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Please see the announcement below from the Simons Foundation regarding a special funding opportunity.</div>
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Warm regards,</div>
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Betsy</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a style="color: rgb(29, 41, 84); margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="17" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" originalsrc="https://simonsfoundation.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d61c0c0848c2c8c5ed6d4484b&id=a5ae8f684b&e=189264416a" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Original URL: https://simonsfoundation.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d61c0c0848c2c8c5ed6d4484b&id=a5ae8f684b&e=189264416a. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA4e3a460c-b70d-8385-7701-badc715efe13" target="_blank" href="https://simonsfoundation.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d61c0c0848c2c8c5ed6d4484b&id=a5ae8f684b&e=189264416a">Applications
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(29, 41, 84); line-height: 21px;">The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its
<u><a style="color: rgb(29, 41, 84); margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="18" originalsrc="https://simonsfoundation.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d61c0c0848c2c8c5ed6d4484b&id=a1a03e5411&e=189264416a" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Original URL: https://simonsfoundation.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d61c0c0848c2c8c5ed6d4484b&id=a1a03e5411&e=189264416a. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA3660b315-aa35-a2f8-71b6-31bc75c9c747" target="_blank" href="https://simonsfoundation.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d61c0c0848c2c8c5ed6d4484b&id=a1a03e5411&e=189264416a">Simons
Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution awards</a></u>. <b>The deadline for receipt of vision statements is October 16, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern time</b>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(29, 41, 84); line-height: 21px;">The goal of
<u><a style="color: rgb(29, 41, 84); margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="19" originalsrc="https://simonsfoundation.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d61c0c0848c2c8c5ed6d4484b&id=25c0473b07&e=189264416a" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Original URL: https://simonsfoundation.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d61c0c0848c2c8c5ed6d4484b&id=25c0473b07&e=189264416a. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAe3786507-16b2-18c1-7f29-53fb36d3ee53" target="_blank" href="https://simonsfoundation.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d61c0c0848c2c8c5ed6d4484b&id=25c0473b07&e=189264416a">Simons
Collaborations</a></u> is to bring together groups of outstanding scientists to address topics of fundamental scientific importance, with a focus on fields in which significant new developments have created novel opportunities for exploration. The purpose
of the Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution awards is to identify new, emerging breakthrough areas of ecology and evolution that are poised for high-impact funding from the Simons Foundation. We are interested in idea-generating research that focuses
on basic principles of ecological and evolutionary dynamics, especially their interface, and that may be overlooked or too risky for other funding organizations.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(29, 41, 84); line-height: 21px;">We will prioritize cross-disciplinary collaborations that integrate levels of scale, for example from genes to species to communities,
from local to global processes or across ecological and evolutionary time scales. We are particularly interested in projects that cut across boundaries, whether these boundaries entail fields and subfields, diverse methodological approaches and/or the geographical
regions from which investigators work.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(29, 41, 84); line-height: 21px;">Among other
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requirements</a></u>, all investigators must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and have a faculty position or the equivalent (eligible for receiving grant funding as a PI) at a college, university, research institute or other research facility.</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 1.2; font-weight: 700;">A. Elizabeth Arnold, </span><span style="line-height: 1.2;">PhD</span></div>
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