Our BioSS colleague, Professor Iain McKendrick, has been appointed as a member of the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission, helping to protect the welfare of wild and companion animals and giving scient...

Vikki Halliday, Deputy Director of RESAS (Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services of the Scottish Government) visited BioSS on Tuesday 5th May 2026.

Our Director Professor Mark Brewer attended a meeting of the AI in Mathematical Sciences Working Group of the UK Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences at Loughborough University on the 26th...

Over Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th November, BioSS came together to meet in Edinburgh for our 2025 Rob Kempton Lecture and Annual General Meeting.

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BioSS participated in a multi-actor and multi-generational workshop on rethinking how education meets the demands of the climate transition.

Wild seabirds are more likely to split up in windy weather, according to a newly published study led by Edinburgh Napier University, in collaboration with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)...

Statistical methodology was developed to understand key processes driving avian influenza in a seabird colony. Using common tern mortality data, it was shown that bird-to-bird transmission dominates ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has caused unprecedented mortality in wild birds and led to the culling of millions of poultry worldwide. Since 2021, this ongoing global outbreak has severely...

Science for Life Lecture hosted by Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland

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Science for Life Lecture hosted by Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland

A team of BioSS staff attended the RSS conference in Edinburgh, giving 12 presentations and leading 11 sessions.

A new Science paper maps global hotspots for marine megafauna & finds that planned increased protection will be insufficient to cover most areas

The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals to protect, conserve, and manage at least 30% of the world's oceans in an effort to halt the loss of important mari...

The cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) is an economically important pest of oilseed rape crops that has increased in importance over recent years. Here w…

Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland Professor Rowland Kao

Deadline: 30th June 2025

Our colleagues Helen Kettle and Oli Ward attended in early May the 2025 Conference on Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology, and Evolution 2025 at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics - BCAM, Bi...