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
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January 18, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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not at all a religious man but absolutely not counting out Da Pope’s influence on that throw
January 19, 2026 at 2:42 AM
not at all a religious man but absolutely not counting out Da Pope’s influence on that throw
OMG, this game! Go Bears!!🐻 💙🧡
January 19, 2026 at 2:40 AM
OMG, this game! Go Bears!!🐻 💙🧡
My brain is doing fantastic things with this. Punctuation matters, y’all! 🦀🔪
January 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM
My brain is doing fantastic things with this. Punctuation matters, y’all! 🦀🔪
My marine biology students are giving me life right now. Many of them were so eager to share what their favorite marine animal was for their taxonomy practice, especially with their classmates. Lots of passing laptops around to show each other stargazers, oarfish, lion mane jellies, giant isopods…
a close up of a jellyfish in a tank with blue lights
Alt: a close up of a giant isopod in a tank with blue lights
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:20 AM
My marine biology students are giving me life right now. Many of them were so eager to share what their favorite marine animal was for their taxonomy practice, especially with their classmates. Lots of passing laptops around to show each other stargazers, oarfish, lion mane jellies, giant isopods…
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In case no one has told you lately:
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
January 18, 2024 at 4:21 AM
In case no one has told you lately:
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
These are super cute and brought a smile to my face, despite the horrors of the U.S. right now
Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
January 15, 2026 at 1:34 AM
These are super cute and brought a smile to my face, despite the horrors of the U.S. right now
For the mollusc folks!
Mollusc-related Academic Grant alert
Deadline: February 28, 2026
For:malacological topic, usually within biology or paleontology, with any molluscan taxon or taxa as the focus. All scientific disciplines in studying mollusks eligible
Please see : www.conchologistsofamerica.org/grants/
🦑 #snails
Deadline: February 28, 2026
For:malacological topic, usually within biology or paleontology, with any molluscan taxon or taxa as the focus. All scientific disciplines in studying mollusks eligible
Please see : www.conchologistsofamerica.org/grants/
🦑 #snails
Grants - coa
COA Grants to Malacology Since the inception of the program in June 1985, COA has awarded over $200,000 US in grants toward research in malacology. Individual grants range between $1,000 and $2,500. I...
www.conchologistsofamerica.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM
For the mollusc folks!
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Summer fish class at Friday Harbor Labs 🐟
5 weeks, field + lab, real projects.
Open to grads, postdocs, and undergrads. Financial aid available.
Apply: February 16, 2026
Reach out to @cmdonatelli.bsky.social @fishguy.bsky.social or @karlycohen.bsky.social with questions!
Details in the flyer ⬇️
5 weeks, field + lab, real projects.
Open to grads, postdocs, and undergrads. Financial aid available.
Apply: February 16, 2026
Reach out to @cmdonatelli.bsky.social @fishguy.bsky.social or @karlycohen.bsky.social with questions!
Details in the flyer ⬇️
January 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Summer fish class at Friday Harbor Labs 🐟
5 weeks, field + lab, real projects.
Open to grads, postdocs, and undergrads. Financial aid available.
Apply: February 16, 2026
Reach out to @cmdonatelli.bsky.social @fishguy.bsky.social or @karlycohen.bsky.social with questions!
Details in the flyer ⬇️
5 weeks, field + lab, real projects.
Open to grads, postdocs, and undergrads. Financial aid available.
Apply: February 16, 2026
Reach out to @cmdonatelli.bsky.social @fishguy.bsky.social or @karlycohen.bsky.social with questions!
Details in the flyer ⬇️
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!
Apply - Interfolio
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apply.interfolio.com
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!
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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.
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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. 🐙