iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Natursidan.se @natursidan.bsky.social · 12h

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...

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Skogsstyrelsen vidhåller: ”allvarligt läge för biologisk mångfald”

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

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 18h

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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...

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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

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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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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

A line of Charles Darwin's handwriting in brown ink on cream paper, with faint writing showing through from the other side of the page. It reads: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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/

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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...

A photo of me (a white woman with long brownish hair wearing glasses and a dark blue shirt) holding an advance copy of my book "The Social Wasps of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean: Second Edition" in front of an old wooden railing and some lush sassafras leaves. There is a big illustration of a bald-faced hornet on the cover.

This photo is slightly misleading, since it was taken by my mom a year ago in 2025, immediately before we noticed the major printing errors in the plate series that required us to completely redo the printing from scratch. My joy is nonetheless real, and I feel justified in using this photo since I never posted it the first time around. It's all good now!

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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:

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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...

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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:

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Wiltshire reserve marks 20 years of stone-curlew conservation

More than 100 Eurasian Stone-curlews have fledged at Winterbourne Downs RSPB since a former arable and sheep farm was transformed to create a landscape-scale safe haven for the species.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think this kind of pattern will pop up in most birds-of-prey, falcons, and many owls. There are lots of anecdotes, perhaps more systematic studies will pop up. Thanks!

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But, the ontogenetic window is the thing here :)

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks Esther, much appreciated :)

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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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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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."

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

Weekend plans? Magdalena giant glass frog (Ikakogi tayrona)

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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

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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

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

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Kvällsöppet på museet | Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

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

"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

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The statistical fragility of animal cognition findings: a meta-meta-analytic reappraisal

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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 · 17/09/2026

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

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Jonathan Tonkin @handle.invalid · 15/09/2026

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...

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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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ASAB @asab.org · 15/09/2026

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...

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Conference Attendance Grants — ASAB

Conference Attendance Grants help PhD students and others with limited funds to attend ASAB conferences and workshops

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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...

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ACE Early Career Research Grants

CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support research projects in cultural evolution. To learn more about the Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) initiative, see here. Deadline: Appli...

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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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Natursidan.se @natursidan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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

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Ringmärkningens dag - aktiviteter - BirdLife Sverige

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Natursidan.se @natursidan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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...

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Kommande naturevenemang

Det arrangeras mängder av heldagar, konferenser och evenemang om naturen i Sverige. Här under är ett försök att sammanställa dem.

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Niclas Wahlgren @wahlgrenniclas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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

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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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Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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.

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

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

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Fri entré med lånekort | Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

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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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