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...

Automation undeniably has some useful applications. But the folks hyping modern “AI” have not only dramatically overstated its capabilities, many of them generally view these tools as a…

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...

The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.

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

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

Hackers can target AI browsers with prompts hidden in websites.

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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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 ...

Science for Life Lecture hosted by Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland

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...