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Adam Summers
@fishguy.bsky.social
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Biomechanist/biomaterials wonk, island North of Seattle. Cutting edge gear at the water's edge. UW prof. Pilot. Morphology. Fish. CT scanning.
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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · Apr 14
Reintroducing myself. I'm a biologist @uw. I work at the Friday Harbor Labs imaging and doing biomechanics of fishes and other organisms. We have a CT scanner, SEM, and 3d printers that are free for anyone to use. I love open source tools and data.

I also love to fly airplanes and build chairs.
Adam Summers in the jungle in Colombia. A walnut rocking chair in the style of Sam Maloof. A Piper Cherokee 140 in silver with green. A four seat airplane. N4404J
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dottiedino.bsky.social
SO WOOLLY
fishguy.bsky.social Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 9d
It was a great morning. A hike to Esteban's house to see the Wooly Possums he raised from 30 grams. Amazing animals.

Caluromys derbianus
#ColombiaMammals
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Female wooly possum Wooly Possum with her eyes closed Male and female wooly possum Male wooly possum
December 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
the tail curl!!
fishguy.bsky.social Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 9d
It was a great morning. A hike to Esteban's house to see the Wooly Possums he raised from 30 grams. Amazing animals.

Caluromys derbianus
#ColombiaMammals
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Female wooly possum Wooly Possum with her eyes closed Male and female wooly possum Male wooly possum
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Wooly Possums!
fishguy.bsky.social Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 9d
It was a great morning. A hike to Esteban's house to see the Wooly Possums he raised from 30 grams. Amazing animals.

Caluromys derbianus
#ColombiaMammals
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Female wooly possum Wooly Possum with her eyes closed Male and female wooly possum Male wooly possum
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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fishguy.bsky.social
It was a great morning. A hike to Esteban's house to see the Wooly Possums he raised from 30 grams. Amazing animals.

Caluromys derbianus
#ColombiaMammals
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Female wooly possum Wooly Possum with her eyes closed Male and female wooly possum Male wooly possum
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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sasspossrilla.bsky.social
Hehe they’re so silly
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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cageyratfish.bsky.social
CUTENESS BREAK
fishguy.bsky.social Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 9d
It was a great morning. A hike to Esteban's house to see the Wooly Possums he raised from 30 grams. Amazing animals.

Caluromys derbianus
#ColombiaMammals
🧪
Female wooly possum Wooly Possum with her eyes closed Male and female wooly possum Male wooly possum
December 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
fishguy.bsky.social
It was a great morning. A hike to Esteban's house to see the Wooly Possums he raised from 30 grams. Amazing animals.

Caluromys derbianus
#ColombiaMammals
🧪
Female wooly possum Wooly Possum with her eyes closed Male and female wooly possum Male wooly possum
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
fishguy.bsky.social
Headed to Colombia to meet with Jose Tavera.
December 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
fishguy.bsky.social
It was a good year for flying. A lot of hours and most spent quite close to home. Over 24k NM. More than around the world.
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Every other summer we run a post grad fish biomechanics course. Some summers we have cool dissection. A two meter six gill shark just went into the freezer! 🧪
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Hot minnow news! @akpinion.bsky.social and team have FOUR new sand shiners. Tour de force combining morphology and molecules. 56 pages of dense cyprinid science!
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vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1560...
Cleared and stained minnow skulls.
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
fishguy.bsky.social
A nice write up of the Science/Poetry meeting we have every year here at Friday Harbor Labs.
salish-current.org/2025/12/11/w...
Where words meet the natural world
An annual symposium in Friday Harbor explores what happens when poetry and science coalesce.
salish-current.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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sybilchaos.bsky.social
Hot minnow news could be my new favourite thing! Although if it's not food related I reserve the right to change my mind.
fishguy.bsky.social Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 20d
Hot minnow news! @akpinion.bsky.social and team have FOUR new sand shiners. Tour de force combining morphology and molecules. 56 pages of dense cyprinid science!
🧪

vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1560...
Cleared and stained minnow skulls.
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
fishguy.bsky.social
Hot minnow news! @akpinion.bsky.social and team have FOUR new sand shiners. Tour de force combining morphology and molecules. 56 pages of dense cyprinid science!
🧪

vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1560...
Cleared and stained minnow skulls.
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
fishguy.bsky.social
Every other summer we run a post grad fish biomechanics course. Some summers we have cool dissection. A two meter six gill shark just went into the freezer! 🧪
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Our paper just out in Advanced Functional Materials: "Photonic engineering enables all-passive upconversion imaging with low-intensity near-infrared light" advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 💡🧪
Power measurement and imaging using the fully integrated upconverter. a) Output visible power measured against input NIR power for different regions on the fully integrated upconverter, compared to a bare BHJ upconverter. b) NIR intensity to the system (beam area of 4 ± 0.5 cm2), as measured before focusing onto the upconverter (beam area of 0.36 ± 0.02 mm2), against the visible (+ baseline) intensity measured on the power meter. Close-up on the right shows lower input intensities. Details of the lens system and beam sizes are given in Section S5 (Supporting Information). c) Photos captured using the imaging system in Figure 1f using the fully integrated upconverter with a (6 mm)2 gold nanopillar array. Zoomed-in insets on the right show that the resolution of the system is approaching 100 line pairs per mm (more details in Section S10, Supporting Information). Scale bars indicate the dimensions of the image on the upconverter. d,e) Images captured with the same setup as (c), but with the Air Force target replaced with paper cut-outs of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Stanford University logos. f,g) Images captured with diffuse NIR light (≈10 mW cm−2) illuminating f) white hortensia, and g) bird's-foot trefoil flowers, using the fully integrated upconverter with the (6 mm)2 array of plasmonic resonators (as highlighted by a white square).
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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paleokrahl.bsky.social
oh myyyy 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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fishguy.bsky.social
Antonio the capybara has grown a lot since I saw him last. He was his usual gregarious self. Snuggled anyone who wanted and put up with my examination of the soles of his feet.

SciPo was a great success, and the readings tonight will be awesome.

#capybara
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
fishguy.bsky.social
Antonio the capybara has grown a lot since I saw him last. He was his usual gregarious self. Snuggled anyone who wanted and put up with my examination of the soles of his feet.

SciPo was a great success, and the readings tonight will be awesome.

#capybara
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
fishguy.bsky.social
The poets gather under a papier mache sperm whale made from the pages of Moby Dick. The eyes light and the teeth are oysters. Science talks open with Bart Boom and a BIG title.
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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grahamcaswell.bsky.social
"Beauty is truth, and truth beauty;
That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn
fishguy.bsky.social Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · Nov 8
The annual SciPo workshop begins. 80 poets and scientists meet to talk and inspire and scheme. Such great fun.
November 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
fishguy.bsky.social
@karlycohen.bsky.social explains to the poets about teeth on the ratfish tenaculum. With an aside about cat sharks. And fossil sharks.
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Hello Antonio I love you
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Oh my word! - where is this??? ❤️
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
fishguy.bsky.social
I don't think any of the poets are on Bluesky...so you all now know tomorrow's surprise guest. Antonio! Billed as the only captive capybara on San Juan Island.
A capybara's face.
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM