Fancy Scientist with Dr. Stephanie Manka
126 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago -Dr. Stephanie Schuttler, the Fancy Scientist, is a wildlife biologist who loves breaking stereotypes and talking about the natural world. In this podcast, she shares her knowledge of animals, experiences as a wildlife biologist, and simple lifestyle choices you can make to conserve nature. Her 17 years in wildlife biology taught her that science alone cannot save species. We need to take collective action through simple things we can do every day. This podcast is for anyone who likes animals and wants to help make the world a better place for them, and for us too. You’ll learn cool things about the animals around you from her own and other scientists’ research. She’ll also give tips for other scientists to succeed (that really ANYONE can use), strategies for effective science communication, and how she gained the confidence to become a fancy scientist. Hit subscribe and let’s change the world!
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Corporations and Climate Change with Lavaniya Das
June 02, 2021 11:32 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBThrough my 17 years in research, one of the biggest lessons I learned is that science alone cannot solve the biodiversity crisis. We need people to care and to change their behaviors. People tend to view corporations as the enemy of conservation – and with good reason, they pollute, cause deforestation, and destroy habitats. But the truth is, we need to work with them if we want to solve this problem due to their large impact. Therefore, when Lavaniya Das reached out to me to discuss how...
Getting a Job in Science Communication
May 25, 2021 10:26 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBWhen I was in graduate school, everyone was talking about how if you didn’t want to go into research, you could get a job in science communication – like it was something you could just easily do. But when I was officially on the job market, I didn’t see a ton of science communication jobs posted. And when I did, I found out that employers wanted communications professionals interested in science rather than science professionals with a social media presence. Also a lot of people don’t rea...
Handling the Haters in Science Communication
May 18, 2021 07:18 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBI was recently featured on an Instagram live hosted by @shine.science and I was asked the question, “How do you handle negative comments on social media?” I had such a long answer that I thought it would make an excellent podcast episode! I’ve been putting myself out there (and by there I mean the Internet) since about 2010 when I started a professional Twitter account and blog. Eleven years later (where has the time gone??) I am still here and in the last few years I’ve put myself even out...
Sustainable Seafood with Jackie Marks
May 12, 2021 23:31 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBWhat you eat has a huge impact on wildlife and that’s true for the ocean too. Commercial fishing can have large-scale negative impacts on dolphins, turtles, and whole ecosystems. Overfishing can endanger the species that is fished affecting ecosystems and our food availability. Some people advocate for stopping to eat seafood all together, but this may not be the best option for us and sea life. A better option is sustainable seafood – but what is this? And how do you know what to buy? ...
Garden for Wildlife with David Mizejewski
May 06, 2021 06:38 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBDo you have a backyard? Front yard? Balcony? Access to a rooftop? Then you can help wildlife! I invited naturalist David Mizejewski on the podcast to talk about how you can make your yard, balcony, or whatever you have access to more wildlife friendly. David is an author, TV host, and naturalist who works for the National Wildlife Federation spreading messages about conservation in your own backyard. He’s worked for the National Wildlife Federation for 21 years, where they’ve been promoting...
City Nature Challenge with George Gehrig
April 29, 2021 18:54 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBGeorge Gehrig subscribes to the Fancy Scientist and responded to an email of mine asking about the impact of iNaturalist data on science. I thought that sounded like a great topic to discuss, and when I found out that George was the organizer of the City Nature Challenge for Bonner County, I thought – even better! iNaturalist is an app that anyone with a smartphone can use to take photos of different things in nature, upload them to the platform for identifications, and to connect with memb...
Extinction of Experience: The Core Threat to Nature Conservation
April 22, 2021 10:13 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBI became a wildlife biologist because I wanted to save species from extinction. But I’ve learned over my nearly two decades in this field, that we really can’t save species without focusing on ourselves first When people think of wildlife conservation, they often conjure up images of scientists in the field with animals, studying where they move, what they eat, or how many there are. This definitely helps in conservation planning, but it doesn’t relieve the threats placed on animals. To re...
Welcome Mammals Into Your Yard the Right Way
April 14, 2021 10:18 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBLast week I talked about how you can make your front and backyard wildlife-friendly, and this week, I’m talking specifically about mammals! Lots of people want to welcome mammals into their yards, but don’t do it in the best way. In fact, by doing some things wrong, you could actually end up hurting and even indirectly killing mammals. As a wildlife biologist who has studied mammals for nearly two decades, in this episode I talk about what you can do to welcome mammals into your yard in a ...
How to Make a Wildlife Friendly Backyard
April 08, 2021 07:29 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBWhen most people think of conservation, they tend to think of faraway animals like tigers, elephants, and jaguars, or faraway places like the Amazon rainforest, Serengeti plains, or Yellowstone National Park. But conservation can start in your own backyard! Historically, we tend to think of protecting animals in parks and other protected areas, putting animals in a separate space than humans. But the truth is that animals are all around us and they need us. While protected areas are crit...
Climate Change Empowerment: Changes You Can Make for Maximum Impact
April 01, 2021 20:31 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBThe inspiration for all of my writing and videos stems from animals. So often people want to become a wildlife biologist because they want to help animals. They envision themselves conducting important research to grow populations or captive-rearing animals for reintroductions. But I’ve learned through all of my years of research, that to really help animals we need to take a look at ourselves. And the truth is all animals will be affected by climate change – including us. So if we really ...
Foraging for Food and Medicine with Mark “Merriweather” Vorderbruggen
March 24, 2021 14:19 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBThis week I talked to Dr. Mark “Merriweather” Vorderbruggen about foraging for your own food. I’ve blogged and podcasted before about having a more sustainable diet, but foraging is not something that came across my mind until Mark reached out to me. I’ll have to add it to my posts! In brief, foraging is the practice of people going out and collecting their own food from the wild. Usually it is limited to plants and fungi (as with animals it is called hunting). I went into this podcast pr...
Academic Coaching with Katy Peplin
March 17, 2021 20:32 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBIn today’s podcast, I talk to academic Coach Dr. Katy Peplin of Thrive Ph.D. Katy founded Thrive PhD in 2017, where she started out coaching acquaintances to now having a thriving business with clients all over the world and in all disciplines, who have achieved all kinds of success. Katy helps academics going through grad school because “she gets it.” She is an advocate for students and prides herself on being a real human too. I hope you enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Katy. Sp...
Animal Care to Self Care with PJ Beaven of ZooFit
March 11, 2021 17:41 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBIn this podcast, I interview PJ Beaven, a zookeeper for over 15 years. PJ created a program called ZooFit where she incorporates health and fitness with conservation. First PJ and I talk about what it was like for her to be a zookeeper. PJ worked with elephants and talks about how she took care of them and trained them for medical purposes. But because she gave so much of herself to the animals, she became burnt out and started to develop “compassion fatigue.” As a result, she created Zoo...
Big Game Biology with Rebecca Mowry
March 04, 2021 19:31 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBI invited my friend and colleague Rebecca Mowry for a conversation about her job as a big game wildlife biologist on my podcast. Rebecca is the Bitterroot area Wildlife Biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks. I’ve been seeing her photos of mountain goats, moose, bighorn sheep and more pop up in my Facebook feed for years now and thought it would be great to have her on the podcast to talk about her journey into wildlife biology. I met Rebecca in graduate school where we both worke...
Mastodons’ Impact on Mice with Mammalogist Mike Cove
February 25, 2021 03:50 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBMy colleague and friend, Dr. Mike Cove reached out to me to have a discussion about something he had been thinking about for some time: how mammals of the past impact mammals today. He was especially interested on the impacts of mastodons on today’s smaller mammals like rodents and small carnivores. Because I researched African forest elephants for my Ph.D., he wanted to get my thoughts on this topic and thought it would be a cool idea for the podcast! Over tens of thousands of years ago, o...
Conservation Careers with Nick Askew
February 18, 2021 10:12 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBThis episode is a must listen-to for anyone who wants to go into wildlife or conservation careers. I interview Dr. Nick Askew, founder of Conservation Careers, an organization dedicated to helping students find the right career for them in conservation. We chat about Nick’s background; how he pivoted from a Ph.D. research project in barn owls to working for a consulting agency, nonprofit, and then starting his own business. Nick realized that there wasn’t much information out there for tho...
Effective Communication in Conservation with Ben Christ
February 11, 2021 08:52 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBCommunication is huge in conservation and wildlife biology careers. People tend to only think of the species, ecosystems, or research that scientists work on, but this research is always communicated in some way – to other scientists, the public, and/or various stakeholders. In this interview, I sit down with Director of Facilitation and Planning at Impact by Design, Inc., Ben Christ. Ben was an undergraduate researcher when I was getting my Ph.D. at the University of Missouri and he talks ...
You are NOT Too Old! Interview with Jeffrey Hunter
February 03, 2021 22:40 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBA couple of weeks ago, I hosted a Facebook Live entitled, “Are You Too Old for a Career in Wildlife Biology? When I advertised for this event on my social media, I got quite a few comments. One of them was from senior program manager at the National Parks Conservation Association, Jeffrey Hunter. He responded with “this was me,” meaning he started his career later in life. I knew I had to invite him to talk about his late start in the wildlife field on the podcast. Many people fear they a...
Science Filmmaking with Rob Nelson
January 27, 2021 23:55 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBThis podcast features a fantastic interview with science filmmaker Rob Nelson. Rob is a friend of mine and we both appear together on the Science Channel’s What on Earth. He transitioned from research into filmmaking and has a YouTube channel with almost 150K subscribers and multiple videos with millions of views. In this episode, I chat with Rob about why and how he decided to turn to science filmmaking. This is certainly a unique career path without obvious instructions. Even if there was...
Nova Conservation with Laura Marsh:Connecting People to Fieldwork
January 21, 2021 16:01 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBThis podcast features an amazing interview with scientist and founder of Nova Conservation: Laura Marsh. Nova Conservation is a brand new organization dedicated to connecting scientists and non-professionals to conservation and research opportunities. Laura and I chat about so much – how and why she founded Nova Conservation, how it will change ecotourism and provide opportunities for scientists to connect with research projects without having to get too involved, and the barriers to entry...
Charlotte Hacker Interview: Elephants, Snow Leopards, and Being Persistent
January 14, 2021 15:25 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBIn this episode of the Fancy Scientist podcast, I interview scientist and blogger Charlotte Hacker. Charlotte is a Ph.D. candidate who uses non-invasive genetics through scat (poop) to study snow leopard populations in China. We talk all about her snow leopard research and journey to become a scientist. This is a fantastic episode to listen to if you are an aspiring wildlife biologist or scientist! Charlotte talks about all of the pivots she had to make on her way to become a scientist. Lea...
Lonely Conservationists: An Interview with Jessie Panazzolo
January 10, 2021 12:53 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBThis podcast features an amazing interview with conservationist and founder of Lonely Conservationists: Jessie Panazzolo. Jessie is a conserves conservationists; in other words, she works to save those who are saving the world. In episode #41, I talked about how important self-care is for scientists and how easily we can become burnt out and quite honestly, depressed. Jessie felt this herself, which was why she started Lonely Conservationists. Turns out there are a lot of lonely conservatio...
Self-Care for Scientists
January 03, 2021 14:41 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this podcast, I really wanted to talk about self-care for scientists because we are so bad at it! I wanted to talk about because we are still experiencing the pandemic, which limits what we can do and certainly takes an emotional toll. So what is self care? Some people don’t even know how to do self-care. You may have heard that it’s getting a massage or taking a bubble bath, but it’s so much more than that! I didn’t know how to do really do self-care until I was older and it’s also impor...
Self-Care for Scientists (and Everyone Else too!)
January 03, 2021 14:41 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this podcast, I really wanted to talk about self-care for scientists because we are so bad at it! I wanted to talk about because we are still experiencing the pandemic, which limits what we can do and certainly takes an emotional toll. So what is self care? Some people don’t even know how to do self-care. You may have heard that it’s getting a massage or taking a bubble bath, but it’s so much more than that! I didn’t know how to do really do self-care until I was older and it’s also impo...
Palm Oil Boycotts and a Conservation Reality Check
January 01, 2021 00:11 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBToday’s episode was inspired by some people that started trolling me on Twitter and provides valuable lessons for conservation (and dealing with trolls). Palm oil, an ingredient in tons of food, cosmetic, and personal care products, is bad for biodiversity. There’s no doubt about that. I wrote a post explaining how it is bad and created a YouTube video on it. But the shocking thing about that post and video is that I state that I am no longer boycotting palm oil. In the article I explain ...
Overcoming End-of-the-Year Blues
December 27, 2020 16:55 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBt’s getting close to the end of the year. In normal years, this is a time when everyone says their accomplishments. In which case, if you didn’t feel like you did that much or didn’t meet your goals, you can feel like a failure. This is how I felt a couple of years ago when I didn’t publish any first author papers. Maybe it’s different this year because of COVID. It may even be worse because of COVID. But if you’re feeling down, I got the podcast for you. In this week’s episode, I talk abo...
Impostor Syndrome, Confidence, and Conservation
December 20, 2020 16:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBIn this episode, I talk all about imposter syndrome. Part of the reason why I am talking about imposter syndrome is because we’re starting off in a new year! I also just started my second cohort of students in my Confusion to Clarity course and it’s really clear they are struggling. It just makes me so sad how rampant imposter syndrome is in our community, our science community, our conservation community. But finally – I think it affects conservation – hear me out! I’ve been there – I kn...
Gifts to Connect People to Nature
December 13, 2020 14:20 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBWhy do I care about connecting people to nature? Well, it is incredibly important for me to get people outdoors, connecting to nature because that is so important in raising future conservationists to get adults to change their behaviors, change their attitudes, to be more pro conservation and pro wildlife. And if you ask anyone who is a wildlife biologist, they will say they become a wildlife biologist because they spend time outdoors in nature. What’s going on currently is something call...
Elephant Friendly Tea: A Win-Win for Elephants and Communities
December 07, 2020 19:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBHey everyone. I am so excited about today’s episode. I really truly mean that today I interviewed a special guest. Her name is Lisa Mills and she is the founder of elephant origins tea. I love this for so many reasons. One, I am obviously an elephant lover. If you don’t know, I studied African forest elephants for my PhD. I’m all about tea now. So I love this because it’s about elephants. It’s about tea. It’s fantastic tea. The holidays are here. It makes a great gift, a great stocking, and...
Why You Need to Clarify Your Career NOW
December 02, 2020 20:20 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBI interviewed Master's student Hannah Som on her journey to becoming a student and what she learned as a student in the first round of my Confusion to Clarity program. We talk about how she transformed and the value of getting super clear on what you want in your wildlife biology career. For more info on Confusion to Clarity and my webinar on the 7 Tips to Find Your Wildlife Biology Career Path, click here: https://stephanieschuttler.com/confusion-to-clarity-course/ You can learn more abo...
Sustainable Holiday Tips to Keep it Green
November 29, 2020 15:29 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBThe holiday season is here! Here in the US, I’ve seen it shift massively towards consumerism over the past few decades – gifts of course, but also more gifts than ever before, massive yard displays of santa, lights, and snowmen, and of course lots of eating. Some estimate that waste increases by 25% over our normal consumption. BUT it doesn’t have to be this way! Can you celebrate the holidays and not be a total grinch? In this podcast, I offer you sustainable holiday tips to keep your se...
Make Black Friday Green
November 22, 2020 13:59 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBBlack Friday is the official kickoff for the holiday buying season. As a conservationist, I know that buying stuff is inherently bad for the planet. But as the daughter of a family business, I know the holiday season is essential for people. In fact, many businesses depend on the holidays for their survival. I also know that regardless of the environmental message I present, that people will still shop. People (like my sister) will insist on gifts no matter what. And to be honest, as a fanc...
Clearing Up Coyote Misconceptions
November 15, 2020 16:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBWhat’s the deal with coyotes? It seems like people are seeing them more and more and some coyotes have unusual behavior. What’s going on? People also seem to really hate them, but do they deserve such a bad wrap? This is so interesting to me because so many people love dogs! In this episode, I talk all about coyotes with a focus on coyotes in the eastern United States. This is a wide-ranging conversation that will likely answer questions you have about this super adaptive species. Specif...
Can Coyotes and Humans Replace Apex Predators in the Eastern USA?
November 08, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBThis week Colorado citizens voted to reintroduce grey wolves on their prey. Historically, grey wolves were all over the west, but currently they extirpated (locally extinct) through most of their range. Voters are now letting these apex predators come back. Given my recent cougar episodes (#29 and #30 on the viral cougar video and eastern cougars) and this new ballot proposition, I thought it would be a great time to talk about the impacts of the loss of apex predators like cougars and gre...
Eastern Cougars? How to Know if a Species is Really There
November 01, 2020 13:36 - 39 minutes - 36 MBThis week’s episode is inspired by photos posted to a Facebook group. A user posted these photos of part of a deer carcass high in a tree. They asked what animal would cause this? I watched the responses pour in and I knew what they would be. Cougar. Mountain lion. Puma. These are different names for the same species (Puma concolor) and I knew people would say with certainty that this big cat did this. But I knew it was not. In fact, I posted that there are NO eastern cougars. But I knew ...
Cougar Viral Video: Interview with Trail Runner Kyle Burgess
October 25, 2020 16:23 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBA week ago, I made a YouTube video in response to a cougar “attack/stalking” video that went viral. But what was missing from the cougar viral video is what actually happened. That’s where I came in to get to the truth. In brief, the video shows a cougar advancing towards a hiker and at times VERY aggressively. There is good reason why the cougar (AKA mountain lion, puma) did this, which is what I explain in my YouTube video, but when the video went viral, this message was left out by the m...
Why Aggressive Elephants? Also Field Stories, Dung DNA, and Elephant Conservation
October 18, 2020 18:57 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBThis is the fifth episode in a series all about how I actually studied elephants. For my Ph.D., I studied the social structure and genetic patterns of African forest elephants in Gabon. Here I follow up on aggressive elephants in the park, fun field stories, extracting and amplifying elephant DNA, and how to conserve elephants. It may be a good idea to catch up with episodes #24-27 so you can fully understand what my field research and seasons were like: #24 How Do You Study Elephants? The...
Charging Elephants and Fresh Dung: Challenges from the Field
October 11, 2020 13:42 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBThis is the fourth episode in a series all about how I actually studied elephants. I recently gave a talk and people were really curious about how I went about this (how does one study elephants?). I decided this would be the perfect thing to talk about on my podcast – taking you through step-by-step of how I set it all up and what it was really like to study forest elephants. Before you continue, make sure you are up to date with episodes: #24 How Do You Study Elephants? The Start of M...
First Field Season with Forest Elephants
October 04, 2020 12:24 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis episode is the third part of a series all about my dissertation research on African forest elephants. People were really curious about how I actually went about this (how does one study elephants?), so I made a series about how I set up the research and what it was like to study them. Make sure you are up to date with the first two episodes: #24. How Do You Study Elephants? The Start of My Journey and #25. Choosing a Field Site for Forest Elephant Research. This week’s episode is all a...
Choosing a Field Site for Forest Elephant Research
September 27, 2020 13:36 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBWelcome back to this series on how I set up my forest elephant research and what it was like to study them. In the last episode, I take you through the process of how and why I decided to study African forest elephants, and how I came up with the research questions I would ask for my dissertation research. At this point of my Ph.D., I knew what I was going to study and now I had to find where I would conduct that research. Where would I go in all of central and west Africa to study forest ...
How Do You Study Elephants? The Start of My Journey
September 20, 2020 14:49 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBI chose to study elephants for my dissertation research. But how does one even set something like that up? Where do you begin? I recently gave a talk to undergraduate students in wildlife studies. I talked about my past research including my dissertation research on forest elephants, but also more recent research on camera traps. At the end of the talk though, I got a lot of questions about how I set up more elephant research. I thought now would be a great time to talk about that. In thi...
Barriers to Entry in Wildlife and Conservation Jobs with Stephanie Martin
September 13, 2020 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBIn this episode, I talk with scientist and science communicator Stephanie Martin about a topic near and dear to her heart – barriers to entry in the field of wildlife biology. A lot of people may not know this, but experience is key for young wildlife biologists. Because conservation and science both are not lucrative fields, it is common for organizations and employers to hire people without paying them. In fact, there are not only a lot of people willing to work for free, but there are ...
Conversations About Conservation in Academia with Chris Parsons
September 06, 2020 13:35 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBLast week in episode #21, I talked about the importance of voting for the conservation of wildlife. This is the perfect follow-episode! I interview marine scientist and science communicator Dr. Chris Parsons of the Speak Up for Blue Network. Chris has decades of experience working in conservation and knows that you cannot separate politics from wildlife. In this episode, we talk about Chris’ vast experience working in conservation, but also about two recent papers he authored (links in re...
Want to Help Animals? Do This One Thing
August 30, 2020 12:39 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBAs a wildlife biologist, one of the most frequently asked questions I get is: “What can I do to help animals?” Well this episode is all about that exact topic. And guess what? It’s probably not what you think it is. Want a clue? It happens every year, but we mostly pay attention to it every four years here in the US. It’s also super easy to do, although there are real barriers for many Americans (which I go over how to help overcome). It’s… VOTING! Most people don’t realize it, but wi...
5 Things You’ll Get From My Book on Wildlife Biology Careers (Plus 2 Bonuses)
August 23, 2020 16:53 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBI am so excited – My book on wildlife biology careers is finally available on pre-order for Kindle. The paperback version will be out next month. For the past year, I’ve been writing a book on wildlife biology careers from everything that I’ve learned over the past 17 years in my career. It’s jammed packed with information about my personal journey and advice for you on how to go about getting a job in this field. This is a short and sweet episode about the five major takeaways you’ll get...
Mindful Conservation with Ashley Scarlett
August 15, 2020 15:01 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBConservation is all about trying to protect and save plants, animals, and other organisms from going extinct. We do this work because we love nature, and it’s tough to read stories about people or organizations poaching wildlife, destroying primary rainforests, or plastics encompassing our oceans. In other words, conservation can get you down. It’s hard not to get affected by the gloom and doom, and many conservation organizations even use this tactic to get people to care. But it can ba...
Pinterest for Science Communication and Conservation
August 09, 2020 17:46 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBIf you’ve listened to previous episodes of the podcast (like # and #), you know how important communication to the public is for science and conservation. Many scientists are on Twitter, Instagram, and even Tik Tok now, but hardly anyone I know uses Pinterest for science communication and conservation. This is a mistake! Lots of people don’t even think about Pinterest when it comes to choosing social media platforms for communicating science and conservation messages, but it’s one of the b...
Starting a SciComm Business with Chris Cloney
August 02, 2020 19:59 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBOn this episode, I interviewed Dr. Chris Cloney, a combustible dust fire and explosion researcher who created a six-figure online business from his blog. My podcast tends to focus on wildlife and conservation, so why am I interviewing an explosion researcher? Because Chris is amazing at science communication and all of the principles behind Dust Safety Science, GradBlogger, and now the Self Tenure Community can help you spread messages of conservation and even make a living from them. Su...
What is Science Really? And the Need to Communicate
July 26, 2020 15:28 - 38 minutes - 35 MBWithin the past decade, there have been several prominent issues where the public has showed distrust in science and the scientists behind the studies: climate change, evolution, vaccines, and now COVID-19 and wearing masks. This week on the podcast, I talk about what science actually is. We’re taught in school that science is about memorizing facts or taxonomic names (at least in biology). But science is really about asking and answering questions! These questions, and the studies attempt...
Career and YouTube Advice with Wildlife Biologist Kristina Lynn
July 19, 2020 15:58 - 42 minutes - 39 MBIn today’s episode, I interview wildlife biologist and YouTuber Kristina Lynn on what it’s like to be a wildlife biologist and her success going viral on YouTube. She offers lots of great career tips and fun stories. Kristina has a degree in ecology, animal behavior, and evolution. Her research includes many projects on understanding and assessing the influence of human development on wildlife species. Some of her current and past study species include grey wolf, cougars, Canada lynx, gri...