News — Sponsorship

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....

We are pleased to announce that Siri Scientific Press are part sponsoring the trophy awards ceremony for Shawclough Football Club, due to be held on June 4th. One of the highlights of my week is going to the mini-league football matches on a Sunday morning and seeing all the kids running around outdoors and having fun, which is exactly what kids should be doing. In addition to playing their league and cup fixtures on a Sunday, the kids train every Saturday morning. The trophies are not just 'give-aways', they represent commitment and hard work from the kids over the entire...

Congratulations to Max Stockdale of the University of Bristol for winning one of our book tokens for his 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 Max's talk are as follows: Phylogeny and macroevolution of crocodylomorphs*Max T. Stockdale1, Michael J. Benton1, Mario Bronzati2, Marco B. de Andrade3 and Gavin T. Thomas41-University of Bristol, UK, 2-Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Germany, 3-Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 4-University of Sheffield, UK ABSTRACTThe Crocodylomorpha present a unique dichotomy in their...

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...