Ben Frable
@frable.bsky.social
Marine Vertebrate Collection Manager at Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Ichthyologist | Beer and bike lover | Horror fan
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)
New video explaining the PhD work of Fernando Melendez and research by @arciladk.bsky.social and the #fishevutionlab at @scrippsocean.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qnw...
Why did some fishes evolve to be warm-blooded? - Dahiana Arcila and Fernando Melendez
YouTube video by FishEvolutionLab-Edu
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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... 🐟🦑
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.
My favorite photograph taken at SIO Marine Vertebrate Collection yesterday. Alepisaurus ferox @scrippsocean.bsky.social @frable.bsky.social
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. ⬇️
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. ⬇️
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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😈 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. ⬇️
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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@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
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!
Demi Moore won a Golden Globe for The Substance and Jodie Foster won for True Decective: Night Country. Horror stay winning. ❤️
Come join us! Would be great to get more fish people at SIO!! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175
Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist - Assistant Professor
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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.
Our big collaboration on anglerfish diversity is out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social. THREAD PART 1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...
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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/...
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/...
a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium
ALT: a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium
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Twitter is a ghost town, are fish/science ppl here? Or is science just dead on social media?
🐟 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.
