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The British and Irish Region held a meeting at King’s College London on 23 April 2026. Marking the Centenary of RA Fisher’s landmark paper “The Arrangement of Field Experiments”, the meeting focussed on the design of experiments in modern biometrics. Fisher (1926) introduced, at least in outline form, many of the methods that are still being extended ...

The Annual Young-ISA Webinar ran from 12:00 until 14:30 on April 15th 2026 and focused on “The Role of Statisticians in Reproducibility”. This was a joint event with the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society. There were four invited speakers: Prof. Anne-Laure Boulesteix (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich), Dr. Isabella Gollini ...

The IBS-BIR genomics event took place online on 25 February 2026 and featured presentations on methods for interpreting genetic variants associated with breast cancer risk, focusing particularly on BRCA1 and BRCA2. Kyriaki Michailidou , Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Biostatistics at The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics ...

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Richard Cormack who has died at the age of 90. Richard pioneered the development of mark-recapture theory for estimating survival and published a number of landmark research papers. His work has had a lasting impact in various fields including ecology, genetics and social sciences. ...

This event took place on the 19 th September, 2025 at the University of Warwick and was attended by 25 people. The event was jointly organised by the BIR and NABES (a UK network of statisticians working in the Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences). Attendees consisted of both academics and professional statisticians representing ...