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 56: Seasonal Cheer at IBAHCM
Episode 56: Seasonal Cheer at IBAHCM Every year in December, the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine takes a look back on the year and celebrates its successes in the fo…
00:10:46 |
Thu 21 Dec 2017
Episode 55: “Recent” IBAHCM Highlights
Episode 55: “Recent” IBAHCM Highlights Autumn seems to have run away with us… just too many exciting things happening! In this episode, the Naturally Speaking team reflect on some of the Institute’s …
00:17:27 |
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Episode 54: IBAHCM’s May and June Highlights
Listen in as James Burgon, Laurie Baker, Stephen Larcombe, Taya Forde and Karen Hotopp talk about the publications, staff advancements and other exciting news coming out of the Institute from May and…
00:30:38 |
Wed 19 Jul 2017
Episode 53: IBAHCM’s April Highlights
Join us in another celebration of the Institute as we look back at the highlights from the month of April (2017). Listen as Laurie Baker, Taya Forde, Karen Hotopp and James Burgon discuss recent publ…
00:18:19 |
Wed 24 May 2017
Episode 52: Host to host: How conservation management can influence the risk of Lyme disease
In this episode of Naturally Speaking, Dr Caroline Millins and Dr Roman Biek from the Institute, along with Prof. Des Thompson from Scottish Natural Heritage, discuss their recent publication reviewi…
00:21:20 |
Tue 09 May 2017
Episode 51: Nature’s Greatest Theatre: Ecology and Disease in Yellowstone
Playing out one of nature's greatest theatres are grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, cougars, elk, and bison in the greater yellowstone ecosystem. A haven for biologists, these species also come wit…
00:17:49 |
Wed 26 Apr 2017
Episode 49: How smart are fish?
Fish may be more intelligent than you realise—from their ability to form complicated 3D mind maps, to learning to visually discriminate among over 40 human faces! Join Taya Forde as she speaks to 201…
00:36:34 |
Wed 22 Feb 2017
Episode 48: Sweden’s Avian Renaissance Man—Conversations with Professor Jan-Ake Nilsson
There are many ways to study life strategies of small passerines. Professor Jan-Ake Nilsson of the University of Lund sat down with us to talk about his studies, and the fantastic little birds that h…
00:34:28 |
Wed 08 Feb 2017
Episode 47: Years Reflections (and Happy Holidays)
As the year draws to a close, Naturally Speaking’s Laurie Baker, Taya Forde, Karen Hotopp and James Burgon reflect upon the highlights of another great year communicating the work of the Institute.
00:14:24 |
Thu 22 Dec 2016
Episode 46: The Leaky Host Barrier
Prof Ruth Zadoks tells us about her research into the factors that can allow disease-causing bacteria to make the jump between species.
00:16:30 |
Wed 30 Nov 2016
Episode 45: Eye of the Tiger
In this episode we speak to wildlife ecologist (and field veterinarian) Dr Martin Gilbert to learn about his PhD research on a deadly virus affecting Amur tigers in the Russian Far East.
00:21:27 |
Wed 16 Nov 2016
Episode 44: Her Majesty’s Caecilian Collector
A voracious appetite for books and an unlikely encounter with a strange animal in a petshop led Dr Mark Wilkinson (from the Natural History Museum in London) to study a little known group of amphibia…
00:29:57 |
Wed 02 Nov 2016
Episode 43: Living with anthrax in Africa
What is life like in an anthrax-endemic area of Tanzania? Join our anthrax research team on a journey to Maasai communities of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
00:17:00 |
Wed 13 Jul 2016
Episode 42: Against the Tide—A dialogue with Rita Colwell about shifting paradigms
In this episode of Naturally Speaking Shorts, Taya Forde and Karen Hotopp catch up with distinguished Professor Rita Colwell, of the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, to talk about…
00:25:24 |
Wed 06 Jul 2016
Episode 41: Conversations with an R Jedi
FEATURED: Our most visited post of 2016 – In this episode of Naturally Speaking Shorts Laurie Baker speaks to R-guru Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio, about his work to make programming and…
00:20:56 |
Tue 21 Jun 2016
Episode 40: The sex life – or lack of it – of Trypanosomes.
Episode 40 The sex life – or lack of it – of Trypanosomes: Interview with Dr Willie Weir “Zero Sex is a Killer” “Bug’s Weird Sex Life could make it go extinct, say Scottish Scientists”: Dr Willie We…
00:25:57 |
Thu 19 May 2016
Episode 39: Evolution unwrapped—Investigating diversity with Walter Salzburger
Evolution plays a central role in the field of zoology, with new questions to be chased and an ever expanding field of research. In this Naturally Speaking Short, Karen Hotopp (@KarenHotopp) intervie…
00:11:03 |
Wed 27 Apr 2016
Episode 38: Sparking ideas—the creative minds building bioelectronics for biologists
“Technology provides the tools and biology the problems” – Stanley Fields Episode 38: Sparking ideas-the creative minds building bioelectronics for biologists Scientific advances dep…
00:32:18 |
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Episode 37: What does Darwin mean to you?
A special #DarwinDay podcast where we asked five of our Institute PhD students (each of whose work builds on evolutionary theory) ‘what does Darwin mean to you?’
00:11:36 |
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Episode 36: What’s in it for the bird? Extra-pair mating and inbreeding in Song Sparrows
Bird researcher, Prof. Jane Reid, never set out to become an academic, in fact, she tried her very best not to. Having developed an interest in birds from a young age, her great ambition was to work …
00:27:36 |
Thu 28 Jan 2016
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