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Arnaud Tognetti @atognetti.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨 🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢 🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open! 📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health 🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!

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Arnaud Tognetti @atognetti.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

* PhD 1 Study how sensory disease cues 🧟‍♂️ shape social avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology with Camille Ferdenzi, Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 4 📍 CNRS / University of Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - PhD Position in Behavioral Sciences (Psychology, Behavioral Ecology, and Psychoneuroimmunology): Perception of Disease Cues and Social Avoidance in Humans (M/F)

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪 Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪 PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓 More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Psychology

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? We are currently looking for a driven and curious postdoctoral researcher who wants to join Mats J. Olsson’s research group in the Division of Ps

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260

Image illustrating sensor placement. The reference sensor is placed on the xiphoid process (just under the sternum), the ground is placed on the left costal margin (just under the bottom rib), and sensors one through four are place over where the stomach would be. Sensor 3 is midway through the umbilicus (navel) and the reference sensor. Sensor 4 is roughly three centimetres from sensor 3 to participant-right. Sensors 2 is also roughly three centimetres away from sensor 3, but along a 45 degree angle upwards and to participant-left. Sensor 1 lies 3 centimetres further from sensor 2, along the same 45 degree line.

Two-panel image showing a processed electrogastrogram. The left panel shows five minutes of raw data from four different leads (measured from the four sensors in the previous image and their common reference). The right panel shows the same signal in frequency space, illustrating the typical normogastric peak at 3 cycles per minute.

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Jorge Tobajas (University of Córdoba) shows how disgust can aid wildlife conservation. Through conditioned food aversion, animals learn to avoid risky or threatened resources, reducing conflict and protecting biodiversity—without lethal methods. #Conservation #WildlifeManagement #Sustainability

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Next up, Sylvie Borau (Toulouse Business School) on the expanding circle of moral disgust: from animal suffering to robot mistreatment. Disgust drives moral condemnation and engagement, but reasoning extends concern even to artificial beings. #MoralPsychology #Disgust #AnimalWelfare #AIethics

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Let’s continue with the application session! Jared Piazza (Lancaster University) shows that while pathogen-related disgust can spark meat aversion, moral motivations often sustain it, leading to stronger commitments and fewer returns to meat eating. #disgust #ethics #meat_aversion

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Don’t fade now — this afternoon @iast.fr brings a standout final keynote: Cindy Kam (Vanderbilt) shows how disgust can also power politics. Disgust isn’t conservative or liberal, but opportunistic, pushing for protection across issues and sometimes even bridging partisan divides.

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Lei Fan (Aarhus Univ.) shows across Western and East Asian samples a split in moral punishment: 😡 Anger → direct + indirect aggression 🤢 Disgust → indirect punishment Patterns replicate in Japan — stable functions despite cultural differences. #disgust #emotion #crosscultural

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Wow — truly disgusting videos today! 🤢 Tom Kupfer (Nottingham Trent) shows, across 67 countries, a clear split in disgust: 🦠 Pathogen cues → oral–gastric 🪳 Ectoparasite cues → skin–surface Despite varied emotion terms, same mechanisms worldwide. #disgust #emotion #crosscultural

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

@joshtybur.bsky.social (VU Amsterdam) presents new work testing the universality of disgust across 36 societies and 30k+ participants. Pathogen, sexual & moral disgust show striking cross-cultural consistency! Fascinating dataset & big implications! @iast.fr #disgust #crossculturalresearch

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Surely a highlight of Paul Rozin's online keynote at the Disgust Without Borders conference, after an excellent review and comment on the research, was his extended poetic riff on Hamlet's soliloquy - applied to food! @disgust-nerds.bsky.social @iast.fr

The slime of sushi, the horror of haggis
The trauma of tripe, whose pores exude a pus

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

How does disgust shape what we buy? Today’s first keynote by Philip Powell explored disgust’s dual role in consumer behaviour: as a barrier that blocks markets (from “ugly” produce to recycled materials) and as a facilitator that can drive attention, virality, and even more sustainable choices.

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Excited for Day 2 of the Disgust Across Borders Conference @iast.fr ! Today we dive into disgust across cultures, the economics and politics of disgust, and its real-world applications. Can’t wait to hear all of it!

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Really honoured to have Prof. Paul Rozin giving our 2nd (online) keynote! Today he challenges us with a fundamental question: is disgust a single, unitary emotion? Thanks again, Paul — we wish you could be here with us for these two days! @iast.fr

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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!

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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 🤯 !

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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

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Arnaud Tognetti @atognetti.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The perceived embodiment of proper disgust is entirely different than that of “political disgust”, which actually closely overlaps with anger. Excellently timed preprint, with @disgust-nerds.bsky.social starting tomorrow. Hope someone brings this up in the “Is moral disgust really disgust?” debate!

Figure from the preprint with two rows of visualised perceived embodiment, one for the non-political and one for the political emotion. Disgust is perceived by participants to be embodied in the stomach, whereas political disgust was in the chest. This overlaps very closely with political anger, suggesting the two overlap. (And maybe that “political disgust” is not necessarily actual disgust!)

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IASToulouse @iast.fr · 02/12/2025

The conference Disgust Across Borders is approaching! 😄 On December 4th and 5th, IAST and @tse-fr.eu will host the conference on Disgust across Borders: Multidisciplinary Perspectives to explore the basic yet multifaceted emotion of disgust. 📍 Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont, TSE Building

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Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🦠 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!

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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!

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Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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!

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Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We’re very excited to welcome all disgustologists to Toulouse in the coming days for our conference! Looking forward to inspiring talks, great discussions… and maybe a few disgust-inducing surprises 👀🦠

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