🚨✨ 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!

* PhD 2 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮 & psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social , Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 20 📍 University of Montpellier 🇫🇷 —> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

PhD for Thesis No. 2 of the SENS-ALIM Nexus: ‘Between disgust and immunity: Avoidance strategies and vulnerability to risks associated with foodborne pathogens’

- work environment: Humans are constantly exposed to pathogens in their environment. In addition to physiological immunity, a behavioural immune system enables the detection of risks and helps to avoi...

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* 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...

🚨 4-year PhD 🚨 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20 📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

PhD for Thesis No. 2 of the SENS-ALIM Nexus: ‘Between disgust and immunity: Avoidance strategies and vulnerability to risks associated with foodborne pathogens’

- work environment: Humans are constantly exposed to pathogens in their environment. In addition to physiological immunity, a behavioural immune system enables the detection of risks and helps to avoi...

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⚠️ 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/...

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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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

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

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

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

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

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.

🔥 7 Flash Talks on Disgust & Pathogen Avoidance: #disgust #pathogenavoidance #behavioralimmune #moralpsych #learning #meat

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

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

@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

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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 🤯 !

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

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

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!

Andrea Vik@andreavik.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New preprint with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park & @mtsakiris.bsky.social : 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... Key takeaways: 🎨 Political emotions create distinct embodied signatures ⚖️ These bodily patterns shift with ideology. 🗳️ The embodied impact of political emotions predicts participation

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

🦠 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!