selected appearances
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.
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.
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…
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: 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.