Bob Pellegrino
kingfunk.bsky.social
Bob Pellegrino
@kingfunk.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University
Human psychophysicist interested in all things smell and texture.

📸: @smellboi24_7
Amazing! Yea, I think knowledge of what works plays a big role in cooking. In one chapter, we discuss science as an alternative to the senses when it comes to cooking.
May 21, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Please check it out and let us know! Most of the recipes were developed through a cooking class with smell impaired individuals. You can read more here: health.au.dk/en/display/a...
Cooking school helps patients with loss of smell rediscover the joy of life
Patients with loss of smell completed a five-week cooking program and achieved significant improvements in both their sense of smell and quality of life.
health.au.dk
May 21, 2026 at 1:29 PM
What did you think of the smells? I think they could be improved and without the visual aid of the elephant body having the smell object printed all of it lol, I’m not sure if I would have got all of them.
April 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Magical kingdom currently has an elephants statues that project smells as part of a matching game (in Storybook Circus) called Smellephants on parade! You get a sticker for getting them all correct.
April 18, 2026 at 1:22 PM
These bags are already in the wild and underpins recent preprints showing strong perceptual validity:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Bottom line: jars leak information, bags keep it airtight. #bagboi #bagsrule
January 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
2/3 We’ve built and tested an odor sampling bag system with:
- Known concentrations
- Closed headspace
- Air as the carrier (no solvent confounds)

In head-to-head tests, bags produced more reliable results than jars and preserved odorant-specific differences.
January 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM