Johan Lind

One of the most prominent biologists to appear in the Epstein files, repeatedly and in the creepiest of ways, is Robert Trivers, who was a champion of the haplodiploid theory of insect social evolution.

An update on how that's holding up:

YouTube video by Kos Sokół wędrowny Veolia EC4 Łódź - Varso & wiatr 🤭

TGIF?
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How do we protect wildlife from HPAI? Here, King Penguins vaxxed w self-amplifying mRNA 2344b H5 vaccine. Chicks followed for 250 days - good immune responses, no adverse effects. Good to see trials like this, protect species of conservation concern.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PALMS: Pavlovian Associative Learning Models Simulator Simulations are an indispensable step in the cycle of theory development and refinement, helping researchers formulate precise definitions, generate models, and make accurate predictions. This paper i...

New preprint and simulator of associative learning attentional models. Have fun! 👁️
arxiv.org/abs/2602.07519
cal-r.org/index.php?id...
#simulation #associative_learning #attention

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

Large flock of turkeys along a some pathway. Several Toms have their feathers all fluffed out to look cool.

Toms be Tomming.

I came home to some 30+ turkeys visiting.

Läs mina kollegors rapport!

www.skogsstyrelsen.se/nyhetslista/...

You're such a troll :)

I think you will find this interesting: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Vampyrella <3

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

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...

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

Of course they did, of course prothonotary warblers "took their own path to gold." 🥹😍💃 #prothonartywarblerftw

Dunlin nesting in North Pennines - very cute aren't they? Wait for the second chick to appear.

More detail: blog markavery.info/2026/02/03/r...

#cumbria #peat #moorland #restoration

*grumble* I swear every nature show set in Africa is anti-hyena propaganda.

See the hyenas steal kills from a hardworking lioness!
See the hyenas steal kills from poor helpless cheetahs!
See the hyenas try to eat a majestic baby elephant!

BITCH, JUST LET THE HYENAS LIVE

Phylogeny Explorer - Birds of the World The Phylogeny Explorer offers a captivating experience for exploring avian evolution, discovering closely related species, and grasping the timescales at which they evolved.

It's free exploring for a few more days, indulge 💃🥳🎉
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/phylogeny #birds #evolution

A North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Is On—but the Species Remains at Risk Researchers have documented the births of nearly two dozen North Atlantic right whale calves this season. It’s an encouraging sign for a species whose population is estimated to be below 400.

NEW: North Atlantic right whales - a species whose fortunes I've followed for years - are having a baby boom!!

21 mother-calf pairs have been sighted so far, the highest figure in years. And we're not even halfway through the calving season (which runs to mid-April).

www.wired.com/story/a-nort...

IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Rekordörnen blev 36 år gammal Sveriges har fått en rekordörn. Förra våren hittades Sveriges äldsta havsörn död i Böda ekopark på Öland. Obduktionen visade att den bar på hagel i kroppen...

Thirty‑six years, a ripe old age for an eagle, and officially the oldest Swedish ringed white-tailed eagle ever recorded.
#longevityrecord #ringing
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Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

The power of associative learning and the ontogeny of optimal behaviour Abstract. Behaving efficiently (optimally or near-optimally) is central to animals' adaptation to their environment. Much evolutionary biology assumes, imp

Good point, surrounding environment is important, will also guide learning. Sorry, more self promotion, but think what learning environments individuals enter is key. We explore such entry (& exit) patterns of learning here, including chimp tool use: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

The Human Evolutionary Transition A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other species

We go into details in our (quite) recent book where we attempted to put human and other animals' culture in the same theoretical framework, investigating links between variation in memory and thinking-like abilities with different levels of culture press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Social learning through associative processes: a computational theory Abstract. Social transmission of information is a key phenomenon in the evolution of behaviour and in the establishment of traditions and culture. The dive

Genetic predispositions guiding learning needed for such behaviors to pop up regularly. Here's a little theory royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... & I think comparisons between chimps (tool for food in wild) & bonobos (no food tools) is a nice example www.bonobosworld.org/images/zoter...

Great interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in @nature.com today. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

Just some shameless self-promotion regarding this. Here's our similar take on this, but also taking non-human animals into account. We tried our best to give a more complete and coherent view on this combination of biological and cultural evolution.
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Deras uppsatser är bredare än att läsa original-artiklar, men spetsigare än populärvetenskap.

Gissar att det blir dyrt, om du inte har alternativa vägar att få tag på dem, men skulle vilja slå ett slag för "Trends reviews journals". Innehåller bl a aktuella översikter, nyheter & åsiktsartiklar, där uppsatser riktar sig till en publik utanför egen specialitet. Finns för många ämnen.

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.

Maned wolf in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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

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