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. TW: Death/Dying and Human Remains In episode 030 Elle chats with Cat about her work caring for anatomical and pathological museum collections for nearly twenty years. She discusses the transition between working in Edinburgh City Mortuary and moving to England to further train in wet tissue collections to returning to Scotland to work with pathology specimens in Surgeons’ Hall in Edinburgh. We also discuss shifts in perceptions around death and dying, and what that has meant for Cat.  Cat Socials https://thesewanderingbones.wordpress.com/contents/ https://twitter.com/AnatomicalCat https://www.instagram.com/anatomicalcat/ Surgeons Hall https://museum.rcsed.ac.uk/ Hunterian Museum Glasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/ Alder Hay Scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal Authors Cat Mentions Ian Rankin - https://www.ianrankin.net/ Michael Sappol -https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691118758/a-traffic-of-dead-bodies William Burke Murderer                                                                          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders Charles Anderson https://surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/the-tibia-of-charles-anderson/ Robert Liston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston The Lister Project https://museum.rcsed.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2014/december/the-lister-project-update Cat Research  https://surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.com/2020/02/28/put-a-lid-on-it/?fbclid=IwAR21mWizyElx7EZmlfvRUG8o-RCGzHPT_LTYhLPDF55DrUDoOvT1GYMieE0 https://surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/a-few-words-about-formaldehyde/ Elle Kaye socials  www.instagram.com/ellekayetaxidermy Podcast socials www.instagram.com/specimenspod www.twitter.com/specimenspod www.patreon.com/specimenspod www.ellekayetaxidermy.co.uk/product-page/specimenspodmerch Artwork © 2021 Madison Erin Mayfield www.instagram.com/madisonerinmayfield https://twitter.com/MEMIllustration Music Giraffes - Harrison Amer via premiumbeat.com Researched, edited and produced by Elle Kaye Concept/Title © 2020 Elle Kaye