September 2026 Workshop Summary: Events Highlights

For September’s events highlights workshop, we heard back from NABES members about conferences and workshops they’d attended in the past year and their notes of interest for the network. We heard back about the following events:
- Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution 2026 - Oli Ward (Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland)
- Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine Conference 2026 - Claire Hayman (Animal & Plant Health Agency)
- Co-Design Workshop on Statistical Ontology - Isabel Corkley (ADAS)
- Society of Eco-Toxicology and Analytical Chemistry Annual Meeting 2026 - Michael Dunbar (Environment Agency)
- Royal Statistical Society Conference 2026 - Colin Birch (Animal & Plant Health Agency)
- International Royal Geographic Society Conference 2026 - Alice Drysdale (Environment Agency)
- International Biometric Society Conference 2026 - Andrew Mead (Rothamsted Research)
- Workshop on Applied Statistics in Agriculture and Natural Resources - Andrew Mead (Rothamsted Research)
A summary of their highlights is given in September’s newsletter. Some useful resources that were shared included experimental design tools for animal experiments, a plant phenotyping app and a free web-book on causal inference in R.