We are delighted and honoured to host the Behaviour 2023 conference in Bielefeld between the 14th and 20th of August 2023. After two years of rather restricted scientific get-togethers, we very much hope you will be coming to experience a week of frantic scientific activity.

Bielefeld hosted the International Ethologicial Congress, as it was known back then, once before in 1977 and we are thrilled to try our best to make 2023 an equally exciting and stimulating event. To make this conference as integrative as possible, we aim to offer comparatively low conference fees and ensure inclusivity and accessibility during the conference. Please make sure to regularly check for updates on plenary speakers, symposia and other information on www.behaviour2023.com or directly sign up for our newsletter there. Make sure to also follow us on twitter (@2023behaviour) or Facebook (Behaviour 2023) for the latest news and updates and to share our excitement with us on social media.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Bielefeld! The organising committee

E-mail: behaviour2023@uni-bielefeld.de

Phone: +49 521 106-2840

The *World Lagomorph Conference* takes place every four years and brings together researchers and experts on rabbits, hares, and pikas from all over the world. This quadriennal meeting, organised on behalf of the World Lagomorph Society, is a great opportunity to share and exchange information on the natural history, ecology, evolution, behaviour, physiology, genetics, morphology, diseases, management and conservation of wild lagomorphs.

The 6th World Lagomorph Conference in 2022 is mainly planned as an in-person event, respecting all local sanitary regulations to ensure maximum security of all participants. In addition, we will offer the possibility of online conference participation. The presentation of talks and of posters will require in-person participation.

Abstract submission now open, until January 31, 2022

​For a truly synthetic understanding of evolutionary and ecological processes, patterns should be studied at all spatial and temporal scales. Palaeontologists usually tackle ecological patterns and processes operating on longer time scales, whereas ecologists focus on those occurring on shorter time scales. This partitioning of temporal scale hinders communication, data integration and synthesis in ecology.

The CPEG meeting - Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap - is designed to bring palaeontologists and ecologists together to share ideas, data and methods in areas that are studied by both, but typically independently. These research areas include, but are not limited to, biogeography, community and population ecology, food web dynamics, and extinction selectivity.

This meeting is hosted by *Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science**.*

A follow up of the “Paleobiodiversity in South-East Asia” session that was organised during the 5th International Paleontological Congress in Paris in 2018. It is designed to answer the need for an international social and scientific event considering the growing interest in the international scientific community regarding the dynamic of past biodiversity in what is considered as one of the most threatened biodiversity hotspots today. The workshop will welcome presentations covering all geological and historical periods, from the deep to the recent past. It is therefore open to topics in paleobiology, paleontology, evolution, anthropology, phylogeography, extinction and diversification processes. We shall accept reviews, but the priority will be given to original studies and recent discoveries.

 The American Society of Mammalogy Meeting for this year (2020) has been cancelled due to the unprecedented situation with COVID-19.  This means we will not be able to hold or SSME inaugural meeting and plenary symposium.  We are looking into trying again next year (2021), when the ASM meeting will be held in Anchorage, AK.

The WDMH Conference 2019 will be the premier interdisciplinary forum for scientists and practitioners who use mammal hair samples for their investigations. It will provide an ideal academic platform for researchers to present the latest research findings, methodologies, developments and directions in identifying the wild and domesticated mammal hair by morphological and molecular methods.

By attending the 1st Wild and Domesticated Mammal hair conference, you will have an opportunity to meet with colleagues, to discuss and refine our knowledge in this field of science and share your new findings.

CRETACEOUS & BEYOND: Vertebrate Paleontology of the northern Western Interior - A symposium in Dickinson ND, Fall 2019.

The Badlands Dinosaur Museum in Dickinson, North Dakota, plans to host a conference on North American Cretaceous and Paleogene vertebrate paleontology, sometime around September 2019. The emphasis will be on the evolution, ontogeny, and paleoecology of vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene of North America. Presentations on relevant non-vertebrate fields such as stratigraphy, palynology, paleobotany, and invertebrate paleontology will also be welcome. (more details in survey, link below)

If you are interested, please complete the survey about ideal dates (Aug-Oct 2019) and some questions on format & planning. Based on response, we expect to announce formal dates around December/January.

Thank you.

Denver Fowler & organizing committee


Conference Survey - Badlands Dinosaur Museum presents “Cretaceous and Beyond: Vertebrate Paleontology of the Northern Western Interior”

Albuquerque Convention Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Local hosts are Sue Fairbanks and Kelly Boyer.

The official announcement, call for abstracts, details of registration, and meeting itinerary will be posted by 31st August, 2018, on the CPSM website (http://groupspaces.com/cpsm/).

The purpose of the Central Plains Society of Mammalogists is to foster, encourage, and promote the study and conservation of mammals in the Central Plains region, which includes the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander König

FCT/UNL - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

Sexual selection is potentially an important driver of macroevolutionary processes like speciation and extinction, but this has rarely been tested using the fossil record. This meeting will bring biologists and palaeontologists together to discuss sexual selection’s role in macroevolution, how to detect it in extinct animals and how to measure its influence on the history of life across geological time.