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A science pod-yssey brought to you by the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Naturally Speaking is first and foremost a podcast covering cutting edge research and light hearted ecology banter. We have invited blog posts and podcasts from researchers across our School and also visiting speakers. We’ve got a little something for everyone.

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On the Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

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2025/07/23

A resident MRes student’s historical view of the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE) Scotland’s Loch Lomond, a vast and brooding expanse of water stretching 36.4 kilometers, is more than just its superlatives. Beyond being the largest lake in Great Britain by surface area, its true enormity lies in the history it […]

Fieldwork Diary #7: Straniger Alm

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2025/07/10

Join us as John Smout recounts his journey to Straniger Alm in the Austrian Alps, where alpine pastures and boggy slopes provide a backdrop for an extraordinary encounter with lizards at the edge of evolution: where egg layers and live-bearers meet. Please describe your field site. Our fieldwork takes place in Austria, around 1.5 km […]

A symbiotic relationship? Ecological modelling and...

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2025/06/10

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa Have you ever met siblings with contrasting personalities—one loud and outgoing, the other quiet and observant? Despite their differences, when the dishes pile up or the bins need taking out, both have to pitch […]

On Rheostasis: The Hierarchical Organization of...

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2025/04/09

Join us as we explore the book “On Rheostasis: The Hierarchical Organization of Physiological Stability” with author Tyler Stevenson. In this interview, we will discover the inspiration behind Professor Stevenson’s work and the key concepts that make his book a must-read for anyone interested in this exciting field. Interview conducted by Dr Konstantina Linardopoulou. K […]

Infectious Disease Ecology (IDE) 2025 Away Day: Where...

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2025/02/20

“You can do it!” Those were the words a group of graduate students I had gone hiking with somewhere near Loch Lomond had said to me. Why, you wonder? Well, I had joined them on a 90-minute hike around the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE), and those hills are not for […]

Episode 96 – Glasgow’s Seizure Clinic: supporting...

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2025/02/06

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 first of its kind in Scotland. This podcast was edited by Shennice Deandrea Knight. Feature image AI generated through WordPress. Intro and outro […]

An international student’s perspective on SBOHVM’s...

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2025/01/20

The MSc in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance (EIDAR) is the newest programme addition to the School of Biodiversity, One Health, and Veterinary Medicine (SBOHVM), introduced in 2019. I was enrolled in this program from 2023 to 2024. The programme is led by Dr. Tiziana Lembo and Dr. Jo Halliday, and other instructors […]

Episode 95- On Evolution and Engagement

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2025/01/14

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 of Zoology and Director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. Professor Kilner shares her journey into the field of evolutionary […]

ESOVE CONFERENCE 2024: A FIRST INTERNATIONAL...

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2024/12/18

Montpellier is a beautiful city located in the south of France, situated only 10km away from the Mediterranean Sea. The city offers a rich blend of over a thousand years of history and culture, as well as modern charm. Montpellier is home to stunning medieval architecture and lively markets, and during the week of the […]

Whale hello there! Scientific Outreach, Festival Edition

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2024/10/09

Scientific outreach and research go hand in hand, with clear value in being able to communicate your science effectively and efficiently to the public. That’s particularly true if the public is involved in your research, where outreach can also mean recruitment! My research relies on just that: using a citizen-science derived database on opportunistic sightings […]

Fieldwork diary #6: Cetacean Mass Stranding Events in...

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2024/08/14

What is the project you are doing? My PhD work focuses on how data collected from stranded cetaceans (dolphins, whales, porpoises) can be used as a tool for monitoring their populations, understanding health, and guiding conservation efforts. My work is mostly computational, using data gathered by the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) to build […]

Fieldwork Diary #5: Why did I take my blanket for a...

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2024/04/15

Will McLellan takes us on a tour of his work on tick density in human-impacted environments. What are you studying? The word ‘tick’, to most people, would bring to mind a symbol on an exam answer sheet that says “well done!”, you got that question right “good job!”. For others, a tick might be a […]

A New Hope in the Rainforest

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2024/03/27

Did you know that today there are just four remaining great ape species in the world? These magnificent animals possess certain human-like physical features, thanks to their genetic architecture that shares 96-98% DNA similarity with humans. For this reason, great apes are classified by the Latin name ‘hominids’. Interestingly, three out of four great ape […]

Are we using the right statistics?

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2024/02/19

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 comes to analyzing our data. Today on Naturally Speaking we are discussing the two main schools of statistics; frequentist and Bayesian statistics. […]

Conference presentation prizes: what the judges want...

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2024/02/05

Presenting at a conference, either orally or via poster, can be a daunting prospect. This is often doubly so for students with fewer conferences under their belts, although I assure you that the fear never fades entirely! Having (relatively) recently joined the ranks of the postdocs and presented my first post-PhD work at a conference […]

An Alternative Route to a Veterinary Degree

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2024/01/22

Growing up, I have consistently been the child who asks “why”. Why shouldn’t I run with scissors? Why do chickens have 2 legs and cows have 4? Why do I have to learn maths if I want to be a vet? This questioning spirit has accompanied me into my adult life and eventually to vet […]

Who’s afraid of the big bad bat?

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2023/10/24

Bats. It’s at this time of year – especially with Halloween just around the corner, and when bat-shaped decorations (fairy lights, biscuit cutters, and costumes) start to appear in the shops – that these mysterious animals come to public attention. It’s great news for me of course, as a researcher who works on bats (and […]

Fieldwork Diary #4 – Lichens of the Argyll

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2023/08/08

Paddy McCleave gives us the inside scoop into a project that looks at the internal composition of lichens What is the project you are doing? – My masters project on the lichen microbiome. My project aimed to understand the effect of geographic distance and tree species on the composition of the lichen microbiome. Where are […]

Fieldwork Diary #3 – Deer Monitoring in Scotland

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2023/07/24

A small exploration of the western Highlands of Scotland and its deer is provided by Max Hadoke What is the project you are doing? – My masters project, which is comparing deer monitoring method efficiencies in the field. The project is being used to test which methods are the most feasible for deer management on […]

Fieldwork Diary #2 – Antibiotic Access in Tanzania

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2023/07/10

Kathrin Loosli provides insights into a project that aims to inform antimicrobial resistance planning in eastern Africa What is your project? – My PhD, titled “Antibiotic quality, access, demand and use in rural communities of northern Tanzania”, which was run under the overall project titled SNAP-AMR, or supporting the national action plan for antimicrobial resistance. […]

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