In order to promote equal opportunities, EvoKE BCN 21 will provide a FREE daycare service during the 3 days of the meeting (22nd, 23rd, and 24th of November), from 9:00 h to 18:30 to a limited number of participants. Daycare is provided by professionals from https://chiquilavila.org/en/school/. Conditions: FREE daycare services will be offered for 1 … Continue reading EvoKE BCN 21 FREE daycare service
Thanks to the involvement of many of you, our community keeps growing (we are currently at 515 members in 57 different countries) as does the spread of our activities. With the help of the inaugural EvoKE Electoral Committee we crossed an important milestone in 2019: We conducted our first EvoKE Board elections and inaugurated the … Continue reading EvoKE Board Election 2021 – Call for Nominations
Our invited speaker Dr. Cecile J. W. Janssens, share with us some thoughts and expectations about #EvoKEBCN21 Dear Dr. Cecile J. W. Janssens, Question. How the theory of evolution has impacted your everyday life as a citizen? Answer. Knowing that humans steer evolution, there isn’t a day that I am not thinking about my ecological … Continue reading “When you understand reasoning, you’ll see where you’re claims don’t hold or where your conclusions lack strong support”
By Dr. Elizabeth HénaffAssistant Professor | NYU Tandon School of Engineering Contributing to the topic: Interdisciplinarity, tradeoffs between specialization and explore new fields through collaboration with experts in other fields In the era of computational genomics, a great deal of progress has been made in determining the relationships between genetic information and the development of multicellular … Continue reading EvoKEbcn21 WORKSHOP: GENE ZINE, Collaborative Interfaces for the Multispecies City
We are pleased to announce that SESBE will support registration for the EvoKE BCN 21 congress with 7 full scholarships. To request them, you must be a member of the SESBE (be up to date with the payment of fees) and prove your current student status (graduate / doctoral student). Scholarships must be requested to … Continue reading The Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology (SESBE) will support registration for the EvoKE BCN 21 congress with 7 full scholarships.
New spaces and schedules are available and the deadline for proposals has been extended. Apply hereNew speakers have been confirmed: Harmit Malik, president of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution; Elizabeth Hénaff, professor at New York University; the director of Ara newspaper, Esther Vera, and Robert Harris Frank, professor of Economics.This meeting will be … Continue reading Registration is open for EVOKE BCN 2021
Dear EvoKE member, 2019 was a big year for EvoKE and for the inaugural EvoKE Electoral Committee! Thanks to your support and involvement, we were able to cross two important milestones: We conducted our first-ever EvoKE Board election and elected our inaugural EvoKE board. We adopted the EvoKE statutes and became a legally recognised entity. … Continue reading Electoral Committee – new call!
In these difficult times of lockdown and limited access to our everyday resources, it is important to have access to open, easy to use teaching materials for use in remote and online teaching. EvoKE community assembled a list of such resources, contributed by our members. Here: bit.ly/EvoKErepository you will find a database will all contributed resources. … Continue reading EvoKE online teaching resources
EvoKE is a community of scientists, educators, science communicators, policy makers and journalists, all united around the idea of making biological evolution and the science behind it more accessible and understandable to the society. EvoKE aims to build a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic network of people interested in promoting a greater scientific literacy in evolution. … Continue reading Call for EvoKE 2021 organisers!
The EvoKE Electoral Committee has launched the election voting system on September 17th. All members of the community should have now received e-mails from the Electionbuddy voting platform with their vote ticket. Make sure to check your spam folder if you can't see any such e-mail in your inbox. For more information about the candidates … Continue reading EvoKE Board elections are open!
Fostering the public’s understanding and acceptance of evolution
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