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Systematics Association
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Promoting the study of systematics, general biology and evolution since 1937.
Our Founders' Lecture by Prof @emmateeling.bsky.social is underway!
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Don't forget to register for our in-person Founders' Lecture, next Friday OCT 24 6PM at Burlington House, London.

Prof @emmateeling.bsky.social, UCD, will be talking to us on all things bat 🦇

This is a free event but it will help us gauge interest if you register. tinyurl.com/28u2u2z8
October 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Our friends at the World Flora Online need your help!

They are asking all (potential) users to help them shape a useful plant identification feature to be added to WFO by answering a survey.

Please use the QR codes in the image below to access the survey.
October 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Do you like bats, phylogenetics, comparative genomics?

Then join us in-person 6 PM Friday, OCT 25 at the @linneansociety.bsky.social for our annual Founders' Lecture!

Prof @emmateeling.bsky.social will be speaking to us on all things bat! 🦇

Register here: tinyurl.com/28u2u2z8
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Don't forget to register for our (free) upcoming Founder's Lecture on Friday, Oct 24 6PM at Burlington House, London.

Prof @emmateeling.bsky.social, University College Dublin, will be talking to us about all things bats! 🦇

Registration: tinyurl.com/28u2u2z8

Details: systass.org/founders-lec...
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We are delighted to announce that this year's Founders' Lecture will be delivered by Prof. @emmateeling.bsky.social, University College Dublin!

TITLE: Bats: Genomes, phylogenies, fossils and cures?

WHEN: Friday, October 24th at 6PM

WHERE: Burlington House, London

JOIN US: tinyurl.com/28u2u2z8
September 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
And this year's Policy 'Lecture' aka discussion panel is underway! @systassn.bsky.social @linneansociety.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Final days to register join us, the @linneansociety.bsky.social and our wonderful panelists for a discussion on how increasingly politicised media is affecting biodiversity conservation!

Thursday, June 12 at 18:00 BST, Burlington House, London
Register: tinyurl.com/e8e4p5zt
June 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
And that's a wrap on the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop!

Thank you to all the attendees, instructors (@anaserrasilva.bsky.social, @sabifo4.bsky.social, Tomas Flouri and Yuttapong Thawornwattana) and to our wonderful TA @lauramulvey.bsky.social!
April 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
And Tomas Flouris is back with a guided tutorial on using BPP for species tree inference.
April 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Day 2 of our (@systassn.bsky.social and SRUK/CERU) joint Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop is underway!

We started with an introduction to the Multispecies Coalescent by Yuttapong Thawornwattana.
April 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
And spent the afternoon being guided through divergence time estimation and using MCMCTree by @sabifo4.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
After Tomas Flouris's in depth overview of Bayesian probabilities and MCMC, we got a whirlwind tour of PhyloBayes's model testing capabilities from @anaserrasilva.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The first joint @systassn.bsky.social and SRUK/CERU Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop is underway!
April 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We've still got some spots open for our in-person Bayesian phylogenetics workshop!

Deadline is tomorrow, Friday 14th at 17:00 GMT+0

Register! systass.org/workshop-bay...
March 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Are you a student interested in Bayesian phylogenetics?

Student travel bursary applications to attend our (@systassn.bsky.social, SRUK/CERU) in-person workshop are open till 5PM GMT+0 MONDAY, MARCH 3RD!!!

Everyone else has until Friday, March 14th to register.

systass.org/workshop-bay...
February 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
We are organising an in-person Bayesian Phylogenetics Workshop, in partnership with SRUK/CERU.

When: April 29-30, 2025

Where: University College London

There are limited places, so please pre-register by March 14th!!!

Find more details here: systass.org/workshop-bay...
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Have you registered for tomorrow's online President's Lecture?

From 3PM GMT+0 we will announce the YSF winners and our outgoing president, Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez, will talk on 'Systematics in Transition: Reflections and Ideas for the Future'

Register: forms.gle/RB4MKZLzJcZk...
November 26, 2024 at 3:52 PM
📢📢Don't miss our IN-PERSON Founders' Lecture, TODAY NOV 1ST 6PM at the @linneansociety.bsky.social

Prof Max Telford, UCL, will be talking on: 'Are we really more closely related to starfish than to earthworms?'

📢📢Register: tinyurl.com/2yyzxxv2

Details: tinyurl.com/2wp9xwnz
November 1, 2024 at 9:21 AM
'Are we really more closely related to starfish than to earthworms?'

Prof Max Telford, UCL, is the invited speaker for this year's Founders' Lecture

📢📢FRIDAY, NOV 1ST 6PM @ The Linnean Society

📢📢Register! tinyurl.com/2yyzxxv2

More info: tinyurl.com/2wp9xwnz
October 29, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Interested in animal phylogenetics? Join us Fri NOV 1st 6PM, at the @LinneanSociety for our Founders' Lecture!

Prof. Max Telford, UCL, will be talking on: 'Are we really more closely related to starfish than to earthworms?'

Register: tinyurl.com/46d2wxtb

Details: systass.org/founders-lec...
October 25, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Abstract deadline for the Young Systematits' Forum approaches (again!)

Send your abstracts in by 23:59 GMT+1 this Saturday (OCT 26) forms.gle/yy2us9QRXK6H...

We look forward to see all your systematics/phylogenetics/taxonomy talks on NOV 15
October 23, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Let's try this again...

Abstract submission for the YSF2024 closes SATURDAY, OCT 19 AT 11:59PM GMT+1

forms.gle/Cv1zbLVxjkaS...

YSF2024 will be held online on Friday, November 15th

We welcome presentations from all ECRs working on
systematics/taxonomy/phylogenetics.
October 16, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Daily reminder that abstract submission for YSF2024 closes SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 11:59 PM GMT+1
forms.gle/BCMWfuyXavqf...

We welcome all ECRs working on systematics/taxonomy/phylogenetics but only students will be up for prizes!
October 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM
We are delighted to announce that this year's Founders' Lecture will be delivered by Dr Rebecca Yahr.

The lecture will be held in-person at the Linnean Society on Wednesday October 25th, at 6PM.

Register here: forms.gle/MVZKXhyXz4yS...
October 12, 2023 at 4:02 PM