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The social media home of the Society of Systematic Biologists. Keep on top of SSB announcements here!
Meet our final travel award winner!

Jessica Zhong, a first-year PhD student at Scripps will present her poster : “Competitive Interactions Drive Cave Colonization in North American Blind Cavefishes (Amblyopsidae)” in Poster Session II

www.systbio.org/early-career...
June 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Meet our 4th travel awardee!

Yamaly Barragán from the AMNH and CUNY will be giving her talk, “Tracing Evolutionary Histories in the Three-Color Sea Anemone, Phymactis papillosa” in Pop Gen Theory III.

For more about Yamaly and all our awardees, click the link!

www.systbio.org/early-career...
June 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Day two 🎉 Meet Diana Taturu from Tulane University. Come see their talk “Spatially varying hybridization between three Monkeyflower species” in Hybridization IV. For talk info and more about Diana, see www.systbio.org/early-career...
June 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
First up, Sushil Dahal, a PhD student at Mississippi State

Sushil will be speaking about his research on biogeography in American Asters in the Biogeography III session

For more info about Sushil’s work, see our travel award page:

www.systbio.org/early-career...

Stay tuned for our next ECR tmrw!
June 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Congratulations to all our speakers in the Mayr Session today!

And congrats to everyone who contributed to this year’s virtual meeting. See you in Athens next month, #evol2025!
May 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Lots of excellent content in the upcoming virtual #evol2025, particularly for our student and postdoc members!

Friday is the 2025 Mayr Competition, our signature early career award.

Wednesday’s workshops, also geared at ECRs, have space available.
May 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF!

Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!

Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.

We must make noise! Pls RT!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
May 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Reminder: You have about a week and a half to submit applications for the Early Career Travel Award!

Application submission must be complete by March 31 to be eligible
March 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Congratulations to 2024 IDEA Award recipient, Jeremy Yoder! Dr. Yoder was selected for his foundational work recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the inclusion of LGBTQ+ professionals in STEM fields. He’ll present the IDEA Award Plenary at #Evol2025.

www.systbio.org
December 30, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Welcome, Sigournie Brock!

Sigournie is the newly elected graduate student representative on SSB Council, and a PhD student at Iowa State U. She studies pathogen evolution and phylodynamic methods. As grad rep, Sigournie hopes to increase graduate student engagement in SSB!
September 15, 2024 at 7:51 PM
July 28, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Congratulations to Scott Edwards on receiving the SSB Presidents' Award for Lifetime Achievement this morning!

Scott, thank you for all you have done to make our Society and our field better.

#Evol2024
July 27, 2024 at 7:52 PM
SSB is looking for its next elected Graduate Student Representative!

Deadline is June 30th.

The only requirement is being a graduate student who is interested in evolution and evolutionary history. Please consider applying!

More details here: www.systbio.org
June 6, 2024 at 3:47 AM