Season 2 of Talking Feral is here!

05/22/21 • 2 min

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.

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.

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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 history and movement characteristics of the Sable Island feral horses. We spoke about the challenges of pursuing research positions around the planet and diversifying your training, about establishing research labs and trying to find fundable research niches, and about being productive and thoughtful scientists when under the pump of publishing, funding, teaching and all that comes with academia.

Next Episode

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 magazine, where he also pens a science column, Life, and blogs regularly at www.nzgeo.com and www.radionz.co.nz/news. We spoke about his 2016 book Protecting Paradise, which investigated the debate, science, and political controversy around the use of the mammalian poison 1080 in New Zealand. We also spoke about the ambitious Predator Free 2050 plan in New Zealand that aims to remove a suite of introduced predators, using 1080 and other methods.