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Our webinars are free and open to everyone – no registration required. Missed previous sessions? You can watch all EvoKE Webinars on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@Evokeproject

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EvoKE webinars are free, open to all, and held monthly. In 2026, sessions will alternate to increase accessibility across our international community. Odd Months First Monday of the Monthat 4pm CET…

We will also discover how emerging DNA technologies and initiatives such as the BioCatalog project are contributing to biodiversity research and conservation in Cabo Verde. 🔗 Learn more: evokeproject.org/webinars/

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Through different case studies, this webinar will explore how genetic data can help us uncover hidden biodiversity, understand how species are structured and evolve, identify introduced species, and confirm species records.

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We are happy to announce our October EvoKE Webinar! Join us for an online session with Evandro P. Lopes, who will take us to Cabo Verde to explore the evolutionary patterns and genetic diversification shaping the archipelago’s remarkable biodiversity 📆16 October, 4pm CEST 🧪 #EduSky

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www.dx-hub.eu @dxhub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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🔬Researchers' Night in Heraklion! ✨ Last Friday, at Researchers' Night at FORTH, DxHub was there to bring #One_Health diagnostics and citizen science closer to the public. 🧪Science is stronger when we do it together! #ResearchersNight #CitizenScience

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IDP2Biomed @idp2biomed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧬 For the second year in a row, IDP2Biomed successfully took part in Researchers’ Night on September 25 with BioBanzai at the Department of Biochemistry, ELTE! 🔬✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the event so special. 💙 #IDP2Biomed #ResearchersNight #BioBanzai

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Suvi Ruuskanen @suviruuskanen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our super team at #researchersnight @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social showing public our latest research, and fun bird & microbe-related tasks for kids! It feels like there is more people every year!

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Evolution Students @ssegrad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📣This year’s edition of the European Researchers’ Night is coming up on 25 September 2026. Are you planning to attend? Are you presenting? 🔗 Let us know about the event, and we’ll share it with the community! 🧪 #EuropeanResearchersNight #EvoKE #ResearchersNight #EduSky #SciComm

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How can we teach evolution more effectively and help students engage with concepts they find challenging? Join us for "Teaching Evolution: Evidence-Based Pedagogy for Graduate Students & Postdoc Instructors", a virtual workshop featuring practical, research-backed approaches to teaching evolution.

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David Maddison @bembidion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Tree of Life Web Project is back online! tolweb.org Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.

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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reminder! The deadline to apply for our Sound Science Fellowship is September 18. If you're an academic concerned about anti-science sentiment and the challenges faced by educators in accurately teaching science, this fellowship is for you! ncse.ngo/sound-scienc... 🧪🍎 #edusci #educationalresearch

The text reads: Are you an academic with a passion for climate science, evolution, or the nature and practice of science as a field? Join NCSE's research and service initiative as a Sound Science Fellow! Apply by September 18.

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Heather F. Smith. Ph.D. @heatherfsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had a wonderful time working w/educators last week at the National Rural STEM Summit. In my workshop, "Innovative Anatomy: Animal Skulls & Evolutionary Biology in the Classroom," we explored how skeletal specimens can be powerful tools for teaching anatomy, evolution, ecology & comparative biology

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026

Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

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EvoKE is an international transdisciplinary network promoting evolution literacy for a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future. You can also find us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/evoke_project/

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European Researchers' Night events bring research and researchers closer to the public through hands-on activities, experiments, demonstrations, exhibitions and talks. 🧪 #EuropeanResearchersNight #EvoKE #ResearchersNight #EduSky #SciComm

Researchers’ Night is coming up on 25 September 2026
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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Our socials got the look ✨ But unfortunately, our website was still living in the past. It had been with us since 2017, so a little glow-up was definitely overdue. Check out our new look at evokeproject.org and let us know what you think! Big shoutout and lots of love to Josh for making it happen 🫶

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EvoKE is a network of researchers from across the world. Even though we may be separated by thousands of kilometres, we are connected by shared goals for advancing evolution education. Opportunities like this to meet in person are therefore especially valuable 🌍💚 5/5

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We are also very grateful to the ERIDOB Academic Committee and the team at the University of Ljubljana for hosting the symposium and for providing our community with the opportunity to connect in person. 4/5

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A huge thank you to all our speakers for sharing their research, ideas, and enthusiasm, and to everyone who joined us and contributed to such an inspiring conversation! A special thank you to Xana Sá-Pinto for chairing the symposium and guiding the discussion. 3/5

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Our symposium “Evolution Education in the Early Years” brought together researchers from Greece, Spain, Portugal, the USA, and Switzerland to share their work and discuss opportunities and challenges we encounter when teaching children about evolution 🌱 2/5

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

💚 EvoKE at ERIDOB 2026! It was wonderful to have so many members of the EvoKE community together in Ljubljana! #EvoKE #ERIDOB2026 🧪 #EduSky @patriciapessoa.bsky.social @xanasapinto.bsky.social 1/5

Evolution Education in the Early Years
A Symposium at ERIDOB 2026
Thank you to all our speakers for sharing your research and perspectives!
📸 From left to right: Patrícia Pessoa, Penelope Papadopoulou, Xana Sá-Pinto, Lucía Vázquez Ben, Isabell Adler, and Deborah Kelemen.

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📍 Ljubljana, Slovenia 📅 24–28 August 2026 See you in Ljubljana! 🇸🇮 #EvoKE #ERIDOB2026

TUESDAY, 25 August
14.00 - 15.30
Representations of evolution in Portuguese science textbooks
Bento Cavadas and Bruno Sousa
Poster session, N. 22

Between Belief and Curriculum: Teaching Evolution in a Religiously Diverse Society
Netta Dagan, Masha Tsaushu and Tali Tal
Poster session, N. 137

16.00 - 17.30
Reducing misconceptions about natural selection: an intervention in upper secondary school
Jorun Nylehn, Ragnhild Gya and Kjersti Lea
Paper session, Room 2

WEDNESDAY, 26 AUGUST
9.00 - 10.30

HOW IS “ANCESTRY” CONCEPTUALIZED IN THE JOURNAL PLOS GENETICS?
Lucie Tournayre, Nikos Tsourakis, Nuno Ribeiro Galheto, Alicia
Sanchez-Mazas, Mathias Currat, Jose Nunes and Kostas
Kampourakis

USING MACHINE LEARNING TO ASSESS STUDENTS' RESPONSES TO EVOLUTION SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION QUESTIONS
Merav Siani, Asaf Salman, Moriah Ariely, Giora Alexandron and
Anat Yarden

HOW DO PRE-SERVICE BIOLOGY TEACHERS CONSTRUE "ADAPTATION”? ELICITING PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS USING THE REPERTORY GRID METHOD
Florian Stern, Lucie Tournayre, Marco Barroca-Paccard and
Kostas Kampourakis

THE IMPACTS OF DATA, GRAPHS, AND PATTERNS ON STUDENT EXPLANATIONS AND MODELS OF EVOLUTION
Evan Abreu and Ross Nehm
Symposium, Room 1

WEDNESDAY, 26 AUGUST
CREATION OF COMICS AS EVOLUTIONARY ARENAS: TRACING REASONING ACROSS MODES
9.00 - 10.30
Johanna Aringer, Kristina Danielsson, Ammie Berglund
and Lars Wallner
Paper session, Room 2

WEDNESDAY, 26 AUGUST
11.00 - 12.30

ADVANCING EVOLUTION LEARNING – NOVEL CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO EVOLUTION EDUCATION
Ute Harms

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EXPLORING HOW THE CONCEPT “ADAPTATION” IS DEFINED IN SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES USING TEXT MINING
Lucie Tournayre, Nikos Tsourakis and Kostas Kampourakis

COMPARING TWO AI-DRIVEN APPROACHES TO FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN EVOLUTION EDUCATION
Berrit Katharina Czinczel, Merav Siani, Moriah Ariely, Anat
Yarden and Ute Harms

EXPLORING PRE-SERVICE BIOLOGY TEACHERS’ ASSESSMENT COMPETENCE IN EVOLUTION USING A CHATBOT-SUPPORTED CLASSROOM SIMULATION
Johannes Poser, Daniela Fiedler, Daniel Schönle, Christoph
Reich and Ute Harms

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

👇Scroll through to discover the sessions 🔖 Save this post to help plan your ERIDOB schedule We’re looking forward to all the conversations, connections, and new ideas that will emerge along the way

There’s a lot of evolution education research to discover at ERIDOB 2026!
HERE’S YOUR EVOLUTION EDUCATION GUIDE TO ERIDOB 2026
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TUESDAY, 25 AUGUST
11.00 - 12.30

EVOLUTION EDUCATION IN THE EARLY YEARS
Patrícia Pessoa, Deborah Kelemen, Isabell Adler, Lucía
Vázquez-Ben and Penelope Papadopoulou
Symposium, Room 1
(Explore all the symposium presentations in our previous post!)

IDENTIFYING PRECONCEPTIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS OF EVOLUTION
Isabel Jiménez-Bargalló and Jordi MartíFeixas
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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There’s even more evolution education to discover at ERIDOB 2026! It will be part of many conversations happening across the conference, bringing together different perspectives, educational contexts, research questions, and approaches. Below, an Evolution Education Guide to #ERIDOB2026 🧪🧵 #EduSky

More evolution at ERIDOB 2026
15th Conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology
Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 24th-28th 2026.

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We’re looking forward to sharing ideas, learning from each other, and connecting with the evolution education community in Ljubljana. 💚 📍 ERIDOB 2026 | Ljubljana, Slovenia 📅 24–28 August 2026 #ERIDOB2026

5. Primary school teachers’ use of teleology and anthropomorphism to explain evolution Isabell K. Adler and Sebastian Tempelmann

4. Big Ideas in elementary school: A new curriculum for learning about evolution by natural selection in third grade Deborah Kelemen, Sarah Brown, Alden Burnham, Eli Elster, Léa Combette, Gillian Puttick, Sally Crissman and Sara Lacy

3. Fostering evolutionary literacy and pro-biodiversity attitudes in elementary students through socioscientific issues Patrícia Pessoa, J. Bernardino Lopes, Alexandre Pinto and Xana Sá-Pinto

2. "One goes extinct, one evolves": how 3rd graders reason about past and future evolutionary scenarios Lucía Vázquez-Ben, Anxela Bugallo, Patrícia Pessoa, Neil Gostling, Nausica Kapsala, Deborah Kelemen, Ross Nehm, Giulia Realdon, Alexandra Moorman and Xana Sá-Pinto

1. Teaching and learning evolution in early childhood education: a mapping literature review Penelope Papadopoulou, Alexandros Amprazis and Despina Tsopoglou-Gina

Symposium: Evolution education in the early years Patrícia Pessoa, Deborah Kelemen, Isabell Adler, Lucía Vázquez-Ben and Penelope Papadopoulou Tuesday, 25.08 11.00 – 12.30

Below, we list the presentations and the EvoKE members contributing to the conversation 👇

From children’s reasoning about evolution to evolutionary literacy, curriculum development, teacher explanations, and new approaches to teaching and learning. There’s a lot to discuss! #ERIDOB2026

EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Several members of the EvoKE community will be joining ERIDOB 2026, contributing to the symposium “Evolution Education in the Early Years” 🧪 #EduSky The symposium brings together research exploring how evolution can be introduced, taught, and learned from the very first years of education

EvoKE at ERIDOB 2026
15th Conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology
Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 24th-28th 2026.

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📢 Applications now open! The Education and Outreach Committee runs the Undergraduate Community at Evolution program, the T. H. Huxley Award, the Small Grants Program for Local and Regional Outreach, and the Education Symposium. Apply by 8/21 to join this work! evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There are some really interesting topics in the collection of @evokeproject.bsky.social webinars - I’m so impressed with the multi sensory evolution outreach in the evALLution project by Telma Laurentino

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You can find all our past webinars on the EvoKE YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@Evokeproject

Will Amphibians Survive Until the End of the 21st Century?
Presenter: Szymon Drobniak
An introduction to a new method for predicting the heat tolerance of thousands of amphibian species and what it reveals about their vulnerability to climate change.

Why do Evolutionary Education and Public Engagement?
Presenter: Laurence D. Hurst
A challenge to the assumption that more knowledge leads to greater acceptance of evolution, and a look at the emerging evidence that self-confidence and consensus messaging may matter far more.

Promoting Understanding of Evolutionary Theory through a Science Comic
Presenter: Jörg Zabel
A look at how a science comic about whale evolution is proving to be an effective and engaging tool for tackling common misconceptions and supporting conceptual change in evolution education.

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

From the strange mating habits of spider mites, multisensory approaches to evolution education, to what the science of self-confidence tells us about evolution acceptance, and more Head to our YouTube channel to catch up on everything you may have missed! www.youtube.com/@Evokeproject

To Mate or Not to Mate, that is (one of) the Questions
Presenter: Leonor Rodrigues
A look at the surprising and complex mating behaviors of spider mites and what they can teach us about fertility, sperm use, and the broader sustainability of our food systems.

Biodiversity for Belonging: Five years of Multisensory Research Outreach Challenging Ableist Barriers to Evolution Literacy
Presenter: Telma G. Laurentino
An exploration of how the evALLution project is breaking down ableist barriers in science education by developing multisensory resources that make evolution and biodiversity literacy accessible to people with blindness.

Understanding and Acceptance of Evolution and Its Teachings Among Biology Teachers in an Arab Context
Presenter: Haneen Al-abbadi
A study of Jordanian biology teachers revealing low levels of evolution knowledge and what that means for curriculum reform in contexts where sociocultural and religious factors shape attitudes toward science.