Dear SSE Colleagues,

As the COVID-19 pandemic has been unfolding across the globe, we evolutionary biologists, along with the rest of the world's population, find ourselves embedded in this staggering biological phenomenon that is causing severe disruption of our personal and professional lives. I write to convey my keen hope that you are all keeping well and helping those around you by complying with CDC recommendations for changing our behavior. Beyond this, I hope you yourselves can maintain good spirits and support those in your circles. I am sorely disappointed that we won't be meeting in June as friends and fellow students of evolution, but I will continue to appreciate our mutually supportive community of evolutionists.

Ruth Shaw
President, Society for the Study of Evolution