American Society of Naturalists

AmNat is looking for a Data Editor to evaluate data and code repositories appearing in the journal! The ideal candidate for this position will be a mid- to late-career academic with a working knowledge of R coding and who conducts research in the areas relevant to this journal. Interested candidates should send a CV and cover letter to Editor-in-Chief Volker Rudolf

Joint Statement on Scientific Publishing (28^th August 2023) as co-signed by six scientific societies

Honorees for the ASN Outstanding Student Poster Award, June 2023: María Paula Toro-Gómez with Allen Xue and Asia Timaria Hightower

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2023 ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences, Judith Bronstein!

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 ASN Early Career Investigator Award, Julia Kreiner, Heng Huang, Thomas Scott, and Dakota McCoy!

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Naturalist Award, Dan Bolnick!

The Presidential Award is chosen by the President of the American Society of Naturalists from all of the papers published in The American Naturalist during the preceding calendar year. The winner of the award for 2023 is “Multituberculate Mammals Show Evidence of a Life History Strategy Similar to That of Placentals, Not Marsupials” by Lucas Weaver, Henry Fulghum, David Grossnickle, William Brightly, Zoe Kulik, Gregory Wilson Mantilla, and Megan Whitney. Congratulations!

The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. 

Congratulations to Dan Bolnick (2025 ASN President) and Amy Angert (2025 ASN Vice President)

The recipient of the 2023 Student Paper Award is Meredith A. Zettlemoyer for her paper “Monitoring demography of resurrected populations of locally extinct and extant species to investigate drivers of species loss”