Dear colleagues, Our ESEB-funded special topic network "Social Transfer Network" is organising a number of online and in-person workshops (Social Transfer Evolution Workshops, aka STEWs) on topics around socially transfers materials. The next one is our third online Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar on 12 June 2024 at 12:00 (Central European Time/ UTC+2); BYOF refers to either the social fluid you might study or your cup of coffee or tea in hand. The BYOF session will last for one hour, where we will have 3 short 7-min talks on different social transfers, socially transferred materials, and relevant techniques followed by discussion. Our intention with this is to build an interdisciplinary community on this topic, to learn from one another and to advance research across the study of social transfers. Topic: Bring Your Own Fluid Seminars (12 June) Time: June 12th, 2024 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna https://ethz.zoom.us/j/62291830038 12 June Programme: Larval storage proteins and metabolic division of labor in ants - Dr. Yuqi Wang (Postdoc in the LeBoef group, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, UK) Kingdom of reproductive life; core sperm proteome - Dr. David Skerrett-Byrne (Honorary Lecturer, The University of Newcastle, AUS & Postdoc in the Teperino group, Helmholtz Zentrum München, DE) Seminal plasma: More than just a medium for sperm - Dr. Adam Watkins (Associate Professor in Reproductive and Developmental Physiology, Academic unit of Lifespan and Population Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK) We will organise at least 3 more BYOF seminars in 2024. If you are interested in speaking or helping to organise please attend and get in touch. The fall dates and times will be announced in the summer. The next online and in-person events are part of the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology and will be, respectively, a presentation during the virtual networking symposium (June 27) and a symposium during the conference in Montréal (July 26-30). If you would like to stay in touch, please join the Social Transfer Network: https://forms.gle/cJG3gBUmAHMBviUr5 We look forward to seeing you there! The Social Transfer Network organising committee: Adria LeBoeuf, Sanja Hakala, Rebecca Kilner, Katharina Gapp, Joris Koene Dr. Joris M. Koene Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam http://www.joriskoene.com Ecology & Evolution Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE) Vrije Universiteit Visiting address: De Boelelaan 1108, 1081HZ, Amsterdam Mail address: Van der Boechorststraat 3, 1081 BT, Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS tel: +31 (0)20 5987095 joris.koene@vu.nl https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-science/departments/a-life https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/jm-koene "Koene, J.M. (JM)" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)