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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A benefit of studying urban goshawks, they are used to people making observations possible of this most often shy species. And, here's the abstract: 4/4

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Data comes from photographs collected during 319 observations days, from 9 years, from seven goshawk territories around Stockholm. Here is one of the young goshawks from the study. 3/4

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Main result is that play in young goshawks follow a developmental curve, kicking in at 45 days of age, peaking around 60 days, and then vanes off after 75 days of age. 2/4

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We just published the first study showing that a bird-of-prey goes through an ontogenetic window of exploratory play. Young goshawks look like young cheetahs when tossing pine cones into the air, chasing after them. Just published in Animal Behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Weekend plans? Magdalena giant glass frog (Ikakogi tayrona)

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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...

Screenshot of abstract of:
Sequence representation and cultural systems are necessary for cumulative culture, by:
Anna Jon-And, Fredrik Jansson, Jérôme Michaud, Axel Ekström and
Johan Lind
in Behavioral Brain Sciences

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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

Kankuamo marquezi-tarantula on the ground in rain forest

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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

presentation slide with a Madeiran petrel and the A.R. Wallace quote: "The loveliest and most graceful thing on the Earth is unquestionably a bird. I suppose everybody has felt that." A. R. Wallace, from The Daily Chronicle 1910

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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

A portrait of a climbing squirrel monkey

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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

Book cover of "The Human Evolutionary Transition - From Animal Intelligence to Culture"

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's bigger than one paper. Evidential bar should be higher, not lower, methods should match theory. #Popsci transmits these incorrect stories. It's not about the animals, they're always awesome, it's about science & describing how life on Earth works. Paper out now: peerj.com/articles/216... 4/4

Photo of a chimp female and a playing young chimp

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We tried to devise a proper method, 10,000 permutations later: p = 0.2597. We concluded, once you ask the right null question, the claimed structure doesn't stand out from chance. This is very different from “bonobos have extensive compositionality". 3/n

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The most striking result is too simple. We took the published analytical pipeline and fed it completely _random_ data. Their statistical pipeline produced a statistically significant result in 34.5%-84.3% in simulations. Method can manufacture “discoveries” out of noise. 2/n

Text about random data generating false positives

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I get tired on animal cognition, poor methodology, theory assuming conclusions, statistical “evidence” that [insert fave animal] has a surprising capacity. We examined the Science paper claiming human-like #grammar in #bonobos (or "extensive compositionality in bonobo vocalizations"). 🧵 1/n

Screenshot of our paper: Structure without semantics

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

IT'S A JUMPING STICK! Despite the common name, this large insect is actually a #grasshopper (Apioscelis tuberculata) in the family #Proscopiidae. Such a unique Neotropical grasshopper family. Photo from Colombian Amazon (north of Puerto Narino) this summer. #macrophotography

Photo of a jumping stick (Apioscelis tuberculata), a grasshopper in the family Proscopiidae. The large insect is sitting on a leaf.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can always lighten up stuff with what is probably the cutest primate in South America. Humboldt's squirrel monkey from the Colombian Amazon, this past lovely summer. #naturephotography #mammalwatching

Portrait of a Humboldt's squirrel monkey from Colombian Amazon.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Visiting this endemism mecka, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in #Colombia, was a dream come true. Apart from so many good animals, every day there provided brilliant views like this. #eldorado #proaves #naturephotography #sierranevada #santamarta

Landscape photo of dawn at the mountain range Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, showing distant peaks above 5,000 m a s l.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Solid rejection of "counting" and "statistical inference" abilities in nonhuman animals, from crows to chimps & pigeons. #animalcognition "associative learning models are a powerful tool in animal cognition research, often capable of unmatched quantitative accuracy." doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

Screenshot of abstract of Associative Learning Explains “Intuitive Statistics” in Animals June 2026 Psychological Review
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000626

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A little history on animal consciousness/mentalistic approaches, some behaviorism, and why one apporach yields better science than the other, or as Wasserman writes here: "Let natural science be our guide to further progress." comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/wp/wp-conten...

Screenshot of abstract and title of Wasserman's 2026 paper The Siren Song of Animal Consciousness

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Big theoretical problems in "animals use names"-studies, here's a new debunking of "elephant name-like calls": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screenshot of paper in Animal Behaviour with abstract, title and author name

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Har ju missat att dela att vi (Naturfotograferna) invigt en ny vandrande utomhusutställning om skog! Kolla -> www.naturfotograferna.se/skogsprojektet Just nu står den i Vasaparken, Uppsala, mitt i valborgsfirande.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Look closely, there's an adult pair of lammergeiers there, perched together on the mountain they call home, Tekelti Dağı in eastern Anatolia.

A mountain side with an adult pair of lammergeiers perched together

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Apropå rödlistan, havsörn inte längre rödlistad! Men, kan fort bli hotade igen, t ex utan skydd av boplatser! Finnar visade >5km behövs mellan örnbo & vindkraftverk för att inte påverka överlevnad negativt. Fint om örnarna slipper framtida rödlistning! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Skärmdump av finska studien av havsörns överlevnad vid vindkraftverk.

Vuxen havsörn fotograferad i Hälsingland två vintrar sedan.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Nya uppdaterade rödlistan utgör ledsam läsning. Ta in att havstrut klassas som Starkt hotad (EN). För att inte tala om änder: ejder, årta, stjärtand, alla Starkt hotade (EN). Alla våra svalor är nu rödlistade: hus- (VU), ladu- (NT) & backsvala (EN). $@1!" pub.epsilon.slu.se/39759/3/slu-...

Skärmdump på framsidan av nya rödlistan 2025

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Goshawks <3 and an odd remark by Errington. From (1933). Food habits of southern Wisconsin raptors. Part II. Hawks. The Condor, 35(1), 19-29. (Photo from here in Stockholm some years ago)

Screen shot from: Errington, P. L. (1933). Food habits of southern Wisconsin raptors. Part II. Hawks. The Condor, 35(1), 19-29.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Nice theoretical paper on animal play. As Tinbergen wrote in The Study of Instinct: exploration (like play) crucial when animals need to learn new things, or refine known behaviors. (With young roe deer with the zoomies, from yesterday here in Stockholm) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Nice study on the importance of parental care on ontogeny of behavior. Just like in e.g. chimps, golden-winged warblers develop adult-like foraging behaviors while still being provided for. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #generalprocess #birds

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

E.g. so called What-Where-When memory ≠ episodic memory. Other animals are expert discriminators (what), excellent at spatial mnemonics (where) & can encode time with some kind of precision. Screenshot from our paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screenshot from our paper: A sequence bottleneck for animal intelligence and language? that is found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661324002699

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It's interesting to be part of the animal cognition field. "We" are acting like episodic memory in animals is a settled fact, even though it’s still debated. And then papers are written about its function as if everything is fine. Isn't this intellectually sloppy? #scientificslippage

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy New Year! Here are some favorite photos of animals I saw this year. Two from Stockholm where I live, and two from Brazil where I spent the summer. #naturephotography #stockholm #brazil

A grey seal pup that visited central Stockholm this summer, with the Royal Castle in the background.

A black-headed gull during the solar eclipse, photographed at Slussen, Stockholm.

Green-headed tanagers in the Mata Atlantica, Itatiaia, Brazil.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Förvaltningsrätten stoppar vargjakt: www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/zO...

Photo of a female wolf, photographed at a hide in northern Finland.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Lite lokalare nyhet om #pålsundet palsundet.com

Skärmdump om text som säger att bygget av ett nytt teknikhus vid Pålsundet har nu stoppats, med länk till palsundet.com

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Just saw this, Wisdom's back, again! 🥳

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

For this reason, we wrote this comment, published yesterday. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... We reason that 1) their data supports rather than rejects the sequence hypothesis, as monkeys and chimps did not perform with any precision in these sequential tasks. 7/n

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Few tests have been made of this hypothesis (that only humans can in general represent sequential information faithfully), and then a creative new study came out, with impressive sample sizes: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 4/n

Screenshot of Reindl et al.'s study on sequence memory.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We presented this, and related ideas, in this book from 2023. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Book cover of our book The Human Evolutionary Transition: From Animal Intelligence to Culture.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We also presented a model that successfully accounts for how non-human animals represent sequential information: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Importantly, this model better explains sequence discrimination experiments than do ideas from rule learning, artificial grammar, etc.

Screenshot of paper with title, author names, and not all of the abstrac.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Oops, something fishy with the silver medal-winning photo of barn swallows, reward was removed last week. This photo from the competition Bird Photographer of the Year has disappeared from many sites, but has remained on this site (so far): www.forbes.com/sites/cecili... #bpoty #photography

Screenshot showing removal of 2nd place winner in Birds in flight category.

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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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