Mark your calendar for the next Evolution conference taking place in Montpellier, France from August 19-22, 2018! The chosen symposia and a call for contributed talks will be issued this fall. Joint Congresses take place every six years and bring together four of the world's largest academic societies in the field of evolutionary biology: the European Society for Evolutionary Biology [1], the American Society of Naturalists [2], the Society for the Study of Evolution [3] and the Society of Systematic Biologists [4]. Visit the meeting website [5] to learn more. Follow the meeting on Twitter at ;@evol2018 [6].