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Bedeutung des Riechens im Laufe des Lebens international
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January 1, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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A fantastic first plenary talk in « Disgust across borders » @disgust-nerds.bsky.social by Caroline Amoroso on the evolution of parasite avoidance using c. elegans as a model species @iast.fr
December 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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@csarabian.bsky.social & Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social, on disgust and parasite-avoidance behaviours in primates.
Looking forward to the rest of the programme! Keep tuned!
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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What a fantastic 1st session on the origins of disgust across species! Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers:
• Martin Kavaliers, on pathogen avoidance in mice and snails
• Patricia Lopes, on preventive inflammatory responses to sick conspecifics in birds
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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On to our 2nd session on pathogen disgust in humans!
@dalmaijer.bsky.social showed how the brain and stomach talk during disgust, revealing fast brain-to-gut signals, longer gut-to-brain feedback, and gastric rhythms acting as a “reservoir of caution” against contaminants 🤯 !
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Interested in disgust sensitivity and motherhood? 🤰👩‍🍼Talk to Daniela Dlouhá — or read her upcoming paper — on how disgust sensitivity changes from pregnancy to postpartum! @iast.fr
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Wrapping up our 2nd session on pathogen disgust with 2 thought-provoking talks by Eva Landova on the emotional salience of evolutionary and modern disgust threats & Mats Lekander on expert versus laypeople judgment of visual cues of sickness. Spoiler: doctors are *not* better at detecting sickness!
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM