Yesterday, we kicked off our #Lectureseries "The Senses in Performance" with Silke Felber, Freda Fiala & Julia Ostwald. They mapped #performance history & #sensorystudies for audiences in Linz and online, setting the stage for the semester ahead! #OLFAC #olfactory

T rex breath and Queen Elizabeth’s car: scientists creating ‘time machine for the nose’ Researchers are recreating ancient odours for museumgoers as interest in the archaeology of smell grows

Archeology of Smell & Ancient Odours👃
#trex #queen #queenelizabeth #museum #smellscapes #olfactory #archeology #history

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

T rex breath and Queen Elizabeth’s car: scientists creating ‘time machine for the nose’ Researchers are recreating ancient odours for museumgoers as interest in the archaeology of smell grows

Smelly past, or: history with all senses ...

Glad to see @theguardian.com reporting on @barahuber.bsky.social and colleagues' brilliant research in #olfactory #archaeology.

👃🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Great date idea in general, go create your own fragrances. You will know it’s your partner from a mile away! ❤️#MyValentines #Olfactory

Duftmarken. Diagonal geht der Nase nach. | SA | 28 02 2026 | 17:05 Die Nase hilft zu identifizieren. Gerüche sind Werkzeuge der Distinktion, im Sozialen wie neuerdings auch in der Bildenden Kunst und in der Architektur.

Am 28.2. - 17:05 Uhr, Ö1 einschalten: Diagonal über die Macht des #olfactory – von #Duft als sozialer Distinktion bis zu KI-Parfums, Museumsgerüchen und dem Duftmarken-Affentheater in Social Media. Silke Felber und unser Projekt #OLFAC mit dabei im Radio. Nicht verpassen!📻
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After her Talk at the Deutsches Haus at #NYU, Silke will travel to Brown University @brown.edu to present her current research at "The Odorous Object: On the Materiality of #Scent. A Conference on #Smell and #Materiality" on February 27th! #OLFAC #olfactory #sensorystudies

Coming up! on February 24, Silke gives a public #lecture at the Deutsches Haus at New York University titled " #Olfactory #Arts in a Warming World”. Following the lecture, she will be in conversation with Zachary Samalin and Brandon Woolf. #OLFAC #NYU

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Praveen Kuruppath and colleagues from @cuanschutz-dpb.bsky.social observed that connexin 36-mediated gap junctions contribute to fine odour discrimination and late-phase excitation of #mitral cells in the mouse #olfactory bulb 🧠 🐁

🔗 Read the study: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

The Final day of the #OLFAC #Symposium made essences emerge. fascinating talks and lecture performances on #olfactory of Lindsey French, Alanna Lynch, Helene Loos and Clara Muller. Sarah Kolb & Freda Fiala in dialogue on fungal volatiles. it opened a dense atmosphere of questions. 🌫️

Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life A new interdisciplinary study published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology introduces an innovative framework for translating biomolecular data from archaeological materials into scent recreations, offering museums and heritage institutions powerful new tools for storytelling, education, and immersive interpretation.

5-Feb-2026
Breathing in the past: How #museums can use biomolecular #archaeology to bring ancient #scents to life

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1114918

#science #olfactory #smell #sensory

connection between
#Odours and #appetite

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2524926123

#science #olfactory #senses #neuroscience #humans #health

🔥Hot Off the Press | 🧬New Cell research reveals how class II #olfactory receptors can detect fatty acids and link chemosensation to downstream biological responses, shedding light on how organisms sense and respond to metabolic cues.

Olfactory function of tarsal sense organs in forelegs of phytoseiid mites: a case study of Neoseiulus barkeri (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and herbivore induced plant volatiles This study reveals foreleg tarsus I of Neoseiulus barkeri detects herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPV). Excision of tarsus I eliminated odor attraction, with SEM identifying olfactory sensilla. W...

#Olfactory function of tarsal sense organs in forelegs of phytoseiid #mites: a case study of Neoseiulus barkeri (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and herbivore induced plant volatiles. #behavior
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to conclude the second Day of the #Symposium, our Artists in Residency Paola Bianchi and Stefano Murgia performed their Piece "WERKSTATT Pathosmells". they developed the #olfactory and #choreographic work during their #residency in Linz. more info on our website! olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

Day 2 of the #OLFAC#Symposium was stimulating our #senses with fascinating lectures of Dorothée King and Hsuan L. Hsu. Gwenn-Aël Lynn took us to space with his lectureperformance. Also our OLFAC team members, Silke Felber, Julia Ostwald and Freda Fiala gave us their insights on the #olfactory. -->

Day 1 of the #OLFAC#Symposium: Athmospheres unfold. With Debra Riley Parr joining us online, Marco Tullio Liuzza giving us insights and a lecture performance full of Garlic by Brandon Woolf, finished by a #sensory performance by the collective Mai Ling, it smelled like a wonderful start! #olfactory

on the origins of smell I am old enough to remember when olfactory receptors were discovered, and have written about them a fair few times since then (heck I even have a tag for that). In the new developments in the smell field last year I really liked the way that a clever combination of old and new may provide a breakthrough. Smell has become ridiculously complex and fragile during the evolution of tetrapods (ie since our ancestors stopped being fish and started to grow legs to walk around on land and sniff the air). Now researchers have gone back to reconstruct the simpler and more robust olfactory receptors of early tetrapods, and based on structures obtained for these, it may become easier to predict (eg with alpha fold) and study structures of the receptors we have now. It's all explained with a bit more detail in my latest feature which is out now: **Chemical communicators** Current Biology Volume 35, Issue 2, 20 January 2025, Pages R45-R47 FREE access to full text and PDF download See also my Mastodon thread where I highlighted all CB features of 2025. The thread for 2024 is here . In Western culture, the sense of smell is much less valued than vision and hearing. (Photo: vikjam/Flickr (CC BY 2.0).)

Last year's feature on the #evolution of our sense of #smell is now in the #openArchives: proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/01/on-origins-of-sm...

#science #olfactory #sensory #humans

Humans Can Detect Over One Million Odors, Yet Use Only a Fraction in Daily Life Smell shapes wine tasting, memory, emotion and even forensic identification, revealing its underestimated impact on our everyday experiences

Humans Can Detect Over One Million Odors, Yet Use Only a Fraction in Daily Life #Smell #WineTasting #Olfactory #Memory #Forensics

David Wolf et al. observed that deletion of NPAS4 in #olfactory bulb principal #neurons alters E/I balance and impairs decoding of chemically similar odour molecules 🧠 🔬

📜 Read the study here:
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We warmly wish you a happy #NewYear2026! we're still looking back fondly on our #OLFAC #Symposium in Vienna last december, where we explored #Sensing across the #Humanities, #Sciences, and #Arts. Stay tuned for our recap, followed by exciting 2026 announcements!
#sensorystudies #olfactory

#CNT breakthrough. #sensor #olfactory

How Smell Guides Our Inner World | Quanta Magazine A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the individual neurons that translate them into…

"studies showed that #humans have around 400 types of #olfactory #receptors in the #nose & that millions of these receptors line the nasal passages. Each receptor is a protein that can recognize and latch onto many kinds of #odorants": buff.ly/Vajcqpz

via @quantamagazine.bsky.social

This “Cinderella Sense” May Be Tied to More Than 130 Disorders This “Cinderella Sense” May Be Tied to More Than 130 Disorders: Researchers give a whiff of why smell matters to health.

Regular screening for #olfactory could lead to early detection of certain diseases

#SmellHealth is potentially linked to more than 139 conditions that manifest throughout the body—including #Alzheimer’s, #CongestiveHeartFailure, #stroke, & #Parkinson’s

#Smell #Scent #Nose
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"Abete Lucente Perfume"
(an imaginary creation)

(Read poem on image please.)

Ingredient Notes:

Top: Siberian fir, crushed fir needles
Heart: Cinnamon leaf, candied orange
Base: Cedarwood, firewood smoke, warm musk

#perfume #poetry #poetryCommunity #olfactory #olfaction #perfumer #PerfumeAnalysis

IOB's latest!
Classification of Odor-Derived #Electroantennograms with Machine Learning

Joshua Swore, Melanie Anderson, Marissa Dominguez, Tom Daniel, Jeff Riffell

doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#insects #olfactory #disease #science #biology #research

When I wear my new glasses they smell strongly of plastic and I didn't like it-- at first. But yesterday I realized I recognize it as also being "new action figure smell" and now I like it.

#childhood #genx #glasses #smell #smells #olfactory #marvelsecretwars

This week we welcomed choreographer Paola Bianchi and musician Stefano Murgia, who will be Artists in Residence with the ERC project #OLFAC until December 12, 2025.
At our Get Together, they explained their #choreographic and #olfactory research!

Today we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Roman Arguello from the Queen Mary University in London @qmul.bsky.social  to our department seminar.
#unifr #unifrbiology #biology #seminar #biologyseminar #olfactory #neuron

We Induced Smells With Ultrasound We decided to try to stimulate the olfactory bulb with focused ultrasound. As far as we know, no one seems to have done this kind of stimulation before - even in animals.

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#digitalsmells #olfactory