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@allylouks.bsky.social
Working on olfactory ethics and teaching at Cambridge. ‘One of those academic types who turn to books as a substitute for social interaction’.
@asifamajid.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford @oxexppsy.bsky.social
@dulaclab.bsky.social
Identifying the neural basis of innate social behaviors using molecular and genetic tools @Harvard @HHMINEWS
@keithwilson.eu
Philosopher of Mind & Perception/Co-Director of #CognitiveScience at @ucddublin.bsky.social. Father of #LittleHuman. Former programmer and sound engineer. Maintains various #philosophy feeds, lists and starter packs. ↘︎ http://keithwilson.eu (he/any) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦
@sallyholloway.bsky.social
Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture, researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow | On maternity leave until 05/25
@neurovenki.bsky.social
Neuroscience Professor at Harvard University. Personal account and posts here. Research group website: https://vnmurthylab.org.
@dattalab.bsky.social
Neuroscientist @Harvard asking how sensation and action are entwined to facilitate cognition. Natural behavior, circuits for scents and movement, curiosity, biological and artificial intelligence
@drhick.bsky.social
Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
@smellosopher.bsky.social
Toward Tanaka! Philosopher (4E) and cognitive neuroscientist (EEG + olfactometry) @ Indiana University Bloomington (HPS + CogSci) Book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278721 Research: http://www.smellosophy.com Lab: https://thestinktank.weebly
@inekehuysman.bsky.social
Dutch history: Stadholders' wives, Constantijn Huygens, Johan de Witt, Willem van Oranje, Willem de Clercq, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Early Modern correspondences; history of perfumery; 17th century history. Huygens Instituut/NL-Lab.
@melaniekiechle.bsky.social
Historian of #C19 United States: health, science, cities, environments, and smells. Lots of smells. Author of Smell Detectives. Now musing alternatively about buried creeks, sensitivity, and an ill woman.
@ltotelin.bsky.social
Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
@ericafretwell.bsky.social
good enough professor | The Art of Slight Living: Anaesthetics in Times of Anomie (in progress) | Sensory Experiments (Duke UP, 2020) | she/her
@willtullett.bsky.social
He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
@paulmasset.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, McGill University | Affiliate Member, Mila - Quebec AI Institute | Neuroscience and AI, learning and inference, dopamine and cognition https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/paul-masset
@fedkukso.bsky.social
Science writer • 2016 @KSJatMIT/ @Harvard fellow • 📖 #FRUTOLOGIAS: Historia política y cultural de las frutas • #ODORAMA Historia cultural del olor (Odorama: Cultural History of Smell) • 🇦🇷🏳️🌈
@drandyflack.bsky.social
I'm an environmental historian, currently working on 'dark natures' and their animal inhabitants. Previous work on captive environments, including my book The Wild Within.
@lkaychicago.bsky.social
Professor in Psych & Neuroscience UChicago. I study smelling and neural #oscillations. #Olfaction, #Neuroskyence, #LGBTQSTEM, #WomenInSTEM, St. John's College alum, BlackLivesMatter. Views are my own. She/Her 🧪✡️🏳️🌈
@meeksandmilds.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Univ of Rochester. Twin Parent. Spouse of rockstar physician-scientist. Time for anything else? Ha! Views are my own.
@neuroshea.bsky.social
PI at CSHL. Olfaction, audition, and autism. @sheacshl @neuroshea@neuromatch.social Discogs: http://bit.ly/2xlZLbJ Opinions here are mine alone.
@barrycsmith.bsky.social
Prof of Philosophy. Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Centre for the Study of the Senses, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Interested in Neuroscience, Sensory Science, Taste, Smell, Flavour, Multisensory Perception, Wine, Scotch
@giuliamartina.bsky.social
Philosopher of perception and mind at the University of Dortmund. Interested in all things perceptual. Webpage: https://gmphilosophy.wixsite.com/giuliamartina
@riffelllab.bsky.social
Sensory Neuroecology Lab. Mosquitoes, moths, and chemicals. Professor at the University of Washington, Department of Biology riffelllab.org
@jesspclark.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain | Currently writing about modernity, nationalism, and smell | Author of Business of Beauty (2020) | Co-editor at the Recipes Project | she/her | Views my own | #histgender #smellhistory
@juliastern.bsky.social
Personality & Psychological Assessment @UniBremen, Mom 👦🏼👶🏼 I study Personality and Individual Differences (broadly), in relation to Hormones, Menstrual Cycle, Puberty, Mating, Singlehood, Voices, personality perception & development #OpenScience
@reinarz.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
@katrinvogt.bsky.social
GroupLeader@UniKonstanz, @CASCB, @MPIAnimalBehavior, Postdoc@Harvard, interested in neuroscience, neuromodulation, social modulation, insect behavior, and connectomics. #Maggotmaster #wearyourmodelorganism
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@hannahod.bsky.social
Historian of science, global history, natural history, substitutes, and (as of recently) History of slavery
@elisagalliano.bsky.social
Neurobiologist, serial immigrant, scientist, teacher, espresso addict, bookworm, glomeruli enthusiast. She/Her/Dr. Portrait by a former student. Cambridge, UK https://gallianolab.org/
@scraigroberts.bsky.social
Zoologist turned psychologist. I study behaviour, smell, and maternal-infant interaction at the Universities of Stirling and Wroclaw. Učím se česky. 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏴 🇨🇿 🇵🇱 www.scraigroberts.com
@lenariab.bsky.social
Bees, flies, mosquitoes, neurons, ecology and genetics. @Lena_Riab on Twitter. Associate Professor at Durham Biology in the UK. Head of @InsectNeuroLab.bsky.social 👩🔬👩💻🤦♀️🤷♀️🤯🦟🪰🐝👁️👄🧠👃🥀🌻🌸🏖️🌊
@claireturner.bsky.social
Historian of cancer and the senses. Postdoc Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Digital Engagement Fellow @hematopolitics.bsky.social.
@josephdzak.bsky.social
Neurobiologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago studying sensory cells and neural circuits. #Neuroscience and #Olfaction. https://www.zak-lab.org
@dahaniel.muench.bio
Neuroscientist🥼 father of 3 👨👩👧👧👶💥 chemo-sensory processing 👃👅 calcium imaging 🔬 open science 🌍 insect brains 🧠 also dahaniel@drosophila.social 🐘
@adorrego.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. Postdoc @GrubbLab- Centre for Developmental Neurobiology - King's College London | Unconventional neurons, axons, dendrites, and how they talk to each other! | Wellcome Trust Early-Career fellow | 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧
@tiedetati.bsky.social
A research enthusiast Classicist at Tampere University Helsingin yliopiston dosentti #ancienthistory #classics #Latin Tieteestä intoileva antiikintutkijatäti. she/her
@kevinbolding.bsky.social
Memory / olfaction PI at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philly boldinglab.org kevinbolding@neuromatch.social
@clairmar.bsky.social
Neuroscientist CNRS Université Paris Cité, Olfaction, Feeding Behavior, Astrocytes, Oscillations
@hunglo.bsky.social
Sys Neuro postdoc in Sjulson lab, Albert Einstein, New York. PhD in Johenning/Schmitz lab, Charité, Berlin. The binge eating guy🍩. he/him.
@silkesachse.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, Professor @uni-wuerzburg.de, Chair of Neurobiology & Genetics, former GroupLeader @mpi-ce.bsky.social, studying the neural basis of olfaction 🧠🪰 Lab website: https://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/neurogenetics/research/wg-sachse/
@smschober.bsky.social
early modern historian, following civet cats and other species - humans included - through time and space, animal resources, racialization of hair, multispecies history / postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, University of Zurich
@ailiemcwhinnie.bsky.social
Brain scientist in the making at PDN Cambridge in the Galliano Lab 👨🔬 My PhD is investigating regenerating neurons in the olfactory bulb with patch clamp👃 🧠 Also science writer, hiker and hot chocolate connoisseur 🤸♀️
@carleton-lab.bsky.social
Account for the Carleton and Rodriguez laboratories at the university of Geneva, Switzerland. rodriguez-carleton-labs.unige.ch Studying claustrum and cognitive dysfunctions in neuropsychiatric disorders.
@barahuber.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at @MPI_GEA and @climate_cerege. Archaeological chemistry • Past Smells and Perfumes• Ancient Egypt and Arabia
@pbrand.bsky.social
Postdoc in New York. Evolution of behavior, neural circuits, chemical senses, and speciation. he/him. Incoming PI at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. (Fall 2025) https://evolvingors.wordpress.com/
@odorjohan.bsky.social
Professor of psychology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Research focus on olfactory- perception/dysfunction/neural processing. Lab at www.perceptionlab.se
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@ishe-society.bsky.social
The International Society for Human Ethology. We are dedicated to promoting ethological perspectives on human behaviour. Our journal is Human Ethology. https://ishe.org/conferences-and-summer-institutes/