The ‘Tea Break’ category are for fun, giving you a glimpse of what it’s like working in animal welfare science.
Science is in crisis. We’ve been hearing this from a wide range of fields, from students to professors, and perhaps most alarmingly, from two of the world’s largest democracies rejecting evidence based policy to elect anti-science policy makers. The culprit is claimed to be peer review, or badly understood Read more…
After a week of annual leave my first draft of the book broke 60,000 words. I promised a minimum of 70,000 and it looks like I’m well on track to have my first draft finished by the end of this year. That gives me five months to edit, which has Read more…
There are more changes afoot at FluffySciences! Because after six very happy years with SRUC it’s time for me to move on … Yes today was, technically, my last working day at SRUC. On Monday I start a new role as a research fellow in veterinary education at the Read more…
I am full of a chesty cold and have spent the weekend falling from sick bed to sick bed around the flat, with Athena following dutifully in my wake to cuddle and occasionally lick me back to full health. So I’ve been reading a lot of internet articles. There’s a Read more…
The always funny and amazing Evopropinquitous has written an amazing post on what it’s like to be gay and working as an academic in the field. A must read for everyone. http://evopropinquitous.tumblr.com/post/137452863477/on-being-a-queer-primatologist My own negligible contribution comes from a field trip I’d taken when one of our colleagues was gay, Read more…
One of my much loved friends from the undergraduate days, Lucy, has decided to stay another winter on Bird Island, where she occasionally posts amazing pictures of the wildlife down there to make me feel exceptionally jealous as I fight with various university IT systems. One of her new team Read more…
There’s an interesting article in the Guardian criticising London Zoo for offering an unpaid job with an MSc as part of the requirements. Unpaid work crops up repeatedly in academia, sometimes in terms of “pay your dues”, or “gaining valuable experience”. But I think it’s particularly prevalent in the animal Read more…
OK Glass I got a chance to use Google glass today in brief interlude between filming a super secret (a new YouTube series, not a secret at all) project. It was amazing! The digital education office had put some clinical skills videos on the Glass and I could immediately see Read more…
You will have noticed lately that the posting schedule has been a bit erratic. That’s partly because of work commitments, but also partly because I’ve been got some big news. I am writing a book! What? How? Why? Where? Well after the MOOC and winning the Living Links competition, I Read more…
