Arnaud Tognetti

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

“A snake with no teeth”: Urbanization shifts perceptions of men who support women’s empowerment in Northwestern Tanzania Achieving gender equality requires the support of all genders, but efforts to engage men in women’s empowerment initiatives have been fraught with res…

🚨 🐍 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! 💬

EHBEA 2026 in Leiden - abstract submission opens soon!

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

Research Fellowships Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr

Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.

Deadline: November 15, 2025.

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

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

Overview | EHBEA2026

🚨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 espèce de fourmi défie les lois de la reproduction et du clonage Une découverte surprenante vient bouleverser notre point de vue sur le clonage et la génétique. Des chercheurs de l’université de Montpellier ont observé une espèce de fourmi, qui arrive à donner nais...

🐜 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...

Thierry Bouvier | Le risque microbiologique des plastiques en mer - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

[🎤 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.

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bit.ly/42sjCTs

Research Fellowships Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

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 assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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 🌎

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData

The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit

The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.

tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

These Ants Found a Loophole for a Fundamental Rule of Life

Thanks to @cjgiaimo.bsky.social for this nice article in @nytimes.com (www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/s...) about our last study (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

Gender-biased clustering of attitudes towards physical intimate partner violence: A social network analysis in south-central Ethiopia Abstract. Changing social norms, shared beliefs about what is acceptable, is a key focus of global health campaigns aimed at ending intimate partner violen

New research with Mhairi Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, @alexalvergne.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social & Arsi Oromo participants! @bristolantharch.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

Released today!
SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER
Now available at your favorite bookseller.

Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can.

Please help spread the word!

#sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

Chez les fourmis moissoneuses, des reines enfantent des mâles d’une autre espèce Une nouvelle étude révèle un phénomène inédit dans le règne animal : certaines reines donnent naissance à des mâles d’une autre espèce. Ce mécanisme appelé « xénoparité » permet à leurs colonies de su...

🐜 Une nouvelle étude révèle un phénomène inédit dans le règne animal : certaines reines donnent naissance à des mâles d’une autre espèce. Ce mécanisme appelé « xénoparité » permet à leurs colonies de survivre.

Explications avec des GIF de fourmis ⬇️

YouTube video by 7 Days of Science The Ants That Broke Biology

If you’ve heard about our study on ants producing two different species but are still confused about how it works (and don’t have time to read the paper), this 10-minute video made by @bengthomas.bsky.social is very informative:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-O4...

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Can adults be trained to better recognize and avoid sick faces? New research from the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami looks at the efficacy of training adults to recognize sick faces.

Can adults be trained to better recognize and avoid sick faces? New research findings from our lab, led by PhD student Tiffany Leung (@Tiffany6390.bsky.social)! @UMiamiPsych.bsky.social @UnivMiami.bsky.social #SickSelfie news.miami.edu/as/stories/2...