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Johan Lind

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Scientist | Behavior | Cognition | Culture Latest book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691240770/the-human-evolutionary-transition And Nature Photographer/biodiversity junkie: www.jlind.se & www.instagram.com/jlindphoto

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · Feb 18

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

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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 7d

This is an awe-inspiring and fascinating study that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. However, the overall framing in terms of "innate versus learned” is unnecessary. The innate versus acquired dichotomy is outdated and has been for a long time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.

www.nature.com

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 3d

Now, that's a dataset!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#birds #bigdata

BIRDBASE: A Global Dataset of Avian Biogeography, Conservation, Ecology and Life History Traits - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - BIRDBASE: A Global Dataset of Avian Biogeography, Conservation, Ecology and Life History Traits

www.nature.com

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 3d

Am slowly making my way through this paper. And it is an impressive body of work by a collection of great researchers.

However, I have a couple of problems with it...

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 9d

Benchmarks for Associative Learning Models: https://osf.io/qsgz8

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 4d

#invertober 6, buff tip moth. branch animal

#invertober2025

color block drawing of a buff-tip moth on a backdrop of faint stylized branches and leaves. there is a dark frame around the image, with "Phalera bucephala (buff-tip)" is written at the bottom in white

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 9d

I usually don't do film tips, but if you're into birding (I think any kind of bird appreciation suffices), or subcultures, then Listers is not a bad documentary.
#birding #birds #birdwatching
youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

YouTube video by owen reiser

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 15d

#procyonidsrule

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15d

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu).

The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us?

(📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

On a black and white game cam, three javelinas are browsing corn while a raccoon sits on one of their backs. The lighting produces laser-eyes in the raccoon, who is secretly one of the X-Men.

A raccoon knight on a javelina steed. "Onward, Pigasus! Let us show them the meaning of haste". Motion blurred, black and white game cam shot.

Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 15d

We got a reply on our Sequence Bottleneck-paper! Jacobs et al. argue that many observations go against our suggestion, see:
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Not surprisingly, I guess, we argue that their examples don't really cut to the chase. Our full response here:
www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

Screenshot of the start of our paper: Lind, J., & Jon, A. (2025). No model-based learning with a sequence bottleneck: response to Jacobs et al. Trends in cognitive sciences. Link: https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00235-9

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 17d

😅

Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 17d

It worked alright :D Better than "The Reflex Boyz"

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 17d

I'll present this boyband today on a conference in Lund <3
#culturalevolution #learning

A slide with text "The Systematisers" and photos of Skinner, Thorndike, and Pavlov

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18d

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 22d

Om du accepterar en bred definition av begreppet kultur rekommenderar jag Naturally Adventurous med Ken & Charley :) Om du inte redan känner till den så klart.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23d

Hurry up!!

Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 24d

Now in high impact journal, crows learn new behaviors through trial-and-error. Ignoring Skinner for now, let's reiterate Tinbergen in The Study of Instinct: Animals must learn to i) do new things, & to ii) refine existing behaviors. Our five cents on this: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Graphical abstract of crow paper: Moll, F. W., Würzler, J., & Nieder, A. (2025). Learned precision tool use in carrion crows. Current Biology.

Abstract of our paper on sequential aspects of animal intelligence: Lind, J., & Jon-And, A. (2025). Sequences and animal intelligence. Philosophical Transactions B, 380(1929), 20240116.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 25d

A nice and thought-provoking paper by Ed Wassernan, on #mentalism and #behaviorism, and some cultural selection: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Decoupling Design from Darwinian and Skinnerian Selection - Perspectives on Behavior Science

Darwin explained how seemingly purposeful and foresightful design could be decoupled from natural selection. Skinner followed suit for selection by reinforcement. Together with cultural selection, the...

link.springer.com

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Valentina Di Santo @vdisanto.bsky.social · Sep 10

Apply for the Scripps Postdoctoral Fellowship! I'm looking to support a strong candidate in fish physiology and/or biomechanics. Deadline: Oct 9, 2025. Eligibility: PhD by Nov 30, 2026 with ≤3 years postdoc experience. 2 years, $74K salary, $6K research allowance 👉 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04348 🧪 🐟

Scripps Postdoctoral Scholar Award - 2026

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm still shook by this, it's like 5 mice taking down a lion, but the lion can fly 😳

Yellow jacket next to a crevice in a wooden post, out of which a pseudoscorpion is grabbing the antennae of the wasp to hold it down

Wider view, with another pseudoscorpion poking out of the crevice to grab at the yellow jacket's stinger basically??

Closer shot of the the previous pseudoscorpion whose latched onto the yellow jacket's posterior, and a pale small baby pseudoscorpion is getting in on the action

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · Sep 8

Me neither! lol

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · Sep 2

#SeabirdSeptember - thankful for another finished fieldseason and no #HPAI casualties among the great skuas on Skúgvoy #SkuaIsland #seabirds

Picture of me holding a great skua with a plastic ring on its leg with a GLS logger attached

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vi, Naturfotograferna.se, har fått massor av stöd för att lyfta frågan om skogen. Det blir utomhusutställning som kommer belysa det storskaliga industriella skogsbrukets effekter på klimatet, biologiska mångfald, landskapet och människan. #gillaskog #vårskog postkodstiftelsen.se/projekt/skog...

SKOG – Mångfald eller enfald

Naturfotograferna/N vill med detta projekt bidra till ökad kunskap och engagemang kring skogens betydelse för biologisk mångfald och klimat.

postkodstiftelsen.se

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · Aug 27

Lovely surprise in the post today - a hard copy of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evoltuon, superbly edited by @rachkendal.bsky.social @jeremykendal.bsky.social and Jamie Tehrani, featuring a chapter by @simonreader.bsky.social and I on Innovation!

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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · Aug 27

Where do some of Reinforcement Learning's great thinkers stand today?

Find out! Keynotes of the RL Conference are online:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Wanting vs liking, Agent factories, Theoretical limit of LLMs, Pluralist value, RL teachers, Knowledge flywheels
(guess who talked about which!)

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Dr. Drew harvell @drewharvell.bsky.social · Aug 26

What a sensational science story about an almost mythical beast from @carlzimmer.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...

How the Pygmy Sea Horse Lost Its Snout

www.nytimes.com

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