European Society for Evolutionary Biology

The European Soci­ety for Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy (ESEB) is an aca­dem­ic soci­ety that brings togeth­er more than 1500 evol­u­tion­ary bio­lo­gists from Europe and the rest of the world – research­ers, lec­turer, stu­dents, as well as journ­al­ists and oth­er per­sons inter­ested in evol­u­tion. By join­ing you become part of this aca­dem­ic community.

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Feb­ru­ary, 17^th, 2025

Let­ter to ESEB members

The European Soci­ety of Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy (ESEB) stands with fel­low sci­entif­ic soci­et­ies in being pro­foundly con­cerned about the neg­at­ive impacts upon sci­ence of recently-issued Exec­ut­ive Orders with­in the United States. Sci­entif­ic research is a crit­ic­ally import­ant endeav­our for human­ity, and mod­ern soci­ety depends upon it for its well-being as well as for the search for under­stand­ing of our world. Recent chal­lenges to the scale, scope and con­tinu­ity of research fund­ing in the US exem­pli­fy how rap­idly sci­entif­ic endeav­our can be impeded. The US has con­trib­uted immeas­ur­ably to our field, and to sci­ence in gen­er­al, and so these actions dam­age both the US and the glob­al sci­entif­ic enter­prise. ESEB is par­tic­u­larly con­cerned about the poten­tial for neg­at­ive impacts upon the careers and aspir­a­tions of early career research­ers, who rep­res­ent science’s future.

ESEB main­tains that sci­ence is fun­da­ment­ally enabled and strengthened by aca­dem­ic free­dom and the open and free exchange of views with­in a diverse sci­entif­ic com­munity. Sci­entif­ic research also flour­ishes when under­pinned by a found­a­tion of inde­pend­ent, trans­par­ent and equit­able peer scru­tiny. ESEB opposes all efforts to impede these core prin­ciples. We sup­port our fel­low sci­ent­ists and remain com­mit­ted to our core aim of sup­port­ing the study of organ­ic evol­u­tion with­in a safe, inclus­ive and respect­ful environment.

We are work­ing with oth­er sci­entif­ic soci­et­ies to uni­fy and amp­li­fy our sup­port and wel­come your sug­ges­tions for how to be most effect­ive in sup­port­ing sci­ence and our fel­low scientists.

Sin­cerely, ESEB Executive

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