American Society of Naturalists

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”

The ASN election is now open (March 1 to 31)!

The ASN, SSE, and SSB are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the annual Inclusiveness, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Award.

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Nominations are due February 10.

Send in nominations by April 1. Please include a short paragraph on why.