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Adam Summers
@fishguy.bsky.social
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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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.
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SO WOOLLY
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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December 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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the tail curl!!
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
🧪
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Wooly Possums!
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
🧪
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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
🧪
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Hehe they’re so silly
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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CUTENESS BREAK
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
🧪
December 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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
🧪
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Headed to Colombia to meet with Jose Tavera.
December 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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...
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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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Hot minnow news could be my new favourite thing! Although if it's not food related I reserve the right to change my mind.
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...
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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...
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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/... 💡🧪
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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oh myyyy 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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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
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
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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"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
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
@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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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
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.
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM