News — Prize winners

We are very proud to announce that our recent title True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): classification and natural history (Second Edition) by Randall T. Schuh & Christiane Weirauch has won the highly prestigious Westwood Medal for 2021, issued by the Royal Entomological Society and which aims to recognise excellence in taxonomy. The criteria for selection are stated as follows: "The best comprehensive taxonomic work on a group of insects, or, related arthropods (including terrestrial and freshwater hexapods, myriapods, arachnids and their relatives). Typically, this will be a taxonomic revision or monograph. Open to authors from any country who...

Well, we must be doing something right here at Siri Scientific Press, as it is a great pleasure to announce that founder, Dr David Penney, was awarded the Marsh Award for Palaeontology 2019 at a formal ceremony held at the Natural History Museum, London on 13 December. David Penney receiving the award from John Bennett The Marsh Awards recognise unsung heroes who have made a major contribution to the promotion of palaeontology, mineralogy or earth sciences. At the event, a short biography of David was read out as follows: "David was born in Manchester in 1968, and like most children,...

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Joe Moysiuk from the University of Toronto, Canada, who won a Siri Scientific Press book token as first prize in the Best Poster Competition at the recent Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting held in France. The title and abstract of Joe's contribution was: Hyoliths are Palaeozoic lophophorates*Joseph Moysiuk(1), Martin R. Smith(2) and Jean-Bernard Caron(1,3)1) University of Toronto, Canada2) Durham University, UK3) Royal Ontario Museum, CanadaHyoliths – orthothecids and hyolithids – are abundant and globally distributed Palaeozoic ‘shelly’ fossils.  The phylogenetic position of this group has remained unresolved, largely because of the idiosyncratic...

We are very pleased to announce the best presentation winners at the recent International Conference of Arachnology 2016, held in Colorado, USA, each of whom received a copy of our volume: Spider Research in the 21st Century - trends and perspectives.The were as follows:MORPHOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY & SILK SUB GROUP (21 COMPETITORS)Oral presentation: 1st prize: LENKA SENTENSKA Title: Are males really so insensitive? Palp morphology of a spider Philodromus cespitum reveals innervationSYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION, AND BIOGEOGRAPHY SUB GROUP (36 COMPETITORS)Poster presentation:1st prize: SASHA BISHOP Title: Biogeography of two Caribbean ochyroceratid genera: Theotima and Ochyrocera2nd prize: LAURA MARCELA SEGURA-HERNANDEZ Title: Expanding far from...

We would like to congratulate Lukáš Laibl of the Czech Republic for winning one of our book tokens as first prize for best poster at the recent Progressive Palaeontology 2016 Conference held in Oxford. Morphological variability of Sao hirsuta (Trilobita, Cambrian) and the case for neutral evolutionLukas Laibl1*, Jorge Esteve2 and Oldrich Fatka3 1National Museum Prague, Department of Palaeontology, Václavské námrstí 68, 115 79 Prague 1, Czech Republic; 2Complutense University of Madrid, Avda. de Séneca 2, Ciudad Universitaria, 280 40 Madrid, Spain; 3Charles University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Albertov 6, 128 43, Prague 2, Czech Republic....