*** Call for Participationand Abstracts*** We a happy to announce the workshop "Short and long timescales in speciation genomics: Machine Learning approaches" (ML Speciation Genomics) to be held on 24th-27th June 2025 at University of St Andrews/ Scotland. ***ABOUT THE WORKSHOP*** How new species emerge is one of the big questions in evolutionary biology. Speciation genomics investigates the genetic basis of this process. Until recently researchers were only able to sequence a few individuals at a single time-point. Yet, with the growing affordability of genome sequencing, it is now possible to consider multiple individuals at multiple points in time. These multiple time-points could include samples from Natural History Museums, they could be multiple generations of a population housed in controlled laboratory environments or diverse samples collected from the wild. This workshop will bring researchers together to make the best use of the new data. We will have introductory lectures, contributed talks as well as hands-on sessions on museum genomics, phylogenomics and machine learning methods. We have conference rates for students of �30 and �70 for all academics and industry participants. Reduced rate conference accommodation can be booked at Agnes Blackadder Hall. *** Faculty *** Nick Bailey, Rui Borges (University of St Andrews); Svitlana Braichenko (University of Edinburgh); Martin Kapun (Natural History Museum of Vienna); Carolin Kosiol (St Andrews); Manolo Perez (Imperial College London); Antonio Pacheco, Mike Ritchie (St Andrews); Alexander Suh (Research Museum Koenig Bonn) among others. *** Important dates *** Registration opens: 17thMarch 2025 Abstract submission: 11thApril 2025 (please send an email to: MLSpeciationGenomics@gmail.com ) Reduced rate accommodation: 24thApril 2025 Registration closes: 2ndJune 2025 Conference: 24th- 27thJune 2025 For registration and more information see https://www.eventsforce.net/standrews/264/home https://ckosiol.github.io/MLSpeciationGenomics/ Looking forward seeing you in St Andrews! Dr Carolin Kosiol Reader in Bioinformatics Centre for Biological Diversity School of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TF, UK ck202@st-andrews.ac.uk https://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/kosiol-lab/ Carolin Kosiol (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)