KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
@kunhm.bsky.social
Sharing the life of the planet since 1865, with research fueled by the KU Biodiversity Institute. http://biodiversity.ku.edu
Once thought extinct, the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) made an incredible comeback after being rediscovered in 1981. KU Mammalogy holds hundreds of specimens—some from the 1800s—that still drive conservation research. See their story on our 5th floor!
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Once thought extinct, the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) made an incredible comeback after being rediscovered in 1981. KU Mammalogy holds hundreds of specimens—some from the 1800s—that still drive conservation research. See their story on our 5th floor!
🐝 Love insects? Join our team! We're hiring 4 Student Research Assistants to work with the Snow Entomological Collection.
✅ Min. 10 hrs/week
✅ Detail-oriented
✅ Bio interest & Excel skills a plus!
Apply now ⬇️
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✅ Min. 10 hrs/week
✅ Detail-oriented
✅ Bio interest & Excel skills a plus!
Apply now ⬇️
rockcha.lk/yiy
October 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🐝 Love insects? Join our team! We're hiring 4 Student Research Assistants to work with the Snow Entomological Collection.
✅ Min. 10 hrs/week
✅ Detail-oriented
✅ Bio interest & Excel skills a plus!
Apply now ⬇️
rockcha.lk/yiy
✅ Min. 10 hrs/week
✅ Detail-oriented
✅ Bio interest & Excel skills a plus!
Apply now ⬇️
rockcha.lk/yiy
Only a few spots left for our members-only tour at the McGregor Herbarium! 🌿 Explore how KU Botany staff and volunteers prepare plant, lichen & fungus specimens and learn about grassland biodiversity.
Not a member yet? Click the link to join & get the event details ➡️ rockcha.lk/i11
Not a member yet? Click the link to join & get the event details ➡️ rockcha.lk/i11
October 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Only a few spots left for our members-only tour at the McGregor Herbarium! 🌿 Explore how KU Botany staff and volunteers prepare plant, lichen & fungus specimens and learn about grassland biodiversity.
Not a member yet? Click the link to join & get the event details ➡️ rockcha.lk/i11
Not a member yet? Click the link to join & get the event details ➡️ rockcha.lk/i11
Rate your hometown dinosaur! 📝 Join the Lawrence Reviewed project on #NationalFossilDay and tell us what you think about Silvisaurus condrayi, Kansas’s official state land fossil! @kulibraries.bsky.social
📍Dyche Hall, 3rd Floor
🗓️ Oct 15 | ⏰ 10AM–12PM
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📍Dyche Hall, 3rd Floor
🗓️ Oct 15 | ⏰ 10AM–12PM
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October 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Rate your hometown dinosaur! 📝 Join the Lawrence Reviewed project on #NationalFossilDay and tell us what you think about Silvisaurus condrayi, Kansas’s official state land fossil! @kulibraries.bsky.social
📍Dyche Hall, 3rd Floor
🗓️ Oct 15 | ⏰ 10AM–12PM
➡️ rockcha.lk/pjs
📍Dyche Hall, 3rd Floor
🗓️ Oct 15 | ⏰ 10AM–12PM
➡️ rockcha.lk/pjs
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Thanks to the KU Office of Research for the spotlight! Happy to be part of the @kunhm.bsky.social and continue contributing to preserving and digitizing the collections 🩵. #KUEntomology #PostdocAppreciationWeek #KUSEMC
➡️ research.ku.edu/news/article...
➡️ research.ku.edu/news/article...
September 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thanks to the KU Office of Research for the spotlight! Happy to be part of the @kunhm.bsky.social and continue contributing to preserving and digitizing the collections 🩵. #KUEntomology #PostdocAppreciationWeek #KUSEMC
➡️ research.ku.edu/news/article...
➡️ research.ku.edu/news/article...
Staff Spotlight 🌟 Learn how Samanta Orellana, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the BI/NHM is expanding global access to insect biodiversity!
Learn More ⬇️
research.ku.edu/news/article...
Learn More ⬇️
research.ku.edu/news/article...
KU postdoc preserves history of the natural world before it disappears
research.ku.edu
September 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Staff Spotlight 🌟 Learn how Samanta Orellana, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the BI/NHM is expanding global access to insect biodiversity!
Learn More ⬇️
research.ku.edu/news/article...
Learn More ⬇️
research.ku.edu/news/article...
We had the best time celebrating Kansas biodiversity this past weekend at the Kansas State Fair! 🌻🐸🐝🦅#KUForKansas
September 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We had the best time celebrating Kansas biodiversity this past weekend at the Kansas State Fair! 🌻🐸🐝🦅#KUForKansas
🎉 Join our team! 🎉
We are seeking applications for a Student Public Education Assistant. This student hourly position will help assist in education programs for school groups visiting the museum and provide support for program development.
To apply or learn more, click the link ⬇️
rockcha.lk/avx
We are seeking applications for a Student Public Education Assistant. This student hourly position will help assist in education programs for school groups visiting the museum and provide support for program development.
To apply or learn more, click the link ⬇️
rockcha.lk/avx
September 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🎉 Join our team! 🎉
We are seeking applications for a Student Public Education Assistant. This student hourly position will help assist in education programs for school groups visiting the museum and provide support for program development.
To apply or learn more, click the link ⬇️
rockcha.lk/avx
We are seeking applications for a Student Public Education Assistant. This student hourly position will help assist in education programs for school groups visiting the museum and provide support for program development.
To apply or learn more, click the link ⬇️
rockcha.lk/avx
Join us in welcoming our new cohort of grad students & BioGEM scholars to the KU Biodiversity Institute! 🎉
They’ll be diving into collection-based research across several of our divisions while exploring biodiversity science and gaining hands-on research experience. Welcome all!
They’ll be diving into collection-based research across several of our divisions while exploring biodiversity science and gaining hands-on research experience. Welcome all!
September 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Join us in welcoming our new cohort of grad students & BioGEM scholars to the KU Biodiversity Institute! 🎉
They’ll be diving into collection-based research across several of our divisions while exploring biodiversity science and gaining hands-on research experience. Welcome all!
They’ll be diving into collection-based research across several of our divisions while exploring biodiversity science and gaining hands-on research experience. Welcome all!
We’re so honored to place in 3 of 6 categories at this year’s Best of Lawrence! 🏆 Huge thanks to everyone who voted—your support means everything! ❤️
🥇 Community Landmark
🥈 Place to Take an Out-of-Towner
🥉 Best Gift Shop
🥇 Community Landmark
🥈 Place to Take an Out-of-Towner
🥉 Best Gift Shop
September 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We’re so honored to place in 3 of 6 categories at this year’s Best of Lawrence! 🏆 Huge thanks to everyone who voted—your support means everything! ❤️
🥇 Community Landmark
🥈 Place to Take an Out-of-Towner
🥉 Best Gift Shop
🥇 Community Landmark
🥈 Place to Take an Out-of-Towner
🥉 Best Gift Shop
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Our new study on cellophane bees and their cold tolerance news.ku.edu/news/article...
Research shows cellophane bee is built for the chill
Click for a new study from University of Kansas researchers in the journal Ecology and Evolution
news.ku.edu
September 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Our new study on cellophane bees and their cold tolerance news.ku.edu/news/article...
Exciting news from KU Ichthyology! 📣🐟 Research Affiliate Gloria Arratia, a global catfish expert, edited & contributed to the recently published volume "Catfishes: A Highly Diversified Group".
📸: Hypancistrus zebra by Leandro Sousa
@kunewsservice.bsky.social ➡️ 🔗 tr.ee/hdBog8tMGc
📸: Hypancistrus zebra by Leandro Sousa
@kunewsservice.bsky.social ➡️ 🔗 tr.ee/hdBog8tMGc
August 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Exciting news from KU Ichthyology! 📣🐟 Research Affiliate Gloria Arratia, a global catfish expert, edited & contributed to the recently published volume "Catfishes: A Highly Diversified Group".
📸: Hypancistrus zebra by Leandro Sousa
@kunewsservice.bsky.social ➡️ 🔗 tr.ee/hdBog8tMGc
📸: Hypancistrus zebra by Leandro Sousa
@kunewsservice.bsky.social ➡️ 🔗 tr.ee/hdBog8tMGc
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Andrés a PhD candidate in @ku-eeb.bsky.social and @kunhm.bsky.social studying the diversity and ecology of neotropical bees! Check out his recent project on outreach opportunities with bee collections in Columbia!
nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1575...
nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1575...
Outreach drawer collections and visual science communication enhance public engagement with native bee diversity in Colombia
Scientific research is often confined to academic circles, limiting public awareness of critical discoveries. This document highlights the transformative impact of science communication through an ent...
nhcm.pensoft.net
August 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Andrés a PhD candidate in @ku-eeb.bsky.social and @kunhm.bsky.social studying the diversity and ecology of neotropical bees! Check out his recent project on outreach opportunities with bee collections in Columbia!
nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1575...
nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1575...
🦴 This #FossilFriday, we're celebrating our Vertebrate Paleontolgoy team’s 3-week dig in Turkey! From late Paleocene to middle Eocene sites, they uncovered fossils from a unique island ecosystem—including a rare embrithopod jaw fragment! Way to go KU crew + collaborators!
August 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🦴 This #FossilFriday, we're celebrating our Vertebrate Paleontolgoy team’s 3-week dig in Turkey! From late Paleocene to middle Eocene sites, they uncovered fossils from a unique island ecosystem—including a rare embrithopod jaw fragment! Way to go KU crew + collaborators!
🎉 Record-Breaking Month! 🎉
A BIG thank you to the 4,245 visitors who explored the KU Natural History Museum in July — our highest monthly attendance ever! 🐝🦖🦅We’re thrilled to share Earth’s incredible biodiversity with so many curious minds!
A BIG thank you to the 4,245 visitors who explored the KU Natural History Museum in July — our highest monthly attendance ever! 🐝🦖🦅We’re thrilled to share Earth’s incredible biodiversity with so many curious minds!
August 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🎉 Record-Breaking Month! 🎉
A BIG thank you to the 4,245 visitors who explored the KU Natural History Museum in July — our highest monthly attendance ever! 🐝🦖🦅We’re thrilled to share Earth’s incredible biodiversity with so many curious minds!
A BIG thank you to the 4,245 visitors who explored the KU Natural History Museum in July — our highest monthly attendance ever! 🐝🦖🦅We’re thrilled to share Earth’s incredible biodiversity with so many curious minds!
Summer just got a whole lot cooler. 🌻❄️
Sunflower Summer has been extended through August 8 — which means there’s still plenty of time for Kansas K–12 students to visit the KU Natural History Museum and 200+ other museums and attractions — for FREE!
Sign up 👉 sunflowersummer.org
Sunflower Summer has been extended through August 8 — which means there’s still plenty of time for Kansas K–12 students to visit the KU Natural History Museum and 200+ other museums and attractions — for FREE!
Sign up 👉 sunflowersummer.org
July 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Summer just got a whole lot cooler. 🌻❄️
Sunflower Summer has been extended through August 8 — which means there’s still plenty of time for Kansas K–12 students to visit the KU Natural History Museum and 200+ other museums and attractions — for FREE!
Sign up 👉 sunflowersummer.org
Sunflower Summer has been extended through August 8 — which means there’s still plenty of time for Kansas K–12 students to visit the KU Natural History Museum and 200+ other museums and attractions — for FREE!
Sign up 👉 sunflowersummer.org
On Aug. 4–5, the KU Paleontological Institute will host top scientists from Yale, @harvard.edu, @floridamuseum.bsky.social & more during a workshop to rethink how fossil data is shared—making it more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable. 📄➡️📊
biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...
biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...
Invertebrate paleontologists to improve how data is used in their discipline
Click for more on conclave of paleontologists, data scientists and publishers at KU
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July 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
On Aug. 4–5, the KU Paleontological Institute will host top scientists from Yale, @harvard.edu, @floridamuseum.bsky.social & more during a workshop to rethink how fossil data is shared—making it more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable. 📄➡️📊
biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...
biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...
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! 🎓
Alex studied hybrid woodrats (Neotoma) in the field using Nanopore tech; Danny explored Hipposideros bat genomics in the Solomons.
PhDs up next at KU! 🎓
July 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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! 🎓
Alex studied hybrid woodrats (Neotoma) in the field using Nanopore tech; Danny explored Hipposideros bat genomics in the Solomons.
PhDs up next at KU! 🎓
The future of semiconductors is in great hands! The FuSe² Team at @universityofkansas.bsky.social, including our very own outreach pros Teresa MacDonald & Eleanor Gardner, hosted high school students for a brain-inspired computing workshop! 🧠 💻
Thanks to @NSF for supporting this project.
Thanks to @NSF for supporting this project.
July 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The future of semiconductors is in great hands! The FuSe² Team at @universityofkansas.bsky.social, including our very own outreach pros Teresa MacDonald & Eleanor Gardner, hosted high school students for a brain-inspired computing workshop! 🧠 💻
Thanks to @NSF for supporting this project.
Thanks to @NSF for supporting this project.
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Leaving the beautiful #CostaRica 🇨🇷 after a few wonderful weeks! I deeply appreciate the hospitality of local researchers at Universidad de Costa Rica (in San José and Guanacaste 🥰), and the support given by @kunhm.bsky.social to make this trip possible! More soon! #Anthribidae #FranzLab #Collections
July 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Leaving the beautiful #CostaRica 🇨🇷 after a few wonderful weeks! I deeply appreciate the hospitality of local researchers at Universidad de Costa Rica (in San José and Guanacaste 🥰), and the support given by @kunhm.bsky.social to make this trip possible! More soon! #Anthribidae #FranzLab #Collections
Student Spotlight! 🌟 KU doctoral student Kristen Miller is turning heads with her discovery of Swaindelphys solastella, a 60-million-year-old marsupial from Texas’ Big Bend.
Read more: rockcha.lk/4et
📸: KU Marketing | 🖼️: Kristen Tietjen
Read more: rockcha.lk/4et
📸: KU Marketing | 🖼️: Kristen Tietjen
July 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Student Spotlight! 🌟 KU doctoral student Kristen Miller is turning heads with her discovery of Swaindelphys solastella, a 60-million-year-old marsupial from Texas’ Big Bend.
Read more: rockcha.lk/4et
📸: KU Marketing | 🖼️: Kristen Tietjen
Read more: rockcha.lk/4et
📸: KU Marketing | 🖼️: Kristen Tietjen
Explore the wonders of our natural world this July at the KU Natural History Museum. Whether you love Kansas wildlife or are curious about how the brain works, there’s something for everyone to discover!
Discover all the exciting details here: ✨https://rockcha.lk/5hc ✨
Discover all the exciting details here: ✨https://rockcha.lk/5hc ✨
July 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Explore the wonders of our natural world this July at the KU Natural History Museum. Whether you love Kansas wildlife or are curious about how the brain works, there’s something for everyone to discover!
Discover all the exciting details here: ✨https://rockcha.lk/5hc ✨
Discover all the exciting details here: ✨https://rockcha.lk/5hc ✨
Always learning so we can better serve you! ❤️
Our Visitor Services team explored labs, collection storage, the Panorama, & hidden corners of Dyche Hall to deepen their museum knowledge and share it with you! (Guess where they are in photo 2? 👀)
Big thanks to Lori Schlenker for the tour! 👏
Our Visitor Services team explored labs, collection storage, the Panorama, & hidden corners of Dyche Hall to deepen their museum knowledge and share it with you! (Guess where they are in photo 2? 👀)
Big thanks to Lori Schlenker for the tour! 👏
July 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Always learning so we can better serve you! ❤️
Our Visitor Services team explored labs, collection storage, the Panorama, & hidden corners of Dyche Hall to deepen their museum knowledge and share it with you! (Guess where they are in photo 2? 👀)
Big thanks to Lori Schlenker for the tour! 👏
Our Visitor Services team explored labs, collection storage, the Panorama, & hidden corners of Dyche Hall to deepen their museum knowledge and share it with you! (Guess where they are in photo 2? 👀)
Big thanks to Lori Schlenker for the tour! 👏
Love our Madagascar hissing cockroaches as much as our Exhibits Manager & Lead Designer Laura Mohr does? 🪳 Stop by Bugtown before BIG renovations start July 7! A new Discovery Space is coming with some familiar insect friends. Stay tuned for more updates and information! 🤎
June 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Love our Madagascar hissing cockroaches as much as our Exhibits Manager & Lead Designer Laura Mohr does? 🪳 Stop by Bugtown before BIG renovations start July 7! A new Discovery Space is coming with some familiar insect friends. Stay tuned for more updates and information! 🤎
Join us in celebrating Brian Atkinson on his tenure promotion! His dedication to fossil plant research and mentoring the next generation of paleobotanists makes him an invaluable part of our team at @kunhm.bsky.social & @kubiology.bsky.social!
Congrats, Brian! 🎉
Congrats, Brian! 🎉
May 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Join us in celebrating Brian Atkinson on his tenure promotion! His dedication to fossil plant research and mentoring the next generation of paleobotanists makes him an invaluable part of our team at @kunhm.bsky.social & @kubiology.bsky.social!
Congrats, Brian! 🎉
Congrats, Brian! 🎉