News — Conference

Congratulations to Jack Oyston of the University of Bath for winning one of our book tokens for the best student talk at the Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting held in December. The book you requested will be winging its way to you shortly. The details of Jack's talk are as follows: What limits the morphological disparity of clades?*Jack W. Oyston(1), Martin Hughes(2), Peter J. Wagner(3), Sylvain Gerber(4) & Matthew A. Wills(1)1-University of Bath, UK, 2-Natural History Museum, London, UK, 3-Smithsonian Institution, USA, 4-University of Cambridge, UKABSTRACT Variation in form within clades is decoupled from estimates of diversity.  Specifically, groups tend to...

Siri Scientific Press are pleased to announce that we are formal sponsors of the next Progressive Palaeontology conference, due to be held at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History from 19-22 May 2016. This is an important event where young research palaeontologists in the early stages of post-graduate research are able to present their research to their peers. We have been formal supporters of this meeting since 2013. More details about this event can be seen in the official poster below. For additional information email: progpal2016@palass.org  Updates will be available on their Facebook page which can be found by...

The International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber (usually shortened to Fossils x3) is held every three years under the auspices of the International Palaeoentomological Society. Next year (2016) it will be held in the UK, at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Siri Scientific Press are pleased to announce that we will be publishing the Abstracts book for the scientific talks and posters that will be presented at the conference and the production of this volume is currently underway. Dr David Penney of Siri Scientific Press will be giving a Keynote Lecture entitled: Amber Palaeobiology - Trends and...

We are proud to be official sponsors of the Palaeontological Association's 59th Annual Meeting, which kicks off in Cardiff next week (14-17 December). The event is being held at Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Special contributions this year include:An opening symposium on Paleobiotic interactions and the Annual Address will be given by Prof John Hutchinson (Royal Veterinary College), entitled “Computer modelling and simulation of extinct organisms: its utility and limitations for reconstructing the evolution of locomotor behaviour”. We would like to wish all participants an enjoyable and productive meeting. For those of you unable to make...