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S. Craig Roberts @scraigroberts.bsky.social · 4d

We are advertising for a postdoc with skills in psychophysiological measurement for a project on smell and emotions. Closing date is 30th October. Please spread the word.
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Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Jul 14

🍲🍲 NEW PAPER 🍰🍰
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)

Sensitivity to contamination of food odours depends on hunger and attention

Detection of deviant notes in food odours protects against accidental contaminant ingestion, but this risk needs to be weighed against the potential c…

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 4

Methodological determinants of signal quality in electrobulbogram recordings https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.01.662502v1

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Jun 26

quit = "are interested"
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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Jun 26

Karolinska Institutet is now advertising 20 Assistant Professor positions. One of them focus on AI in brain and behavior. If you quit, apply and come work with us! 🙂

Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Jun 20

1/3 I spent 10 years running a lab in Philadelphia and then decided to return to Europe and continue in a more family friendly environment. Best decision of my life! You can now do the same by applying to one of these 20 assistant professor positions at Karolinska Institutet ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Early-career researcher — join a global community of excellence

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. In 2025, KI will recruit outstanding early-career researchers with particularly e...

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Julie Lasselin @julielasselin.bsky.social · Jun 21

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️
I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !!

ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

deadline July 31st

@pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychoneuroimmunology

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? Join a dynamic and inclusive research group at the forefront of psychoneuroimmunology, where we investigate the interplay between behavior, brain f

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Jun 20

If you are in neuroscience and interested in applying for a position in Sweden at Karolinska Institutet (either one of the 20 assistant professorships or the "distinguish professor" track - se previous post by me), read more about neuroscience at KI here: ki.se/en/research/...

Come join us!

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Jun 20

3/3 Why live and do science in Sweden? It is one of the most green cities in the world and you have accessible water nearly everywhere (the city is built on 14 islands). Research funding levels are great and you are encouraged to have a good life-work balance. Read more: www.vr.se/english/rese...

Picture of summer in downtown Stockolm with a view of the royal castle.

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Jun 20

2/3 The positions will be advertised in different research fields, offering a six-year start package of nine or twelve million kronor. Too senior for these positions? Consider applying to be a long-term guest professor. Contact me, or a colleague, at KI if interested. www.vr.se/english/appl...

Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden

The purpose of the grant is to give higher education institutions and other research organisations the opportunity to develop and strengthen a research field by recruiting, in the near future, a promi...

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Jun 20

1/3 I spent 10 years running a lab in Philadelphia and then decided to return to Europe and continue in a more family friendly environment. Best decision of my life! You can now do the same by applying to one of these 20 assistant professor positions at Karolinska Institutet ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Early-career researcher — join a global community of excellence

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. In 2025, KI will recruit outstanding early-career researchers with particularly e...

ki.se

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Feb 22

Europe needs to realize that in this new world order where the strong dominates the weak, peace only comes from strength.

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Feb 22

Sure, one might argue that this is just the Trump administration and things will be OK 4 years from now, but it is still the current politics of the US government and if it happens once, it can happen again. We can never again depend on US as base for our security.

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Feb 22

Time for Europe to realize that the US is no longer our friend and ally. At most, we will be partners in isolated questions when our views align. The US government now have the same "might makes right" world view as Russia and China. Europe need to adjust accordingly.

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Artin Arshamian @artinarshamian.bsky.social · Feb 21

🧵Meet the Pupillary Respiratory-Phase Response (PRP): pupils constrict during inhalation and dilate during exhalation.

It is the fourth known mechanism influencing pupil size, alongside the pupillary light, near fixation, and psychosensory responses.

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Feb 8

If you are interested in the science of smells, listen to my take on how, and why, snow smells. On the Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social show.

Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · Feb 7

If you know snow, you might know that it has a particular crisp, clean smell.

Dr. Johan Lundström, snow aficionado and professor of psychology, joins us to talk about the science behind that snowy smell.

Why Snow Has That Crisp, Clean Smell

A combination of environmental factors and the way our bodies function play a role in how we perceive the smell of snow.

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Dec 22

If you have 2 minutes to spare, please help us out by telling us what odors come to mind (and share this). We are mostly looking for people living in Sweden, but happy to get all of the world
redcap.ki.se/redcap/surve...

No payment I'm afraid, but you get a gold star if you do it and/or spread it!

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Shane Grant, Ph.D @drshanegrant.bsky.social · Dec 14

If I can offer brief but useful advice it would be to send your drafts chapter by chapter to your supervisor as early as possible - if you send it all at once you'll have a month or 2 of downtime where you can't really do anything but wait for feedback

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Simon Eickhoff @sbe.bsky.social · Dec 13

The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes

Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How measurement noise limits the accuracy of brain-behaviour predictions - Nature Communications

Our ability to identify associations between behaviour and brain imaging is important for uncovering markers of cognition and disease. Here, the authors illustrate the importance of the reliability of...

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Johnston Lab @inchinn.bsky.social · Dec 11

We have a fresh new paper!
The PhD project of the talented Mark Conway.

A learning-induced change in the sensitivity of olfactory receptor neurons enables consistent perception of an odor. #olfaction #neuroscience

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Perceptual constancy for an odor is acquired through changes in primary sensory neurons

Learning-induced changes in primary sensory neurons support concentration-invariant perception of an odor.

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Dec 4

If you have access - i declared email bankruptcy a few years ago.

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How to Care Less About Your Email

Inbox consuming your life? Take a page from the email slackers and naysayers and try declaring email bankruptcy, setting filters—and just letting it go.

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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · Dec 4

Congrats Siri! Well deserved

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 26

This has been such a pleasure to work on and make new friends across the senses! In this review, we compare the evidence for perceptual penetrability across the senses-that is, to what extent cognition shapes experience as opposed to biasing it. High in olfaction, low in gustation is my take home :)

Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Nov 19

Evaluating cognitive penetrability of perception across the senses

Review by Petra Vetter, Stephanie Badde, Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Janina Seubert & Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

Web: go.nature.com/4hOrQeV
PDF: rdcu.be/d0K0k

#psychology #psychscisky #cogpsy

Flow diagram showing how cognition (red boxes) can influence scene and object perception (green and purple boxes) in audition, vision, pain and haptic perception (arising from a combination of tactile perception and proprioception), olfaction and gustation (with flavour arising from both smell and taste). Cognition also influences tactile perception via changes in body representations (blue box). By contrast, proprioception and vestibular processing (grey) are largely unaffected by cognition.

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Joseph D. Zak @josephdzak.bsky.social · Nov 19

Favorite science image #3 olfactory bulb glomeruli. #neuroskyence #neuroscience

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Sten Linnarsson @sten.linnarsson.org · Nov 17

Before I go to bed let me post an amazing paper by Filipe Pereira’s group (Ervin Ascic et al) for your enjoyment. I think this is a likely fundamental breakthrough in cancer immunotherapy: personalized, yet generic and probably pan-cancer. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In vivo dendritic cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy

Immunotherapy can lead to long-term survival for some cancer patients, yet generalized success has been hampered by insufficient antigen presentation and exclusion of immunogenic cells from the tumor ...

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Rose Byfleet @medicifangirl.bsky.social · Nov 13

Ever wondered what plague smelled like? Probably not but I wrote an entry on it for the Encyclopedia of Smell History and Heritage! Masterminded by @willtullett.bsky.social this is your go-to resource for the history of olfaction.

#historysmells

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Plague · Encyclopedia of Smell History and Heritage

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