Roman Wittig
@romanwittig.bsky.social
Director of Research CNRS Director of Taï Chimpanzee Project Scientific director of IRL ChiMP4IC Views are my own
The godfather of Jazz in Germany died age 89. My first concert ever was listening to him and his band Passport 1983 in Karlsruhe. RIP Klaus Doldinger www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik...
Schöpfer der «Tatort»-Titelmelodie: Klaus Doldinger ist tot
Er komponierte die Titelmelodien zu »Das Boot« und »Liebling Kreuzberg«, seit 1970 leitet seine Musik den »Tatort« ein. Nun ist der Jazzmusiker Klaus Doldinger im Alter von 89 Jahren gestorben.
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Congrats to first author Mathilde Grampp and a great team of collaborators amongst: @tozbu.bsky.social @lirsamuni.bsky.social @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social
Taï Chimpanzee Project@taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12mo ago📢New paper alert 📢 Signalling during approaches in two sympatric primates species indicates that strong fission-fusion dynamics increase challenges related to coordination and relationship maintenance, promoting signaling production and reciprocity. www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...
📢New paper alert 📢 Signalling during approaches in two sympatric primates species indicates that strong fission-fusion dynamics increase challenges related to coordination and relationship maintenance, promoting signaling production and reciprocity. www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...
Reciprocal Signaling During Approaches Relates to Close Relationships Within and Between Two Primate Species — Animal Behavior and Cognition
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I did my undergraduate and Diplom (MSc) in Bielefeld. Super start to really understand the principles of Animal Behaviour. It will be a great start for a successful career ...
EvolDir@evoldir.bsky.social · last yr.Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job
Today is #WorldChimpanzeeDay in memory of the first day that #JaneGodall started her long-term study on the Gombe chimpanzees in 1960. 65 years of following the chimps at the shore of Lake Tanganyika. Today chimpanzees are endangered to get extinct. The Western chimpanzee is critically endangered.
How do broomrapes find their hosts? How can they specialise on different hosts? Enter the astonishing world of strigolactones . youtu.be/mUp9n_RW2eg?...
Host-specific broomrapes: the role of strigolactone cocktails
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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This is what we need: criminalizing creation of disinformation. As Pierre-Henri Gouyon said follow the money lto know if results hold an independent test. Oil and chemical industry will fuel any doubt in climate change and biodiversity loss due to their actions. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
UN rapporteur calls for ban on fossil fuel ads and criminalizing of disinformation
A United Nations expert is calling for an urgent shift away from fossil fuels by the global economy, including a ban on advertisements or promotions, and the criminalization of misinformation from the...
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Great work done by @elerolland.bsky.social at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social Looking forward to follow ups
CNRS Biologie@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · last yr.Les chimpanzés sauvages présentent des liens familiaux sans troubles graves de l’attachement 🐒 ✍️ @elerolland.bsky.social 👋 @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social @isc-mj.bsky.social Lire l'article dans @nathumbehav.nature.com 👉 buff.ly/7OiU0lV
If you want to learn about principles in ecology ... this is your channel !!!
Taï Chimpanzee Project@taichimpproject.bsky.social · last yr.Here comes the sun ... youtube.com/watch?v=6MUX...
To end this 🧵, a video to illustrate how an evening swim at La Réserve de Nice, in the warm, clear waters of the Mediterranean, filled with a diverse array of beautiful fish & other marine life, was the perfect way to end days at #UNOC3 discussing how to save the world's coastal ecosystems. 14/14
Social engineering includes the oil and chemical industry. Follow the money 💰!!!
Taï Chimpanzee Project@taichimpproject.bsky.social · last yr.Follow the money and think critically, said Pierre-Henri Gouyon during the 60 year anniversary symposium at Branféré, when he explained how the tobacco industry has manipulated public opinion through social engineering, a practice taken over by the pharma industry to plant doubt into the public.
President Macron opens #UNOC3 today with hope for the future of our shared ocean, the High Seas, announcing that 15 more countries have formally committed to join the #RaceForRatification! 🎉We’re looking forward to hearing who those are as we get closer and closer to the 60!
Another great paper from the Budongo chimpanzees. Another good reason to support research with money over decades. Thanks to Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Budongo Conservation Field Station, Vernon Reynolds, Klaus Zuberbühler and Cat Hobaiter. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
Frontiers | Self-directed and prosocial wound care, snare removal, and hygiene behaviors amongst the Budongo chimpanzees
Understanding the cognitive and social foundations of healthcare behaviors in humans requires examining their evolutionary precursors in our closest living r...
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“Something had been loosened worldwide,” with rage everywhere. We all recognise this rage but Ardern was at the centre, representing progressive politics, tough Covid measures, empathy, emotion, anti-racism, femaleness; a symbol of a different time, more rational, kinder, when rules meant something”
‘Empathy is a kind of strength’: Jacinda Ardern on kind leadership, public rage and life in Trump’s America
Young, progressive and relatable, the former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power, she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Gua...
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When chimpanzee Emma died in Jan 2018 and we were able to extract the first brain of a wild #chimpanzee for postmortem MRI scans, none of us thinking we would find such an arcuate fascicle ... thanks to @lirsamuni.bsky.social who was with Emma to the bitter end 🙏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Long arcuate fascicle in wild and captive chimpanzees as a potential structural precursor of the language network - Nature Communications
The arcuate fascicle connection with the middle temporal gyrus has been considered unique to humans. Using high-resolution diffusion MRI, the authors systematically show this connection in chimpanzees...
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Another researcher from the Tai Chimpanzee Project talking about his research on @socwithsci.bsky.social: This time @jangogarten.bsky.social from the @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social, who is working with @taichimpproject.bsky.social since 2012. www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
Jan Gogarten is searching for the next deadly germ (he’s a wildlife disease ecologist) - Socializing with Scientists
Jan was born in Germany, but he grew up in the US: his parents moved after Chernobyl, because their lab Geiger counter showed high radiation levels despite being hundreds of miles from the reactor.&nb...
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🎧 Hear about the real life of evolutionary biologist Cédric Girard-Buttoz. New episode out today! Work by: @tozbu.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social @taichimpproject.bsky.social @romanwittig.bsky.social #chimpanzees #language www.buzzsprout.com/2464891/epis...
Cédric Girard-Buttoz learns the language of chimps (he's an evolutionary biologist) - Socializing with Scientists
When he was six years old, Cédric wanted to be Tarzan, following monkeys around the forest and studying their behavior.He has pretty much made his dream come true. Cédric Girard-Buttoz has researched ...
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‼️ PhD opportunity: join a vibrant community working on language evolution @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social please spread widely www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/phd-...
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Excellent work by @elerolland.bsky.social and members of the @taichimpproject.bsky.social ... attachment styles in wild #chimpanzees
Taï Chimpanzee Project@taichimpproject.bsky.social · last yr.New paper alert 📢 Young wild chimpanzees from the @taichimpproject.bsky.social show attachment types with their mothers similar to human children. Only they do not display patterns related to disorganized attachment. Read our new paper in Nature Human Behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some first news digests regarding the new paper on call combinations and how #chimpanzees create new meaning. This is very exciting to see this finally out. Thanks to a great team. www.sciencenews.org/article/chim...
Whopper paper ... a must to read to understand the Evolution of Language!
Taï Chimpanzee Project@taichimpproject.bsky.social · last yr.New paper alert 📢 from the @taichimpproject.bsky.social Chimpanzees combine calls to alter meaning in different ways. #chimpanzees expand messaging by creating new meanings, modifying meanings or adding meanings together. Thanks to a great team for all the hard work. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Great collaboration with @nakedprimate.bsky.social and many others.
Taï Chimpanzee Project@taichimpproject.bsky.social · last yr.New paper alert 📢 including data from the Taï Chimpanzee Project: Chimpanzee drumming shows key elements of human musical rhythm with Eastern (P.t.s.) and Western (P.t.v.) #chimpanzees showing different rhythms. Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
🎉Congratulations! We're delighted to share the news that Prof @billsutherland.bsky.social has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. @amphilsociety.bsky.social Read more: bit.ly/4mctitG
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
The Republic of Congo plans to nearly double its oil production over the next three years, including drilling in protected areas like Conkouati-Douli National Park, an expansion which directly contradicts the country’s climate commitments made at the 2023 U.N. climate conference.
Protected parks in peril as Republic of Congo ramps up oil drilling
The Republic of Congo’s recently announced plans to double oil production over the next three years puts it “fatally at odds” with its own stated goals for a clean energy transition, activists warn.…
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Happy 99th Birthday Sir David #Attenborough - and thank you for your never ending work to save the fauna and flora of our planet. www.taichimpproject.org/media-pr?wix...
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There’s no mystery to innovation and economic growth; the US must nurture its scientists or find out the hard way, says Michael S. Lubell, former director of public affairs at the American Physical Society. https://go.nature.com/3GIZ40Z
Cuts to US science will take a generation to repair — leaders must speak up now
There’s no mystery to innovation and economic growth; the US must nurture its scientists or find out the hard way.
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