymous peer review starting next year! 0177
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 29/10/2023While at the fantastic evolutionary morphology workshop at OIST I also managed to sneak away and do some snorkelling, the reef was fantastic and I saw so many new fishes, including Titan triggerfish and a moray swimming - I think grayfaced. 100
Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 21/10/2023Hello! Still figuring out this place in the sky. Tomorrow will be giving a talk in the evolutionary morphology workshop at OIST but today ran away to Churaumi aquarium with two amazing and inspiring women in science - wow what a day! 030