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Danny Ibanez IV
@dannyibaneziv.bsky.social
Grad student at University of Kansas, graphic designer
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Double the celebration! 🎉🐭🦇 Congrats to KU Mammalogy graduate students Alex Hey & Danny Ibanez on successfully defending their master’s theses!

Alex studied hybrid woodrats (Neotoma) in the field using Nanopore tech; Danny explored Hipposideros bat genomics in the Solomons.

PhDs up next at KU! 🎓
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Our #3Dprinted 1/4 scale #humpback whale skeleton is finally complete and hung up in our teaching classroom! My #mammalogy students printed the individual bones, and the #MarineMammalogy class painted and articulated the #skeleton with Dr. Jim Dines! It's about 11 feet long and looks amazing!
August 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)
September 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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1/N Check out our recent publication on South American mammal voucher and tissue collections!!! This paper was led by Marcelo Weksler, Guellermo D'Elia, and Pablo Teta, but it included contributions from over 100 scientists.

#mammalogy #collectionsareessential #onehealth
A comprehensive survey of mammal collections and genetic resources in South America: challenges and directions
Abstract. Natural history collections serve as crucial infrastructure for both basic and applied scientific research, providing temporal and spatial specim
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September 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Check out the museums and Emerging Pathogens' new website! Join us to learn about how working with museums might benefit your research! #research #science #evolution
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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This weekend the KUBI Division of Mammals is kicking off a new research project surveying microbial communities of small mammals at the KU Field Station. Pictured here is the Mammal Collection Manager, Dianna, skillfully placing a Sherman live trap #rockchalk
January 28, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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Hi Everyone! We are KU's EEB Graduate Student Organization, and we're hoping to connect with other Jayhawks, EEBers, and academics. Follow along to learn about opportunities in EEB and to keep up with what are awesome grad students are accomplishing!
November 3, 2023 at 7:00 PM