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🎵🎼MUSIC, MAESTRO, PLEASE! 🎶This month's Fledgling Bytes investigates differing auditory stimuli on heart rate and micro ...
14/05/2026

🎵🎼MUSIC, MAESTRO, PLEASE! 🎶

This month's Fledgling Bytes investigates differing auditory stimuli on heart rate and micro facial expressions of horses to promote positive affective states.

Read more: https://www.bisas.org.uk/publications/fledgling-bytes/music-maestro-please/

Written by Megan Hutchinson as part of her degree at Duchy College in collaboration with the University of Plymouth and summarised by Amy Marsh from Harper Adams University.

BOOK NOW - Future Grasslands 11-12 November at the Mercure Hotel, Telford.Register today https://bit.ly/4d51JQA
11/05/2026

BOOK NOW - Future Grasslands 11-12 November at the Mercure Hotel, Telford.

Register today https://bit.ly/4d51JQA

The BISAS two-day ‘R and Statistics Workshop’ 2026 is now open for registration.It offers a comprehensive introduction t...
06/05/2026

The BISAS two-day ‘R and Statistics Workshop’ 2026 is now open for registration.

It offers a comprehensive introduction to the statistical software package ‘R’, a refresh on experimental design, and support with using robust statistical analysis in your own work.

Whether you are new to ‘R’ or need an update, this training webinar will help to refresh your knowledge and enhance you skills.

https://www.bisas.org.uk/events/article/bisas-r-statistics-workshop-2026

The much anticipated Hammond Lecture did not disappoint today at BISAS 2026 as Mike Coffey and Marco Winters delivered t...
16/04/2026

The much anticipated Hammond Lecture did not disappoint today at BISAS 2026 as Mike Coffey and Marco Winters delivered their keynotes.

Over more than two decades, Coffey and Winters have worked in close partnership to translate cutting-edge research into practical breeding tools that have improved the health, welfare, productivity and sustainability of the UK dairy herd. Their collaboration has played a central role in modernising national genetic evaluations and accelerating the adoption of genomic selection across the industry.

Congratulations to you both 👏🏻👏🏻

Matthew Thomas from University of Nottingham spoke at hashtag in York on the 'Diurnality is consistently different bet...
16/04/2026

Matthew Thomas from University of Nottingham spoke at hashtag in York on the 'Diurnality is consistently different between individuals and decreases with disease or stressful events in dairy calves'.

The key findings of this research are that diurnality varies consistently between individual dairy calves, but it decreases during disease or stressful events. The results showed that diurnality significantly decreased with sickness.

Great session, thanks to Matthew and fellow speakers in this excellent session 👏🏻

Sharon Huws updated delegates at BISAS 2026 this morning on The Rumen Gateway project.A few key points of note about the...
16/04/2026

Sharon Huws updated delegates at BISAS 2026 this morning on The Rumen Gateway project.

A few key points of note about the project:

🟢The rumen gateway project is a global research alliance project aimed at sequencing unknown microbes in the rumen.

🟢Isolation and sequencing of rumen microbiome is crucial for baseline knowledge for future advances in rumen researches.

🟢To date, more than 200 sequences have been isolated and the number is still going up.

With thanks to session sponsor BMC 👏🏻

Invited Speaker Sarah Morgan from Harper Adams University spoke to delegates about forage management at the BISAS Annual...
16/04/2026

Invited Speaker Sarah Morgan from Harper Adams University spoke to delegates about forage management at the BISAS Annual Conference in York yesterday.

A few key messages from Sarah include:

💠Challenges and opportunities of land use, climate change, biodiversity and soil health and human nutrition

💠 Grassland is a valuable feed stuff for ruminants that we can grow well within the UK - we should utilise it

💠View of ruminants as “natures original up-cycles”

💠The application of precision livestock technologies with huge opportunities to improve sustainability in grazing and beef and sheep which are areas where they are often not utilised

💠Important not to focus on selecting one single trait to breed for when selecting for specific phenotype as this could have consequences on other traits

💠Land saving potential of 30% with cell grazing in comparison to set stocking

💠Breed for CH4nge project which is a DEFRA farm innovation programme aims to develop genetic selection tools to enable farmers to breed productive, efficient maternal sheep with a naturally low carbon footprint

Thank you Sarah and speakers on the forage session 👏🏻👏🏻

BISAS President Helen Warren chaired the panel discussion with Tamzin Furtado, Laura Palczynski, David Wilde and Liam Si...
15/04/2026

BISAS President Helen Warren chaired the panel discussion with Tamzin Furtado, Laura Palczynski, David Wilde and Liam Sinclair at this year's President's Session at BISAS 2026.

A few points of note from their discussion:

⏱️ To make something change it must be done in a timely way and be mutually beneficial.

🎓 Education may not always be the best way to influence change.

☝🏻 For good research to go ahead there must be talks about what the funding bodies want and what the researchers are looking to achieve.

ℹ️ Sometimes industry doesn’t want to fund aspects as it isn’t something that is beneficial to them. A middle ground needs to be found.

University of Liverpool | Harper Adams University https://www.bisas.org.uk/conference-2026

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