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The votes have been counted, and the next International Oat Conference (IOC) will be held in Pucón, Chile, in 2026. Congratulations to Karina von Baer and her team! You can read a statement from Karina here.

This is not the update you’re expecting, but it has some urgency.

Registration is now open for the 2nd Food Oats Conference in Lund, Sweden, from June 19th-21st, 2023. The theme of the conference is "Oats for Future – dietary fibers and other bioactive compounds". Take note that the deadline for registration and abstract submission is May 5th!

Performing another scan of Twitter brought up two more webinars, one on Monday, March 20th, at 1 pm GMT, and the other on Thursday, March 23rd, from 1:30-4:30 pm GMT.

Save the date! The ScanOats group will host the 2nd Food Oats Conference from June 19-21, 2023, in Lund, Sweden. More information and options for registration will be posted on their website soon.

Let's begin with the sharing of resources on social media. It was through Twitter that I found out that a 7.8 magnitude earthquake had hit the region surrounding Kahramanmaraş in Turkey. I knew that Ziya Dumlupinar, whom many of you know well, was a professor at the university there, and sent him a direct message via Twitter to see what was happening. Fortunately, Ziya and his family survived.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Let's begin the second part of this update with a word about where I find a lot of the information I share with you. Much of it comes from those I follow as @OatNewsletter on Twitter. I have not noticed much of a change in the type of content I see there since Elon Musk took over the platform; however, I am seeing large gaps in my timeline, which should be chronological. If any of you would like to make sure that I see what you tweet, then please tag me.

Buckle up, people, there’s a lot of news! Let’s begin with some events coming up in the next little while:

October 10th is World Porridge Day. This was set up by the organizers of the Golden Spurtle World Porridge Championships in 2009 as a way to support Mary’s Meals, a charity devoted to providing free meals to children in their schools all over the world.