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Talking Feral

Paul Boyce

Your host Paul Boyce, a biology PhD student, talks with guests about conservation, wildlife research, grad school and academia, science and policy and anything else in this conversation styl...

Episodes

20 of 33 episodes

Phillip Vannini - What, Where, and When is Wild?

Phillip Vannini is a professor and ethnographer at Royal Roads School of Communication and Culture. His recent work includes the documentary...

56:49Dec 19, 2021

Sally Gepp - The Environment in the Eyes of the Law

Sally Gepp is an environmental lawyer and has practises as a barrister sole in New Zealand. She worked for nine years with environmental NGO...

58:57Nov 9, 2021

Eric Eaton - Field Guide for a Career Entomologist

Eric R. Eaton is a writer and is author of Wasps: The Astonishing Diversity of a Misunderstood Insect (Princeton University Press, 2021), an...

73:55Oct 12, 2021

Bram Büscher - Conservation & Capitalism

Dr. Bram Büscher is Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University and holds visiting positio...

83:38Aug 30, 2021

Rachel Engler-Stringer - Industrial Food and Our Future

Dr. Rachel Engler-Stringer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology in the College of Medicine at th...

86:52Jul 29, 2021

Chris Todd Pt2 - The Laurentian Collapse and Money for Grad Students.

This episode is part 2 of a conversation with Dr. Chris Todd. We discuss the collapse of Laurentian University, graduate student funding and...

97:52Jul 23, 2021

Willow Talk - The Roles We Play

A short episode where I chat with my dog, Willow, about defining our roles in society with qualifications, finding the time to think in a do...

24:29Jul 2, 2021

Chris Todd - Graduating to Department Head at the Birth of Covid

Chris Todd is a Professor and Head of the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He is...

56:20Jun 21, 2021

Clara Superbie - How do they do it in France?

Clara Superbie is a PhD student in the McLoughlin lab in Population Ecology (University of Saskatchewan) where she works on understanding ho...

95:58Jun 14, 2021

Jessica Hogan - Energy Justice, Comprehensive Exams, and Research Boredom.

Jessica Hogan is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her research focuses primarily on energy justice and what is cal...

82:00Jun 7, 2021

Michael P. Nelson - The Ethics of Managing Wilderness. Grief, Fatigue, and Fallacy.

Michael Paul Nelson is an environmental scholar and professor of environmental ethics and philosophy at Oregon State University. His researc...

92:00May 31, 2021

Dave Hansford - 1080 Poison and Wildlife Triage.

Dave Hansford is a freelance writer, blogger, editor and photographer from New Zealand. He appears regularly in New Zealand Geographic magaz...

73:45May 24, 2021

Season 2 of Talking Feral is here!

Talking Feral is back with all of your favorite conversations about science, nature, grad school and conservation. Keep your eyes peeled and...

2:08May 22, 2021

Charlotte Regan - The post-doc transition and an academic trajectory

Dr. Charlotte Regan is an evolutionary ecologist currently researching great tits at the University of Oxford and recently studied life hist...

61:46Feb 15, 2021

Kerstin Johannesson - Science and marine snails, it's all passion.

Dr. Kerstin Johannesson is a Professor of Marine Ecology and the Director of the Tjärnö Marine Laboratory at the University of Gothenburg in...

60:12Feb 8, 2021

Matt Krna - Grass, grass everywhere and not a bite to eat.

Dr. Matt Krna completed his PhD in NZ investigating carbon cycling in tussock grasslands and now works in private industry researching folia...

64:52Feb 1, 2021

Branden Neufeld - Family hunting and fighting families

Branden Neufeld is masters student studying woodland caribou and their interaction with predators and productivity in Saskatchewan. Branden...

79:54Jan 25, 2021

Julie Robillard - Neuroscience careers and robots in your home

Dr. Julie Robillard is Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia and Scientist in Patient Experience at BC Chil...

59:39Jan 18, 2021

Jake Hennig - Studying horses and the days before the defense

Jake Hennig is a PhD candidate at the University of Wyoming where he studies feral horse movements, habitat selection, and their interaction...

82:30Jan 11, 2021

Ryan Brook - Feral pigs on the prairie and growing up farm

Dr. Ryan Brook is an associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the man on...

124:10Jan 4, 2021