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322: The Bird Hall w/ Shannon Hackett & John Bates!
Episode 322

322: The Bird Hall w/ Shannon Hackett & John Bates!

Join Ellen & special guests Shannon Hackett and John Bates in the intersection of science, history, and birds with a love letter to the natural history museum.

Just the Zoo of Us · Shannon Hackett, Ellen Weatherford, John Bates

February 5, 20261h 9m

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Show Notes

Join Ellen & special guests, power couple Shannon Hackett and John Bates from the Field Museum, here to talk about the intersection of science, history, and of course, birds in a love letter to the natural history museum. We discuss working alongside SUE the T. rex, specimen pickles, harlequin romance novels, and explore bigger questions like how museum collections can reveal evolution happening around us right now in real-time and help us look into the future, what the average everyday person can learn about themselves and what science actually looks like from a museum, and the hotly contested debate as to whether grey vireos are interesting or not.

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birdsthe field museumnatural historywildlifeshannon hackettmuseumsjust the zoo of usjohn batesellen weatherfordanimals