How do we get "lost" in a story? Is it the same in places like Poland, Peru, or Japan? 📖🌍
We validated the Narrative Transportability Scale in a global sample:
✅ 8,800+ participants
✅ 50 countries
✅ 21 languages
Out now in the inaugural issue of @gpccomm.bsky.social
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🌟 Introducing the plenary speakers 🌟
We are bringing you the remaining plenary speakers who will join us at the International Society for Human Ethology Congress 2026 in Les Eyzies, France.
📅 Dates: June 21 – 27, 2026
For more information, visit:
ishe.org/conferences-...
Is it a fan oven?
Our new paper outlines how more attention to olfaction in perinatal care could help breastfeeding and bonding www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @stir.ac.uk @berg-stirling.bsky.socia Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
If Keir Starmer would like to speedily claw back a little bit of popularity in the polls, he could announce immediate and swingeing restrictions on the sale and use of fireworks.
So enjoying working with my friend and colleague Piotr Sorokowski in Wroclaw
Our new paper on olfactory plasticity has just been published in Cortex 🧵
Some people with a healthy sense of smell are unable to perceive a few selected odors, a phenomenon known as specific anosmia. We checked if people can gain some perception of these smells via training.
Picture of a book „The forgotten sense. The new science of smell and the extraordinary power of the nose” by Jonas Olofsson.
I genuinely enjoyed The Forgotten Sense by Jonas Olofsson. It covers multiple areas of smell research in an engaging way, making it a great read for both experts and those just discovering the field.
Congratulations @jokriolo.bsky.social!
In a world bursting with colour, why go monochrome? I joined Tim Caro & Martin How on the BBC World Service’s Crowdscience to explore why some animals stand out in stark contrast. From 🦓🐼🐧 it turns out the answers aren’t always so black & white 😉
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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.
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...
Not many 😞 just two or three by searching mainn.
@charlrwalker.bsky.social Hi Charlotte... thank you very much! We're so delighted by this and everyone's positivity about the project today... really encouraging
Excited to share the sequel to our 2022 paper! In this follow-up, we show that the stable head direction (HD) signals we reported in blind mice rely on stereo olfaction—that is, the comparison of odor info. between the two nostrils.
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵highlights below
Word of the day is ‘foozle’, from the 19th century: of a golfer, to bungle a shot. More generally, to make a complete mess of something.
Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
Spot on: It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
very excited to see this work, which started out as my PhD thesis, finally published (open access)!
doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
Main takeaways 👇
In both 🇨🇦Canada & 🇮🇸Iceland, higher-class individuals look more attractive/healthy/competent and more positive/warm 1/n
This is absolutely hilarious.
Russell Brand shares fake redacted file claiming that Penelope Keith shot JFK.
Clearly didn't read it.
Mind you, it's no madder than some of the other theories.
Word of the day is ‘hingum-tringum’: 19th-century Scots for feeling feeble or barely presentable, and just about hanging together.
Isn’t it about time for all Journals to add a link for Bluesky @bsky.app instead of Toxic X? Please Wake Up & Act! E.g @peerj.bsky.social 🙏
2023. #DEI. #PLOSBiology: The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... via @plosbiology.org
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
You first.
Gen-X knows 🤣
WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
As being “free to make our own trade deals” has delivered the square root of jack shit and, as Brexiters still can’t tell us what EU regulations they want to scrap, closer alignment with the EU should be a no-brainer.
Great work @bestforbritain.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
https://tv.apple.com/.../umc.cmc.2o8al5w2z01dnm4f9aw11d2w7
New BBC episode is now online and I am very happy that the story about wood mice making signposts is based on our research (dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472...) while I was a postdoc in @oxfordbiology.bsky.social (Dept. Zool. at that time). #WILDCRU
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Thanks, Vanessa!
