#olfaction

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3 weeks ago

#Event: "Symposium in Material Culture Studies"
Online, 07/03/2026, 11AM- 3:30PM CEST

Info: champ.ly/wZMxNZ4L

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #conference #materialculture

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Get a Whiff of Ancient Egypt’s 'Scent of Eternity' Experts reconstructed the smell of mummified organs—and it’s actually pretty pleasant.

1 month ago

The "scent of eternity:" notes of beeswax, tree resin, & balsam, with a hint of tar and sweetness. #Fragrance balms made of animal fats; resins; benzoin; plant oils (ie, essential oils, attars, etc), vanilla-scented coumarin, incense. #Olfaction #History #Perfume
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/per...

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Discover the Aromas of Ancient Egyptian Mummies, From Orange Peels to Pine to Incense A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other odors

1 month ago

What do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? A pioneering new analysis of 9 mummies found aromas of resins, woods, spices, herbs, rancid mold, incense, & other notes. #Olfaction #Fragrance #History
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...
Cc: @tylwythtegcottage.bsky.social
@grandmabecky.bsky.social

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Tobias Ackels

@tobiasackels.bsky.social

1 month ago

Feel free to DM me with informal questions — and reposts are very much appreciated!

#Postdoc #NeuroJobs #Neuroscience #SystemsNeuroscience #Olfaction #Neuropixels #AcademicJobs

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Behavioral Ecology

@behavecol.bsky.social

1 month ago

Banded mongooses discriminate relatedness and MHC diversity in unfamiliar conspecifics
#SocialCommunication #Olfaction #Recognition

doi.org/10.1093/behe...

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fetchfeeds.com

@fetchfeeds.bsky.social

1 month ago

Restoring smell: olfactory prosthesis combines artificial nose & intranasal stimulation | Today's Briefs | Paternal instinct in animals and humans, "100 billion... #Olfaction https://fefd.link/8ICaq

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Vinetur Global

@vineturglobal.bsky.social

1 month ago

Humans Can Detect Over One Million Odors, Yet Use Only a Fraction in Daily Life Smell shapes wine tasting, memory, emotion and even forensic identification, revealing its underestimated impact on our everyday experiences

FYI: Humans Can Detect Over One Million Odors, Yet Use Only a Fraction in Daily Life #Olfaction #WineTasting #Memory #ForensicScience #SensoryExperience

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Brain Case

@braincase.bsky.social

1 month ago

Customer Article | Nature Communications | Teams led by Zhi Zhang, Xia Zhu, and Wei Wang at USTC reveal how the nose–brain axis regulates behavioral responses to rancid odors A Nature Communications study reveals a dual nose–brain axis in mice, showing how spoiled food odors activate distinct neural circuits to drive retching-like behavior and aversion.

🧠👃 Customer article sharing | How does the brain respond to the smell of spoiled food?
2-methylbutyric acid (2MBA) activates aPir^Glu neurons, routing signals to:
➡️ MD → retching-like behavior
➡️ NAc → aversion
🔗 www.ebraincase.com/support/cust...

#Neuroscience #Olfaction #NeuralCircuits

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iEES Paris

@ieesparis.bsky.social

1 month ago

Mieux comprendre les bases moléculaires de l’olfaction chez les insectes - iEES Paris Les récepteurs olfactifs d’insectes sont une classe de récepteurs chimiosensoriels que les insectes utilisent pour détecter les odeurs dans leur environnement. Récemment, des avancées majeures ont permis d’élucider la structure tridimensionnelle de ces récepteurs. Dans la revue publiée dans Biological Reviews, les chercheur.e.s de l'équipe CREA / ECOSENS de iEES Paris, ont replacé les informations moléculaires disponibles sur ces récepteurs dans le contexte de leur structure 3D. Ils ont utilisé l'intelligence artificielle "Alphafold2" pour modéliser les structures 3D de ces récepteurs et ainsi replacer les acides aminés identifiés comme essentiels à leur fonction sur ces modèles. Ces travaux ont permis d’identifier des hotspots fonctionnels, tout en présentant des méthodes d’étude fonctionnelle et des technologies émergentes concernant les récepteurs d’insectes.

🧬 Comment les insectes perçoivent-ils les odeurs ?
Des chercheurs de l’iEES Paris éclairent les bases moléculaires de l’ #olfaction chez les insectes, en utilisant l' #IA, avec des perspectives en #biocontrôle, agriculture et technologies bio-inspirées.
👉 iees-paris.fr/mieux-compre...

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How Artists and Museums Are Using Scents to Tell New Stories Two exhibitions in Germany highlight how scents and olfaction are shaping the way we view and experience art.

1 month ago

#article: "Is Smell the Next Big Thing in Art?" by Louisa Elderton

Link: champ.ly/Wydr2gcC

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #arthistory #museology #museumstudies

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Dr. John Hernandez

@cranialnurv.bsky.social

1 month ago

What drives motivation? We found that #olfaction is the primary sensory driver! Flies rapidly pursue good smells (apple cider vinegar) & strongly avoid bad ones (benzaldehyde).

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Mi3 Lab

@mi3lab.bsky.social

2 months ago

Imagine trying to solve a puzzle using one of the most personal human senses: smell. A new study, led by Mi3's Mustafa Yavuz, asks: can people actually make better decisions about smells by working together? tinyurl.com/ub9xvm4y

#SocialCognition #Olfaction #perception #GroupDecisions

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2 months ago

#newarticle: "Olfactory interruptions. Malodor, atmospheric invasion, and eco-Gothic in A. S. Byatt’s “The Thing in the Forest” and Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away" by Li-Hsin Hsu

Link: champ.ly/yjigoaSl

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #gothicliterature #ecocriticism #envhum

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@paulinastrzyz.bsky.social

2 months ago

#newarticle: "Sweet Bags as Embodied Artifacts of Olfactory Heritage" by Olena Morets for the journal Arts.

OA link: champ.ly/2BfBfVdq

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #sensoryheritage #HeritageAwning

Source for image: commons.wikimedia.or...

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Paulina Strzyz

2 months ago

Vitamin D Regulates Olfactory Function via Dual Transcriptional and mTOR‐Dependent Translational Control of Synaptic Proteins Vitamin D (VitD) modulates olfactory function by remodeling dendrodendritic synapses in tufted cells through vitamin D receptor-dependent transcriptional and translational mechanisms. VitD regulates ....

#VitaminD does more than support bones—it fine-tunes sense of #smell! New work in #AdvancedScience @wileylifesci.bsky.social shows vitamin D controls synaptic proteins in the olfactory bulb, using both gene regulation and #mTOR. Nutrition meets #neuroscience!
🔗 shorturl.at/3ubBn
#Olfaction

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭

@keithwilson.eu

2 months ago

This is the smelliest thing in the entire world, say experts — BBC Science Focus Magazine The human nose can have wildly different sensitivities to odour molecules, but there is one chemical that made people vomit and go unconscious December 15, 2025 What's the smelliest thing in the world...

“When [thioacetone] was first distilled in 1889, it almost immediately caused vomiting and unconsciousness to everyone within a half-mile radius.” #olfaction #smell apple.news/AQhxCJB31TlK...

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@peter-fichtelmann.bsky.social

3 months ago

Machine learning for smell: Ordinal odor strength prediction of molecular perfumery components Predicting olfactory perception directly from molecular structure is central to fragrance design that plays a role in a wide range of industries, such as perfumery, food and beverage, and health care....

Excited to share my first article: “Machine learning for smell: Ordinal odor strength prediction of molecular perfumery components” on arXiv👃💻
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2512.08683
Thanks from the support of @westermayrgroup.bsky.social , @unileipzig.bsky.social
#MachineLearning #Olfaction #Perfumery #arXiv

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RES Publications

@respublications.bsky.social

3 months ago

New research in #RESEcolEnt

Bacterial-driven odorant receptor expression shifts alter olfactory #behaviour in the #OrientalFruitFly
doi.org/10.1111/een.70045

#Olfaction #InsectSymbionts #Bactrocera
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social

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Kevin McMullen

@astrodermatologist.bsky.social

3 months ago

Field Note: The Krazy Glue Panic Reflex How our Stone Age brains handle a 20th Century odor.

Every day I tell patients to use Krazy Glue on their painful skin cracks. Every day they ask me "is that safe?!"

Find out why!

#evolution #senses #olfaction #dermatology

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3 months ago

New event for smell + digital culture enthusiasts!

“Wikimedia projects and smell-related content”
📅 10 Dec 2025
🕕 18:00–19:30 UTC
🎙️ Lucy Moore
📍 Zoom

🔗 Register: champ.ly/2HnDcRPj

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #digitalculture #academia

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From a salty breeze to the stench of sewage, here’s how smell affects our ocean experience and reflects changing seas Smellscapes of the sea are multi-layered - they are shaped by interactions between water, marine life and environmental conditions.

3 months ago

#researchnotes: spotlight on Jieling Xiao's article for The Conversation on smell and marine environments!

Link: champ.ly/0NGbLMJL

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #envhist

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SICB journals

@sicbjournals.bsky.social

3 months ago

fig 1 Experimental set-up, data processing, and Pipeline. (A) Experimental set-up. An excised M. sexta antenna is suspended between electrodes and exposed to volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The local field response of the entire antenna is recorded. (B) Signal normalization. Antennae responses were calibrated with ylang-ylang; responses to VOCs were normalized to the maximum and minimum of the ylang-ylang response. This technique resulted in reduced variance, indicated by the narrower shaded region in the normalized response plot, across experiments for each VOC tested. (C) Workflow. Data were collected, normalized, and passed through quality control where waves containing irrelevant frequencies were removed. A genetic algorithm (GA) was used to tune the parameters of a butterworth filter for signal filtering. The filtered time-series data was used in the SVM while principal components analysis (PCA) was used to produce dimensionally reduced components for the RF classifier.

IOB
"We use antennae of the Manduca sexta #moth to record LFPs generated in response to Floral and #disease associated VOC’s..."
from

Classification of Odor-Derived #Electroantennograms with Machine Learning

Joshua Swore et al

doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#insects #entomology #olfaction

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Raymond B. Steinmetz

@raymonds-towers.bsky.social

3 months ago

"Abete Lucente Perfume"
(an imaginary creation)

(Read poem on image please.)

Ingredient Notes:

Top: Siberian fir, crushed fir needles
Heart: Cinnamon leaf, candied orange
Base: Cedarwood, firewood smoke, warm musk

#perfume #poetry #poetryCommunity #olfactory #olfaction #perfumer #PerfumeAnalysis

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3 months ago

Corporate #scent marketing for retail spaces is a HUGELY profitable (& growing) biz!
beautymatter.com/articles/the...

Ex: MGM casinos used pomegranate & sage to increase gambling by 45%; Deutsche Bank Center uses eucalyptus; a museum: waffle cone, strawberry, & popcorn aromas. #Fragrance #Olfaction

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3 months ago

Tisserand's psycho-aromatherapy chart showing which scents trigger which parts of the brain via neurological pathways.

You may know aromatherapy, but what about psycho-aromatherapy? kafkaesqueblog.com/2015/09/02/a...

It's based on the brain's #neurological responses to diff. aromas. Ex: rosemary helps memory; citrus= energy; incense= calm.

+Aphrodisiacs & endorphins. #Fragrance #MentalHealth #Olfaction #Scent

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