SORTEE Conference 2026: Save the Date! Dear Colleague,The sixth annual SORTEE conference (The Society/for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) will be held virtually in October 2026. The conference will run continuously from October 13th to October 14th. Dear Colleague, The sixth annual SORTEE conference (The Society/for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) will be held virtually in October 2026. The conference will run continuously from October 13th to October 14th, to cover all time zones. The conference is a forum to discuss and develop ideas, while also exploring current practices for advancing research in fields related to ecology and evolutionary biology. The conference will be a mix of 5 session types: Unconferences: Facilitated discussions of ideas for how to make ecology, evolutionary biology, and related disciplines more open, reliable, and transparent. Hackathons: Group projects with well-defined goals (papers, techniques, software, protocols, organizations, etc.). Workshops: Facilitators will teach tools to implement open, reliable, and transparent practices. Plenaries: Two plenaries about recent initiatives in open science.Introductions to open science: Two sessions dedicated to people new to open science. To have an idea of what a SORTEE conference looks like, check the 2025 SORTEE conference program here and the summary of previous conferences at https://www.sortee.org/past. Content submissions will soon open on this page To have a great conference, we need motivating events and keen facilitators! We invite anyone interested in facilitating an unconference, a hackathon or a workshop to submit their content. You don't have to be a SORTEE member. The conference will be FREE for SORTEE members, and range from 0$ to 60$ for non-SORTEE members. Become a member! We are trying our best to make this conference as inclusive as possible. We encourage individuals with questions regarding accessibility when facilitating a session or attending the conference to reach out to us at conference@sortee.org. We hope to see you in October. Sincerely, The SORTEE Conference Committee 2355 State St Ste 101 Salem, OR 97301-4541, USA Disclaimer: We use flodesk to manage our emails. This email service collects analytical data on how people handle the emails we send. If you are uncomfortable sharing that information with us, please feel free to unsubscribe from this list. We value transparency on everything we do, and unfortunately there is no way to opt-out of this system. Unsubscribe or Manage Preferences SORTEE Conference Committee (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)