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Socializing with ScientistsJan Gogarten is searching for the next deadly germ (he’s a wildlife disease ecologist)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. His parents were scientists, but after high school, Jan wanted to forge his own path. He took random gigs - balcony welder, tree planter. During college, one of his professors suggested he try field research. Jan went to Panama to study electric river fish, and was hooked. "That was sort of my first experience of being a biologist for hire," he said.2025-05-2148 minSocializing with ScientistsCédric Girard-Buttoz learns the language of chimps (he's an evolutionary biologist)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 lemurs in Madagascar, macaques in Indonesia, and chimpanzees at the Taï Chimpanzee Project in Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire, and he has also studied bonobos and great apes. He is an evolutionary biologist at ENES, the bioacoustics research lab at the University of Saint-Etienne, France. With then-graduate student Tatiana Bortolato and others, he published a fascinating new study showing how chimp...2025-05-141h 08