Lisa Whitenack, PhD
@whitenacklab.bsky.social
Biology professor & Director of Faculty Development at Allegheny College. Biomechanics, evolution, and paleobiology of sharks, snails, crabs, and more. She/her
Mark your calendars!
Something to look forward to: on March 2, 2026, the Fish Doorbell comes back online @visdeurbel.bsky.social visdeurbel.nl/en/
Fish Doorbell – See You Next Season! — The Fish Doorbell
Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.
visdeurbel.nl
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Mark your calendars!
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🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
Oooh, such cool teeth! Hurrah for heterodonty!
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Oooh, such cool teeth! Hurrah for heterodonty!
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Data sciences postdoc fellowship in EEB @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 23 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - DSI
DSI Postdoctoral Fellowships support multi/interdisciplinary training and collaborative research in data sciences.
datasciences.utoronto.ca
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Data sciences postdoc fellowship in EEB @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 23 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
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Disabled students belong in biological sciences spaces! Here is a thread of some tips and suggestions to make your spaces more inclusive.
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Disabled students belong in biological sciences spaces! Here is a thread of some tips and suggestions to make your spaces more inclusive.
My #comparativeanatomy students did a great job on their UnEssays this semester! We had a music video, children’s book, board games, and several art pieces! A small sampling in this thread - really they were all tremendous!
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My #comparativeanatomy students did a great job on their UnEssays this semester! We had a music video, children’s book, board games, and several art pieces! A small sampling in this thread - really they were all tremendous!
Reposted by Lisa Whitenack, PhD
I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026.
Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?
Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.
#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?
Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.
#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
Corush Lab
jcorush.github.io
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026.
Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?
Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.
#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?
Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.
#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
Live-streaming various marine mammal sounds - this could be perfect for background as I grade!
After being down for a few months, we are happy to report that the @orcasound.bsky.social North San Juan Channel was redeployed today and we are back to live-streaming! This is a great time of year to listen for Southern Residents, Bigg's, and humpbacks.
live.orcasound.net/listen/north...
#orcas
live.orcasound.net/listen/north...
#orcas
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Live-streaming various marine mammal sounds - this could be perfect for background as I grade!
Cooool!
Pathology of stranded blue sharks (Prionace glauca) impaled by swordfish (Xiphias gladius) 🦑🌿🐟🦈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Cooool!
Saw this beautiful nudibranch at Bird Rock, San Diego. No idea what species and iNaturalist tried to tell me it was an anemone. 🙄
Anyone on #Invertsky have an id for this beauty? 🧪
Anyone on #Invertsky have an id for this beauty? 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Saw this beautiful nudibranch at Bird Rock, San Diego. No idea what species and iNaturalist tried to tell me it was an anemone. 🙄
Anyone on #Invertsky have an id for this beauty? 🧪
Anyone on #Invertsky have an id for this beauty? 🧪
Doomscroll safety stop 🛑
Seeing this longhorn cowfish at the Birch Aquarium this week brought a smile to my face.
Like other boxfishes, they are fins-only swimmers because their scales fuse together, preventing the body from bending.
And they look like Zoolander
doing blue steel.
Ok carry on
Seeing this longhorn cowfish at the Birch Aquarium this week brought a smile to my face.
Like other boxfishes, they are fins-only swimmers because their scales fuse together, preventing the body from bending.
And they look like Zoolander
doing blue steel.
Ok carry on
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Doomscroll safety stop 🛑
Seeing this longhorn cowfish at the Birch Aquarium this week brought a smile to my face.
Like other boxfishes, they are fins-only swimmers because their scales fuse together, preventing the body from bending.
And they look like Zoolander
doing blue steel.
Ok carry on
Seeing this longhorn cowfish at the Birch Aquarium this week brought a smile to my face.
Like other boxfishes, they are fins-only swimmers because their scales fuse together, preventing the body from bending.
And they look like Zoolander
doing blue steel.
Ok carry on
One of my all time favorite authors! If you haven’t discovered her work yet, please drop everything and pick up either “The Fifth Season” or “The City We Became” from your local bookstore.
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
One of my all time favorite authors! If you haven’t discovered her work yet, please drop everything and pick up either “The Fifth Season” or “The City We Became” from your local bookstore.
Reposted by Lisa Whitenack, PhD
I also found it useful for regular human anatomy class!
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I also found it useful for regular human anatomy class!
Hey, if you’re thinking about comparative anatomy textbooks for the Spring semester, you should check out ours! Free, open access, and peer-reviewed!
Y’all!!! Our comparative anatomy textbook is out!!! Free, open access, and just in time for the fall semester!
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hey, if you’re thinking about comparative anatomy textbooks for the Spring semester, you should check out ours! Free, open access, and peer-reviewed!
Today while shopping, my 12yo casually dropped a 1.5 ft tall light-up plastic dinosaur wearing a Santa hat into our cart, assuming that I would buy it no questions asked. 🦖
They were not wrong.
It will go well with the 4 ft octopus holding ornaments that was already in the cart. 🐙
They were not wrong.
It will go well with the 4 ft octopus holding ornaments that was already in the cart. 🐙
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Today while shopping, my 12yo casually dropped a 1.5 ft tall light-up plastic dinosaur wearing a Santa hat into our cart, assuming that I would buy it no questions asked. 🦖
They were not wrong.
It will go well with the 4 ft octopus holding ornaments that was already in the cart. 🐙
They were not wrong.
It will go well with the 4 ft octopus holding ornaments that was already in the cart. 🐙
Busted out my reliable brain slug for Halloween 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Busted out my reliable brain slug for Halloween 🎃
This is yesterday’s postcard-perfect view from my office in our Center for Research and Teaching Excellence at Allegheny. I love the show that Mother Nature puts on in the autumn!
October 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This is yesterday’s postcard-perfect view from my office in our Center for Research and Teaching Excellence at Allegheny. I love the show that Mother Nature puts on in the autumn!
😮
Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
😮
Happy Mole Day!
You know that May 4 is Star Wars Day.
You've seen that March 14 is Pi Day.
Bringing it all together is Oct 23:
TODAY IS MOLE DAY! 10²³
Celebrated, more accurately, between 6:02a & 6:02p, the holiday is based on Avogadro’s Number (6.02 × 10²³).
You've seen that March 14 is Pi Day.
Bringing it all together is Oct 23:
TODAY IS MOLE DAY! 10²³
Celebrated, more accurately, between 6:02a & 6:02p, the holiday is based on Avogadro’s Number (6.02 × 10²³).
a picture of a mole with its arms outstretched and the words mole day below it
Alt: a picture of a mole with its arms outstretched and the words mole day below it
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October 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Happy Mole Day!
I know I’m not the only comparative anatomy prof that has been shipped Mustelus instead of Squalus for lab. Is anyone working on a lab manual or online resource that has head muscles & digestive system images?
I can’t - I don’t have the capacity right now.
I can’t - I don’t have the capacity right now.
October 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I know I’m not the only comparative anatomy prof that has been shipped Mustelus instead of Squalus for lab. Is anyone working on a lab manual or online resource that has head muscles & digestive system images?
I can’t - I don’t have the capacity right now.
I can’t - I don’t have the capacity right now.
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
October 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Being part of the team that has brought our Center for Research and Teaching Excellence to fruition has been an absolute delight! We’ve created a vibrant and welcoming space for our faculty.
Also, I got to use the giant scissors!
Also, I got to use the giant scissors!
Center for Research and Teaching Excellence Cuts Ribbon in Joyous Celebration
The official ribbon cutting for Allegheny’s new Center for Research and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) was celebrated with faculty, trustees, students and staff on Thursday, Oct. 16. CREATE lab is a new...
allegheny.edu
October 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Being part of the team that has brought our Center for Research and Teaching Excellence to fruition has been an absolute delight! We’ve created a vibrant and welcoming space for our faculty.
Also, I got to use the giant scissors!
Also, I got to use the giant scissors!
Things I said at work today:
"Where did I put that bag of cats, I just had them earlier this week..."
"Sorry about the smell, I've got a lamprey"
"Can you please bring these chemicals up to the lab? I want to clear and stain Nemo."
"I've got chickens, cow, pig, horse, a goat, and 3 dinosaurs"
"Where did I put that bag of cats, I just had them earlier this week..."
"Sorry about the smell, I've got a lamprey"
"Can you please bring these chemicals up to the lab? I want to clear and stain Nemo."
"I've got chickens, cow, pig, horse, a goat, and 3 dinosaurs"
October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Things I said at work today:
"Where did I put that bag of cats, I just had them earlier this week..."
"Sorry about the smell, I've got a lamprey"
"Can you please bring these chemicals up to the lab? I want to clear and stain Nemo."
"I've got chickens, cow, pig, horse, a goat, and 3 dinosaurs"
"Where did I put that bag of cats, I just had them earlier this week..."
"Sorry about the smell, I've got a lamprey"
"Can you please bring these chemicals up to the lab? I want to clear and stain Nemo."
"I've got chickens, cow, pig, horse, a goat, and 3 dinosaurs"
Oh.
Chocolate plant-based protein shake with a banana and spoon of peanut butter has been my go-to work day breakfast for several years, since dairy has become a no-no for me. Protein helps keep my blood sugar stable, but I still need a carb kickstart with it (banana).
😞
Chocolate plant-based protein shake with a banana and spoon of peanut butter has been my go-to work day breakfast for several years, since dairy has become a no-no for me. Protein helps keep my blood sugar stable, but I still need a carb kickstart with it (banana).
😞
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Oh.
Chocolate plant-based protein shake with a banana and spoon of peanut butter has been my go-to work day breakfast for several years, since dairy has become a no-no for me. Protein helps keep my blood sugar stable, but I still need a carb kickstart with it (banana).
😞
Chocolate plant-based protein shake with a banana and spoon of peanut butter has been my go-to work day breakfast for several years, since dairy has become a no-no for me. Protein helps keep my blood sugar stable, but I still need a carb kickstart with it (banana).
😞
Reposted by Lisa Whitenack, PhD
Vought posted on X that RIFs have begun. We have not heard of them impacting CDC, or if this is another bluff to induce more trauma and terror before a long weekend. Nevertheless, some tips to prepare if you get a RIF notice below 👇
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...
Trump administration begins layoffs of federal workers amid government shutdown
The Trump administration and Republicans have sought to blame Democrats for the government shutdown, and any negative fallout from it.
www.cnbc.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Vought posted on X that RIFs have begun. We have not heard of them impacting CDC, or if this is another bluff to induce more trauma and terror before a long weekend. Nevertheless, some tips to prepare if you get a RIF notice below 👇
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...