@grendeus.bsky.social
PhD student in the Cognitive Zoology group at Lund University. Passionate about reptile cognition
I was looking for a game to practice my portugese a while back and got recommended this series, but never actually tried any. This looks cool! A vida encontra um caminho..
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This is an awe-inspiring and fascinating study that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. However, the overall framing in terms of "innate versus learned” is unnecessary. The innate versus acquired dichotomy is outdated and has been for a long time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
03.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 63 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 6It's wild coming from cognitive science to comparative cognition. In cogsci, cognitivism is largely seen as dead and has been for some 20+ years.
It is common to view cognition as being for action. In psychology too.
Yet, this is where they put the blame? The field needs more cogsci, not less.
Octopuses respond to the rubber hand illusion. Check out the video abstract. Cool work by Sumire Kawashima and Yuzuru Ikeda--these are the kinds of questions we can be asking to investigate the nature of consciousness www.cell.com/current-biol...
21.07.2025 16:51 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Been really enjoying the Complexity Science Discussion Group hosted by Paul Middlebrooks, where we're working our way through the Santa Fe Institute's "Classic Papers in Complexity Science". The group is open for anyone interested:
braininspired.co/complexity-g...
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
09.07.2025 13:40 — 👍 275 🔁 132 💬 16 📌 44Now, some thoughts on seeing Aquilops on the big screen! "Our" little dino was one of the stars of Jurassic World, and that was quite an experience as one of the scientists behind the research. (1/n)
06.07.2025 13:35 — 👍 83 🔁 29 💬 4 📌 2
Why did cephalopods develop intelligence? And why, being so intelligent and cognitively complex, do they die so young? In this @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, the authors explore this paradox from an ecological and evolutionary perspective. www.cell.com/action/showP...
29.06.2025 10:23 — 👍 86 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 4Our letter is out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
We argue against a recent claim that animals cannot make mental simulations because they supposedly do not reliably memorize sequences. The evidence for model-based animal cognition is too overwhelming. 🧪
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Temporal integration and decision-making in crocodiles 🐊.
New paper by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇
@biologists.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social
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#bioacoustics
#decisionmaking
#sound
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A 2.5 meters long female alligator which kept her juvenile colouration. She has a dark back and a yellow underside, notably with yellow lower jaw and throat and yellow stripes on her flank. She lies serenely on the green, fake grass of an indoor enclosure, with a wall and doors in the background.
A close-up on the head of the alligator in the previous picture. She has a juvenile colouration with a dark back and a light yellow lower jaw and throat. We can see the big teeth coming out of her upper jaw and the black pupil in her dark brown eye. She lies serenely on green, fake grass of an indoor enclosure.
I did some data collection with the alligators yesterday and I took a couple of pictures of Sigi after her feeding. She was probably feeling very satisfied.
26.04.2025 11:08 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0The field of behaviour genetics has turned out to be something of a damp squib: “genomic information is a statistically non-zero but all in all relatively minor contributor to behavioral differences”
06.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 29 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Many theropods shortened their arms and lost fingers. How did they do it?
Our Edinburgh student Milly Mead, in her first paper, looks into oviraptorosaurs. Arm shortening and finger loss were decoupled!
@funstonpaleo.bsky.social & I are proud supervisors!
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