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 second online Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar on 7 May 2024 at 12:00 (Amsterdam time); 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 (7 May) Time: May 7, 2024 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna https://vu-live.zoom.us/j/94238053625?pwd=ZGRaZWZ2Qk1lbUIwYUpLZGg0V0Z0Zz09 7 May Programme: Seize or share? Quantifying eusocial (re-)distribution of nutrients in carpenter ant colonies - Pranas Grigaitis (Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) Plasticity and evolution in the metabolic division of labour in burying beetle families - Eleanor Bladon (Department of Zoology, Cambridge, UK) Hypodermic injection of socially transferred materials - Joris Koene (Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) We will organise at least 4 more BYOF seminars in 2024. If you are interested in speaking or helping to organise please attend and get in touch. The next planned seminar will be on June 12th. Fall dates and times will be announced in the summer. The next in-person event will be our symposium at Evolution2024 in Montreal this summer. 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 (joris.koene@vu.nl) 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)