Interviews
Green Dreamer Podcast Ep 408: Siv Watkins: Intimacy with the microbial world | 46 min
September 2023
In this episode we are joined by Siv Watkins, founder of Microanimism: a platform for examining how human beings and human culture engages with microbial organisms. Inviting us to deepen our intimacy with the complex, multi-faceted microbial world, Siv deploys the lenses of science, mysticism, and animism to advocate for some of the smallest, and most mysterious, beings on the planet.
Woman Who Rubs the Mountain Podcast Ep 31: Microanimism: A Conversation with Siv Watkins about Being in Relationship with the Smalls | 55 min
October 2023
Welcome to the world of Microanimism with microbiologist, independent scholar, and ritualist, Siv Watkins, PhD. Siv introduces us to the enigmatic yet ordinary realm of microorganisms, with whom humans have been entangled with since our very beginnings. She says that “the microbial world dares us to identify our human selves within the rest of the living and dying world.”
Rune Soup: Talking Microanimism | 58 min
April 2021
We have a really great chat about the how and why of coming into right relation with the microbial world, what all forms of biology look like from an animist perspective and the ancestral implications of being a composite being.
Ancestral Medicine: Virus Respect, COVID-19, and Tips for Not Dying | 1 hr 10 min
August 2020
Microbiologist Dr. Siv Watkins chats with Dr. Daniel Foor. Topics include: how viruses occupy spaces between the alive and not alive; diversity in death; how science is self-correcting; the uniqueness of COVID-19 among viruses; the noble pursuit of a scientist; how the ebola pandemic was eradicated in Africa; and much more.
Bespoken Bones Podcast Ep 49: Did you eat your ancestors for breakfast? Microorganisms, your oldest lineage | 56 min
April 2019
Environmental Microbiologist and ancestral animist Siv Watkins discusses the power of our relationships with the smalls, and solving ecological crisis through evolution.
Future Fossils Podcast Ep 182: Microanimism: Living with The Smalls | 1 hr 15 min
February 2022
Siv Watkins joins the show this week to discuss right relationship with the world of the invisibly small: mood-altering gut flora, the COVID-19 pandemic, Lyme disease, AIDS, and other chronic ailments…as well as with the all-encompassing tapestry of microbial life from which we evolved and within which we exist from birth to death. It’s turtles all the way down! Tag an anti-natalist friend and have them give it a listen…
Plant Cunning Podcast Ep 41: Exploring Microanimism with Dr. Siv Watkins | 53 min
July 2021
In this episode we speak with Siv about the wide world of the "smalls", how to interact with microbes as people, where humans ends and bacteria begins, horses, and lots more fun.
Ancestral Medicine: Reflections on Pandemic Year One, with Dr. Siv Watkins and Dr. Daniel Foor | 58 min
February 2021
Microbiologist Dr. Siv Watkins and Dr. Daniel Foor resume their conversation about the ongoing pandemic after one year. Topics include: sorrow, exploitative capitalism, vaccines, microanimism and the people who are viruses, sandworms, inter-dimensional portals, and why it's good to listen to (and fund) the scientists.
Ancestral Medicine: Microanimism: Relationships with the Smalls | 58 min
May 2019
In this engaging and intriguing interview, environmental microbiologist Siobhan Watkins and Daniel discuss aspects of being in relationship with the communities of beings that comprise the microbial world within an animist framework. Learn how we can have functional reciprocal relationships with the smalls, like bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
Earth Speak Podcast Ep 139: Microbiologist Siv Watkins on Microbes + Animism = Microanimism | 1 hr
March 2019
Siv discusses the process of cultivating microbes (including bacteria and mushrooms) and best practices for respectful interplay in this week’s secret episode!