Posts in this category are about the various science outreach activities and learning I participate in.
Here at SRUC we’re having our Animal Welfare Day celebrating the Five Freedoms at Fifty – a packed day full of talks, demonstrations and a panel discussion. You can watch the talks on our live stream: here! And you can come join the conversation on twitter using the #Freedoms50 hashtag. Read more…
It’s been a busy week, but it ended with a great Hangout this Friday with me and Professor Lawrence. You can watch it below – we had a huge amount of fun. And it also got me tweeting too, so you can follow me @jilly_mackay
John Bradshaw, a scientist at Bristol, wrote two fabulous books: Dog Sense and Cat Sense. They are some of the best popular science books I’ve ever read, and helped me to decide that the Animal Personality book could be a good pop science book. I cite Bradshaw a lot in Read more…
Hi all, Check out this amazing blog about my good friend Lucy’s work in the Antarctic. And if that’s not enough science for you, on the 2nd October I have wrangled some of our SRUC Animal Behaviour and Welfare scientists together to talk about the Five Freedoms at Fifty. You Read more…
We’ve come to the last of my three considerations for ethical eating, eating with a climate conscious. Much as we have been discovering throughout this set of themed posts, there is no ‘easy’ answer to this. The climate is a complex system that is definitely heating up, but the best Read more…
If you’re based in the UK, you will have heard about the problems facing our dairy industry due to the plummeting price of milk, and even if you’re not, you’ll have seen me talk about it in the Ethical Eating Introduction. The welfare of our producers is another thorny issue. Read more…
The Ethical Eating month doesn’t start easily. We begin with the thorny issue of eating meat. When I wrote the first draft of this post it was extremely long because I wanted to outline the ethical process that led to my personal decision to eat meat. After writing it Read more…
For someone who works in an agricultural college, I struggle with how to eat ethically. As we know, ethics are a personal thing, and my ethics may not be yours. My version of ethical eating is one that provides a good quality of life for the animals I eat, provides Read more…
Today, the UK’s House of Commons was supposed to vote on relaxing the fox hunting with hounds ban in England and Wales. But they’re not going to. If you’re not a citizen of the United Kingdom (and even if you are) you might be very confused by the situation. The United Kingdom Read more…
There was an interesting pair of articles in io9 last week, the report of double muscled pigs being bred by researchers in South Korea and China, and differences between how American scientists and the American public view science related issues. Seeing these two articles so closely together was interesting. The Read more…
