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.
- Update frequency
- every 31 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 97
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Episode 76 – Economics and the environment: an exclusive interview with Professor Nick Hanley
Economics is not something usually associated with an “Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine”. Professor Nick Hanley joined the Institute in 2017 as Chair of Environmental…
00:22:01 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
Episode 75 – Killing them softly
Killing them softly The welfare of farm animals is an issue very much in the public eye. While we often think about welfare in terms of animals’ quality of life, a less-considered aspect is the quali…
00:14:05 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
Episode 74- Falkland foxes
In this episode of Naturally Speaking, Mar Pineda catches up with fellow Masters of Research (MRes) student Bugge Vick to talk about some of his field work. Bugge’s research project focused on the So…
00:07:58 |
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Episode 73 – A genomic approach to conservation
Species at being lost at an alarming rate around the world. Luckily, there are large-scale efforts underway to document and utilize population genetic diversity for species conservation. In this epis…
00:21:48 |
Tue 18 Jun 2019
Episode 72 – An EPIC Undertaking
We hope that the UK will never see another major livestock disease outbreak such as foot and mouth disease or avian influenza. But if we do, we will be much better prepared to deal with it thanks to …
00:21:33 |
Tue 07 May 2019
Episode 71 – All things being equal
Visiting speaker and workshop facilitator Dr Ana Payo Payo speaks about her research on migratory birds and her involvement in promoting equal opportunities for women and men in STEM
00:29:48 |
Thu 11 Apr 2019
Episode 70 – International Women’s Day
For International Women’s Day this year, the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine celebrated with a special social event in the museum, where an extra special speech was gi…
00:13:33 |
Mon 01 Apr 2019
Episode 69 – SalmoSim: The creation of an artificial salmon gut
The aquaculture industry is growing at a rapid rate, but our understanding of the factors that contribute to fish ‘performance’ – that is, how to ensure optimal health and growth – is not keeping pac…
00:24:16 |
Tue 26 Feb 2019
Episode 68 – Predictive Power: How sequence data and computers can help to find viral reservoirs
Imagine being able to predict the reservoir species for a newly-found virus just from its genetic code. Using cutting edge machine learning techniques, that is precisely what researchers from the Uni…
00:19:06 |
Mon 11 Feb 2019
Podcast Series: The RRS Discovery – Episode 2
Episode 2: What lies beneath? Join us again aboard the Royal Research Ship Discovery, cruising towards the mid-Atlantic to an area known as the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone. As we heard in the previou…
00:33:02 |
Wed 23 Jan 2019
Episode 66: The secret life of the Zoology Museum
This podcast celebrates the past, present and future of the Hunterian Zoology Museum located in the Graham Kerr Building at the University of Glasgow. And who better than our Museum’s specialist cura…
00:33:20 |
Tue 18 Dec 2018
Episode 65: Making Connections – linking data on biodiversity
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine researcher Prof Rod Page was recently awarded the Ebbe Nielsen prize for his proposal to help document the biodiversity of Australia by…
00:25:48 |
Tue 04 Dec 2018
Episode 64: Battling the Bugs – the search for creative solutions to mosquito control
Malaria – a disease transmitted between people by mosquitoes – remains a major cause of death globally, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. While recent efforts to control mosquitoes have been very s…
00:31:37 |
Thu 01 Nov 2018
Podcast Series: The RRS Discovery – Episode 1
Episode 1: The Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone On the 6th June 2017, an international team of scientists led by Dr. Ewan Wakefield departed Southampton on the Royal Research Ship Discovery. Their cruise …
00:18:10 |
Mon 08 Oct 2018
Episode 62: Pint of Science
We are highlighting this archived episode in celebration of Pint of Science, which will be held this coming week, May 20-22, 2019: https://pintofscience.co.uk/events/glasgow
00:35:36 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
Episode 61: Linked Migrations
Episode 61: Linked Migrations “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but nature has the magical ability to charm everyone. Scientists want to know more about its secrets through research, while arti…
00:16:59 |
Mon 11 Jun 2018
Episode 60: Extending Evolution, an Interview with Prof. Sonia Sultan.
Every year on the 12th of February, Charles Darwin’s birthday, the scientific community recognises Darwin Day. This is a celebration of evolutionary biology and all that we have learnt since Darwin i…
00:23:46 |
Thu 05 Apr 2018
Episode 59: Resilience in Academia
Episode 59: Resilience in Academia It’s unlikely that anyone has ever said that a career in academic research is easy. It is highly competitive, requires an incredibly large skill set, and “rejection…
00:38:01 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
Episode 58: Lumped together – explaining species co-existence
Episode 58: Lumped together – explaining species co-existence The competitive exclusion principle states that in the long term, the number of species should never exceed the number of available resou…
00:17:47 |
Mon 19 Feb 2018
Episode 57: Of mice and microbes
Episode 57: Of Mice and microbes Are parasites always harmful? How diverse are the microbial communities living within individual hosts? These are questions that Dr Sarah Knowles – a researcher at th…
00:14:59 |
Wed 07 Feb 2018
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