News — Sponsorship

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...

We are proud to be official sponsors of Queensway ABC (Rochdale) and are pleased to announce this has been covered in the local media. We sponsored the production of the team tracksuits and are very happy with the result! Head coach David Hodkinson worked very hard to achieve the highest standard of production and should be proud of the result. Queensway ABC is part of the Full Contact Performance Centre on Queensway, Castleton, Rochdale and provides an opportunity for the local community, including kids to get involved in an active sport. It is a great opportunity to get them away...

Every three years the International Society of Arachnology (ISA) organizes a large international conference (the next one is in USA, 2016), with regional (Europe, USA, etc.) meetings being hosted by local societies and held in each of the intervening two years. The next (30th) European meeting will be held in the UK and hosted by Dr Sara Goodacre and colleagues at the University of Nottingham in 2017, as confirmed at the recent European Society of Arachnology conference just held in the Czech Republic. There is no website as yet, but one will be made available in due course and a...

Congratulations to Eva Liznarova (Czech Republic) and Luka Katusic (Italy) who received Siri Scientific Press book tokens as prize winners for their presentations at the 29th European Congress of Arachnology, held in Brno, Czech Republic, which included 173 participants from all over the world (42 different countries). Eva's talk was titled: Is prey-capture efficiency innate or gained by experience in a specialised spider? Kuka's talk was titled: An overview on the Croatian spider fauna. Congratulations to both! Anybody interested in learning more about the cutting edge of spider research, presented at such meetings, should take a look at our edited...

The Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA) 2015, for which we are official sponsors, is currently underway at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. SSP would like to wish the organizers and all delegates a successful and enjoyable meeting. Don't forget to check out some of our recent vertebrate palaeontology titles: