Naturally Speaking

The Naturally Speaking podcast is a science pod-yssey that provides cutting-edge research and ecology chat from the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow.

Higher Education Science & Medicine Natural Sciences Education

Update frequency: every 31 days
Average duration: 25 minutes
Episodes: 97
Years Active: 2012 - 2025

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Episode 96 – Glasgow’s Seizure Clinic: supporting pets and their owners

In this episode, Taya Forde speaks with Jos Bongers – a veterinary clinician specializing in neurology. She tells us all about the University of Glasgow’s Small Animal Hospital Seizure Clinic – the f…

00:16:01 | Thu 06 Feb 2025

Episode 95- On Evolution and Engagement

In this episode of Naturally Speaking, PhD students Mar Pineda and Nic Strowbridge interview our 2024 Darwin Day speaker, Professor Rebecca Kilner FRS, an evolutionary biologist as well as the Head o…

00:49:50 | Tue 14 Jan 2025

Are we using the right statistics?

Are we using the right statistics? It is a contentious question in science. Statistics may seem like a hard, objective discipline, but there are in fact many different opinions and methods when it co…

00:46:39 | Mon 19 Feb 2024

EPISODE 94 – Celebrating International Day of Women in STEM

The International Day of Women and Girls in STEM is on February 11th and celebrates the fantastic work of women and girls in STEM. Our University is full of many amazing women doing incredible work i…

00:35:45 | Mon 12 Feb 2024

Episode 93 – Racial Inequality in Academia

In this episode, Paddy McCleave is joined by three amazing guests, Raheema Chunara, Maarya Omar, and Abimbola Abodunrin, to discuss racial inequality in academia. PART 1: PART 2: Racial inequality h…

00:28:43 | Wed 31 Jan 2024

How To Survive A Conference: A 10 Year Update

Conferences are a major part of life in academia: they allow us to share our work, build collaborations, and find out more about the interesting work in our field. However, conferences aren’t always …

00:53:52 | Mon 08 Jan 2024

Episode 91 – Seawilding: Scottish Native Oyster Restoration

Most of us will be familiar with the concept of ‘rewilding’, but what about ‘seawilding’? In this episode of Naturally Speaking, we are joined by SBOHVM’s very own Dr Anna McGregor to discuss her ver…

00:20:16 | Wed 06 Sep 2023

Episode 90 – Whiffs of Wisdom: Exploring Smell, Scientific Writing & Teaching

In this episode, Mar Pineda and Nic Strowbridge are joined by Professor Matthew Cobb from the University of Manchester. Professor Cobb is a researcher, author, and scientific communicator. He was vot…

00:44:41 | Mon 21 Aug 2023

Episode 89 – Community Outreach: Engaging the public in your science

Science communication is a vitally important component of research. It encourages community engagement and sharing of new discoveries, making exciting science accessible to the wider public. However,…

00:17:11 | Mon 31 Jul 2023

Episode 87 – Disease Ecology on Amsterdam Island: up close and personal with the albatross

In this episode, Taya Forde and Paddy McCleave are joined by Thierry Boulinier, a director of research at CNRS Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive at the Université Montpellier. Thierry’s re…

00:18:28 | Tue 17 Jan 2023

Episode 86 – Animal welfare… on the sheep farm

As consumers, we hope that the animals that provide our meat, milk, eggs, etc. are well cared-for and are kept in good welfare conditions. But what does this really mean in practice? This is the seco…

00:22:40 | Fri 22 Apr 2022

Episode 85 – Dog phone and the dawn of the Doggoverse

Have you ever wondered what animal internet would look like? In this episode, Naturally Speaking’s Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib and Taya Forde interview Dr. Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, a Lecturer in the S…

00:20:30 | Fri 01 Apr 2022

Episode 84 – Animal welfare… on the dairy farm

Feature image courtesy of Eleanor Duncan, 2022 Don’t forget you can subscribe to automatically receive all our latest content, or just our podcasts. We are also available on iTunes and other podcast …

00:28:26 | Wed 16 Mar 2022

Episode 83 – Thar She Blows! How and why whales and other large animals wash up on the Scottish coastline, and how you can help

Ever wondered what it’s like inside a dead whale? In this podcast Masters student Sreedevi Gummuluri and Senior Research Fellow, Lucy Gilbert talk to Dr. Andrew Brownlow, a Senior Lecturer in Veterin…

00:20:49 | Wed 23 Feb 2022