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Danny Ibanez IV @dannyibaneziv.bsky.social · 15d

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KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum @kunhm.bsky.social · Jul 17

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! 🎓

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Ted Stankowich @tedstankowich.bsky.social · Aug 26

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!

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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 22d

**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!)

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Cody Thompson @codythompson51.bsky.social · 29d

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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Danny Ibanez IV @dannyibaneziv.bsky.social · 23d

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

Cody Thompson @codythompson51.bsky.social · 29d

3/3 If you are interested in MEPA, check us out here:

mepa-network.weebly.com

My Site

MEPA aims to unite museum biorepositories across the Americas, with stakeholders in wildlife and human health, field biology, and public health, in an effort to build cross-disciplinary...

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Cody Thompson @codythompson51.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Cody Thompson @codythompson51.bsky.social · Jun 2

Check out our new paper in #BioScience!!! If COVID taught us anything, we very much need to be doubling down on our scientific structure and not regressing, and we need to improve collaborative networks that transcend geopolitical boundaries.

#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential

Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness

Five years after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we have the opportunity to gather lessons learned about needed infrastructure for predicting, und

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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Jan 28

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

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KU EEB GSO @kueebgso.bsky.social · Nov 3

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!

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