Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the first workshop for the "Internal
Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation" Special Topic Network (STN), funded by
the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, will take place on 14-15
October 2024. This workshop will be held at the Linnaeusborg on the Zernike
campus of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Registration for
the workshop is free, and can be arranged through our website (
InternalConflictsSTN.wordpress.com
<https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/>).

In-person participants will be asked to give a (short) talk about an
internal conflict of their choosing*. This can be something that you work
on, but also something that you would like to know more about. We would
like these talks to be more like the "introduction" section of a manuscript
than the "results" section that we typically see in talks, but this is not
a strict requirement; instead, see this as an opportunity to switch up your
usual presentation routine. As a whole, we would like to use these
presentations to survey the field of internal conflicts. We expect talks to
take approximately 10 minutes, but will provide exact details once we know
how many people will be attending in person.

* Opting out is possible, but discouraged! We intend for this to be a
low-stakes, easy-going thing, like a potluck of talks.

We will also host a number of group discussions - both general and in
"breakout room" format - to work out specific goals for the STN. One aim
for these discussion sessions is to decide on the possibility of writing a
large review paper, generating a special issue, or some similar alternative
on the study of internal conflicts and how these affect organismal
adaptation. Other potential topics include the atlas of internal conflicts,
and we hope to identify some topics organically based on talks and chats at
the workshop itself.

We understand that traveling across the globe to attend these meetings can
be an impediment for many people for many reasons, and additionally that
travel-related emissions represent a major component of the associated
ecological footprint. Therefore, we will set up a live stream of the talks
so that people can join the workshop virtually. Additionally, we aim to
host an online group discussion to allow people to contribute there as
well. We do not intend to host talks by virtual attendees at the workshop.
If you would like to present your work virtually, please get in touch with
us to see if there is a possibility to do so in one of our seminars instead.

We look forward to seeing you in October. If you have any questions or
suggestions, feel free to contact us through email (
internalconflictsSTN@gmail.com).

Sincerely,

The STN organising committee

Martijn Schenkel, Arvid Ågren, Manus Patten and Nina Wedell

ESEB-funded Special Topic Network "Internal Conflicts and Organismal
Adaptation"
https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/
https://eseb.org/prizes-funding/special-topic-networks/

Internal Conflicts STN <internalconflictsstn@gmail.com>

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