Three workshops on SLiM. Paris, France May 18-22 Tartu Estonia, Jun 15-19 Reykjavik Iceland, Aug 17-21 --- Hi folks!  I'm excited to announce a new SLiM workshop in Paris, France, May 18-22, 2026.  It will be held at the Musee de l’Homme near the Eiffel Tower, hosted by the Anthropological Genetics team from the Eco-Anthropology lab (CNRS – Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle – Universite Paris Cite): Nina Marchi, Frederic Austerlitz & Bruno Toupance. As background: SLiM is a software package for creating evolutionary models/simulations that are individual-based and genetically explicit. It is scriptable, flexible, fast, free, open-source, and includes an interactive graphical modeling environment.  You can read more about it on its home page (https://messerlab.org/slim/). This workshop is open for registration NOW.  It will be free, and open to participants outside of the hosting institution.  HOWEVER, registration is required, and a limited number of seats are available.  I do expect this workshop to fill, so I would recommend that you register as soon as possible. To apply, please submit a registration application at https://forms.gle/o8MzzJLck6q6v3Zu7.  There are two other workshops in 2026 also being announced, and there is one joint application form for all three workshops; you will be able to indicate your first/second/third choice if you wish.  Please read the application form carefully.  Note that there will be no automatic confirmation email after you submit the form; you will hear from me personally (bhaller@mac.com) by email once I have handled your application.  I suggest that you whitelist my email address when you apply, so that you are sure to receive my emails; if I cannot communicate with you, your registration will be dropped (and yes, this has happened).  Please do not make travel arrangements until you have been formally accepted to the workshop.  Please do not apply to a workshop unless you are sufficiently serious that you will actually attend, if accepted. There are no strict prerequisites for the workshop, but it is recommended that all attendees have at least a little experience programming; if you have no programming experience, it is recommended that you complete an introductory R course beforehand.  (SLiM does not use R, but it is similar.)  Further information for attendees can be found at http://benhaller.com/workshops/workshops_attendees.html.  Note that you will be responsible for arranging your own food, lodging, and transportation, unless the registration form indicates otherwise for the workshop(s) you decide to apply to. The plan is to cover all the major topics in the SLiM manual, starting with lots of introductory material to get beginners up to speed with SLiM and its associated scripting language Eidos, and ending up at advanced topics like non-Wright-Fisher models, tree-sequence recording, continuous-space models, nucleotide-based models, and multispecies models.  We won't cover everything in the manual – that would be overwhelming! – but we'll try to cover all the big topics.  There will also be time for attendees to work on their own models with help from me (most of the day Friday, typically), and we may also have time to explore some optional side topics that are of particular interest to those attending each workshop. If you want to know about other SLiM workshops, please watch the slim-discuss or slim-announce mailing lists; workshop announcements are always posted there first.  Please spread the word so more folks hear about this; feel free to share the link to this post on social media and such.  Also, I'm hoping to continue doing workshops in future; if you would like to invite me to give a workshop at your institution, please send me an email (off-list). Cheers, Benjamin C. Haller Messer Lab Cornell University --- Hi folks!  I'm excited to announce a new SLiM workshop in Tartu, Estonia, June 15-19, 2026.  It will be held at the University of Tartu (exact location TBD), hosted by Mait Metspalu and Jose Rodrigo Flores Espinosa (University of Tartu). As background: SLiM is a software package for creating evolutionary models/simulations that are individual-based and genetically explicit. It is scriptable, flexible, fast, free, open-source, and includes an interactive graphical modeling environment.  You can read more about it on its home page (https://messerlab.org/slim/). This workshop is open for registration NOW.  It will be free, and open to participants outside of the hosting institution.  HOWEVER, registration is required, and a limited number of seats are available.  I do expect this workshop to fill, so I would recommend that you register as soon as possible. To apply, please submit a registration application at https://forms.gle/o8MzzJLck6q6v3Zu7.  There are two other workshops in 2026 also being announced, and there is one joint application form for all three workshops; you will be able to indicate your first/second/third choice if you wish.  Please read the application form carefully.  Note that there will be no automatic confirmation email after you submit the form; you will hear from me personally (bhaller@mac.com) by email once I have handled your application.  I suggest that you whitelist my email address when you apply, so that you are sure to receive my emails; if I cannot communicate with you, your registration will be dropped (and yes, this has happened).  Please do not make travel arrangements until you have been formally accepted to the workshop.  Please do not apply to a workshop unless you are sufficiently serious that you will actually attend, if accepted. There are no strict prerequisites for the workshop, but it is recommended that all attendees have at least a little experience programming; if you have no programming experience, it is recommended that you complete an introductory R course beforehand.  (SLiM does not use R, but it is similar.)  Further information for attendees can be found at http://benhaller.com/workshops/workshops_attendees.html.  Note that you will be responsible for arranging your own food, lodging, and transportation, unless the registration form indicates otherwise for the workshop(s) you decide to apply to. The plan is to cover all the major topics in the SLiM manual, starting with lots of introductory material to get beginners up to speed with SLiM and its associated scripting language Eidos, and ending up at advanced topics like non-Wright-Fisher models, tree-sequence recording, continuous-space models, nucleotide-based models, and multispecies models.  We won't cover everything in the manual – that would be overwhelming! – but we'll try to cover all the big topics.  There will also be time for attendees to work on their own models with help from me (most of the day Friday, typically), and we may also have time to explore some optional side topics that are of particular interest to those attending each workshop. If you want to know about other SLiM workshops, please watch the slim-discuss or slim-announce mailing lists; workshop announcements are always posted there first.  Please spread the word so more folks hear about this; feel free to share the link to this post on social media and such.  Also, I'm hoping to continue doing workshops in future; if you would like to invite me to give a workshop at your institution, please send me an email (off-list). Cheers, Benjamin C. Haller Messer Lab Cornell University --- Hi folks!  I'm excited to announce a new SLiM workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland, August 17-21, 2026.  It will be held at the University of Iceland (exact location TBD), hosted by Aki Jarl Laruson (Marine & Freshwater Research Institute of Iceland) and Snaebjorn Palsson (University of Iceland). As background: SLiM is a software package for creating evolutionary models/simulations that are individual-based and genetically explicit. It is scriptable, flexible, fast, free, open-source, and includes an interactive graphical modeling environment.  You can read more about it on its home page (https://messerlab.org/slim/). This workshop is open for registration NOW.  It will be free, and open to participants outside of the hosting institution.  HOWEVER, registration is required, and a limited number of seats are available.  I do expect this workshop to fill, so I would recommend that you register as soon as possible. NOTE: there will be a total solar eclipse that will be visible from western Iceland, including Reykjavík, on August 12, 2026.  You might want to arrive to Reykjavík early so you can see the eclipse!  You can read all about it here: https://eclipsophile.com/tse2026/.  Due to this eclipse, it might be difficult to book lodging, although probably that will ease up by the week of the workshop itself.  Please make sure that there are acceptable lodging options for your dates before applying for a spot in this workshop.  For the workshop itself, some university housing options might be available for external attendees, but that will not extend back to the week of the eclipse. To apply, please submit a registration application at https://forms.gle/o8MzzJLck6q6v3Zu7.  There are two other workshops in 2026 also being announced, and there is one joint application form for all three workshops; you will be able to indicate your first/second/third choice if you wish.  Please read the application form carefully.  Note that there will be no automatic confirmation email after you submit the form; you will hear from me personally (bhaller@mac.com) by email once I have handled your application.  I suggest that you whitelist my email address when you apply, so that you are sure to receive my emails; if I cannot communicate with you, your registration will be dropped (and yes, this has happened).  Please do not make travel arrangements until you have been formally accepted to the workshop.  Please do not apply to a workshop unless you are sufficiently serious that you will actually attend, if accepted. There are no strict prerequisites for the workshop, but it is recommended that all attendees have at least a little experience programming; if you have no programming experience, it is recommended that you complete an introductory R course beforehand.  (SLiM does not use R, but it is similar.)  Further information for attendees can be found at http://benhaller.com/workshops/workshops_attendees.html.  Note that you will be responsible for arranging your own food, lodging, and transportation, unless the registration form indicates otherwise for the workshop(s) you decide to apply to. The plan is to cover all the major topics in the SLiM manual, starting with lots of introductory material to get beginners up to speed with SLiM and its associated scripting language Eidos, and ending up at advanced topics like non-Wright-Fisher models, tree-sequence recording, continuous-space models, nucleotide-based models, and multispecies models.  We won't cover everything in the manual – that would be overwhelming! – but we'll try to cover all the big topics.  There will also be time for attendees to work on their own models with help from me (most of the day Friday, typically), and we may also have time to explore some optional side topics that are of particular interest to those attending each workshop. If you want to know about other SLiM workshops, please watch the slim-discuss or slim-announce mailing lists; workshop announcements are always posted there first.  Please spread the word so more folks hear about this; feel free to share the link to this post on social media and such.  Also, I'm hoping to continue doing workshops in future; if you would like to invite me to give a workshop at your institution, please send me an email (off-list). Cheers, Benjamin C. Haller Messer Lab Cornell University --- Ben Haller (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)