In the Media - 2024

Sept 19 2024: Wie die Uni Göttingen mit dem „HuCaB“ die Erforschung menschlichen Zusammenlebens revolutionieren will

On September 16, the foundation stone was laid for the new HuCaB (Human Cognition and Behavior) research building, which will also be home to many SFB research projects in the future. The Göttinger Tageblatt and the HNA reported on the event, which was also attended by Göttingen's Mayor Petra Broistedt and Lower Saxony's Science Minister Falko Mohrs.

August 2024: Richard Vogg speaks on the Data sceptic podcast

The podcast previously spoke with researchers working to utilize machine learning for behavioral observations. In this episode with SFB PhD student Richard Vogg explains how he modifies and uses KI tools for his specific research questions. Richard is working with multi-camera set-ups to track lemurs and macaques solving puzzle boxes in the wild. His work is part of a larger movement to automate behavioral analyses of video data. Listen in and learn why this tech is useful and why multi-camera setups are a good idea for more reliably identifying poses and individual animals.
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Apr 29, 2024: Julia Fischer on the Neuroscience and beyond podcast

SFB-PI Julia Fischer joined host Svilen Georgiev to chat about her research on communication and and behavior in the context of evolution. Julia shares her knowledge about social hierarchies, communication, cognition and evolutionary differences among baboon species. But she also touches upon the question what this research can tell us about us humans and what we can learn from knowing more about baboons. The discussion goes also beyond pure research questions an adresses question about open access, career uncertainty, women in science and the problems and solutions with the publishing industry.
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Apr 27, 2024: Radio interview with William O'Hearn

SFB PhD student Will O'Hearn sat down with a team from the NDR Radio program to talk about his research activities and his experiences with field work at the DPZ site Simenti in Senegal. The interview was features in reports about the opening of the exhibition "Ich – Du – Wir: Soziale Beziehungen bei Menschen und anderen Primaten" in the Forum Wissen.

Apr 26, 2024: Viola Priesemann speaks to the podcast "Wissen to Listen"

SFB-PI Viola Priesemann investigates how neuronal networks in the brain learn and think. Her findings are incorporated into the special exhibition "Heart and brain - understanding together" at the Forum Wissen. During the coronavirus pandemic, she used this expertise to describe the spread of the virus. She is now using the findings from her coronavirus research as a basis for investigating how misinformation spread via social networks during the pandemic. She talks about this in this episode. She also reveals how she found her way into physics and the importance of networks in the scientific community.
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Apr 2, 2024: Interview with Julia Ostner for "BR Kompakt Wissen"

SFB-PI Julia Ostner was interviewed for the radio program "BR Wissen Kompakt" about their newest publication Social network shrinking is explained by active and passive effects but not increasing selectivity with age in wild macaques"". In the study, SFB members Baptiste Sadoughi, Julia Ostner, Oliver Schülke and their colleague Roger Mundry could show, that similar to humans, Assamese macaques reduce thier social networks when they age, despite not being aware of the finiteness of life.

Mar 8, 2024: press reports about new publication

The newest publication by Early career group leader Neda Shahidi was picked up by the media. The Nature Neuroscience paper Population coding of strategic variables during foraging in free-moving macaques" was featured by several media outlets among them the German public media station MDR and the online platform Science Daily.

Mar 7, 2024: Viola Priesemann on Scobel

The 3SAT science program Scobel focused in its episode on Marc 6 on the topic of "Emergenz - Das verborgene Prinzip des Lebens". The emergence principle can be found everywhere: ants acting in collective formations, units of nerve cells form the basis of human consciousness. In societies, we see the emergence of global socio-cultural phenomena such as religion, the economy and social trends. The emergence principle is currently becoming increasingly important in the context of technology and artificial intelligence. Gert Scobel discussed the increasing relevance of the emergence principle with Viola Priesemann, Achim Stephan (University of Osnabrück) and Stefan Thurner (Medical University Vienna). The entire show is available online in the 3SAT Mediathek.

Feb 22, 2024: Julia Fischer speaks with the TV program "quer" about the ethical challenges of primate breeding activities zoos

Nuremberg Zoo recently announced that up to 20 animals will have to be killed as part of the population management of its group of Guinea baboons. The group size exceeds the zoo's capacity and attempts to transfer animals to other institutions were unsuccessful. This led to a heated debate, which has now been taken up by the TV program "Quer" of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
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Jan 18, 2024: KI in der Affenforschung - oder: wer hat die Kokusnuss geklaut?

Our PhD student Richard Vogg (projects B06 and C02) regularly participates in Science Slams. His latest show was recorded and is now available on YouTube
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