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Studies smells for a living. 100% pasta boi 🇮🇹. Great at waving from 6ft away, etc.

Philadelphia, PA
Joined May 2009
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Bob Pellegrino retweeted
We’re hiring! The Sensory Lab @msufshn is seeking a motivated PhD student to lead a project on improving pulse flour quality. Interested in sensory science 👅+ flavor chemistry🧪+ food processing🫘? Send a CV and cover letter to [email protected] by 2/23 to apply!
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When your headphones accidentally get unplugged and you're listening to the x-files theme song.
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Bob Pellegrino retweeted
Should we have the ability to get our senses checked regularly? You probably had your vision checked before, and maybe your hearing too. But what about your senses of taste and smell? Meet the leaders working Towards Universal Chemosensory Testing at bit.ly/46gLVEa
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Bob Pellegrino retweeted
Bittersweet moment: my first hire as a PI, the wonderful @_aubreydubois is moving on🥲 We are hiring a research assistant to join our #sensoryscience lab at @msufshn and contribute to cool projects on food🫐& flavor👅👃 Apply here: careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51…
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I’m often thinking of gore-tex
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Hear the latest chemosensory research on #TasteandSmellDay, 9/14 when @GCChemosensoryR presents: “Spice It Up with Tech: Solutions to Enhance the Dining Experience” and “Modulators of Deviation Tolerance in Food Perception.” Info and sign up: tasteandsmell.world/events/w…
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Bob Pellegrino retweeted
On this week’s @ScienceMagazine Podcast: Active learning approach improves calculus teaching w/ @LairdK, @mhc205, @mclean_ka, @voooos, and using machine learning to map odors in the smell space w/ @emilyjmayhew science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Bob Pellegrino retweeted
Congrats to the OSMO team for the Science paper! Bummer they couldn’t publish the POM model itself. We have made a replica and open-sourced it: GitHub.com/biomachinelearnin… Star it, fork it, play with it, build with it, improve it, ands let us know about it!
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Bob Pellegrino retweeted
Today our @ScienceMagazine paper with @ASU, @MonellSc, @UniofReading shows @Osmo #AI passes the sniff test in mapping odors to molecules with a digitized sense of smell: osmo.ai/blog/science-paper-s…
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Come work with me! I'm looking an intrepid postdoc to come explore data-driven "digital consumer research" in Copenhagen @koebenhavns_uni #Pangborn2023 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli…
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Started to customize my coding thread with ChatGPT #ChatGPT
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Bartender: what will ya have? Me: I’ll take an Admiral Nelson and RC Cola
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Olfactory misinformation reduces wheat seed loss caused by rodent pests nature.com/articles/s41893-0…
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Me worrying that this bucket hat is changing my friend's personality.
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Remember when America’s Funniest Home Videos was craziest reality TV we had
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Why do things smell the way they do? I'm pleased to announce the publication of our work on the fundamental connection between olfaction and nature's metabolome in eLife. elifesciences.org/articles/8… (1/11)
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Me in Atlantic City at the Ballys help desk: “Do you know when Jerry Longo’s Meatballs and Martinis opens?”
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