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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

In their Field stations in experimental biology research Perspective, Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social & Megan Dethier tell us about the history and impact of the University of Washington Friday Harbor laboratories, home to the legendary Fish Swimming course journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

The fish icon for the 'Field stations in experimental biology research' Perspective series. The image shows a cartoon of a salmon jumping out of a wave. The icon is coloured in shades of teal.

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

IOB's latest in issue! Testing the Limits: Functional Strengths and Weaknesses of Poacher (Agonidae) Armor doi.org/10.1093/iob/... @lorenzoemartinez.bsky.social @fishbiomeganist.bsky.social @karlycohen.bsky.social @fishguy.bsky.social @cmdonatelli.bsky.social #science #ecology

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Bernini's elephant has already been repaired. A piece of tusk was attached with 24 hour epoxy. I am going down tonight to see if the plastic is off it. #RomanVandalism

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

My current crusade is against Bad Dolphins. These are NOT dolphins. In other news, an idiot broke the tusk off Bernini's elephant! Seen here pre-break.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

My current crusade is against Bad Dolphins. These are NOT dolphins. In other news, an idiot broke the tusk off Bernini's elephant! Seen here pre-break.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I used PolyCam and an iPhone to capture and process images of a bad dolphin at the Pantheon fountain. Low res print on a BambuLabs H2C. Very happy with the results.

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Wozbunny @wozwoz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Looks more like a marlin.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I call these things bad dolphins. Scholars have identified them as dolphins, but clearly they have never seen a dolphin. These are chimeras with som dolphin and quite a lot of actinopterygian fish and some sanctification. Which ain't illegal, but it's not a dolphin. Palazzo Massimo. 🧪

A mosaic from the 1st century CE of an aquatic creature with the snout of a dolphin and the operculum and fins of a ray finned fish.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Palazzo Massimo has the Villa Giulia frescos, fish mosaics AND frescos, and excellent bronzes. This boxer reminds me of my friend Jon Armbruster.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I am starting to settle in to the studio space. Bambulabs H2C is up and running. Usual test print of a spiny lumpsucker, but this one has color! 🐡🧪

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Dr. Karly E. Cohen @karlycohen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Priority deadline (Feb 16) for this years Fish Class at Friday Harbor is coming up quick! Get your applications in for what will be an amazing summer filled with great science, people, and tools! Financial aid is available!! @cmdonatelli.bsky.social @fishguy.bsky.social @karlycohen.bsky.social

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Another awesome 4th century BCE fish plate. This one from the Capitoline museum. I am calling it the dangerous fish plate because I think the fishes are the electric ray Torpedo torpedo and the Greater Weever Tracinus draco. 🧪

A small round plate with two bony fish and a ray.

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No, but I'd love to add one to my round fish collection 😁

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Those lumpies sure are world travelers

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I am starting to settle in to the studio space. Bambulabs H2C is up and running. Usual test print of a spiny lumpsucker, but this one has color! 🐡🧪

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Upbeat Former Prof @upbeatprof.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

interesting similarity to Sicily's Trinacria

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Thank you! I work in a group trying to selectively breed Australasian snapper towards aquaculture in NZ and it’s always nice to include some different historical context too 😁

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Hi! Would it be possible to use the first photo in presentation slides? If so, who/how could I credit appropriately?

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Adding to the list of "artifacts I want museums to sell replicas of because I want this in my house"

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

it's in his seminal work De Posteriorem Meam

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

according to livy, the roman senate made it illegal to serve any other species of fish on this plate

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sarpa salpa maybe?

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Arjan @koparjan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I think the striped one is Lithognathus mormyrus. Diplodus sargus has a black spot near te base of the tail.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I’d say Diplodus sargus and D. vulgaris for two of them?

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I think I know who these fish are. Any sparid specialists want to guess?

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Here is a 400BCE plate from souther Italy for serving fish. Three species of sparids (sea bream) are shown. Sea bream were among the first farmed fish this plate represents a common group of species from that area. 🧪🐡

Bottom surface of the other picture showing no fishes.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

File these under things that inspire imposter syndrome! Getting an orientation to the American Academy in Rome where Katie Ohle and I will be resident prize winners until June.

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I agree with Milton, those look like dolphins. My first though was carp, since the Romans used to raise them in concrete pools.

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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I don't know really the history/sociology of this, but these are depictions of dolphins back when I suppose no one really knew what they looked like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana...

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Fontana del Pantheon - Wikipedia

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

First Roman fish. Part of the base of the fountain at the Pantheon. What species I wonder?

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We made it! Jet jag is going to exact a terrible price. But, we are here in one of the greatest cities. Rome! Show me your fishes!

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DragonTat2 @dragontat2.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Excellent representation. Bravo!

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

INCREDIBLE

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felinecannonball @felinecannon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Label unnecessary. The apical tuft is unmistakable.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My daughter's REU essays were great fun to go through. She has always been an invert person despite her dad. She went to the FHL Invert Ball as a trochophore larva. She had me write trochophore in sharpie on her forehead so she would not have to explain herself. 🐡🧪

A five year old girl dressed in balloons to imitate a trochophore larva.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Heading out of Seattle toward Rome, following the well prepared spare who will keep me company for the first month. It is always nice to see the fish in the floor of SEATAC. A good start for this fishing expedition.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Frog eye, frog eye. Can I have a confocal microscope to play on for 12 hrs a day again please? 👉👈🥺 🐸

An image of a whole frog eye that has been labelled with a photoreceptor marker (cyan) and a nuclear marker (orange). The retinal is the striped tissue and the lens is the large round tissue with the orange interior. You can also see the optic nerve at the top middle of the picture (12:00).

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I think I can announce it (it's on the website now), but I'm really excited to say that I got the journal cover for the November issue of JCS! The retina is so beautiful, and I'm so happy I get to share that. doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... 🐸 🧪 #neuroskyence #academicsky #sciart 🐡

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Summer courses at Friday Harbor Labs have launched many scientific careers. Including mine. I was more reluctant to leave at the end of the course than other students. I promise you will have fun and learn more than you can imagine. fhl.uw.edu/courses/cour... 🧪

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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD @tribblelab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Funds available for grads and postdocs to visit @burkemuseum.bsky.social collections! Applications due Dec. 15th. Please share!

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Andrew Simons @erimystax.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I would love to apply. Do you fund postprofdocs?

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Could be an option for those wanting to work on less ‘insipid’ species 🐠

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Sable Systems @sablesys.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This is about as close to Paradise as tou can get without the inconvenience of dying first. Highly recommended!

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Want to do a postdoc at Friday Harbor Labs? We have two positions open. Apply by March 1st. I am happy to discuss potential projects with fish people. apply.interfolio.com/180092 🧪

A view of Friday Harbor Labs dock in the early morning with blowing sea fog in the background.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I'll definitely pass it on to any who might be interested, & reposted your announcement to help spread the word here. Again, looks like a cool course, & especially at Friday Harbor Labs (which I must visit someday). 🐟

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thanks for that info, looks like a cool course! Sadly, I'm a mere ichnologist, not an ichthyologist. Although I have studied fish trace fossils, thus making me an occasional ichthyological ichnologist.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Yes, undergrads can apply. It is a very intensive course and convincing us you can commit to a program that gives 9 graduate credits in five weeks is key. It is a solid 40 hour week. It is aimed at postbacs, grad students, and postdocs. But some of our best students have been undergrads.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just dropped my PhD advisor and her husband in Seattle. Off to Rome shortly. Last flight in Juliet until June! Longest I have gone without flying. Friends will fly her to keep the oil stirred. Maybe even @embiotoca.bsky.social !

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