Eats with joy | looks at brains of others also eating | makes graphs of that | she
Jul 12, 2022 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
Today I spoke up at a #FENS2022 discussion event about pandemic effects on mentoring. I spoke about my frustration regarding transmission mitigation at the meeting. I sorta highjacked the discussion and I'm sorry about that, but I just couldn't not say anything and 1/n
that event seemed the most appropriate platform to get my message across. Particularly given that the discussion was framed as the pandemic being something that happened in the past. I shared my anxieties about getting COVID, bringing it home to my unvaxxed son etc. 2/n
May 18, 2022 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Can you read someone’s genes and know what kinds of foods they will like? 🍏🥦🌭🍟🍔🍺🍫☕️
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I have some news about the different kinds of menus that emerge from a GWAS study of food liking and associated behavior and biology. nature.com/articles/s4146…
We already know that if you look at single genes and single foods, you can predict for example who will find cilantro to taste “soapy” and dislike it in their food. flavourjournal.com/content/1/1/22
Jul 30, 2020 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
We did a Good Science and I want to tell you a little more about it. Of course I do good science more often 😇. But in this case I think it could be immediately useful and that is pretty rare to come by 🧵
#Covid_19@GCChemosensoryR
In March we started hearing about taste and smell loss in COVID19. We came together (online) with a group of people and immediately had QUESTIONS 😷🤔
May 17, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
People sick with #COVID19 report losing their sense of taste or smell. Take a look at these google search trends.. #anosmia
Together with a group of other experts; scientists, clinicians and patient advocates @GcChemosensR, I wondered…🤔
