{"id":1141,"date":"2025-08-19T08:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:21:59","slug":"dr-hagey-talks-lizards-on-ms-public-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/news\/dr-hagey-talks-lizards-on-ms-public-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Hagey talks lizards on MS Public Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Travis Hagey, Associate Professor of Biology, was invited onto the Mississippi Public Broadcasting program <em>Creature Comforts<\/em> on Thurs 14 Aug 2025 to share his expertise on lizards, geckos, and all things herpetology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/Hagey_2508a-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Travis Hagey at his office desk.\" class=\"wp-image-1142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/Hagey_2508a-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/Hagey_2508a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/Hagey_2508a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/Hagey_2508a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/Hagey_2508a-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Creature Comforts is a call-in show that broadcasts every Thursday at 9 am throughout Mississippi on the various stations that make up Mississippi Public Radio. On the day Dr. Hagey was the guest, it was World Lizard Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/MPB_Creature_Comforts-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1143\" style=\"width:382px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/MPB_Creature_Comforts-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/MPB_Creature_Comforts-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/MPB_Creature_Comforts-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/MPB_Creature_Comforts-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/MPB_Creature_Comforts.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Hagey came on in the second half of the episode, took a couple of calls from listeners, and talked about his past, his interests, and his research on gecko toe pads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creaturecomforts.mpbonline.org\/episodes\/creature-comforts-world-lizard-day\">A podcast of Dr. Hagey&#8217;s episode is available on the Creature Comforts web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Travis Hagey, Associate Professor of Biology, was invited onto the Mississippi Public Broadcasting program Creature Comforts on Thurs 14 Aug 2025 to share his expertise on lizards, geckos, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,39,82,81,33],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-geckos","tag-hagey","tag-outreach","tag-public-appearances","tag-sciences-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}