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Anna Jon-And

@annajonand.bsky.social
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Researcher of language evolution and cultural evolution. Director of the Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University. Passionate about broad interdisciplinary collaboration, associative learning, simple models and complex systems.

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Anna Jon-And @annajonand.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A Science paper got a lot of attention last year for claiming to find compositional structure in bonobos calls, with implications for the evolutionary roots of human language. We got curious and looked closer, to find that the evidence just isn’t there.
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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
@annajonand.bsky.social & jag pratar djurs kommunikation & människospråk, varför det ena & inte det andra. Språk = bra, men tar tid att lära sig, & hur svårt det är för människobarn att för egen maskin klara att flytta till södra Afrika. Bl.a. shows.acast.com/63d3d70bc57b... #evolution #kognition
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Det mänskliga språkets gåta | Öppna föreläsningar
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Anna Jon-And @annajonand.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Interesting study about the cultural evolution of moral views, what arguments are most likely to persuade whom, and why.
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Anna Jon-And @annajonand.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Our comment on Reindl et al.’s sequence discrimination study is out. Their findings actually support the sequence hypothesis, strengthening the case for this potentially powerful explanation of human cognitive and cultural abilities. Happy to see more work pushing this discussion forward!
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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Just submitted a book ms! An edited volume, edited together with super scientist @annajonand.bsky.social. Now I'm going #birding for the rest of the weekend <3 #submissionfriday
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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A bit late on this, but here we explore how cultural information can guide development of behavior & cognitive skills just like genes. Can cultural evolution result in teaching trajectories that promote incremental acquisition of complex tasks? #culturalevolution #developmentalpsychology #modelling
Screenshot of article with abstract, article reference is: Enquist, M., Ghirlanda, S., Hattiangadi, A., Lind, J., & Gredebäck, G. (2024). A joint future for cultural evolution and developmental psychology. Developmental Review, 73, 101147.
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Anna Jon-And @annajonand.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
New paper! @johanlind.bsky.social and I examine both sequential input representation and sequential output in non-human animals. We question the use of complex anthropocentric models in cases where simpler models based on associative learning make more accurate predictions. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
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Sequences and animal intelligence | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Here, we explore some cognitive mechanisms that support and constrain sequential abilities in non-human animals (hereafter animals). By examining limits in memory for stimulus sequences and how behavi...
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Anna Jon-And @annajonand.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Funding opportunity in Sweden for researchers established outside Europe! We welcome project suggestions within Cultural Evolution for a one year visit at the Centre for Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University. Contact me if you are interested and feel free to share. www.vr.se/english/appl...
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Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden
The purpose of the grant is to give higher education institutions and other research organisations the opportunity to develop and strengthen a research field by recruiting, in the near future, a promi...
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Latest from the lab: our theory of how paranoia can be about social things, without dedicated social processing @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @celiaheyes.bsky.social nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Anna Jon-And @annajonand.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Wrote a popular piece with @johanlind.bsky.social on why human language is so different from other animal communication. There’s a growing wave of studies suggesting key features of human language are present among animals. We propose a different perspective: theconversation.com/animals-cant...
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Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
Many scientists see evidence of language in the sounds animals put together, but they may be kidding themselves.
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