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 recipients of the award for 2020 are Beatriz Willink, M. Catherine Duryea, and Erik Svensson for “Macroevolutionary Origin and Adaptive Function of a Polymorphic Female Signal Involved in Sexual Conflict”
Congratulations to the recipient of the 2020 E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award, Tia-Lynn Ashman
Congratulations to Judie Bronstein (2022 ASN President) and Deepa Agashe (2022 ASN Vice President)
The ASN elections are open through April 30.
The 2020 Evolution Meeting is canceled due to COVID19. I've been asked for a link to help us with the losses from cancelled contracts. There's an option here that will help all three societies: https://payments.evolutionsociety.org/donate
The recipients of the inaugural IDEA Award are Scott Edwards and Rich Kliman
The recipient of the 2020 Student Paper Award is Chuliang Song, for his paper “On the consequences of the interdependence of stabilizing and equalizing mechanisms”
A fund has been created at ASN and SSE in George Gilchrist's memory to provide additional support for students.
Workshop on “Command-Line Programming and Bioinformatics for Beginners”, June 19 at Evolution 2020