Our annual fundraiser is officially open from Nov. 3–Dec. 3, 2025! These funds directly support our grad students and their amazing work in the lab, the community, and beyond! To support our students, find us at Launch KU or follow the link below! launchku.org/campaigns/20...

Mountain treelines have moved upward 20.2 m on average since the 1980s; this upward shift is more pronounced in the tropics than in temperate regions: bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Bellator militaris — the horned searobin. Just like other armored searobins, they possess modified pectoral fin rays used to walk and detect food on the seafloor. This specimen is TCWC 6818.17 available on MorphoSource. www.morphosource.org/concern/biol... 🦑 🌊 🧪

New paper on AM fungi in a prairie restoration experiment planted with community members back in 2021! Beyond the cool results we found, this was such a fun day where so many of my labmates and volunteers supported my first field experiment as a grad student. Feeling so grateful! ☺️

Excited to share a new method developed from my group thats published at Genome Biology. This was an amazing effort by my grad student Linh @linhngk.bsky.social. We developed Topsicle, a method that analyzes long read data for telomere analysis and length measuring. doi.org/10.1186/s130...

🚨New Worm Alert🚨 The flappy-"headed" tapeworm genus (Flapocephalus) from cowtail rays gets a makeover in our new paper! Check out the genus revision and new species descriptions in the Journal of Parasitology or on BioOne. bioone.org/journals/jou...

Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

First, first-author paper alert! “Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below! 🦑🧪

Kansas Public Radio ‘Research Matters’: featuring Reb Bryant, ecology & evolutionary biology @KU_EEB kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/rese...

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...

Monocentris japonica — the Japanese pineapplefish (or pinecone fish)

#evolution2025 with KU evolutionary biologists past and present! @ku-eeb.bsky.social @kubiology.bsky.social @kueebgso.bsky.social

Congratulations to @ku-eeb.bsky.social graduate student Austin Nguyen for receiving the @sse-evolution.bsky.social R.C. Lewontin Award!!

1/11 New #OpenAccess #anglerfish paper in @plosone.org! We combine genomic, mitochondrial, and morphological data to produce the most complete evolutionary hypothesis for anglerfishes! Includes new body shape, habitat analyses, and a new frogfish subfamily) 🦑 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Attention!! The @ku-eeb.bsky.social GSO is hosting a fundraiser this Thursday, May 8th. Please join us for dinner and order off the special menu to support graduate students!! @kubiology.bsky.social @kunewsservice.bsky.social

Join us this afternoon to support Arezoo Fani as she presents her thesis, Adaptive Transgenerational Plasticity and Priming in Mimulus platycalyx in Response to Neighbor Density, at 2pm in the English Room in the Union or on Zoom!

Congratulations to Dr. Bowman on a successful defense of her dissertation!

Check out this new paper by Alex Maile! @anoplogaster.bsky.social

Join us this afternoon to support Ashley Bowman (Wojciechowski) at her Dissertation Defense at 2pm in Smissman 130 or on Zoom!

Last Week to get 70% off some amazing titles! Click here to start shopping today: kansaspress.ku.edu/warehouse-sa....

The second installment of a Haskell Indian Nations University fashion runway show will feature two young music artists, in celebration of Indigenous strength and resilience. lawrenceks.news/4jy7nv2

Congrats to the 3 new 2025-2029 Self Graduate Fellows in the EEB department!! - Alex Hey - Kenzie Grover - Kit Savoy

GSO Social chair Nat Coombs @natnotnathaniel.bsky.social has a new paper out! Check it out at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just wrapped up an incredible few days at #Dros25. Full of brilliant science, amazing discussions, and the buzzing energy of fly people geeking out together.

Domestic water in Haworth Hall is affected by local water line break. Please go to Summerfield or Dole to use restrooms or refill water bottles.

Grad student funding - Apply for the ASN Student Research Awards. $2k each for research that advances the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, or behavior. Applications due March 14 www.amnat.org/announcement...

Another 1st place win for the GSO trivia team last night! Join us next week at Johnny's North trivia (or make your own team and play against us if you dare!).

Good luck Javier! See below for details on how you can attend his defense on Friday!

There are only 2 days left of the GSO fundraiser and we are just $325 short of our goal! Help us reach our goal at www.launchku.org/project/44646

Check out this new paper from our very own Reb Bryant! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We are one week in to the GSO fundraiser, and have already reached 25% of our goal! This fund helps provide vital support to graduate students as they pursue their research. Find out how you can contribute at www.launchku.org/project/44646

Join us for dinner and drinks at Culinaria on April 17 to raise money for EEB graduate students!

Congratulations to @pcart.bsky.social for receiving the Robert F. Weaver Graduate Mentor Award! Thank you for your continued commitment to supporting graduate students!

Today is the final day of our fundraiser! Thank you everyone for contributing. www.launchku.org/project/39391

THANK YOU! We have successfully surpassed our fundraising goal with still 4 days left to donate. These funds will be used to support graduate student research, travel, and community outreach. www.launchku.org/project/39391

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!