We're incredibly proud of our Samuel Connolly and Tess Vernon for winning 1st prize(!) for best poster at the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference! 🏆 🎉 #RSS2025Conf #RSS2025 Read the news here: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Travelling back from an excellent couple of days in Norwich at the #BESMove2025 conference! 🐾🌍🦢 Thanks to @besmovesig.bsky.social and everyone who attended for another great meeting. 👋 @bioss.bsky.social

It's the final day of the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference in #Edinburgh, and we're contributing to two more sessions today. Both sessions are covering different aspects of the responsible use of #AI. 👨‍💻 #RSS2025Conf #RSS2025 #Statistics

It's Wednesday, and another big day at the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference! Today, our team are leading sessions, and presenting talks & posters on different areas of our statistical research. 📊 Check out the list of our contributions below! 👋 #RSS2025Conf #RSS2025 #Statistics

Heading to the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference today? Don't miss these talks and sessions from our team at BioSS- there's something for everyone! 📆 #RSS2025Conf #RSS2025 #Statistics

We're heading to the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference this week in Edinburgh! 📊 Our team are contributing to the exciting programme by leading 11 sessions, giving 11 talks, and presenting 2 posters.🎤🗣️ Hopefully see you there! #RSS2025Conf #RSS2025 #Statistics

📢A MegaMove milestone has just been published in @ScienceMagazine! With ~380 collaborators from 50 countries, we mapped the movements of 12k+ marine megafauna to identify key habitats 🌊🐋🦈 @pewenvironment.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social www.sequeiralab.com/news/megamov...

BioSS researcher Dr Ana Couto worked with a team of international scientists who tracked over 100 marine species of large vertebrates to identify the most critical locations for conservation in the global ocean. 🌍🌊 Read more here: www.bioss.ac.uk/case-studies... #conservation #marinebiology

Great to welcome @jamiehepburn.bsky.social MSP, Minister for Parliamentary Business, to @hutton.ac.uk in Invergowrie yesterday! 🌍 The Minister met with our scientists to explore how BioSS applies statistics and mathematical modelling to inform policy and tackle real-world challenges.

New paper alert! Our Helen Kettle and Dave Ewing have recently published on their model of the cabbage stem flea beetle on oilseed rape. Read the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Read a case study on this work: www.bioss.ac.uk/case-studies... #CropScience #MathematicalModelling

📆Deadline extended📆 If you're looking for an exciting #PhD opportunity in #Mathematics, #Statistics, and #AnimalHealth, you have two more weeks to apply! ✍️ Deadline: 14th July #FindaPhD #PhDChat @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @roslininstitute.bsky.social

Very proud of the links I have with scientists in BioSS - long may it continue

Congratulations to BioSS associate @rowlandkao.bsky.social who was recently recognised with a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for his work in understanding infectious diseases! www.bioss.ac.uk/people/rkao

Gail Robertson, our Senior Statistician in Plant and Crop Sciences, gave a presentation on graphical modelling at the @roslininstitute.bsky.social on Monday as part of their phylogenetics modelling seminar series. Read more about Gail's work: www.bioss.ac.uk/people/grobe...

Our Iain McKendrick is at the Royal Highland Show 2025 to launch a new public information film. It warns about the risks from bringing animal and plant products into Scotland. 🧀🥩✈️ 🎦Watch here: www.epicscotland.org/resources/an... @epicscotland.bsky.social @planthealthscot.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

If you're at the Royal Highland Show today, don't miss the screening of this new @epicscotland.bsky.social animation! 🧳'Think before you pack and don't bring it back' 🧳

🚨PhD studentship opportunity!🚨 We are looking for a PhD student to develop research in computational statistics and modelling to enhance salmon health and robustness. 🐟 📆Deadline: 30th June 2025 Find out more: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ph... #PhD #FindAPhD #Statistics #Mathematics #AnimalHealth

Earlier this month our colleagues Helen Kettle and Oli Ward enjoyed the Conference on Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology, and Evolution 2025 in Bilbao www.bioss.ac.uk/news-events/...

Congratulations to joint @srucnews.bsky.social / @bioss.bsky.social PhD student Claire Stainfield and senior statistician Dr. Thomas Cornulier who both delivered amazing talks at last week's 2025 Pint of Science UK festival in Aberdeen! #pint25 #scicomm #pintofscience #bioss #sruc

Check out this exciting new BioSS paper! 📣🐑 #animalhealth #parasitology #sheep #newpaper

🚨WEBINAR🚨 The #PrePAREDProject will host a webinar on 21st May from 12-12:30pm. This webinar summarises the findings from Report 006: ‘Similarity assessment of offshore wind farms within UK marine habitats’ and will host a live Q&A. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eae7d8...

New @bioss.bsky.social paper! A farm systems-level math model to predict the efficacy & consequences of sustainable worm control in sheep. Thanks to coauthors from @livuni-ives.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @moredunfoundation.bsky.social @srucnews.bsky.social. shorturl.at/II3zA

Our Dr David Ewing (@daveewing.bsky.social) was featured on BBC News Scotland yesterday, with an interview on TV and radio about mosquitoes & vector-borne disease risk in Scotland. 🦟 Read more: www.bioss.ac.uk/news-events/... Listen to David's radio interview [52:30]: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Welcome to BioSS, Grant, we're delighted to see you here too!

Hello! Great to meet you 👋 I'm new to Bluesky, but very happy to be here 💙 I'm based at @bioss.bsky.social, working as part of the @epicscotland.bsky.social consortium on Bayesian Inference approaches for stochastic epidemic modelling.

Check out this talk from our Dr Stephen Catterall at the recent @epicscotland.bsky.social Conference. 🦠🐖📊 #AnimalDisease #DataScience #Statistics

It was lovely to visit the SOI @uniofstandrews.bsky.social again, and share our ongoing work on marine predators, prey, and offshore renewables. Thanks for coming. 😊 @bioss.bsky.social

🚨NEW VACANCY!🚨 We are recruiting for an Administrative Assistant based in either Edinburgh, Dundee or Aberdeen. This is a #permanentjob with a lot of #worklifebalance flexibility. 📅Deadline: 9 April 👉More info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/bi... 📝Apply: bioss.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

There's just over a week left to apply for these two(!) Ecological Statistician vacancies in our Offshore Renewables group- don't miss your chance to apply! 📆 #StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals #Vacancy #Job

💼Ecological Statisticians (x2) 🌊Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BiOSS) 📍Edinburgh, Scotland 🗓️Deadline 27th March www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec... @bioss.bsky.social

It was great to hear from EPIC and @bioss.bsky.social scientists Stephen Catterall and Giles Innocent at EPIC Conference 2025 last week. Their work in EPIC is closely tied to data-driven #innovation, and they offered insights on alternative ways to approach dealing with #data sets. 📊

We've been busy contributing to the @epicscotland.bsky.social Conference 2025, which this year had the theme of "Building a Resilient Future for Animal Health and Welfare: Data-Driven Innovation in Policy and Practice". 🐑📊 Read our news to find out more: www.bioss.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our Giles Innocent presented at the 2025 @epicscotland.bsky.social Conference, contributing to key discussions on using data-driven research to improve animal health and welfare. 🐄🐑📈

EPIC Conference 2025 has begun at the John McIntyre Conference Centre. We look forward to sharing ideas about data-driven innovation in #policy and #practice to build a resilient future for #animal health and welfare.🐑🐖🐄🐓

🚨UPCOMING BIOSS COURSES March to May 2025🚨 * Graphical Methods for Multivariate Data * Regression and Curve Fitting * Introduction to Mixed Models and REML * Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance * Association Mapping using R For more information, go to www.bioss.ac.uk/training/cou...

🚨NEW VACANCIES!🚨 Our Offshore Renewables group are seeking TWO ecological statisticians to join the growing team. Both are permanent roles- more info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec... 📆Deadline: 27th Mar 2025 #StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals

BioSS are leading and contributing towards multiple presentations at the #ScotMER Symposium 2025. 🌊 📆 The conference starts tomorrow- and you can still sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/7th-scotme... #OffshoreRenewables #RenewableEnergy #Seabirds

Empower #Dundee's youth! 🌍 Our researchers are proposing a 'COP-style' event where students co-design #climate transition pathways with scientists & future employers. Vote for our project via #DundeeClimateFund 3.0 to give young people a voice in shaping a sustainable future More: bit.ly/4g6SMo5

We are advertising a fully-funded, genuinely interdisciplinary @netgain.bsky.social PhD at the interface of ecology, ethics and statistics, exploring the nuances of wild salmonid conservation. Deadline January 31st. (1/3) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨PhD opportunities!🚨 Don't miss your chance to apply to a collaborative #PhD with BioSS and partners. We have several advertised across a range of applied quantitative research. See more here: www.bioss.ac.uk/phd-students... #PhdChat #PhDSky #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Statistics #Maths

Time for a change: start a PhD in 2025 to develop quantitative expertise and impact societal challenges with BioSS View our current PhD opportunities: bioss.ac.uk/phd-studentships

🚨#PhD opportunity!🚨 We're looking for a PhD student to work on modelling anthelmintic resistance in sheep flocks, working with our @daveewing.bsky.social, and supervisors at @moredunfoundation.bsky.social & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 📆Deadline: 17th Jan More info: shorturl.at/xbHEy

🚩PhD opportunity furthering sustainable control of gastrointestinal nematodes and anthelmintic resistance in sheep flocks through mathematical modelling with me at @bioss.bsky.social alongside Fi Kenyon, @adhayward.bsky.social (Moredun) and Rob Kelly (Edinburgh Uni). Please share! #parasitology

I made a starter-pack for Statistics and Statistics-related groups, departments or organisations. Please share, and suggest accounts that I have missed. go.bsky.app/q6MfWL

Really enjoyed discussing data needs and availability for tackling #vectorbornedisease at the UK VBD Hub meeting today. Learn more about the project at vbdhub.org #vbd

Our Offshore Renewables Group attended the NERC ECOWind / ECOFLOW Annual Impact Meeting last week. Read more: www.bioss.ac.uk/news-events/...

A few of us have been joining Bluesky recently- check out our "BioSS people" starter pack to hear updates straight from the people of BioSS! 👋 go.bsky.app/EK6F6Rz

We are having a great second day of our Annual Meeting with talks on BioSS science and internal affairs. 📈Always a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues!💬

This is where I've been today, a fascinating look at the modelling work that other people have been doing.

Thanks Adam- we hope you enjoy the meeting! 😄