April 25th is world DNA day. The museum Corpus will host workshops and lectures by the LeveDNA! foundation. See here for the program.

Attended the recent EvoKE meeting in Porto, where an emerging new community gathered to discuss and develop projects aimed at increasing the understanding of evolution among the general public. See here for an impression.

Public lecture on the evolution of sex in symposium organised by the biology student society BeeVee in Nijmegen

Nice piece in National Geographic on mutual ornamentation in a dinosaur

Lecturing in advanced course on de novo genome assembly at the Leiden University Medical Center

Panel discussion about why we have sex at  Cafe Scientifique in Amsterdam

Talking about the evolution of mutual ornamentation in birds on the annual symposium of the Dutch Ornithological Union

Our pollen work attracted the attention of the Leidsch Dagblad