It is with great pleasure that we announce Kyle Gray as the winner of the 2023 Mary Jane West-Eberhard Best Paper Award with the article “Global biogeography of ant social parasites: Exploring patterns and mechanisms of an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient” (https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14528). Ben Pyenson (“Worker-like behavioral and physiological phenotype in queens with removed wings in a ponerine ant”, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243684) and Jill Oberski (“First Phylogenomic Assessment of the Amphitropical New World Ant Genus Dorymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Longstanding Taxonomic Puzzle, https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixab022“) were close runner-ups of this year’s competition. Please join the committee in congratulating all three students for their outstanding work and representing our North American Section of the IUSSI!
The IUSSI-NAS awards committee