Earlier this morning, Office of Family Engagement director Nikita Haynie spoke with Rae Daniel about @universityofkansas.bsky.social Family Weekend, which kicks off today on the Lawrence campus. Read more and watch at @kshb41.bsky.social. www.kshb.com/news/local-n...

By writing an artificial intelligence guide for teachers, a pair of @universityofkansas.bsky.social English scholars is shepherding educators to interrogate — and perhaps integrate — AI into their curriculum. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Kansas law professor calls for cultural shifts to address environmental crises | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg

Thanks to National Science Foundation funding, @universityofkansas.bsky.social investigators will develop “intelligent spectrum management frameworks” to enable reliable communication so that ever-expanding fleets of drones can operate safely and dependably. news.ku.edu/news/article...

A partnership with the Healthy Bourbon County Action Team means @kubusiness.bsky.social students will gain a stronger connection to and understanding of Kansas’ economic landscape while contributing to its continued growth. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Former @universityofkansas.bsky.social student Elyce Arons, co-founder of the Kate Spade and Frances Valentine brands, will make her first return to the Lawrence campus in more than four decades — a visit that will be punctuated by a fireside chat Sept. 26. news.ku.edu/news/article...

New @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholarship brings a theory from the 1960s about how we engage with one another at work into the 21st century. Socio-Technical Exchange takes into account how we interact with ubiquitous technology. news.ku.edu/news/article...

On the latest “When Experts Attack!” episode, @universityofkansas.bsky.social trade law expert Raj Bhala addresses “the greatest disruption in trade since the end of World War II,” including what tariffs mean for Canada. Listen and subscribe. whenexpertsattack.libsyn.com/trumps-trade...

A early 1900s Kansas industrial relations court outlawed strikes and lockouts, applied heavy criminal sanctions and dictated terms of work life like wages and hours. A @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholar calls it “America’s closest practical encounter with fascism.” news.ku.edu/news/article...

Country music has functioned as a political bellwether in the U.S. for more than 100 years, @universityofkansas.bsky.social English scholar Iain Ellis writes in @popmatters.com. www.popmatters.com/country-musi...

New @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholarship shows cellophane bees are specially equipped by evolution to handle harsh shocks and cold temperatures of early spring, recovering from “chill coma” about twice as quickly as honeybees and handling much lower temperatures. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Merry Sun, a KU lecturer in visual art, is drawn toward industrial materials in her work. “I like the idea of a working object where labor and service are built into its intrinsic nature.” Read about her show at the @universityofkansas.bsky.social Spencer Museum of Art. 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

The @universityofkansas.bsky.social is the only institution in the state to be designated a Center of Academic Excellence in both cyber defense and in research. Read about KU's latest designation from the National Security Agency. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Catfishes have long captured the popular imagination, says a @universityofkansas.bsky.social professor who published an updated volume on the species. “Hearing about a fish that has ‘barbels,’ like whiskers, or that lives at night — it gives catfish an air of mystery.” news.ku.edu/news/article...

The public is invited to rededicate David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium in honor of 130 @universityofkansas.bsky.social Jayhawks who gave their lives during World War I. The ceremony is at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 29 on the Garlinghouse Plaza on the northeast side of the stadium. news.ku.edu/news/article...

A @universityofkansas.bsky.social philosophy scholar explored the question of whether artificial intelligence can truly exhibit morality. “I think that logic is so far stretched because there are certain things tied to us as human beings that AI systems don’t have.” news.ku.edu/news/article...

Ibrahim Traoré has become an almost “messianic figure” on the internet, @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholar @jyeku.bsky.social tells @washingtonpost.com bureau chief Rachel Chason. “For many young Africans, the democratic experiment is practically dead.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

When @universityofkansas.bsky.social art historian Emily Casey came to Kansas, she wondered what it might mean to teach about the art of the sea in a landlocked state. As evidenced in a new exhibition she co-curated, “there are so many connections to the ocean here.” news.ku.edu/news/article...

Music therapists must know something about and be able to play many different types of music. Yet far more important is their musical flexibility, responsiveness and intent to help clients, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social researchers. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Policy addressing people’s ability to afford heating and cooling should be a more central part of energy law, @universityofkansas.bsky.social professor argues. “To treat low-income energy insecurity as primarily a poverty problem has allowed inequities to continue.” news.ku.edu/news/article...

Key to friendship is asking questions, being responsive and showing enthusiasm for what someone is saying, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social expert Jeff Hall. “In that sense, AI is better (than people) on all of those things,” he tells @cnbc.com. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/h... .

Maya Stiller, @universityofkansas.bsky.social art historian, explores how Korean Buddhist temple spaces were not just religious, but also cultural centers. “When I was doing fieldwork, I was just stunned by the energy of these places.” news.ku.edu/news/article...

Nuclear physicists working at the @cern.bsky.social Large Hadron Collider achieved the centuries-old dream of alchemists. For a fraction of a second, they transformed lead into gold — thanks to techniques honed by @universityofkansas.bsky.social scientists. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Communities with higher levels of social infrastructure have better health outcomes, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social research. “Where you live, where you work, where you go to school all shape your health, and we’re finding cultural capital can as well.” news.ku.edu/news/article...

“A lot of underwater landscapes have archaeological relevance, and this mapping gives scientists a better shot at finding them,” @universityofkansas.bsky.social researcher Jerome Dobson tells Discover Magazine. Dobson and colleagues mapped potential routes and settlements in Africa.

In a scholarly journal article, a @universityofkansas.bsky.social education expert argues meritocracy fosters competition and ignores unique human differences, leading to unequal educational results and furthering stratification in society. news.ku.edu/news/article...

A @universityofkansas.bsky.social architect explores how attaching tangled faux-root structures to otherwise artificially smooth-sided waterways will attract wildlife, improving species diversity and water quality and thus benefiting the humans living on shore. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Those who rely on financial statements are better served when that data is produced by IT-savvy colleagues, new @kubusiness.bsky.social research shows. Harnessing employees’ tech prowess decreases technical errors in reports and increases data processing speed. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Researchers with @universityofkansas.bsky.social @kulifespan.bsky.social examined how systems for processing touch, vision and hearing start to develop as a way to understand where development may diverge in someone who goes on to have autism versus someone who doesn’t. news.ku.edu/news/article...

A @universityofkansas.bsky.social study finds that cities with proactive, learning-oriented and risk-tolerant governance styles are significantly more likely to implement ambitious climate resilience strategies. news.ku.edu/news/article...

According to a @universityofkansas.bsky.social study, women of color may not be so financially hindered by sex and race as might be assumed. “They tend to increase their labor supply in areas where men of color face severe disadvantages,” says professor ChangHwan Kim. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Today’s male backlash to contemporary feminism in South Korea has roots that go back to socioeconomic changes that began much earlier, @universityofkansas.bsky.social sociologist ChangHwan Kim tells @latimes.com reporter Max Kim. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

A panel of movie critics including @universityofkansas.bsky.social film & media studies lecturer Jon Niccum is on @kcur.org this morning to discuss their picks of the best movies of this century. Prof. Niccum’s pick is “Whiplash.” www.kcur.org/podcast/up-t...

This morning, @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholar Jomella Watson-Thompson is on @kcur.org discussing ThrYve, a program she developed to address the problem of youth violence. She is joined by recent KU grad Barry Anderson, a member of the first ThrYve cohort. www.kcur.org/podcast/up-t...

Research funded in part by the National Institutes for Health led @universityofkansas.bsky.social scientists and colleagues to a discovery that points toward potential antiviral therapies to combat future coronavirus pandemics.

Ruhi Gilder interviewed @universityofkansas.bsky.social writer Silvia Park about her book “Luminous” for The Nod magazine. “What I was particularly interested in is the most difficult aspect of replicating artificial intelligence, which is emotion,” Park says. thenodmag.com/content/silv...

A big Rock Chalk to the nearly 8,700 @universityofkansas.bsky.social undergraduate students who earned honor roll distinction for the spring 2025 semester. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Bells are significant in Buddhism but are not part of the art-historical canon — an omission that led @universityofkansas.bsky.social history of art professor Sherry Fowler to follow Japanese bells under the sea and around the world in a new book. news.ku.edu/news/article...

They say everything’s bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a species of ancient near-marsupials that @universityofkansas.bsky.social paleontologists described for the first time in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Tariffs are generally considered regressive taxes because lower-income households are the ones who are least able to afford the goods we’re importing, @universityofkansas.bsky.social expert @tradewarlab.bsky.social tells @marketplace.org. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

One in every 23 Kansas jobs is supported by the @universityofkansas.bsky.social, a new study has found. The study also shows that for every $1 invested in KU, taxpayers gain $2.90 in added tax revenue and public sector savings. news.ku.edu/news/article...

‪‪“Our research would suggest that if the ‘good night’ call comes as a positive surprise, it will be appreciated by the recipients, and more so than the callers would predict,” @kubusiness.bsky.social prof Lauren Min tells @monicatorrr.bsky.social of @huffpost.com. www.huffpost.com/entry/good-n...

70% percent of @universityofkansas.bsky.social students in entrepreneurship initiatives come from outside of the School of Business. A $10M gift via KU Endowment will provide a physical location for entrepreneurial students to concentrate, collaborate and create. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Major renovations at the @universityofkansas.bsky.social Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center will support competency-based curriculum and expand programs to train public safety officers who serve communities across the state. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Since 2019, the Center for Digital Inclusion at the @universityofkansas.bsky.social and partners have provided training to nearly 1,500 women transitioning from incarceration in online job applications, professional development and other topics.

The closed forest canopies that followed the dinosaurs’ demise would have placed evolutionary pressure on plant seeds to get larger — changes reflected in fossil data, @ku-eeb.bsky.social researcher Brian Atkinson tells @gayoung.bsky.social. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Korean thrillers about super-zombies taking revenge on bullies are about “the prospect of a government in South Korea actually taking on emergency powers and imposing martial law,” a @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholar writes in a @mcfarland.bsky.social book. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Two @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholars are exploring ways STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) education can be accessed by more students. “This takes STEAM a step further, adding reading and the social sciences to the mix.” news.ku.edu/news/article...

The current state of air travel could signal the “beginning of a reactionary cycle that has defined the development of the nation’s system of air travel for the past century,” @universityofkansas.bsky.social aviation historian Sean Seyer tells the @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/u...