European Society for Evolutionary Biology

The European Soci­ety for Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy (ESEB) is an aca­dem­ic soci­ety that brings togeth­er more than 1500 evol­u­tion­ary bio­lo­gists from Europe and the rest of the world – research­ers, lec­turer, stu­dents, as well as journ­al­ists and oth­er per­sons inter­ested in evol­u­tion. By join­ing you become part of this aca­dem­ic community.

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EvolDir – the Evol­u­tion Directory

21 April 2026

As you may already be aware, man­age­ment of EvolDir has now been taken over by the European Soci­ety of Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy (ESEB). We at ESEB are delighted to be entrus­ted with tak­ing the reins and will try to ensure a seam­less transition.

EvolDir will be trans­ferred to a new plat­form in the EU that will provide long-term sta­bil­ity whilst retain­ing all exist­ing func­tions. This will enable ESEB to provide the respec­ted know­ledge-shar­ing ser­vices to the evol­u­tion com­munity that we have enjoyed thus far and look to devel­op these in the future. With the trans­fer to a European host, EvolDir will be sub­ject to slightly dif­fer­ent data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions. This means that ESEB must have your writ­ten con­sent to con­tin­ue to provide you with noti­fic­a­tions from EvolDir. In the next weeks we will there­fore con­tact all cur­rent sub­scribers and ask for your con­sent again. At this point you will also be able to update your pref­er­ences on the con­tent you would like to receive or unsubscribe.

Users should also note that to post an announce­ment on EvolDir, the email address going for­ward will be evoldir@evoldir.net.

Bri­an Gold­ing star­ted EvolDir as a ser­vice to the com­munity in the mid-1980s. Lit­er­ally thou­sands of evol­u­tion­ary bio­lo­gists have bene­fit­ted from this ser­vice over the dec­ades. As evol­u­tion­ary bio­lo­gists we know that genu­ine altru­ism is rare, but the daily effort Bri­an inves­ted in check­ing, edit­ing, and man­aging the ser­vice was con­sid­er­able. On behalf of the com­munity, we would like to express our grat­it­ude and wish him a quiet retire­ment, free from e‑mail hassle. ESEB will endeav­our to keep EvolDir run­ning in a smooth man­ner and col­legi­ate spirit.

Prof. Mike Ritch­ie
ESEB Pres­id­ent

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