​Dear friends of artificial noses, or noses plugged, 


Feel free to join the inaugural MIT Osmocosm virtual conf: www.osmocosm.org 

TOMORROW TILL SATURDAY
Thu 28th-Sat 30th october over zoom 9am-4pm

Totally free and so many great speakers from scitech folks, artists, designers, medical and law professionals and students from all ages, disciplines and four continents!  Come listen or participate in the ideathons as we try to create dog-inspired medical scentphones that can detect Covid in 0.4sec with 99% accuracy for every corner of the planet!”

There’s people who talk smells, dogs, bioelectronic noses, and other stuff. At least one familiar name, too. 

Cheers,
Ann

The copy edits arrived!
​(Thus: more on that front in time!)

The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
Ed. by John Bickle, Carl Craver, Ann-Sophie Bawich
Forthcoming (December 2021?) with Routledge!

This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its ultimate explanatory target--our brains and hence the organ driving our behaviors--catapults the investigation of these research tools into a philosophical spotlight.

--> The book also contains a co-authored chapter with Lu Xu where we will give a first person account on how she used SCAPE microscopy to investigate mixture coding in olfaction, discovering a hitherto unknown coding mechanism at the periphery!