Dear Evoldir community, If you are interested in speciation or topics adjacent to speciation, please mark your calendars and consider coming to the next Gordon Research Conference on Speciation, March 2-7 2025 in Ventura, CA. This will be preceded by a Gordon Research Symposium (March 1-2) for graduate students and postdocs. Information can be found here: https://www.grc.org/speciation-conference/2025/#:~:text=For%20the%202025%20GRC%20on,and%20macroevolution%20their%20primary%20focus. For the upcoming meeting, we wish to encourage speciation-adjacent researchers to attend to broaden the community. To achieve this we have designed the conference to emphasize the proximate mechanistic basis of speciation. This can include the roles of developmental biology, mating systems, neurobiology of mate choice, physiology, ecology, and more in generating species barriers. A list of speakers is now available on the conference website. There will be opportunities for attendees to present posters, and a subset of poster submissions will be invited to give talks as well. The GRS attendees will be able to select several postdoc or graduate student talks to also be presented in the full conference. Also, if you are interested in this topic, you may wish to check out the new edited book on Speciation, from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: https://www.cshlpress.com/default.tpl?action=full&--eqskudatarq=1412 edited by the past chairs and co-chairs of the Speciation GRCs. We hope to see you in Ventura next year! Dan Bolnick (chair) Jonna Kulmuni &Rike Stelkens (co-chairs) Anna Feller & Hilde Schneemann (GRS chairs) "Bolnick, Daniel" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)