Specimens – Details, episodes &amp; analysis

Podcast socials

wwww.twitter.com/ellektaxidermy

www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch

www.twitter.com/MEMIllustration

Music

Giraffes - Harrison Amer via premiumbeat.com

Researched, edited and produced by Elle Kaye

Dr. Matthew Kasson - Mycologist + Plant Pathologist

Season 3 · Episode 46

vendredi 22 mars 2024 • Duration 41:30

In episode 046 Elle chats with Dr. Matthew Kasson: Mycologist and Plant Pathologist who studies fungus biodiversity centered around tree diseases and fungus-arthropod interactions.

Socials:

https://x.com/ImperfectFunGuy

https://twitter.com/plantdisease

Research, Sci-Comm and related press and media:

Online media, Nightmare-fuel fungi exist in real life, Popular Science (PopSci) https://www.popsci.com/environment/zombie-fungus-real-life-diseases/. Single author piece on the real-life fungal threats we face given all the attention fungi are getting from HBO’s The Last of Us. Feb. 3, 2023.

Online media, How to keep your jack-o’-lantern from turning into moldy, maggoty mush before Halloween, The Conversation, How to keep your jack-o'-lantern from turning into moldy, maggoty mush before Halloween (theconversation.com). Single author piece on how fungi impact our seasonal celebrations and rituals particularly around Halloween. Oct. 6, 2022. Re-published by Scientific American, Popular Science, and PBS.

Printed and Online media, Wild mushrooms are curious organisms that require respect, The Washington Post, Wild mushrooms aren't all poisonous, but they all require caution - The Washington Post. Single author piece on how our fears of a small number of fungi shape our willingness to interact with them. August 24, 2022

Online media, Beyond flora and fauna: Why it’s time to include fungi in global conservation goals, The Conversation, Beyond flora and fauna: Why it's time to include fungi in global conservation goals (theconversation.com). Co-authored piece with Brian Lovett (WVU PSS) and Patty Kaishian (Bard College) on how fungi are regularly excluded from talks on global conservation. May 17, 2022. Re-published in Indonesian.

Online media, Finding mental-health clarity under pandemic pressures. Nature. Finding mental-health clarity under pandemic pressures (nature.com) Single author column on my mental health struggles in academia. Dec. 14, 2021.

Research

Podcast with Online Media, Episode 25: “Of Peeps and People…and Plant Pathology” Plantopia, https://www.plantopiapodcast.org/25. The official podcast on The American Phytopathological Society featuring my work in forest pathology, science communication, and advocacy. July 21. 2022.

Podcast with Online Media, Episode 4: How cicadas become flying saltshakers of death Overheard at National Geographic, Episode 4: How cicadas become flying saltshakers of death (nationalgeographic.com) May 25, 2021.

National Radio with Online Media, Drugged Cicadas Mate Like Wild After Their Butts Fall Off, All Things Considered, National Public Radio., Drugged Cicadas Mate Like Wild After Their Butts Fall Off : NPR Coverage of Brood X and my lab’s research of cicada fungus Massospora. May 18, 2021.

Online Media, Drugged, Castrated, Eager to Mate: the Lives of Fungi-Infected Cicadas, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/science/cicadas-fungus-butts.html, Coverage of our Fungal Ecology paper on cicadas " Psychoactive plant- and mushroom-associated alkaloids from two behavior modifying cicada pathogens.", July 28, 2019.

Online Media, This Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/massospora-parasite-drugs-its-hosts/566324/, Coverage of our BioRxiv pre-print "Psychoactive plant- and mushroom-associated alkaloids from two behavior modifying cicada pathogens.", July 30, 2018.

SciComm

Online media, These fungi demand more pumpkin in their pumpkin spice lattes. Popular Science. Some fungi are fans of pumpkin spice lattes, too | Popular Science (popsci.com). Coverage of my Sept. 9, 2022 viral tweet seeing which fungi preferred growth media with real pumpkin compared with pumpkin spice and pumpkin spice latte-substituted growth media. Sept. 15, 2022.

National Radio with Online Media, A Disturbing Twinkie That Has, So Far, Defied Science, National Public Radio, Scientists Are Fascinated By An 8-Year-Old, Moldy Twinkie : NPR, Coverage of my viral Twitter experiment isolating fungi from moldy Twinkies. Oct. 15, 2020.

Online Media, Injecting Marshmallow Peeps With Fungi, for Science, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/science/marshmallow-peeps-fungus.html?searchResultPosition=1, Coverage of our Twitter #fungalPeeps project, March 29, 2019.

Expertise

Online and printed media, Janet Yellen ate magic mushrooms. Here's why she didn't get high. The Washington Post. Interview to talk about Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's trip to China and consumption of a mushroom known as jian shou qing. Aug. 16, 2023. Janet Yellen ate magic mushrooms. Here's why she didn't get high. - The Washington Post

Online media, The fungal threat to human health is growing in a warmer, wetter, sicker world. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/health/fungus-health-threat-scn/index.html. Coverage on the fungal craze surrounding HBO’s The Last of Us. Feb. 7, 2023.

Online media, We Asked a Mycologist About The Last of Us and It Got Weird. Esquire. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a42760795/last-of-us-fungus-cordyceps-mycologist/ Interview to speak about the fungal craze surrounding HBO’s The Last of Us. Feb. 5, 2023.

National Radio with Online Media, Finally, scientists have found a true millipede, All Things Considered, National Public Radio., Finally, scientists have found a true millipede : NPR Coverage of my colleague’s discovery of the first true millipede with commentary from me. Dec. 20, 2021. Finally, scientists have found a true millipede : NPR

Elle Kaye socials

Podcast socials

wwww.twitter.com/ellektaxidermy

www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch

www.twitter.com/MEMIllustration

Music

Giraffes - Harrison Amer via premiumbeat.com

Researched, edited and produced by Elle Kaye

Nadeem Perera - Flock Together Co-Founder + Wildlife TV Presenter + Researcher

Season 2 · Episode 38

vendredi 7 octobre 2022 • Duration 33:59

In episode 037 Elle chats with self-proclaimed 'nature boy' and half of Flock Together, Nadeem Perera. Nadeem shares when he started paying attention to nature, and how it developed to become the foundation of what he does today. We discuss the ethos of Flock Together, and who this community he has helped built represents.

Nadeem's socials

instagram.com/birdnerdeem

Flock Together

https://www.flocktogether.world/

instagram.com/flocktogether.world

linktr.ee/flocktogether.world

Join FT

https://mailchi.mp/41a0999a5b31/jointheflock

FT Book

amazon.co.uk/flock-together-outsiders-connecting-people/dp/1856754782

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nadeem-Perera/e/B09RN8ZZL7/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk

Press

https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/theredbulletin/flock-together-birding

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/31/birdwatching-is-not-just-a-white-thing-flock-together-london

https://www.standard.co.uk/escapist/flock-together-bird-watching-ollie-olanipekun-nadeeem-perera-b1015910.html

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/london-birdwatching-group-flock-together-is-bringing-out-a-book-062022

https://inews.co.uk/news/flock-together-twitchers-of-colour-shaking-up-birdwatching-1718471

Elle Kaye socials

Podcast socials

www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch

www.instagram.com/clairemorganstudio

Music

Giraffes - Harrison Amer via premiumbeat.com

Researched, edited and produced by Elle Kaye

Claire Morgan - Visual Artist

Season 2 · Episode 37

samedi 27 août 2022 • Duration 39:14

In episode 036 Elle chats with internationally-recognised visual artist Claire Morgan about her work. Claire speaks about her multi-faceted practice; drawing, the use of taxidermy and 3D sculpture using natural and organic materials. She also shares her approach to these large-scale works, and how she finds patterns and rhythms through the installation of these pieces. Claire speaks about being an artist, Imposters Syndrome, and how working close to nature can reflect thoughts on life and death.

TW: Death/Dying/Taxidermy/Dead Animals

Claire Morgan socials

www.claire-morgan.co.uk

www.twitter.com/clairemorganstu

Previous exhibits

https://galerie-karsten-greve.com/en/artists/detail/claire-morgan?tab=start&cHash=7206c8f2b002243a6da6d7a434cb19ea

https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Claire-Morgan/DC6FC94876E4EB50/Exhibitions

Current exhibs

https://dortmunder-u.de/programm/?cat=43

https://www.goodplanet.org/fr/domaine/vivant/

Nick Knight

https://www.instagram.com/nick_knight/

Alexander McQueen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McQueen

Press + features

https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/about-the-art-claire-morgan/

https://claire-morgan.co.uk/press-2/

https://saywho.co.uk/interviews/claire-morgan/

Film + talk

https://claire-morgan.co.uk/films/

https://youtu.be/c_fm9ZVjc-c

Elle Kaye socials

Podcast socials

www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch

https://twitter.com/Dr_MTaylor

Music

Giraffes - Harrison Amer via premiumbeat.com

Researched, edited and produced by Elle Kaye

Dr. Michelle Taylor - Marine Biologist

Season 2 · Episode 35

jeudi 9 juin 2022 • Duration 50:35

In episode 035 Elle chats with Dr. Michelle Taylor about her work as Director of Marine Biology at Essex University in the United Kingdom and President of the Deep-Sea Biology Society. She discusses her journey into marine biology, and where around the world her research and exploration has taken her. She shares details about her research in deep-sea corals deep-sea ecosystems, what drives their biodiversity and how we can limit human impacts in vulnerable habitats such as coral reefs.

Dr. Michelle Taylor socials

https://taylorlab.science/

https://www.instagram.com/dr_mtaylor/

Dr. Michelle Taylor’s research

https://taylorlab.science/publications/

https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/taylo51908/michelle-taylor

Reef Doctor Madagascar

https://www.reefdoctor.org/

DSBOC

https://dsbsoc.org/

Resources

https://dsbsoc.org/deep-sea-resources/

International Seabed Authority

https://www.isa.org.jm/

Nautilus Camera

https://nautiluslive.org/

E.O Wilson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson

Additional links/videos

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=10155175070021819

https://www.facebook.com/uniofessex/videos/10155162616986819/

Shackleton's Discovery

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ernest-shackleton-ship-discovery-antarctic-explorer-history-180979702/

Greenland Shark Discovery

https://www.livescience.com/rare-greenland-shark-uk-stranding

Elle Kaye socials

Podcast socials

www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch

https://twitter.com/enicurus

Music

Giraffes - Harrison Amer via premiumbeat.com

Researched, edited and produced by Elle Kaye

Dr. Ryan Terrill - Ornithologist

Season 2 · Episode 34

mercredi 18 mai 2022 • Duration 45:38

Love science and conservation? Want to discover new ways to protect our species? Elle Kaye chats with guests who work within the science genre, but whose job titles may need a little unpacking. Strap in for entomology, taxidermy, diaphonization, pet remains, human pathology and all those that work with specimens. In episode 034 Elle chats with Dr. Ryan Terrill about his work as an ornithological postdoctoral researcher and the work he does at the Moore Lab of Zoology in California. We discuss the primary focus of his research in molt and character evolution through feather replacement in birds; and the biogeography and natural history of the birds of the New World tropics. Ryan Terrill Socials

http://www.ryansterrill.com/

https://www.instagram.com/terrilldactyl_

Research

Simultaneous Wing Molt as a Catalyst for the Evolution of Flightlessness in Birds: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711416

Feather growth rate increases with latitude in four species of widespread resident Neotropical birds: http://www.ryansterrill.com/uploads/1/0/3/7/103769142/auk-17-176_crx.pdf

Threshold models improve estimates of molt parameters in datasets with small sample sizes: https://academic.oup.com/auk/article-abstract/138/3/ukab038/6304580?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Evolution of breeding plumages in birds: A multiple-step pathway to seasonal dichromatism in New World warblers (Aves: Parulidae): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6606

Moore Lab of Zoology

https://moorelab.oxy.edu/

https://www.instagram.com/mlzbirds/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/oxymlz?lang=en

Birding in California

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/newsletter/2022-05-12/la-tr-best-secret-birding-spot-southern-california-the-wild

Ryan Terrill Profile Oxy

https://moorelab.oxy.edu/person/ryan-terrill

Further Reading

Non-breeding changes in at-sea distribution and abundance of the threatened marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in a portion of its range exhibiting long-term breeding season declines: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35446906/

A Matter of Timing: Can Birds Keep Up With Earlier and Earlier Springs?:

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/spring-2022/a-matter-timing-can-birds-keep-earlier-and

Birding Organisations California

https://ca.audubon.org/

https://www.labirders.org/about.html

https://www.instagram.com/fbc.la/

https://www.laaudubon.org/

Elle Kaye socials

Podcast socials

www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch

www.twitter.com/ben_garrod

Music

Giraffes - Harrison Amer via premiumbeat.com

Researched, edited and produced by Elle Kaye

Dr. Ben Garrod - Professor of Evolutionary Biology + Science Engagement

Season 2 · Episode 33

lundi 25 avril 2022 • Duration 48:05

In episode 033 Elle chats with Dr. Ben Garrod about his work: from primatology and evolutionary biology to broadcasting and lecturing. Ben discusses the objective behind his new children’s book series ‘Extinct’ and how he helps empower children about conservation. Ben discusses what it means to be a scientist and his thoughs on how the subject is intersectional and multi-faceted.

Dr. Ben Garrod Socials

www.instagram.com/ben_garrod

www.bengarrod.co.uk

Dr. Jane Goodall Institute

https://janegoodall.org/

ZSL

https://www.zsl.org/

Royal Vet Collage

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/

Darwins Finches

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_finches

University of East Anglia

https://www.uea.ac.uk/

Norfolk Wildlife Trust

https://www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/home

Youth STEMM Awards

https://ysawards.co.uk/

Ben’s Books ‘EXTINCT’

https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/extinct

Ben’s TEDX Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEzAHZJnp5M

Elle Kaye socials

Podcast socials

www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch

https://www.allisonshultz.com

Music

Giraffes - Harrison Amer via premiumbeat.com

Researched, edited and produced by Elle Kaye

Dr. Allison Shultz - Ornithologist

Season 2 · Episode 32

lundi 4 avril 2022 • Duration 51:51

Love science and conservation? Want to discover new ways to protect our species? Elle Kaye chats with guests who work within the science genre, but whose job titles may need a little unpacking. Strap in for entomology, taxidermy, diaphonization, pet remains, human pathology and all those that work with specimens. In episode 032 Elle chats with Dr. Allison Shultz about how she became Assistant Curator of Ornithology at NHMLA. We discuss her research in colouration and plumeology, and she gives us an education in why birds look the way that they are and what are the genes that make up colours. We discuss plumage evolution and micro-structure, as well as the role, form and function of feathers. Dr. Allison also discusses her role at the museum and the types of specimens and study-skins she works with. Dr. Allison Shultz Socials

https://www.instagram.com/ajshultz622

https://www.Instagram.com/tauraco.designs

https://twitter.com/ajshultz622

Profiles NHMLA

https://nhm.org/person/shultz-allison

https://nhm.org/stories/our-bird-curators-new-perch

La Brea Tar Pits Museum

https://tarpits.org/

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

https://nhm.org/

San Diego Zoo (live cams link, because, well, live cams)

https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-cams

Great Frigate Bird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_frigatebird

Structural Colour Article

https://nhm.org/stories/how-and-why-colorful-feathers

Turacin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turacin

Museum of Vertabrate Zoology

https://mvz.berkeley.edu/

“Meet the Scientist” by (NHMLA) video interview with Dr. Allison Shultz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7i6KBEB8E

Articles/Research on Coloration

https://www.allisonshultz.com/research

Leucism

https://www.audubon.org/news/why-bird-half-white

Elle Kaye socials

Podcast socials

www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch

https://www.tomhanner.com/

Music

Giraffes - Harrison Amer via premiumbeat.com

Researched, edited and produced by Elle Kaye

Tom Hanner - Wildlife Filmmaker

Season 2 · Episode 31

jeudi 3 mars 2022 • Duration 51:50

In episode 031 Elle chats with Tom about how he became head over heels for the natural world. He shares how at a hard time in his life, he found solace in nature and discovery and how this helped him to heal. We discuss his filmmaking projects and their conservational objectives, and his science communication plans for the future.

Tom's Socials

https://www.instagram.com/tom.hanner/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv-VfEa8b3oYV5-ov-u57xA

Tom's Films

https://vimeo.com/user99652098

BBC Earth

https://www.bbcearth.com/

BBC Natural History Unit

https://www.bbcstudios.com/case-studies/natural-world/

Elle Kaye socials

Podcast socials

www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch