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Director of Research CNRS Director of Taï Chimpanzee Project Scientific director of IRL ChiMP4IC Views are my own

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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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...
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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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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Come and work with me on the protection of the Taï chimpanzees.👇
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Congrats to first author Mathilde Grampp and a great team of collaborators amongst: @tozbu.bsky.social @lirsamuni.bsky.social @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social
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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
📢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?...
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Reciprocal Signaling During Approaches Relates to Close Relationships Within and Between Two Primate Species — Animal Behavior and Cognition
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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 ...
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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.
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William (Bill) Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
How do broomrapes find their hosts? How can they specialise on different hosts? Enter the astonishing world of strigolactones . youtu.be/mUp9n_RW2eg?...
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Host-specific broomrapes: the role of strigolactone cocktails
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Look out for the epic story of Homo sapiens ...
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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...
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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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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Great work done by @elerolland.bsky.social at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social Looking forward to follow ups
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If you want to learn about principles in ecology ... this is your channel !!!
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Nicola Crockford @numenini.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Social engineering includes the oil and chemical industry. Follow the money 💰!!!
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High Seas Alliance @highseasalliance.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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!
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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...
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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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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“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”
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‘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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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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...
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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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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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...
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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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Socializing with Scientists @socwithsci.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🎧 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...
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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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Balthasar Bickel @balthasarbickel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
‼️ 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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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Excellent work by @elerolland.bsky.social and members of the @taichimpproject.bsky.social ... attachment styles in wild #chimpanzees
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Right for the weekend!
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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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...
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Whopper paper ... a must to read to understand the Evolution of Language!
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Roman Wittig @romanwittig.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Great collaboration with @nakedprimate.bsky.social and many others.
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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🎉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
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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.
This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 08/05/2025
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.
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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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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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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Media & PR | Mysite
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Nature @nature.com · 06/05/2025
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. go.nature.com/3GIZ40Z
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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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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
For German and French speakers interested in animal culture, this doco will be well worth 43 mins of your time. For everyone else, great tits solving puzzle boxes speak for themselves 🐦🧩🧠@lucymaplin.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
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Kultur im Tierreich - Voneinander lernen - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Bei Menschen wie bei Tieren beruht die Weitergabe von Kultur auf sozialem Lernen. Vier Arten geben Einblicke in die Kulturvermittlung im Tierreich: Kohlmeisen und Grünmeerkatzen lernen die Tricks der ...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 04/05/2025
Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler reflects on 20 years since the start of Mongabay News - from toiling to produce several hundred articles a year by himself to Mongabay's global team being on track to publish more than 7,000 stories across 6 languages.
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Reflections on 20 years of Mongabay News (commentary)
Founder’s Commentary: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis and perspectives. This month marks 20 years since I started the Mongabay news service. At the…
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The scientific news from America is grim. The Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has resigned and hundreds of existing grants are ending. NSF grant money isn't paid out in a chunk at the start - you invoice as you need it, so gov can just stop paying. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/04/2025
Harvard President drops the mic on Trump admin threats to cut them off — saying that’s not how “Veritas” works. This is a huge moment for institutional resistance to Trump and DOGE’s war on public science. #StandUpForScience #StandUpToTrump Read more below! 👇 view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...
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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Long-term field sites need reliable long-term funding! The data collected are crucial for science. We are grateful to: Swiss National Foundation (1979-1997), Max Planck Society (1997-2024), Helmholtz Institute for One Health (since 2023) and Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (since 2025)
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Science for Good ☀️ @sciforgood.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
☀️ Dear international students: If you have been affected by the SEVIS terminations/visa revocations and would be willing to speak with Science Magazine, please reach out by email (argluna@aaas.org) or on Signal to alexaroblesgil.03 They can guarantee anonymity!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/04/2025
Smart rationale for fighting back against "speech-based deportations" w/ CTA from #Reason urging universities - who ALL have a strong case for "standing" - to sue the Trump administration directly. #AAUP #StandUpForScience #StandUpForStudents #StandUpForSpeech #StandUpForKnowledge #SaveOurSchools
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