Johan Lind

Everything's quite new here at #bsky, so perhaps a quick intro could be useful. Abt science, published this book recently (with 2 colleagues): An attempt at a theoretically plausible evolutionary trajection of a world with a little culture to a world where culture is human nature 1/n

Now, winner is disqualified. www.dpreview.com/news/generat...

Ett kritiserat räknefel visade sig dölja en värre situation och slutsatsen från Skogsstyrelsen kvarstår: "Läget för den biologiska mångfalden i skogen är sammantaget allvarligt". www.natursidan.se/nyheter/skog...

the tech industry is about to invent books

Interesting, what many researchers have joked about for quite a long time (but with a serious tone) has now happened at arXiv, submissions per time has become limited.

Difficult to evaluate AI use these days. Winner in photo contest accused of cheating. Is AI destroying the concept of authenticity in many cultural domains? What, if anything, is the value of AI generated "art"? www.bbc.com/news/article...

White-tailed #eagles fly above the city centre of #Stockholm daily, this from a week ago next to Riddarkyrkan. #Eagle joined by two herring #gulls. #naturephotography #urbanbirds #urbanwildlife

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend, "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." 📜🧪

cotton-top tamarins be like

These illegal small-birds-are-delicacies traditions break my heart

Today I'm releasing the "1000×1000 collection": a unified place to learn about dynamical structure. 1000 simulated time series (1000 samples each) spanning 133 dynamical processes. Have a play? 🐛 #timeseries #dynamicalsystems #complexity #opendata dynamicsandneuralsystems.github.io/1000x1000/

Princeton finally handed off some advance copies for the 2nd Edition of my wasp book, and they look phenomenal! Thank you everyone for your exceptional patience! Go order it right now!! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Using a simple delta rule (Rescorla-Wagner) tweaked so that the associative strength of the common elements is weighted by its exposure-dependent activation we can simulate our results, showing latent inhibition, and its reversal:

New Preprint! "Facilitation and Attenuation of Learning to Novel and Familiar Stimuli Through Contextual Mismatch: Experimental Evidence and a Computational Model" By @jialinshi.bsky.social and me. osf.io/preprints/ps...

More than 100 Eurasian Stone-curlews have fledged from an RSPB nature reserve in Wiltshire since a former farm was transformed into a haven for the rare breeding bird 20 years ago:

I’ve come to the end of my 5-year term as a Trustee of @asab.org & Executive Editor of its journal, #AnimalBehaviour. It's been a real privilege to hold these roles & I’m grateful to all those who have made it such a productive & enjoyable experience. 🙏 Please support Society journals.

Ig-noble-winner next year? "The answers were unambiguous: self-centred men who are argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic are much more likely to own a high-status car such as an Audi, BMW or Mercedes."

Weekend plans? Magdalena giant glass frog (Ikakogi tayrona)

Sadly, vast lines of autumn hirundines used to be a common sight on wires away from migration bottlenecks too #WhileFlocksLast #UKBirding

Chater & Christiansen asked in BBS "How has human culture become so complex?" & answered that social tinkering is a key process. In our reply, we argue that complementary minimal principles can explain how simple mechanisms generate complex cultural organization. doi.org/10.1017/S014...

just det, du vet väl att det är kvällsöppet på torsdagar på naturhistoriska riksmuseet www.nrm.se/vart-utbud/k...

"How reliable is the evidence in animal cognition research?" Interesting new preprint, looking forward to seeing this in press: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #metaanalysis #animalcognition

This must be one of the prettiest places in Colombia, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of n Colombia, such a hotspot for endemism. Fortier et al (doi.org/10.3417/2025...) say 164 plants are endemic here (above 1700m) - the largest list of SNSM endemics to date! Photo July 2026. #naturephotography

Tracking data of more than 13,000 individuals from 44 species! Distributions of highly mobile seabirds are mapped. #seabirds #biodiversity

Clear-cut forestry is just not a good strategy. It’s another example of taking gains now and overlooking the costs for the future. Recovery is slow. And we just don’t have the time for slow recovery right now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More endemic creatures from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, here a #tarantula, Kankuamo marquezi, that like many other organisms exists on that mountain, and only on that mountain. Colombian #biodiversity is mad. #naturephotography #arachnids #spiders

Don't forget that grant applications (attendance, accessibility, childcare) for the joint #ASABWinter2026 meeting with PSGB 🐒 @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social are due in 2 weeks (⏰ October 1!) 🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰 More info: www.asab.org/conference-g...

ACE Research Grant Alert 🚨! CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support early career research projects in cultural evolution. The award is open to applicants worldwide, with an application deadline of October 9th 2026, 9:00 AM AoE. Applications: forms.gle/dsLdKQuNBH4W...

Cool study on blueberries and wolves, seeds eaten & pooped out by wolves germinate both better and quicker than control seeds. So, wolves disperse blueberries! Read here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... Photo from 2024, northern Finland. #naturephotography #ecology #wolves #wolf

A TOP BIRD! White-tipped sicklebill (Vitstjärtad liekolibri) from the understory. Difficult to see, this little hummingbird with its specialized curved weird bill. Photo from July, 2026 in Colombia. #naturephotography #hummingbird #sicklebill

Artikeln uppdateras fortlöpande. Exempelvis med följande: • 13 sept: Ringmärkningens dag, flera platser – se hemsida. birdlife.se/ringmarkning...

Det arrangeras mängder av heldagar, konferenser och evenemang om naturen i Sverige. Här är en lista på de större naturevenemangen: www.natursidan.se/nyheter/komm...

September 9 En av kanske 40-50 av de individer som finns i Sverige och då har vi kanske 1/3 av värlspopulationen i Sverige. Saffransticka, växer bara i miljöer med mycket grov ek och dessutom ska området vara varmt och ganska ljust. Denna från markerna strax norr om mig. Blekinge skärgård

Cordillera central tree frog (Hyloscirtus larinopygion), endemic high altitude frog from Colombia and northern Ecuador. Many call them chocolate frog. Chunky little frog. (From July 2026) #naturephotography #fieldherping #herping

Är du på Falsterbo Birdshow kanske vi ses! Jag ska upp på scen 15:00 idag och prata om människor & fåglar, ringmärkning & vetenskap. Spoilar föredragets andra bild här och nu :O (Och ja, självklart, visst är det en madeirapetrell) #falsterbobirdshow #birdlife

More Colombian biodiversity from the summer. Here, a very special & surprisingly large frog. Ia Magdalena giant glass frog (Ikakogi tayrona). It basically lives on one mountain in northern Colombia, i.e. endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. #herping #naturephotography #ikakogi #glassfrogs

This is a good time for UK institutions to start rethinking their genAI use in education. It always is! We must decide what kind of instruction we want our students to receive: one that quickly dumps them into an illusory, ephemeral work sphere, or one that gives them the knowledge they'll need.

Tipsa alla! Fri entré med lånekort från bibliotek längs busslinje 540 www.nrm.se/besok-museet...

Disco corvid! (Or Green Jay/grönskrika/Cyanocorax yncas) Photo from Anaime, Colombia, July 2026. #naturephotography #greenjay

More Humboldt's squirrel monkeys, here three young males that had a long play session!! From Puerto Nariño, in the Colombian Amazon this summer. #naturephotography #mammalwatching

A striking and oh so common #hummingbird in Colombia, from approx from 1000-4000 masl, sparkling violetear <3 (glitteröronkolobri på svenska) #naturephotography #sparklingvioletear

I recently mentioned the "bonobo-language-Science-paper" that we looked into, and found some issues with. It's now discussed on #PubPeer. pubpeer.com/publications... Our critique (#openaccess) is here: peerj.com/articles/216... #animalcognition

The Amazon's most adorable primate, Humboldt's squirrel monkey (from Puerto Nariño, Colombia) #naturephotography #mammalwatching #squirrelmonkey

Many with institutional licenses can now get our book for free! Check here at jstor.org: www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...