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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.

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Episode 56: Seasonal Cheer at IBAHCM

Naturally Speaking ·

2017/12/21

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 form of a potluck and Ceilidh (traditional Scottish dance). This year, Naturally Speaking editors Jacqueline Jacot and Laurie Baker interviewed Institute members at […]

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Episode 55: “Recent” IBAHCM Highlights

Naturally Speaking ·

2017/11/17

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 many achievements of the last few months (July – October, 2017). Steve Larcombe, James Burgon and Taya Forde discuss some of their favourite […]

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Episode 54: IBAHCM’s May and June Highlights

Naturally Speaking ·

2017/07/19

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 June.

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Episode 53: IBAHCM’s April Highlights

Naturally Speaking ·

2017/05/24

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 publications, awards and achievements by Institute researchers.

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Episode 52: Host to host: How conservation management...

Naturally Speaking ·

2017/05/09

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 reviewing the effects of conservation management on Lyme disease.

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Episode 51: Nature’s Greatest Theatre: Ecology and...

Naturally Speaking ·

2017/04/26

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 with their own set of diseases making the greater yellowstone ecosystem a hotspot for wildlife disease research.

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Episode 49: How smart are fish?

Naturally Speaking ·

2017/02/22

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 2016 Buckland Professor of Fisheries Felicity Huntingford, biologist Dr Martina Quaggiotto, and life-long fishers Charles Jardine Marshall Bissett to discuss how smart fish really are.

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Episode 48: Sweden’s Avian Renaissance...

Naturally Speaking ·

2017/02/08

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 he has worked with.

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Episode 47: Years Reflections (and Happy Holidays)

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/12/22

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.

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Episode 46: The Leaky Host Barrier

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/11/30

Prof Ruth Zadoks tells us about her research into the factors that can allow disease-causing bacteria to make the jump between species.

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Episode 45: Eye of the Tiger

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/11/16

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.

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Episode 44: Her Majesty’s Caecilian Collector

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/11/02

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 amphibians called caecilians, or naked snakes. Listen to find out all about these unusual and enigmatic animals.

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Episode 43: Living with anthrax in Africa

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/07/13

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.

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Episode 42: Against the Tide—A dialogue with Rita...

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/07/06

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 the impact of her work on cholera and the changing opportunities for women in science.

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Episode 41: Conversations with an R Jedi

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/06/21

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 data analysis in the statistical programme R less painful.

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25:57

Episode 40: The sex life – or lack of it – of...

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/05/19

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 Weir, a researcher from the Institute—and one of the Scottish scientists responsible for these recent headlines—joins Steve Larcombe […]

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Episode 39: Evolution unwrapped—Investigating...

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/04/27

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) interviews visiting researcher Professor Walter Salzburger of the University of Basel, and asks him about his research on adaptive radiation and the colourful cichlids […]

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Episode 38: Sparking ideas—the creative minds...

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/03/24

“Technology provides the tools and biology the problems” – Stanley Fields Episode 38: Sparking ideas-the creative minds building bioelectronics for biologists Scientific advances depend not only on novel ideas and conceptual leaps, but also to a large extent on technological advances. Most scientists use some form of […]

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Episode 37: What does Darwin mean to you?

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/02/12

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?’

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Episode 36: What’s in it for the bird? Extra-pair...

Naturally Speaking ·

2016/01/28

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 for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). But, she figured to work there she would […]

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