In this inaugural episode of my podcast series, Look What You’ve Done!, I kick things off with a story I truly believe you need to hear: the legacy of Charles Henry Turner. Using my R.I.A. approach—Relate, Illuminate, Activate—I relate Turner’s remarkable life, illuminate what he contributed to animal behavior science, and then give you tangible ways to activate progress in our field. Turner was a pioneer in comparative psychology who did groundbreaking work on animal learning and cognition, especially in insects, at a time when he faced immense societal barriers and was repeatedly denied university research positions despite earning a PhD in zoology. What I love about Turner’s research is how decisively he challenged the idea that insects are just reflex-driven machines. I walk through his honeybee studies showing they can discriminate colors and patterns (and how he used reinforcement schedules to control for confounds like scent), his early demonstrations of Pavlovian conditioning in moths, his ant navigation experiments highlighting memory and environmental cues, and his cockroach work revealing long-term avoidance learning lasting up to 21 days. My takeaway: progress doesn’t happen by accident—it happens because people refuse to back down. Then I shift to action. Turner’s story reminds us that science is also about who gets to participate, so I share specific ways to support diversity in behavioral science—funds, awards, mentorship, advocacy, and amplifying underrepresented voices—because we’re not going anywhere, and neither is their impact.