Phillip Vannini is a professor and ethnographer at Royal Roads School of Communication and Culture. His recent work includes the documentary film Life off Grid, and the book (and documentary film) Inhabited, Wildness and the Vitality of the Lan

Sally Gepp - The Environment in the Eyes of the Law

Nov 9th, 2021 58m 57s

Sally Gepp is an environmental lawyer and has practises as a barrister sole in New Zealand. She worked for nine years with environmental NGO Forest & Bird specializing in environmental law, and since 2019 has been working in environmental law

Eric Eaton - Field Guide for a Career Entomologist

Oct 12th, 2021 1h 13m

Eric R. Eaton is a writer and is author of Wasps: The Astonishing Diversity of a Misunderstood Insect (Princeton University Press, 2021), and the forthcoming Insectpedia (Princeton University Press, 2022). He is also lead author of the Kaufman

Bram Büscher - Conservation & Capitalism

Aug 30th, 2021 1h 23m

Dr. Bram Büscher is Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University and holds visiting positions at the University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University. His research looks at the political ec

Rachel Engler-Stringer - Industrial Food and Our Future

Jul 29th, 2021 1h 26m

Dr. Rachel Engler-Stringer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan and a researcher with the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Res

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

Jul 23rd, 2021 1h 37m

This episode is part 2 of a conversation with Dr. Chris Todd. We discuss the collapse of Laurentian University, graduate student funding and the economics of tertiary education, and the breadth of expectations for academic positions. Check out

Willow Talk - The Roles We Play

Jul 2nd, 2021 24m 29s

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 doctorate of philosophy, and mechanistic conservation.

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

Jun 21st, 2021 56m 20s

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 a plant molecular biologist with a research program focusing on molecular mechanisms driving plant resp

Clara Superbie - How do they do it in France?

Jun 14th, 2021 1h 35m

Clara Superbie is a PhD student in the McLoughlin lab in Population Ecology (University of Saskatchewan) where she works on understanding how caribou respond to predation pressure and resource availability in an environment largely dominated by

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

Jun 7th, 2021 1h 22m

Jessica Hogan is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her research focuses primarily on energy justice and what is called distributional justice. She researches how costs and benefits are shared in new energy developments,

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

May 31st, 2021 1h 32m

Michael Paul Nelson is an environmental scholar and professor of environmental ethics and philosophy at Oregon State University. His research and teaching focus is environmental ethics and philosophy including concepts of wilderness, the philos

Dave Hansford - 1080 Poison and Wildlife Triage.

May 24th, 2021 1h 13m

Dave Hansford is a freelance writer, blogger, editor and photographer from New Zealand. He appears regularly in New Zealand Geographic magazine, where he also pens a science column, Life, and blogs regularly at www.nzgeo.com and www.radionz.co.

Season 2 of Talking Feral is here!

May 22nd, 2021 2m 8s

Talking Feral is back with all of your favorite conversations about science, nature, grad school and conservation. Keep your eyes peeled and your ears diced for hot new episodes.

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

Feb 15th, 2021 1h 1m

Dr. Charlotte Regan is an evolutionary ecologist currently researching great tits at the University of Oxford and recently studied life history and movement characteristics of the Sable Island feral horses. We spoke about the challenges of purs

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

Feb 8th, 2021 1h

Dr. Kerstin Johannesson is a Professor of Marine Ecology and the Director of the Tjärnö Marine Laboratory at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. We spoke about her work studying speciation and evolution in marine ecosystems, and how our vie

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

Feb 1st, 2021 1h 4m

Dr. Matt Krna completed his PhD in NZ investigating carbon cycling in tussock grasslands and now works in private industry researching foliar fertilizers. We spoke about our time together working at his field sites in New Zealand, about Matt's

Branden Neufeld - Family hunting and fighting families

Jan 25th, 2021 1h 19m

Branden Neufeld is masters student studying woodland caribou and their interaction with predators and productivity in Saskatchewan. Branden originally trained in the arts with a BA in English, teaching for several years before deciding to head

Julie Robillard - Neuroscience careers and robots in your home

Jan 18th, 2021 59m 39s

Dr. Julie Robillard is Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia and Scientist in Patient Experience at BC Children's & Women's Hospitals. She leads the Neuroscience, Engagement and Smart Tech (NEST) lab and her res

Jake Hennig - Studying horses and the days before the defense

Jan 11th, 2021 1h 22m

Jake Hennig is a PhD candidate at the University of Wyoming where he studies feral horse movements, habitat selection, and their interactions with co-occuring flora and fauna. We spoke about the history and complicated politics of feral horse m

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

Jan 4th, 2021 2h 4m

Dr. Ryan Brook is an associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the man on point for feral pig research in Canada, though studies a number of different species including elk, pola

Willow Talk Ep 2

Dec 31st, 2020 19m 31s

An episode from the Patreon archives where I complain to my long-suffering dog and therapist, Willow.

Ally Menzies - Journey to the end of a PhD. The transformation and pivot.

Dec 28th, 2020 1h 27m

Dr. Ally Menzies recently defended her PhD at McGill University in Montreal. She studied how boreal mammals behaviorally and physiologically respond to variation in their environment. We spoke about how it feels to have finished her degree, whe

Andrea Wishart Pt 2 - A focus on the non-academic in academia

Dec 23rd, 2020 1h 2m

Andrea Wishart is a Ph.D student in biology at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research looks at red squirrel life history and caching behavior in the Yukon. In this two part episode we spoke about trying to be effective educators teaching

Andrea Wishart Pt 1 - Academic inequality and field work disparities

Dec 21st, 2020 1h 34m

Joel Campbell - Rooftop gardens and a travelling education

Dec 16th, 2020 1h 18m

Joel is a urban/rooftop gardener, traveler extraordinaire, all around good guy and a close friend. We talk about choosing university over working after high school, travelling when your young and fighting the pressure to take on university debt