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Cécile Sarabian
@csarabian.bsky.social
@ukri.org / Marie Curie Research Fellow @swanseauni.bsky.social | Disgust | On the Origins of Hygiene | Cognitive ecology of risk & its applications | www.cecilesarabian.com
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WOW! What an AMAZING new preprint by @csarabian.bsky.social et al. on disgust and fear processing in chimpanzees. Responses are less accurate and slower for visually induced disgust, and initially better but ultimately worse for disgusting smells.

FOUR experiments! Read it! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Dissecting disgust and fear in chimpanzees: From facilitation to disruption of cognitive processes
Disgust and fear are defensive emotions that evolved to address different types of threat. Disgust reduces pathogen exposure through avoidance, whereas fear promotes vigilance and escape from predator...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Just got mine! Magnifique !
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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📢A very exciting #PhDposition with deadline in a couple of weeks!
baboons | human-wildlife interactions | social behaviour
+ a great team of supervisors with complementary expertise from @swanseauni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk

Check it out 👇
PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...
@inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Kissing evolved at least 21 million years ago. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @matildabrindle.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
What role does disgust play in politics?

Our final keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Cindy Kam
@vanderbilt.edu presenting "The Politics of Disgust".

Want a taste? Her TED Talk is here: tinyurl.com/62ynau6s

📍@iast, Toulouse 🇫🇷
🗓️ Dec 4–5
📖 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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The programme for our Winter Meeting in Cardiff is now live! 🐒The programme can be downloaded from the meetings page on our website, and if you haven't got your tickets yet, you have until Friday to benefit from Early-Bird discounts!! www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Meetings | Primate Society of Great Britain
www.psgb.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
How can we use disgust to make more sustainable choices?

Our 3rd keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social with "Putting the gross in domestic product: Disgust and consumer behaviour"

📍 @iast.fr
Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
🎉 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...
@inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...
PhD in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience : College of Natural Sciences : UMass Amherst
Engage in research centered on fundamental theoretical questions about cognitive function using multiple experimental methods and data analysis.
www.umass.edu
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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📢 Two weeks left to apply for a (2-year) research fellowship @iast.fr

A fantastic opportunity to work full-time on your own research, in an interdisciplinary environment, and in a lovely city in the South of France.

Deadline: November 15, 2025

How to apply: www.iast.fr/research-fel...
Research Fellowships
Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...
www.iast.fr
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Aux portes de Bordeaux, les sangliers s’invitent en ville, provoquant inquiétude, dégradations et débats politiques. Une équipe enquête : par où passent-ils, comment humains et sangliers peuvent-ils coexister sans conflit ?
👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/le...
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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👋 Meet Haneul, our Membership Officer/Treasurer!

@haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers.

As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2)

#WplusEBS
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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We're psyched to discuss all things disgust in our upcoming conference on Disgust Across Borders! 🦠

Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology:
"Is disgust a unitary emotion?"

📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Think you’ve got a strong stomach? 😏 What about your immune system?

We, researchers @ki.se @cnrs.fr @swanseauni.bsky.social, are running a real experiment at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö!

We are studying how your body reacts to “eww” moments — from stinky cheese to crunchy insects 🧀🐛 1/2
October 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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#voxprimato #femmage
Jane Goodall est décédée à l'âge de 91ans. Icône de la défense de la biodiversité, pionnière de l'observation comportementale des chimpanzés sauvages, la fondatrice des instituts du même nom laisse un héritage immense à la communauté scientifique et aux citoyen·ne·s engagé·e·s
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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#voxprimato #hommage
Lors de notre AG annuelle pendant le colloque, nous avons aussi rendu hommage à Augustin Basabose disparu en août. Il était le président de Primate Expertise, une ONG de recherche et conservation en RDC, engagé et inspirant.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_D6...
(Vidéo Cintia Garai)
Conservation in and around the Kahuzi-Biega National Park by Primate Expertise
YouTube video by Cintia Garai
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
🦠 Hi disgust nerds! Our 1st keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Caroline Amoroso (@cr-amo.bsky.social, Univ. of Virginia).

She’ll dive into evolution & ecology of infection avoidance — how organisms detect, avoid, and resist pathogens.

tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn

📍 Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 More 🔑🗒️ soon!
October 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr

Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.

Deadline: November 15, 2025.

www.iast.fr/research-fel...
Research Fellowships
Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...
www.iast.fr
September 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...
September 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Time to say I moved to the UK! New chapter at @swanseauni.bsky.social as a @ukri.org / Marie Curie Research Fellow @horizoneu.bsky.social. Will be working w/ @shoalgroup.bsky.social & @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social on baboon adaptations to disease and predation. Stay tuned!
September 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November

www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!

@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🧠 What?! A meeting just on disgust?! Yes!!
📍 @iast.fr, France | 🗓 Dec 4–5, 2025
💥 Keynotes by Paul Rozin @upenn.edu, @cr-amo.bsky.social, Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social & Cindy Kam
🌍 From Psychology to Politics, Biology & beyond
🎓 Abstract submissions until Aug 31: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...
August 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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So excited for this disgust-focussed meeting! 💩 Abstract and registration deadline coming up soon!
📣 Call to all disgust nerds out there: Join our interdisciplinary conference on 'Disgust across borders'!

🗓️ Dec 4 & 5
📍Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr
💡Four fantastic keynotes, roundtables, & more

Submit your abstracts and register by *August 31* here: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...
August 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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📣 Call to all disgust nerds out there: Join our interdisciplinary conference on 'Disgust across borders'!

🗓️ Dec 4 & 5
📍Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr
💡Four fantastic keynotes, roundtables, & more

Submit your abstracts and register by *August 31* here: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...
August 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM