Fabienne Hübener

sniffs out science, neurobiologist turned science writer, PhD in olfaction, interests: brain, senses & science communication. @fabtext.bsky.social

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

My "smell of home" sniffn' table at the EuroSense conference in Dublin. I'm also inviting people to participate in an exciting smell experiment that is very close to my 🥰.

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

Arrived at #eurosense2024

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

Ready to go to Dublin. Will buy me some lemon soap. My next sniffn' table will be a literary one.

Stale beer, dung, lemon soap, blood, incense - The smells of Dublin on June 16, 1904. How does Dublin smell 120 years later? #eurosense2024

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

Happy to be part of the Bavarian Landesgartenschau with my one and only "Smell Pavilion - the Art and Science of Smell". Over 50 odors, some weird ones (e.g. androstenone), and many topics around the world of odors.

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

She is not alone ...

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

How I fell out of love with academia

(this video was an accidental publication/scheduling blunder😬😬 but well uh, happy Friday I guess)

https://t.co/7eUpgouIkI

[Panteleimon ("Paddy") Ekkekakis @Ekkekakis]

Similar to the US data on the previous slide, data from the UK (and other countries) show this unique contrast. The (presumably, rational) humans seem to know physical activity is good for them. But they staunchly refuse to do it. Why? What does this mean for our approach to promotion?

[Derek Griffin @DerekGriffin86]

Does exercise really outperform anti-depressants like the media reports said? Fabulous disection of the recent meta-analysis.

[Tamar Haspel @TamarHaspel]

Here @Dmozaffarian, who I like & respect, suggests a way to incorporate the new weight-loss drugs with other interventions.

But the new drugs work, and the other interventions don't. They really just don't.

I'm gonna get a little wonky here ...
🧵
https://t.co/pF50FjNbEH

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

@Skattebo_Oyvind Could you send me the study? That would be great. [email protected]

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

@MarkLRuffalo Insurances pay the therapist. Works well in Germany. Are there any studies that show this would create greater (and unhealthy) dependencies?

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

I thought it would be funny to go through that depression meta-analysis by showing progressively more extended plots to get an idea of how outrageously large some of the effects were.

But instead I found a citation and coding error and I think there might be more.

Brief🧵

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

Incredible advancement in text-to-video AI and the responses to OpenAI's Sora seem overwhelmingly negative. Much worrying about jobs and disinformation and how the tech should be illegal instead of demanding we all benefit with a universal AI dividend and that we finally reconfigure school to teach critical thinking, debunking, and digital literacy.

Some of us have been warning for years about how quickly this tech would advance, and the implications of that. The problem is not the tech. The problem is that we require jobs for our survival, so we need to end that with UBI.

https://t.co/DHDinyqob4

And the other problem is that we still run school to produce workers for the 20th century instead of citizens of the 21st century. We have to teach HOW to think instead of what to think.

https://t.co/yVPvzQ7ueP

We need to make these changes, and when we do, we will all be better off. But until we do, the consequences of tech advancements are going to get worse.

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

Interaktiver Workshop "Wie riecht Heimat?" Es hat großen Spaß gemacht. Die Bibliothek war voll, die Diskussion spannend. Toll, dass Kate McLean live dazugeschaltet war & uns das Konzept von #smellwalk & smell scapes nähergebracht hat. Dank an Riff freie Medien f.d. Finanzierung!

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

Results are out for the guaranteed basic income pilot in Austin where 135 people got $1,000/mo for a year.

9% of people reported working less and 7% reported working more. Of those who worked less, half upskilled for better future jobs, and half chose unpaid care work.

Housing security significantly increased, as did food security. People lived in better housing and ate more balanced meals.

People also felt significantly more connected to the people and places in their neighborhoods.
https://t.co/och440rQij

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

You can create the best behavioral tool for weight management, developed by AI, and it will never outperform novel obesity meds & surgery for disease management.

Why? Because the interaction between the environment and the subconscious brain predominately controls obesity.

[Adi Kumar @adi_kumar1]

As a neurosurgeon I've taught about the Dunning-Kruger effect.

But it isn't real.

If you think it is, this will be an eye-opener.

If you haven't heard about it before, you will still learn how false ideas can be useful and true ideas can be harmful. 🧵

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

Great overview of a confusing field. (In Germany you have to explicitly ask your physician for the measuring of lipoprotein small a)

[Fabienne Hübener @fabtext]

expert reaction to study claiming an association between very high levels of ‘good cholesterol’ and dementia risk | Science Media Centre https://t.co/eyk0Gbnjis