American Society of Naturalists

The ASN will be meeting somewhere new: the Mansion at Glen Cove on Long Island, New York, January 8–12, 2027!

Send in nominations by April 1. Please include a short paragraph on why. 

The ASN is seeking applicants for Editor-in-Chief, to begin in January 2027

Honorees for the ASN Outstanding Student Poster Award at Evolution, June 2025: Sarah K. Swiston with Louisa Bartkovich and Robert Ernst

The ASN is delighted to announce its newest Honorary Lifetime Members: Joel Kingsolver and Douglas Futuyma

The Presidential Award is chosen by the President of the American Society of Naturalists from all of the papers published in The American Naturalist during the preceding calendar year. The winner of the award for 2025 is “Multitrophic Higher-Order Interactions Modulate Species Persistence” by Lisa Buche, Ignasi Bartomeus, and Oscar Godoy. Congratulations!

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 ASN Early Career Investigator Award, Elizabeth Carlen, Anna Dewar, Ashwini Ramesh, and Jessie Williamson!

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Naturalist Award, Andrew Suarez!

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2025 ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences, Stu West!

The recipient of the 2025 Student Paper Award is Soleille M. Miller for her paper “Genetic and Phenotypic Consequences of Local Transitions between Sexual and Parthenogenetic Reproduction in the Wild”