Thank you so much for an intense and interesting conference on disgust in lovely Toulouse!

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

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

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

1/Emily Bagley (Cambridge): Disgust learning is sticky! People struggle to update avoidance behavior for disgusting outcomes vs. points-based rewards. Fear vs. disgust? No difference. 2/Çağla Çınar (Amsterdam): Vegetarians’ disgust toward meat predicts negativity toward meat eaters

7/Michal Stefanczyk (U. College of Professional Education): Six studies test evolutionary & sociocultural explanations for sex differences in disgust sensitivity — results show a complex, nuanced picture.

5/Jan Havlíček (Charles Univ.): Preschoolers’ disgust sensitivity rises from age 4 → 5, showing early cognitive development of contamination awareness. 6/Daqing Liu (York St John): Disgust responds more to bad moral character than anger

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!

Talking about banana research… I think someone had the right socks for it… @atognetti.bsky.social

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!

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 🤯 !

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

• @csarabian.bsky.social & Marie Charpentier @mandrillusproject.bsky.social, on disgust and parasite-avoidance behaviours in primates. Looking forward to the rest of the programme! Keep tuned!

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

📢 Thinking about presenting at EHBEA? Now’s your chance! 🔍 Work in behavioural science? 🧠 Use evolutionary theory? ⏰ And you haven’t submitted your abstract yet? 🚀 #EHBEA2026 is coming up fast — submissions CLOSE 15 December! Don’t miss your chance to share your work 🎉 👉 www.ehbea2026.com

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

“Overall, we conclude that the current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

🚨 🐍 Our new paper on the consequences men face when countering patriarchal norms in rural Tanzania 🐍.🚨 We carried out focus groups and detailed interviews with a whopping 172 women and men about their perceptions of men who support women's empowerment... 📝 1/5

Together, our findings demonstrate that men supporting women’s empowerment face heavy costs - but norms are mutable. Policies that reduce structural barriers, address stigma around gender atypical behavior, and leverage emerging benefits can help accelerate gender-equitable change. 🎯 5/5

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!

✨ It’s official — the next ISHE Congress will take place June 21–27, 2026! 🗓️ Can you guess the location using our three picture hints? 👀 Check the comments for the big reveal! 💬

Leiden looking good today ;-) 📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026 ⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April 📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance) For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com

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If you’re visiting the museum before Sun, you can take part in this scientific study!
💪 Anonymous and voluntary
🧫 Includes small saliva and/or finger-prick samples
🎁 Receive a small museum gift as a thank-you Help us uncover how disgust protects us from disease — one bite (or sniff) at a time! 2/2

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!

Think you’ve got a strong stomach? 😏 What about your immune system? We, researchers @ki.se @cnrs.fr @swanseauni.bsky.social, are running a real experiment at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö! We are studying how your body reacts to “eww” moments — from stinky cheese to crunchy insects 🧀🐛 1/2

🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀! www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸! 🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr 📍Pesthuis #EHBEA2026

DONT miss todays FINE 23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp. Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

🐜 Une découverte surprenante vient bouleverser notre pt de vue sur le clonage & la génétique. Des chercheurs @umontpellier.bsky.social ont observé une espèce de fourmi qui arrive à donner naissance à 2 espèces différentes sans aucun contact avec cette autre espèce www.radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/p...

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

📢 Appel à communications Les conférences annuelles des GDR FRESH et RESHAPE auront lieu à Montpellier, les 4–6 nov. 2025. Thèmes : santé publique & inégalités, climat & santé, evolutionary medicine, + session Varia. ✅ Inscription gratuite → fresh-reshape25.sciencesconf.org 📅 Deadline : 30 sept.

Fascinating talk on the associations between social status and cooperation networks in rural Colombia from @danielredhead.bsky.social at our behavioural and experimental economics seminar @cee-m today! Thanks Dan!

New research out with @jackiemaybin.bsky.social ! Disease and periods - a potentially bidirectional relationship !

#PressRelease 🗞️ Women suffering from long COVID have a greater risk of experiencing abnormal uterine bleeding. The symptoms of the illness intensify during the perimenstrual and proliferative phases of the menstrual cycle. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/men...

[🎤 Interview] Le plastique en mer n’est pas seulement un déchet : il devient également un véhicule pour des bactéries pathogènes 🦠 Thierry Bouvier (@cnrsecologie.bsky.social Marbec) présente ses recherches sur ce risque. ⬇️ bit.ly/42sjCTs

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky www.iast.fr/research-fel...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎