Hurrah, the TREE article is back with a positive response from the editor after two completely divergent referees reports. We have to shorten it by a couple of thousand words, which will be difficult but not impossible. After such a lot of work it is great to think we might have some reward. As usual Maureen O’Malley and Michael Weisberg have been brilliant. There has also been some progress on another post conference article. Volker Grimm and I sketched out an article to summarise the discussions at the Kavli Centre meeting - held almost two years ago now. I expanded this draft last summer. And finally after 5 months of Volker has come back to me about it, and apparently will be working on the text in the next week, we will see. In the meantime, Aris is busy working out what happens to TB and badgers - we had some new data on cattle movements provided very helpfully by Willy Wint at Oxford. This work should be concluded by Easter. I have been analysing tree mortality data from Wytham, which should make a paper to write between now and the summer. Greg is preparing for his second year poster presentation, he has managed to run some simulations for Wytham and is able to compare these against the data. This is the first time this has been done for any UK forest, so well done Greg.
