This year's IDWSDS conference theme is "Empowering the next generation of statisticians and data scientists" and our colleagues Graciela Martínez Sánchez and Karen Keegan have kindly agreed to talk about their work. Further details can be found below:

Session title:   From Animal Health & Welfare to Plant & Crop Science: contributions from statisticians and modellers at BioSS

Graciela's talk: “Understanding by-product material flows in the UK seafood industry to estimate the potential for adding value”

Karen's talk: “Optimising avian faecal samples for gut microbiome research via Nanopore sequencing”

Registration is now open until 7 October: https://www.idwsds.org/registration/