Johan Lind
@johanlind.bsky.social
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
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
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
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
December 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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
hör mustiga uttrycket "själens maskineri" när det pratas hjärnor på populärvetenskapska på svt morgon, bevare mig väl
December 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
hör mustiga uttrycket "själens maskineri" när det pratas hjärnor på populärvetenskapska på svt morgon, bevare mig väl
Förvaltningsrätten stoppar vargjakt:
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/zO...
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/zO...
December 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Förvaltningsrätten stoppar vargjakt:
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/zO...
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/zO...
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A mass of sooty shearwaters coming into their nests on Kidney Island as dusk falls, in the Falklands #kidneyisland #seabirds #birds #shearwaters #sootyshearwater #falklandislands #kidneyisland #nature #wildlife #southatlantic
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A mass of sooty shearwaters coming into their nests on Kidney Island as dusk falls, in the Falklands #kidneyisland #seabirds #birds #shearwaters #sootyshearwater #falklandislands #kidneyisland #nature #wildlife #southatlantic
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25 år efter publicering drar Elsevier tillbaka studien som "visade" att glyfosat (Roundup) är ofarligt för människor. 25 år!!! Detta är en inte så liten skräll. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy)This article has b…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
25 år efter publicering drar Elsevier tillbaka studien som "visade" att glyfosat (Roundup) är ofarligt för människor. 25 år!!! Detta är en inte så liten skräll. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Efter en röd-grön överenskommelse i Norge står det klart att det satsas mer pengar på skydd av skog än någonsin tidigare. Dessutom stoppas gruvdriften på havsbotten.
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/norg...
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/norg...
Norge rekordsatsar på skydd av skog
Efter en röd-grön överenskommelse i Norge står det klart att det satsas mer pengar på skydd av skog än någonsin tidigare. Dessutom stoppas gruvdriften på havsbotten.
www.natursidan.se
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Efter en röd-grön överenskommelse i Norge står det klart att det satsas mer pengar på skydd av skog än någonsin tidigare. Dessutom stoppas gruvdriften på havsbotten.
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/norg...
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/norg...
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An ambitious rewilding initiative has begun in the Dauphiné Alps, marking the largest such project ever launched in France:
France launches its largest rewilding project in the Dauphiné Alps
Rewilding Europe has designated the Dauphiné Alps its 11th landscape – and France’s largest – aiming to restore wild horses, Eurasian Lynx, Grey Wolf, vultures and other species as part of a long-term ecosystem revival.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
An ambitious rewilding initiative has begun in the Dauphiné Alps, marking the largest such project ever launched in France:
Reposted by Johan Lind
An interesting approach. After a (very) quick read, I'd like to highlight the following:
"We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated..."
1/2
"We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated..."
1/2
New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
An interesting approach. After a (very) quick read, I'd like to highlight the following:
"We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated..."
1/2
"We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated..."
1/2
Reposted by Johan Lind
Wisdom’s mate joins
her!
🎼 #Reunited
USFWS staff spotted band EX25 on 11/25. No, he has not been named; we await that news.
So far we have a few photos and we'll share more as we receive them.
Here's to a successful egg laying and hatching season for these two!
Photos by Chris Forster.
#Birds
her!
🎼 #Reunited
USFWS staff spotted band EX25 on 11/25. No, he has not been named; we await that news.
So far we have a few photos and we'll share more as we receive them.
Here's to a successful egg laying and hatching season for these two!
Photos by Chris Forster.
#Birds
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Reposted by Johan Lind
Challenging the name!
Jesse Martin & colleagues argue Little Foot (StW 573) can’t be called Australopithecus prometheus…
…dissent in the fossil world 🦴😅😁
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Jesse Martin & colleagues argue Little Foot (StW 573) can’t be called Australopithecus prometheus…
…dissent in the fossil world 🦴😅😁
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus
Objectives To test the hypothesis that the StW 573 (Little Foot) fossil specimen should be attributed taxonomically to Australopithecus prometheus. Materials and Methods We adopt the methods of cl...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Challenging the name!
Jesse Martin & colleagues argue Little Foot (StW 573) can’t be called Australopithecus prometheus…
…dissent in the fossil world 🦴😅😁
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Jesse Martin & colleagues argue Little Foot (StW 573) can’t be called Australopithecus prometheus…
…dissent in the fossil world 🦴😅😁
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Johan Lind
– Även om en handfull lunnefåglar på en liten ö kan verka obetydligt, är detta ögonblick enormt.
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/lunn...
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/lunn...
Lunnefåglar återvänder till ö efter 25 år
Tack vare ett stort, långsiktigt arbete för att förbättra förutsättningarna har lunnefåglarna kunnat återvända till sin tidigare häckningsö. Ibland behöver en art utrotas från ett område för att andra...
www.natursidan.se
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
– Även om en handfull lunnefåglar på en liten ö kan verka obetydligt, är detta ögonblick enormt.
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/lunn...
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/lunn...
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Reposted by Johan Lind
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Reposted by Johan Lind
En ny studie visar att inga av de undersökta svenska skogarna som kalhuggits sedan 1950-talet har återhämtat sig helt när det gäller biologisk mångfald, över 70 år senare.
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/skog...
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/skog...
Skogar som kalhöggs på 1950-talet är fortfarande artfattigare
Även 65-85 år gamla produktionsskogar har betydligt sämre förutsättningar för rödlistade arter och naturvårdsarter än vad naturreservat har.
www.natursidan.se
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 AM
En ny studie visar att inga av de undersökta svenska skogarna som kalhuggits sedan 1950-talet har återhämtat sig helt när det gäller biologisk mångfald, över 70 år senare.
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/skog...
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/skog...
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I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
Just saw this, Wisdom's back, again! 🥳
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Just saw this, Wisdom's back, again! 🥳
There are so many (conflicting) hypotheses out there.
"Hence, the CEH currently provides a theoretical framework that risks confusing, rather than informing, inferences about the evolution of human external eye appearance and its selective drivers." (CEH=cooperative eye hypothesis)
"Hence, the CEH currently provides a theoretical framework that risks confusing, rather than informing, inferences about the evolution of human external eye appearance and its selective drivers." (CEH=cooperative eye hypothesis)
"The cooperative eye hypothesis proposes that human eyeballs are uniquely conspicuous and evolved under selective pressures to behave cooperatively....but lacks robust empirical support: human eye pigmentation does not uniquely stand out among primates, is not uniform at species level..."
Look past the cooperative eye hypothesis: reconsidering the evolution of human eye appearance
The external appearance of the human eye has been prominently linked to the evolution of complex sociocognitive functions in our species. The cooperative eye hypothesis (CEH) proposes that human eyeb....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
There are so many (conflicting) hypotheses out there.
"Hence, the CEH currently provides a theoretical framework that risks confusing, rather than informing, inferences about the evolution of human external eye appearance and its selective drivers." (CEH=cooperative eye hypothesis)
"Hence, the CEH currently provides a theoretical framework that risks confusing, rather than informing, inferences about the evolution of human external eye appearance and its selective drivers." (CEH=cooperative eye hypothesis)
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Det har skapats ett nytt nätverk för unga naturfotografer i Sverige för att inspirera varandra och hitta andra med samma intresse. Nyligen har de också arrangerat sin första tävling – här är de fem bäst placerade bilderna:
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/vinn...
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/vinn...
Vinnarbilderna i svensk tävling för unga naturfotografer
Det har skapats ett nytt nätverk för unga naturfotografer i Sverige för att inspirera varandra och hitta andra med samma intresse. Nyligen har de också arrangerat sin första tävling – här är de fem bä...
www.natursidan.se
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Det har skapats ett nytt nätverk för unga naturfotografer i Sverige för att inspirera varandra och hitta andra med samma intresse. Nyligen har de också arrangerat sin första tävling – här är de fem bäst placerade bilderna:
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/vinn...
www.natursidan.se/nyheter/vinn...
Reposted by Johan Lind
Don't just take my word for it ... @stephanielking.bsky.social and Denise Herzing provide insightful comments in this piece: www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-n...
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Don't just take my word for it ... @stephanielking.bsky.social and Denise Herzing provide insightful comments in this piece: www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-n...
Sometimes scientific papers surprise you. Info on new papers will appear below :)
We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n
We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n
A sequence bottleneck for animal intelligence and language?
We discuss recent findings suggesting that non-human animals lack memory for stimulus sequences, and therefore do not represent the order of stimuli f…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Sometimes scientific papers surprise you. Info on new papers will appear below :)
We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n
We have identified that non-hum animals struggle with remembering and using sequential information, in general. (See e.g. this TiCS paper and references therein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) 1/n
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
www.forbes.com/sites/cecili... #bpoty #photography
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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
www.forbes.com/sites/cecili... #bpoty #photography
Reposted by Johan Lind
07-Nov: On this day in 1913, Alfred Russel Wallace died. Wallace famously came up with a near-identical explanation for how evolution occurs independently of Charles Darwin. You can read about their friendship here: friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #histsci
Modesty and candour: the Darwin-Wallace friendship
To mark the 200th anniversary of Wallace’s birth, an article exploring the friendship between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
friendsofdarwin.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
07-Nov: On this day in 1913, Alfred Russel Wallace died. Wallace famously came up with a near-identical explanation for how evolution occurs independently of Charles Darwin. You can read about their friendship here: friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #histsci
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Is the psychology replication crisis (at last) catching up with animal cognition?
"Our results indicate low statistical power and inflated effect sizes in both primary studies and meta-analyses."
Preprint here:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
"Our results indicate low statistical power and inflated effect sizes in both primary studies and meta-analyses."
Preprint here:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
The statistical fragility of animal cognition findings: a meta-meta-analytic reappraisal
ecoevorxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Is the psychology replication crisis (at last) catching up with animal cognition?
"Our results indicate low statistical power and inflated effect sizes in both primary studies and meta-analyses."
Preprint here:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
"Our results indicate low statistical power and inflated effect sizes in both primary studies and meta-analyses."
Preprint here:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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
#submissionfriday
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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
#submissionfriday
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Another great PhD opportunity: An ERC-funded project on “Children as agents of cultural evolution,” lead by @sheinalew.bsky.social at Durham University. Come do fieldwork with Mayan groups in Belize with her, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, and I! One of three, 3-year PhD positions starting Fall 2026.
Fees and Funding - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Another great PhD opportunity: An ERC-funded project on “Children as agents of cultural evolution,” lead by @sheinalew.bsky.social at Durham University. Come do fieldwork with Mayan groups in Belize with her, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, and I! One of three, 3-year PhD positions starting Fall 2026.