Orla Shortall

Agricultural social scientist. Working on non-fiction book about dairy farming for September Publishing. Irish. Fond of swimming in North sea.

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

I'm not using X these days because of Elon Musk and the algorithm and the rise of facism and what have you.
You can find me as @ orlashortall on Blue Sky and Instagram (don't know if that one is any better at not promoting facism but it's less annoying...)

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

For anyone interested in the ongoing saga about the proposed industrialisation of St Fittick's Park in #Aberdeen, you can send an email to @abdn_cccc to reject planning permission for a factory.

Take action to support the @fittick campaign now 👇 https://t.co/Rlq8Fb8nmP

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

Delighted to be part of the newly funded AMAST network bringing together stakeholders to address antimicrobial resistance in the agriculture sector.

[James Hutton Institute @JamesHuttonInst]

We are part of a new UK research network launched to understand how #antimicrobial resistance impacts UK food production.

The #AMASTNetwork will bring together various #agrifood communities with researchers, to identify the challenges AMR poses.

More: https://t.co/MA5H0zH4n0

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

New paper @BritishAcademy_ fellowship 'Cows eat grass, don't they?' on GB dairy farmers' views on grazing & year round housing.

Farmers valued the practice of grazing, but also didn't agree with wider discourse that indoor farming is bad

@EpicScotland

https://t.co/kbSL2iBXin

[LGBT+ James Hutton @Hutton_LGBTplus]

We had a great day out today at @GrampianPride @JamesHuttonInst #Aberdeen

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

I'm super delighted to receive funding from the @BritishAcademy_ for the non-fiction book I'm working on about dairy farming for @septemberbooks.

It's tells the stories of particular dairy farmers as a way in to bigger topics. The grant funds research costs

#dairy #milk #cows

[SEGS James Hutton @HuttonSEGS]

One of our very own researchers, Ruth Wilson, has been awarded funding from this programme. Congratulations, Ruth! 🥳

@JamesHuttonInst

#socialscience #research #jameshuttoninstitute

[SEGS James Hutton @HuttonSEGS]

Our Master's student Ilys Cao Van Truong is seeking participants for her research on plastic consumption.

If you're 18 years old or older, are of a Southeast Asian ethnicity, and would like to take part, please get in touch!

All the info below 👇

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

Fantastic news in the fight to save St Fittick's Park in Aberdeen. A judicial review investigating the legality of a proposal development on the park has been given the go ahead to proceed.

There won't be any development on the park while the review is underway. Welcome news!

[Friends of St Fittick's Park @fittick]

Permission to proceed granted in judicial review of proposed development of St. Fittick’s Park in Aberdeen

https://t.co/U1pljE9qWC

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

@sumner_chrissy Yes, what a time! China was invaded by Japan and in a refugee crisis in 1937 soymilk was hailed as a way to tackle child malnutrition.

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

This is a postcard from the China Nutritional Aid Council in 1930s showing a family of soybeans chasing a cow into a museum.

At the time in the West milk was hailed as a wonder food, & in China soymilk started being mythologised as a nation-building staple

#milk #dairy #mylk

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

Relative number 2 who was prosecuted for selling watered down butter. This time paternal great granduncle Michael Shortall in 1899 from his shop.

He toughed it out and said he got it from a usual supplier & laws about watery butter sound stupid. He was let off without a fine.

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

@GarethEnticott I haven't read that one, I'll add it to my list. I've been reading Richard Nimmo and Peter Atkin's work.

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

Reading about history of milk & my Dad sent a 1903 clipping of 1st cousin 3 times removed Thomas Caulfield being fined for selling watered down milk.

Testing milk wasn't a percise science. TC argued his cows just gave watery milk & it was his wife's fault.

He still got fined £2

[Julie Houston @JulesAHouston]

In solidarity with you all on #LongCovidAwarenessDay. I'm thinking of you all, particularly all of the #LongCovidKids.
#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #StrongerTogether #pwLC

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

Looking forward to taking part in Bright Club next Thursday 14th, Spin, Aberdeen, 7pm.

Bright Club is a comedy event where academics do stand up about their work. I'll share some amoosing cow anecdotes, & explosive methane facts.

Sign up here: https://t.co/4Kolz0ZGMG

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

I've been reading about witches & milk. Across Europe butterwitches were said to steal milk, in the form of a hare or with their hare familiar.

This is a Swedish church mural of hares puking up stolen milk while a witch and the devil churn it.

More here: https://t.co/zEmGOqD5MR

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

Excellent article by @FoEScot about shameful attempts to destroy St Fittick's Park in Aberdeen to make way for bogus "energy transition zone".

@AberdeenCC and @scotgov are complicit in a corporate land grab of greenspace in a deprived area.

@fittick

https://t.co/63BRCu1v5q

[Vanessa Burns @ClimateColumn]

We have a new paper out in #LandUsePolicy on obstacles to #PES schemes for water management @OrlaShortall @sheffieldgeog @HuttonSEGS https://t.co/zNtPPOGuXL

[Orla Shortall @OrlaShortall]

Positive feedback from our @EpicScotland workshop last week for backyard poultry keepers.

Next workshop, #Fife, 8th Feb

We want to hear backyard keepers’ experiences of recent AI outbreaks & what would help them keep their birds safe. Contact [email protected] to sign up