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Cool new post-doctoral position in my lab on the area of human social chemosignaling. What role does odor and olfaction play in shaping social behavior?
(Here also is a 10-minute video about this new line of work in the Human Nature Lab: humannaturelab.net/making-of/so... .)
Please share.
(Here also is a 10-minute video about this new line of work in the Human Nature Lab: humannaturelab.net/making-of/so... .)
Please share.
Yale University, Sociology - Human Nature Lab
Job #AJO30989, Postdoctoral Associate Position in Biosocial Science, Sociology - Human Nature Lab, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US
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October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Cool new post-doctoral position in my lab on the area of human social chemosignaling. What role does odor and olfaction play in shaping social behavior?
(Here also is a 10-minute video about this new line of work in the Human Nature Lab: humannaturelab.net/making-of/so... .)
Please share.
(Here also is a 10-minute video about this new line of work in the Human Nature Lab: humannaturelab.net/making-of/so... .)
Please share.
Scientists at Firmenich buff.ly/jq1TyYa and now Givaudan buff.ly/u2gP5Ow report several olfactory receptors that appear to map cleanly onto specific odor notes (earthy, grapefruit, woody, etc.). 🧪
Decoding human olfaction by high heterologous expression of odorant receptors detecting signature odorants
Emter et al. improve in vitro expression of odorant receptors (OR) by engineering the C-terminal domain. With a library of engineered ORs, they discover ORs for signature odorants, which they relate…
www.cell.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Scientists at Firmenich buff.ly/jq1TyYa and now Givaudan buff.ly/u2gP5Ow report several olfactory receptors that appear to map cleanly onto specific odor notes (earthy, grapefruit, woody, etc.). 🧪
New preprint from the very talented Bob Pellegrino! 🧪
1/5
Odor intensity isn’t just about concentration! We have a new preprint to prove it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In cahoots with @jmainland.bsky.social, @alexkoulakov.bsky.social, Rick Gerkin, Khristina Samoilova and others not on bluesky. 🧪
Which of these molecules smells stronger?
Odor intensity isn’t just about concentration! We have a new preprint to prove it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In cahoots with @jmainland.bsky.social, @alexkoulakov.bsky.social, Rick Gerkin, Khristina Samoilova and others not on bluesky. 🧪
Which of these molecules smells stronger?
August 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
New preprint from the very talented Bob Pellegrino! 🧪
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Analysis of over 21,000 individuals identifies seven new genetic regions linked to odor perception, with some effects differing between men and women and connections to Alzheimer's risk. doi.org/g9vn4j
How do our genes influence our sense of smell? Study finds sex-specific effects
How we smell is not just a matter of taste—it's also influenced by our genes. An international team of researchers led by scientists from Leipzig University has conducted the largest genetic study to date on the human sense of smell.
medicalxpress.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Analysis of over 21,000 individuals identifies seven new genetic regions linked to odor perception, with some effects differing between men and women and connections to Alzheimer's risk. doi.org/g9vn4j
In May we launched the DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025. The leaderboard round closed yesterday and 71 teams submitted predictions! Even if you missed the leaderboard phase, you can still submit a final model for the August 8th deadline.
With a contemporary smartphone, capturing, transmitting, and replicating sounds and visuals is a breeze, yet replicating scents remains elusive. If you want to change this, consider joining the 2025 DREAM Olfaction Challenge at www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6....
@oldbap.bsky.social
@oldbap.bsky.social
DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025
'DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025' (Synapse ID: syn64743570) is a project on Synapse. Synapse is a platform for supporting scientific collaborations centered around shared biomed...
www.synapse.org
July 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In May we launched the DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025. The leaderboard round closed yesterday and 71 teams submitted predictions! Even if you missed the leaderboard phase, you can still submit a final model for the August 8th deadline.
With a contemporary smartphone, capturing, transmitting, and replicating sounds and visuals is a breeze, yet replicating scents remains elusive. If you want to change this, consider joining the 2025 DREAM Olfaction Challenge at www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6....
@oldbap.bsky.social
@oldbap.bsky.social
DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025
'DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025' (Synapse ID: syn64743570) is a project on Synapse. Synapse is a platform for supporting scientific collaborations centered around shared biomed...
www.synapse.org
May 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
With a contemporary smartphone, capturing, transmitting, and replicating sounds and visuals is a breeze, yet replicating scents remains elusive. If you want to change this, consider joining the 2025 DREAM Olfaction Challenge at www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6....
@oldbap.bsky.social
@oldbap.bsky.social
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After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
Reposted by Joel Mainland
📢 TODAY’S THE DAY, PHILLY! 📢 We #standupforscience at 11 AM at City Hall!
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers for you (North Apron) and opportunities for other advocacy activities (Dillworth Park).
Hope to see you there!!
#standupforsciencephilly
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers for you (North Apron) and opportunities for other advocacy activities (Dillworth Park).
Hope to see you there!!
#standupforsciencephilly
March 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
📢 TODAY’S THE DAY, PHILLY! 📢 We #standupforscience at 11 AM at City Hall!
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers for you (North Apron) and opportunities for other advocacy activities (Dillworth Park).
Hope to see you there!!
#standupforsciencephilly
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers for you (North Apron) and opportunities for other advocacy activities (Dillworth Park).
Hope to see you there!!
#standupforsciencephilly
Reposted by Joel Mainland
Check out our review comparing typical experimental to naturally-occurring odor concentrations. You might be surprised.
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
Thanks to Matt and Betty for asking me to take part!
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
Thanks to Matt and Betty for asking me to take part!
Recalibrating Olfactory Neuroscience to the Range of Naturally Occurring Odor Concentrations
Sensory systems enable organisms to detect and respond to environmental signals relevant for their survival and reproduction. A crucial aspect of any sensory signal is its intensity; understanding how...
www.jneurosci.org
March 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Check out our review comparing typical experimental to naturally-occurring odor concentrations. You might be surprised.
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
Thanks to Matt and Betty for asking me to take part!
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
Thanks to Matt and Betty for asking me to take part!
Reposted by Joel Mainland
A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
Reposted by Joel Mainland
SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT NIH FUNDING
Closed sessions of institute and center Advisory Counsel meetings are now permitted. This is where grant applications are discussed and approved for potential funding.
Open sessions where there are public presentations and discussions are still not allowed.
Closed sessions of institute and center Advisory Counsel meetings are now permitted. This is where grant applications are discussed and approved for potential funding.
Open sessions where there are public presentations and discussions are still not allowed.
a man with glasses and a black shirt says " it 's a small step that really goes a long way "
ALT: a man with glasses and a black shirt says " it 's a small step that really goes a long way "
media.tenor.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT NIH FUNDING
Closed sessions of institute and center Advisory Counsel meetings are now permitted. This is where grant applications are discussed and approved for potential funding.
Open sessions where there are public presentations and discussions are still not allowed.
Closed sessions of institute and center Advisory Counsel meetings are now permitted. This is where grant applications are discussed and approved for potential funding.
Open sessions where there are public presentations and discussions are still not allowed.
Reposted by Joel Mainland
Alexander Fjaeldstad and I have a new chapter in the book Smell, Taste, Eat: The Role of the Chemical Senses in Eating Behaviour, edited by @LorenzoDStafford. Lots of great insights here.
From our chapter, it’s clear that smell loss and its impact on ingestion remain vastly underexplored."
From our chapter, it’s clear that smell loss and its impact on ingestion remain vastly underexplored."
The Effect of Olfactory Disorder (and Other Chemosensory Disorders) on Perception, Acceptance, and Consumption of Food
People with changes in the overall sensory experience of food often complain of taste disturbances, although the problem is normally caused by the loss of aroma in the food (thus an olfactory disorder...
link.springer.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Alexander Fjaeldstad and I have a new chapter in the book Smell, Taste, Eat: The Role of the Chemical Senses in Eating Behaviour, edited by @LorenzoDStafford. Lots of great insights here.
From our chapter, it’s clear that smell loss and its impact on ingestion remain vastly underexplored."
From our chapter, it’s clear that smell loss and its impact on ingestion remain vastly underexplored."
Reposted by Joel Mainland
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution!
🧪
Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution!
🧪
Olfaction with legs—Spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection | PNAS
The sense of smell is a central sensory modality of most terrestrial species. However,
our knowledge of olfaction is based on vertebrates and insec...
doi.org
January 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution!
🧪
Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution!
🧪
Reposted by Joel Mainland
Our DeepNose paper is in arxiv. In it, we present an equivariant CNN which can predict human olfactory perception based on molecular shapes, including mixtures. Comments/suggestions are very welcome.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.08747
arxiv.org/abs/2412.08747
DeepNose: An Equivariant Convolutional Neural Network Predictive Of Human Olfactory Percepts
The olfactory system employs responses of an ensemble of odorant receptors (ORs) to sense molecules and to generate olfactory percepts. Here we hypothesized that ORs can be viewed as 3D spatial filter...
arxiv.org
December 13, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Our DeepNose paper is in arxiv. In it, we present an equivariant CNN which can predict human olfactory perception based on molecular shapes, including mixtures. Comments/suggestions are very welcome.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.08747
arxiv.org/abs/2412.08747
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A background in physics, and his own curiosity, have helped Dmitry Rinberg tackle the complexities of the neuroscience of smell. More on Rinberg sniffing out the mysteries of olfaction.
By Lina Zeldovich
www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sn...
By Lina Zeldovich
www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sn...
December 11, 2024 at 2:13 PM
A background in physics, and his own curiosity, have helped Dmitry Rinberg tackle the complexities of the neuroscience of smell. More on Rinberg sniffing out the mysteries of olfaction.
By Lina Zeldovich
www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sn...
By Lina Zeldovich
www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sn...
Reposted by Joel Mainland
The core figure, showing review counts from Publons data, indeed shows the intended effect but buries the lede:
No one uses Publons anymore.
No one uses Publons anymore.
December 6, 2024 at 11:20 PM
The core figure, showing review counts from Publons data, indeed shows the intended effect but buries the lede:
No one uses Publons anymore.
No one uses Publons anymore.
Reposted by Joel Mainland
Important paper!
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.
No more...
* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells
(continued)
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.
No more...
* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells
(continued)
www.biorxiv.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Important paper!
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.
No more...
* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells
(continued)
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.
No more...
* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells
(continued)
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New paper in Nature showing how smell works in humans - no quantum woo involved, surprise surprise. Terrific stuff from Claire de March, Hiro Matsunami and others. Summarised here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Engineered receptors show how humans tell countless odour molecules apart
The structures of engineered odorant receptors.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
New paper in Nature showing how smell works in humans - no quantum woo involved, surprise surprise. Terrific stuff from Claire de March, Hiro Matsunami and others. Summarised here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Joel Mainland
My lab is looking for a postdoc to record lots of neurons while mice sniff each other. Basically I think that will tell us something more interesting about sensory processing than blasting pineapple smell into their noses. You don’t have to be an olfactionist to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/139308
apply.interfolio.com/139308
April 26, 2024 at 10:26 AM
My lab is looking for a postdoc to record lots of neurons while mice sniff each other. Basically I think that will tell us something more interesting about sensory processing than blasting pineapple smell into their noses. You don’t have to be an olfactionist to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/139308
apply.interfolio.com/139308