Ann-Sophie Barwich
@smellosopher.bsky.social
Vive La Dada!
Mary I. Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe/Harvard
Associate Prof, Indiana U Bloomington
Philosophy & Neuroscience
Book www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278721
Web www.smellosophy.com
Lab thestinktank.weebly.com
Art https://as-barwich.medium.com
Mary I. Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe/Harvard
Associate Prof, Indiana U Bloomington
Philosophy & Neuroscience
Book www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278721
Web www.smellosophy.com
Lab thestinktank.weebly.com
Art https://as-barwich.medium.com
Pinned
Smellosophy — Harvard University Press
An NRC Handelsblad Book of the Year“Offers rich discussions of olfactory perception, the conscious and subconscious impacts of smell on behavior and emotion.”—ScienceDecades of cognition research have...
www.hup.harvard.edu
Philosophy & neuroscience of smell, some of my key refs
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Join Liz and I as we try and learn something about olfaction by reading @smellosopher.bsky.social 's recent "Olfaction is a Spatial Sense"
#ideas #podcast #science #philosophy #naturalphilsophy #cogsci #psychology #neuroscience #philconsciousness
#ideas #podcast #science #philosophy #naturalphilsophy #cogsci #psychology #neuroscience #philconsciousness
Mind-Craft: New Consciousness Research #4: Barwich Olfaction is a Spatial Sernse
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November 13, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Join Liz and I as we try and learn something about olfaction by reading @smellosopher.bsky.social 's recent "Olfaction is a Spatial Sense"
#ideas #podcast #science #philosophy #naturalphilsophy #cogsci #psychology #neuroscience #philconsciousness
#ideas #podcast #science #philosophy #naturalphilsophy #cogsci #psychology #neuroscience #philconsciousness
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Fascinating morning visiting the Niels Bohr Archive - with Bohr’s handwritten diagram of the atom, a model of the box used in the 1930 Solvay debate with Einstein, and even Bohr’s pipe still smelling of tobacco! 🤩
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Fascinating morning visiting the Niels Bohr Archive - with Bohr’s handwritten diagram of the atom, a model of the box used in the 1930 Solvay debate with Einstein, and even Bohr’s pipe still smelling of tobacco! 🤩
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Publish and perish www.nature.com/articles/d41... (archived at archive.ph/OBmXT) Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists; via @smellosopher.bsky.social
Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists
Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Publish and perish www.nature.com/articles/d41... (archived at archive.ph/OBmXT) Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists; via @smellosopher.bsky.social
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
Well then. Onwards. Again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTdI...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Well then. Onwards. Again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTdI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTdI...
Near by the river
Near by the river
as-barwich.medium.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Just arrived! Next book in line by our @rad-institute.bsky.social fellows for me to read: Katy Simpson Smith's Weeds! She picked this one for me after I asked her with which of her books to start, Really looking forward to this one!
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Just arrived! Next book in line by our @rad-institute.bsky.social fellows for me to read: Katy Simpson Smith's Weeds! She picked this one for me after I asked her with which of her books to start, Really looking forward to this one!
After walking for 2 1/2 hours, Duch is pissy with me. Not enough outside for madame. How dare I want to eat.
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
After walking for 2 1/2 hours, Duch is pissy with me. Not enough outside for madame. How dare I want to eat.
The philosopher
No one had seen
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November 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I'm sorry that some sexy guys you totally have heard of with an opinion published at the New York Times have to simp for a fantasy world of the past in which no one ever wanted to retire because work was so awesome. It was WOMEN WHO RUINED IT. WOMEN. *strokes beard thusly*
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I'm sorry that some sexy guys you totally have heard of with an opinion published at the New York Times have to simp for a fantasy world of the past in which no one ever wanted to retire because work was so awesome. It was WOMEN WHO RUINED IT. WOMEN. *strokes beard thusly*
Wow, won't you look at that! Our 25/26 Radcliffe fellows website was updated with new profile pictures and sexy project descriptions! Thanks to the utterly amazing @rad-institute.bsky.social team having worked tirelessly behind the scenes. Thank you so much!
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/ann-s...
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/ann-s...
Ann-Sophie Barwich | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Ann-Sophie Barwich is a philosopher and cognitive neuroscientist whose work on olfaction investigates how the mind makes sense of scents. At Radcliffe, she will write a book that argues scientific pra...
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Wow, won't you look at that! Our 25/26 Radcliffe fellows website was updated with new profile pictures and sexy project descriptions! Thanks to the utterly amazing @rad-institute.bsky.social team having worked tirelessly behind the scenes. Thank you so much!
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/ann-s...
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/ann-s...
With the handkerchief dropped
The wind cannot catch me
as-barwich.medium.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Meanwhile, in Cambridge.
Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbiy...
Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbiy...
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Meanwhile, in Cambridge.
Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbiy...
Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbiy...
Held in exhale
Books carry scents
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November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I had declined talks, invited papers, most review requests for a year now. This Sunday I woke up not being hunted down by yet another deadline springing up on me in an ongoing 80hour work-week marathon. And I finally got down to give myself time to THINK through an idea in a depth almost forgotten.
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I had declined talks, invited papers, most review requests for a year now. This Sunday I woke up not being hunted down by yet another deadline springing up on me in an ongoing 80hour work-week marathon. And I finally got down to give myself time to THINK through an idea in a depth almost forgotten.
Reading this morning's news like
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Reading this morning's news like
My dog: You fed me. You waited until I digested, Let's walk.
Me:
Me:
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My dog: You fed me. You waited until I digested, Let's walk.
Me:
Me:
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Bringing wee burro energy to my work today. Not magic, just a beast of burden.
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Bringing wee burro energy to my work today. Not magic, just a beast of burden.
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Finally finished this book. Many spots where I needed to put the book down and ponder for a bit. Useful and should be influential. What an accomplishment.
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Finally finished this book. Many spots where I needed to put the book down and ponder for a bit. Useful and should be influential. What an accomplishment.
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Paul Sabin - Sirene
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Sirene
YouTube video by Paul Sabin - Topic
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November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Paul Sabin - Sirene
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-adG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-adG...
Panpsychism.
Discuss.
Discuss.
“Science deniers undermine scientific integrity when they fail to recognise the expiration date on valuable misunderstandings. Once the hard work of generating & testing other hypotheses has been done, we might ask whether repeatedly responding to the same dissent or misunderstanding is valuable”
Science needs disagreement. What makes some disagreement useless? | Aeon Essays
Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?
aeon.co
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Panpsychism.
Discuss.
Discuss.
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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Two stories from the same day, same source of wealth. Worlds apart...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Two stories from the same day, same source of wealth. Worlds apart...
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