Siobhán Watkins is an academically trained microbiologist, independent scholar, ritualist, and the founder of Microanimism: a platform for examining how human beings and human culture engages with microbial organisms.
Since 2003, Siv has held scientific positions in industry, commercial, and academic research/faculty settings. Her doctoral studies, which she completed in 2011, were on communities of bacteria in satellite wastewater treatment systems. She has also performed scientific research in conservation microbiology, freshwater pollution and bioremediation, environmental viral diversity, and the use of microbiomes and microbial communities in sustaining responsible stewardship of the extended natural environment.
In 2016, Siv became a student of ritual/esoteric arts and technology. This aspect of her scholarly work was the catalyst for beginning to examine the world of the smalls within the context of animism. Much of this work is presented in the resources you’ll find on this website. Originally from the UK (English/Welsh/Scots ancestry), Siv currently lives near Albuquerque, New Mexico (traditional home to the Pueblo peoples) where she makes home with two cats and a horse.
"Siv has the fluency to navigate details and dimensions of life that aren’t being addressed elsewhere, with emotion and intellect intact, facts and unanswered questions, paved paths and tools to the unknown."
— Previous course participant