Johan Lundstrom

We are advertising for a postdoc with skills in psychophysiological measurement for a project on smell and emotions. Closing date is 30th October. Please spread the word.
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Sensitivity to contamination of food odours depends on hunger and attention Detection of deviant notes in food odours protects against accidental contaminant ingestion, but this risk needs to be weighed against the potential c…

🍲🍲 NEW PAPER 🍰🍰
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Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)

Methodological determinants of signal quality in electrobulbogram recordings https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.01.662502v1

quit = "are interested"
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Karolinska Institutet is now advertising 20 Assistant Professor positions. One of them focus on AI in brain and behavior. If you quit, apply and come work with us! 🙂

Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychoneuroimmunology Do you want to contribute to improving human health? Join a dynamic and inclusive research group at the forefront of psychoneuroimmunology, where we investigate the interplay between behavior, brain f

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️
I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !!

ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

deadline July 31st

@pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

If you are in neuroscience and interested in applying for a position in Sweden at Karolinska Institutet (either one of the 20 assistant professorships or the "distinguish professor" track - se previous post by me), read more about neuroscience at KI here: ki.se/en/research/...

Come join us!

Picture of summer in downtown Stockolm with a view of the royal castle.

3/3 Why live and do science in Sweden? It is one of the most green cities in the world and you have accessible water nearly everywhere (the city is built on 14 islands). Research funding levels are great and you are encouraged to have a good life-work balance. Read more: www.vr.se/english/rese...

Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden The purpose of the grant is to give higher education institutions and other research organisations the opportunity to develop and strengthen a research field by recruiting, in the near future, a promi...

2/3 The positions will be advertised in different research fields, offering a six-year start package of nine or twelve million kronor. Too senior for these positions? Consider applying to be a long-term guest professor. Contact me, or a colleague, at KI if interested. www.vr.se/english/appl...

1/3 I spent 10 years running a lab in Philadelphia and then decided to return to Europe and continue in a more family friendly environment. Best decision of my life! You can now do the same by applying to one of these 20 assistant professor positions at Karolinska Institutet ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Europe needs to realize that in this new world order where the strong dominates the weak, peace only comes from strength.

Sure, one might argue that this is just the Trump administration and things will be OK 4 years from now, but it is still the current politics of the US government and if it happens once, it can happen again. We can never again depend on US as base for our security.

Time for Europe to realize that the US is no longer our friend and ally. At most, we will be partners in isolated questions when our views align. The US government now have the same "might makes right" world view as Russia and China. Europe need to adjust accordingly.

🧵Meet the Pupillary Respiratory-Phase Response (PRP): pupils constrict during inhalation and dilate during exhalation.

It is the fourth known mechanism influencing pupil size, alongside the pupillary light, near fixation, and psychosensory responses.

If you are interested in the science of smells, listen to my take on how, and why, snow smells. On the Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social show.

If you have 2 minutes to spare, please help us out by telling us what odors come to mind (and share this). We are mostly looking for people living in Sweden, but happy to get all of the world
redcap.ki.se/redcap/surve...

No payment I'm afraid, but you get a gold star if you do it and/or spread it!

If I can offer brief but useful advice it would be to send your drafts chapter by chapter to your supervisor as early as possible - if you send it all at once you'll have a month or 2 of downtime where you can't really do anything but wait for feedback

How measurement noise limits the accuracy of brain-behaviour predictions - Nature Communications Our ability to identify associations between behaviour and brain imaging is important for uncovering markers of cognition and disease. Here, the authors illustrate the importance of the reliability of...

The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes

Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Perceptual constancy for an odor is acquired through changes in primary sensory neurons Learning-induced changes in primary sensory neurons support concentration-invariant perception of an odor.

We have a fresh new paper!
The PhD project of the talented Mark Conway.

A learning-induced change in the sensitivity of olfactory receptor neurons enables consistent perception of an odor. #olfaction #neuroscience

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How to Care Less About Your Email Inbox consuming your life? Take a page from the email slackers and naysayers and try declaring email bankruptcy, setting filters—and just letting it go.

If you have access - i declared email bankruptcy a few years ago.

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Congrats Siri! Well deserved

This has been such a pleasure to work on and make new friends across the senses! In this review, we compare the evidence for perceptual penetrability across the senses-that is, to what extent cognition shapes experience as opposed to biasing it. High in olfaction, low in gustation is my take home :)

Favorite science image #3 olfactory bulb glomeruli. #neuroskyence #neuroscience

In vivo dendritic cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy Immunotherapy can lead to long-term survival for some cancer patients, yet generalized success has been hampered by insufficient antigen presentation and exclusion of immunogenic cells from the tumor ...

Before I go to bed let me post an amazing paper by Filipe Pereira’s group (Ervin Ascic et al) for your enjoyment. I think this is a likely fundamental breakthrough in cancer immunotherapy: personalized, yet generic and probably pan-cancer. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ever wondered what plague smelled like? Probably not but I wrote an entry on it for the Encyclopedia of Smell History and Heritage! Masterminded by @willtullett.bsky.social this is your go-to resource for the history of olfaction.

#historysmells

encyclopedia.odeuropa.eu/items/show/2...

Interested in the sense of smell? An olfaction starter pack might be for you.

Great initiative! Would love to be added

If you have 2 minutes to spare, help us by listing odors that come to mind. We are mostly looking for people living in Sweden, but are happy to get responses from all of the world!
redcap.ki.se/redcap/surveys…
If the link won't work, we are at our IRB-approved participant limit 🙂

Are you an early career scientist and want to attend the ISOT conference this summer in Iceland? Consider applying for ECRO travel support. More here: www.ecro.online/meetings/iso...

Me: Draw a brain with the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex marked.

ChatGpt: The illustration of the human brain with the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex marked is now available.

Me: Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable. Thanks!