ESEB is pleased to announce the next call for applications for the Equal Opportunities Initiative Fund in 2021.
Deadline: 30 September 2021.
Read more about the the application procedure here.
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Stearns Prize 2020
The Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB) and ESEB are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2020 Stearns Prize for a paper published in JEB by a graduate student is Jack Common. They will formally receive the award at the ESEB 2021 congress in Prague, Czech Republic.
Winner of the JMS Prize 2021
The winner of the John Maynard Smith Prize 2021 is Dr Stefany Moreno Gamez, currently a postdoctoral fellow at MIT & Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA. Stefany will give the 2021 JMS prize lecture at the ESEB Congress 2022 in Prague and has been offered a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.
Outreach Initiative – new projects in 2021
Seven ESEB Outreach Initiative grants for a total of 20,000 € have been awarded in May this year. More details about these new projects is available at https://eseb.org/prizes-funding/outreach-fund/.
Satellite Symposia 2021
The ESEB congress 2021 has been postponed to 2022, but the congress organisers and ESEB will host eight virtual satellites meetings between June and September 2021. Registration for these virtual symposia will open on 20 April 2021.
The list of all Satellite Symposia 2021 and information about registration and abstract submission is now available at the ESEB 2022 congress website:
Webinar: Safer Science: Strategies to protect at-risk researchers when conducting fieldwork
The Equal Opportunities committee would like to draw your attention to the webinar “Safer Science: Strategies to protect at-risk researchers when conducting fieldwork”.
Date & Time: February 17, 2021, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Website for registration: https://cals.cornell.edu/saferscience
This webinar was developed and is being executed by two graduate students, Amelia-Juliette Demery and Monique Pipkin at Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University. They recently published a paper on the topic here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01328-5
Please spread the word and encourage colleagues and students to register and to pose questions ahead of time that the moderators can use audience questions to engage the panel in relevant conversation.
Outreach Initiative Funds – Call 2021
ESEB is pleased to announce the next call for applications for the Outreach Initiative Fund 2021.
Read more and download the application form here: https://eseb.org/prizes-funding/outreach-fund/
Deadline: 15 March 2021
New Editor in Chief for JEB
The European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) is seeking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief in 2021. For more details please see this advertisement: JEB Editor-in-Chief.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2020.
Proposals for Special Topic Networks
Deadline will close on 31st March 2021!
ESEB invites proposals for Special Topic Networks that will support dynamic and flexible series of small meetings or other networking opportunities in focused and currently active research areas.
Read more about the current Special Topic Networks and how to apply …
EMPSEB 26 online
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, EMPSEB 26 has been postponed and will be held online from the 1st-4th of March. Another round of abstract submissions will take place in Winter 2020 with priority given to those who registered for April 2020.
Please contact the organisers at empseb26@gmail.com if you have any other questions, or check the EMPSEB website at https://sites.google.com/view/empseb26/home.