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
❄️ Closure Notice ❄️
Due to inclement weather, the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum will be closed on Saturday, January 24, and Sunday, January 25. Please check our website or social media channels for updates regarding reopening. Stay safe and warm!
Due to inclement weather, the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum will be closed on Saturday, January 24, and Sunday, January 25. Please check our website or social media channels for updates regarding reopening. Stay safe and warm!
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
❄️ Closure Notice ❄️
Due to inclement weather, the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum will be closed on Saturday, January 24, and Sunday, January 25. Please check our website or social media channels for updates regarding reopening. Stay safe and warm!
Due to inclement weather, the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum will be closed on Saturday, January 24, and Sunday, January 25. Please check our website or social media channels for updates regarding reopening. Stay safe and warm!
Hey, KU students — we’re hiring! 😎
We’re looking for a Visitor Experience Assistant to help create positive, memorable, and engaging experiences for visitors at the KU Natural History Museum. Ready to apply or learn more? ➡️ rockcha.lk/dy3a
We’re looking for a Visitor Experience Assistant to help create positive, memorable, and engaging experiences for visitors at the KU Natural History Museum. Ready to apply or learn more? ➡️ rockcha.lk/dy3a
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Hey, KU students — we’re hiring! 😎
We’re looking for a Visitor Experience Assistant to help create positive, memorable, and engaging experiences for visitors at the KU Natural History Museum. Ready to apply or learn more? ➡️ rockcha.lk/dy3a
We’re looking for a Visitor Experience Assistant to help create positive, memorable, and engaging experiences for visitors at the KU Natural History Museum. Ready to apply or learn more? ➡️ rockcha.lk/dy3a
Welcome back, Jayhawks! Our team at the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum is wishing you a fantastic start to the spring semester! #KUNHM #rockchalk ❤️💙
January 21, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Welcome back, Jayhawks! Our team at the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum is wishing you a fantastic start to the spring semester! #KUNHM #rockchalk ❤️💙
Hey KU students — we’re hiring! 🐍
Join us as a Herpetology Curatorial Assistant and help organize, prepare, and catalog specimens in the KU Herpetology Collection. Must be able to work 4 hrs/week & be comfortable handling fluid-preserved amphibians and reptiles.
Learn more & apply ➡️ rockcha.lk/nzq
Join us as a Herpetology Curatorial Assistant and help organize, prepare, and catalog specimens in the KU Herpetology Collection. Must be able to work 4 hrs/week & be comfortable handling fluid-preserved amphibians and reptiles.
Learn more & apply ➡️ rockcha.lk/nzq
December 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hey KU students — we’re hiring! 🐍
Join us as a Herpetology Curatorial Assistant and help organize, prepare, and catalog specimens in the KU Herpetology Collection. Must be able to work 4 hrs/week & be comfortable handling fluid-preserved amphibians and reptiles.
Learn more & apply ➡️ rockcha.lk/nzq
Join us as a Herpetology Curatorial Assistant and help organize, prepare, and catalog specimens in the KU Herpetology Collection. Must be able to work 4 hrs/week & be comfortable handling fluid-preserved amphibians and reptiles.
Learn more & apply ➡️ rockcha.lk/nzq
It’s time for ✨Prepapalooza✨!
Mammalogy vs. Ornithology (plus Entomology 🪲) in a 3-day race to prep specimens. These collections are our global record of life on Earth & are essential for discovery and understanding change over time.
Vote your fave: 🐦 🐭 🪲
Mammalogy vs. Ornithology (plus Entomology 🪲) in a 3-day race to prep specimens. These collections are our global record of life on Earth & are essential for discovery and understanding change over time.
Vote your fave: 🐦 🐭 🪲
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It’s time for ✨Prepapalooza✨!
Mammalogy vs. Ornithology (plus Entomology 🪲) in a 3-day race to prep specimens. These collections are our global record of life on Earth & are essential for discovery and understanding change over time.
Vote your fave: 🐦 🐭 🪲
Mammalogy vs. Ornithology (plus Entomology 🪲) in a 3-day race to prep specimens. These collections are our global record of life on Earth & are essential for discovery and understanding change over time.
Vote your fave: 🐦 🐭 🪲
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New fossils of Acrochordus (Serpentes, Caenophidia) from the Middle Miocene of Kutch, western India: quantitative taxonomic evaluation & palaeoclimatic insights onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New fossils of Acrochordus (Serpentes, Caenophidia) from the Middle Miocene of Kutch, western India: quantitative taxonomic evaluation & palaeoclimatic insights onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
Lock in our 2025 membership rates today! 🔒
Prices increase January 1, 2026—join now to save and enjoy:
🔹 Free admission to the KU Natural History Museum
🔹 Access to exclusive members-only events
🔹 ASTC Travel Passport
🔹 10% off at the museum gift shop
🔹 …and more!
Join today! ➡️ rockcha.lk/1d1353
Prices increase January 1, 2026—join now to save and enjoy:
🔹 Free admission to the KU Natural History Museum
🔹 Access to exclusive members-only events
🔹 ASTC Travel Passport
🔹 10% off at the museum gift shop
🔹 …and more!
Join today! ➡️ rockcha.lk/1d1353
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Lock in our 2025 membership rates today! 🔒
Prices increase January 1, 2026—join now to save and enjoy:
🔹 Free admission to the KU Natural History Museum
🔹 Access to exclusive members-only events
🔹 ASTC Travel Passport
🔹 10% off at the museum gift shop
🔹 …and more!
Join today! ➡️ rockcha.lk/1d1353
Prices increase January 1, 2026—join now to save and enjoy:
🔹 Free admission to the KU Natural History Museum
🔹 Access to exclusive members-only events
🔹 ASTC Travel Passport
🔹 10% off at the museum gift shop
🔹 …and more!
Join today! ➡️ rockcha.lk/1d1353
Hey undergrads—want to go on a research adventure? Join KU Entomology’s @vhgonza.bsky.social on a NSF-funded project studying plant–pollinator interactions in Colombia! 🇨🇴🌿
🗓️ June 1–July 25, 2026
@kubiology.bsky.social
Apply now ➡️ rockcha.lk/kwv
🗓️ June 1–July 25, 2026
@kubiology.bsky.social
Apply now ➡️ rockcha.lk/kwv
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Hey undergrads—want to go on a research adventure? Join KU Entomology’s @vhgonza.bsky.social on a NSF-funded project studying plant–pollinator interactions in Colombia! 🇨🇴🌿
🗓️ June 1–July 25, 2026
@kubiology.bsky.social
Apply now ➡️ rockcha.lk/kwv
🗓️ June 1–July 25, 2026
@kubiology.bsky.social
Apply now ➡️ rockcha.lk/kwv
In the Panorama, fall foliage never goes out of season. 🍂
Missing our iconic exhibit? We are too. But its temporary closure will be worth the wait! In just a few more months, the gallery will reopen with a new climate-control system, upgraded lighting, and new glass panes.
Missing our iconic exhibit? We are too. But its temporary closure will be worth the wait! In just a few more months, the gallery will reopen with a new climate-control system, upgraded lighting, and new glass panes.
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In the Panorama, fall foliage never goes out of season. 🍂
Missing our iconic exhibit? We are too. But its temporary closure will be worth the wait! In just a few more months, the gallery will reopen with a new climate-control system, upgraded lighting, and new glass panes.
Missing our iconic exhibit? We are too. But its temporary closure will be worth the wait! In just a few more months, the gallery will reopen with a new climate-control system, upgraded lighting, and new glass panes.
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 ⬇️
rockcha.lk/yiy
✅ 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
➡️ rockcha.lk/pjs
📍Dyche Hall, 3rd Floor
🗓️ Oct 15 | ⏰ 10AM–12PM
➡️ rockcha.lk/pjs
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