Incoming CHAOS

Incoming Chaos is our mission tracker—your one-stop lineup of everything ahead: academic talks, fieldwork, outreach, and the full-spectrum chaos, from conferences to concerts.

January 2026

Blasting into the new year ready to tackle more fieldwork, more labwork, more omics datasets, and more metal concerts! We're also dropping our first round of papers from our cave research. And, we're still answering the important questions on our social media accounts: Is this rock interesting? and Can I lick it?

1.01. New Year's Day

Everywhere.

Welcome to 2026! Let's make this year metal AF and full of impactful, feral science!

1.05. Back in office

Lexington, KY

We're back from holiday vacation and ready to start diving back into our data, continue our experiments, collect more samples, and keep conducting feral science.

1.14. Field Work

Horse cave, KY

Going back into the underworld for follow-up cave sampling because the last round of data was weird enough to demand answers.

1.14. Louisville Grotto Meeting

Louisville, KY

Monthly meeting of the Louisville Grotto - our partners in chaos for cave studies! For more information, visit their website.

February 2026

February looks quiet on the calendar, but the lab is feral. Field season pauses, analysis season hits hard. February is all cave data, experiment planning, and getting our results ready to survive peer review.

2.11. Louisville Grotto Meeting

Louisville, KY

Monthly meeting of the Louisville Grotto - our partners in chaos for cave studies! For more information, visit their website.

TBD. Research Talk

Lexington, KY

Giving a research talk to ag and biotech students interested in getting their hands dirty. Looking to recruit a few more feral scientists into the chaos.

2.14. Valentine's Day

Everywhere, USA

Valentine’s Day isn’t for everyone, so we celebrate accordingly. Think unhinged romance: Valentine-themed haunts or whatever new Scream movie is currently making theaters unsafe.

March 2026

March is talks, metabolite extraction, molecular networking, and aggressive data analysis. Add in more papers, more figures, and the ongoing ritual of feeding science to peer review.

3.11. Louisville Grotto Meeting

Louisville, KY

Monthly meeting of the Louisville Grotto - our partners in chaos for cave studies! For more information, visit their website.

3.24. University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy Seminar

Lexington, KY

Taking CHAOS Lab metabolomics and molecular networking into the College of Pharmacy. Interdisciplinary science with no respect for traditional boundaries.