EvoKE

3 Aug

EvoKE explained: who we are and what we do 🧵 EvoKE (Evolutionary Knowledge for Everyone) is a nonprofit organisation bringing together researchers, educators, evolutionary biologists, science communicators, policymakers, and curious minds from around the world

🌊 What secrets are hidden beneath Cabo Verde's waters? In our latest #EvoKE webinar, Evandro P. Lopes explored how genetic tools are helping us uncover biodiversity, understand evolutionary processes, and support marine conservation. Missed it? Watch it here: youtu.be/qAmgdKNl2JA 🧪#EduSky

From hidden genetic diversity to evolutionary patterns, the marine ecosystems of Cabo Verde have fascinating stories to tell! Want to catch the next webinar live? Join the EvoKE network — it's free!

EvoKE is an international transdisciplinary network promoting evolution literacy to foster a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future.

evokeproject.orgEvoKE WebinarsEvoKE 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…

📣Don't miss it - happenning tomorrow: EvoKE webinar with Evandro P. Lopes, who will talk about the remarkable biodiversity of Cabo Verde 📆16 October, 4pm CEST Free to join and no registration required. Link on our website: evokeproject.org/webinars/ 🧪 #EduSky #EvoKE

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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

💚 Happy World Teachers’ Day! Today, we celebrate all the teachers who spark curiosity, encourage questions, and help learners understand the living world around them. Is there a teacher who made a difference in your life? Tag them in the replies or share this post with them to say thank you #EduSKy

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To support you in this work, the EvoKE community has developed and shared educational resources that you can use and adapt in your teaching. Explore them on our website — evokeproject.org

And to all teachers in our community and beyond: thank you for everything you do 💚

At EvoKE, we are especially grateful to the educators who bring evolution into their classrooms and create opportunities for students to explore, question, and understand how life changes over time

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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Interested in giving a webinar? You can propose yourself or recommend someone through the link: bit.ly/3NfJrBY #EvoKE #EvoKEWebinar

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 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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🔬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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🧬 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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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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📣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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Evolution Students

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21 Sept

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

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8 Sept

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

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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

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Heather F. Smith. Ph.D.

11 Sept

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

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13 Sept

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

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

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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/

2 Sept

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 🫶

💚 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

👇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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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