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Ben Frable @frable.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Back in Pct 2023, @scrippsocean.bsky.social Professor Anela Choy invited me on a research cruise hundreds of miles off California to study open ocean Goodwin’s. I helped ID deep-sea fishes collected via a MOCNESS net system (opening–closing trawl with known capture depths)

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William B. Ludt, PhD @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Over the past 5 years some rare Pacific Footballfish have washed ashore in California. How rare? 41 individuals ever recorded, rare. So @realfishdoc.bsky.social, @frable.bsky.social, Michelle Horeczko, and I wrote a short note summarizing this species. Check it out here: doi.org/10.51492/cfw... 🐟🦑

Four large female Pacific Footballfish (a rare species of anglerfish) that have washed ashore in California recently and been preserved in museum collections for documentation and future research.

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Todd Clardy @realfishdoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Manuscript accepted! Good way to start the week. Can’t wait to share the paper led by @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social with @frable.bsky.social, me, and Michelle Horeczko when it comes out.

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My favorite photograph taken at SIO Marine Vertebrate Collection yesterday. Alepisaurus ferox @scrippsocean.bsky.social @frable.bsky.social

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Our friend Francesca recently spotted this cool creature washed up on La Jolla Shores, so naturally we had to phone our other friend Ben Frable (@frable.bsky.social), manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection here at Scripps Oceanography. 🐠 Here's what he had to say. ⬇️

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection is home to nearly 2 million fish specimens! Collection manager @frable.bsky.social gave CBS8 a special inside look at the collection, spotlighting fish that were collected as early as 1886! Dive deeper into the Collection. ⬇️

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A tour of Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Marine Vertebrate collection

The collection contains specimens of more than two million species of fish.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

😈 A rare sight with an ominous name— a black seadevil anglerfish was recently spotted off the coast of Tenerife. Ben Frable (@frable.bsky.social), manager of the Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection, shared more about this cool creature for @nytimes.com. ⬇️

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A Deep-Sea Fish of Nightmares Strays Into Shallow Waters

A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

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Ben Frable @frable.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@neilshubin.bsky.social lectured at @scrippsocean.bsky.social a few weeks ago, I was out of town but got the grad students to get my stuffed Tiktaalik signed! #walkingfish #paleontology

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Ben Frable @frable.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The new entrance to the Marine Vertebrate Collection! An amazing mural by Dwight Hwang of California ichthyofauna. Offshore to nearshore, shallow to deep; from the oarfish and footballfish to sardines and finescale triggerfish. Brought to life by the amazing @birchaquarium.bsky.social Exhibits team!

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Meagan Navarro @hauntedmeg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Demi Moore won a Golden Globe for The Substance and Jodie Foster won for True Decective: Night Country. Horror stay winning. ❤️

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We're finishing off our counterillumination topic with the fifth fish of #25DaysOfFishmas, the goldspotted grenadier anchovy, Coilia dussumieri. Like yesterday's fish, C. dussumieri uses symbiotic bacteria, housing them in shiny organs that run along the length of its body.

A photo of a museum specimen of Coilia dussumieri. The fish has a long body that tapers to a point, with a whip-like tail. The pectoral fin is placed far forwards, while the anal fin runs along the base of its tail. The pectoral fins are long with thread-like rays that branch out, and the head is pointed. Credit: C Ferrara, MNHN

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Ben Frable @frable.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Jan Van Kessel’s great 1600s depiction of a frogfish!

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Why do seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets and flying gurnards evolve differently across oceans? 🌏🐟 A new study led by Scripps researchers reveals that colonization dynamics drive the decoupling of species richness and morphological diversity. Dive in: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Ben Frable @frable.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Living in San Diego has perks

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Mark Westneat 🐟 @mwestneat.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Check out our new paper, led by @asantaquiteria.bsky.social ! Awesome fish diversity and #evolution, phylogenomics and evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across oceans. 🐟🧪🦑🌎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium

ALT: a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium

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Ben Frable @frable.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Twitter is a ghost town, are fish/science ppl here? Or is science just dead on social media?

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🐟 Just when you thought the oarfish hype had died down … Look what decided to make another appearance! 🌊 Last week, another oarfish washed up on Grandview Beach in Encinitas and was spotted by Scripps Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere.

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