Deeply honored by this recognition from @psychscience.bsky.social, and to be in the company of scientists whose work I greatly admire! A big thank you to lab members, collaborators and mentors, past and present for the work we do together!

Please join us in congratulating SANS director-at-large Caroline Charpentier @carocharp.bsky.social on being awarded one of the 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships in Neuroscience! Congrats Caroline! A well-deserved honor!

This Wednesday February 25! Dr. Michael Treadway (Emory University) is presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Effort-Based Decision-Making and Its Discontents: Precision medicine approaches for understanding the pathophysiology and treatment of motivational deficits in mental illness" 1/

New preprint from Lindsey Tepfer (@ltjaql.bsky.social) and me! We silenced portions of internal monologues in two films to manipulate participants' access to characters' thoughts. Using ISC and RSA, we found that this aligned later neural processing of the narrative & encoding of trait impressions.

My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

🎉 Excited to share our new paper on how the brain forms first impressions, now out (open access)! In our EEG study, we tested how the brain responds to two kinds of social information: what we see (like perceived race) and what we know (like a person’s socioeconomic status). 🧵

Congratulations to #SANS2026 Distinguished Scholar Award winner John O'Doherty! Come see his address "Neural computations underpinning the construction of value in the human brain" in San Diego this April!

Congratulations to the SANS Early-Career Award Winner Elisa Back (@elisabaek.bsky.social) and Mid-Career Award Winner Shuo Wang! Celebrate their achievement with us at #SANS2026 in San Diego!

Social “envirotyping” the ABCD study contextualizes dissociable brain organization and diverging outcomes New paper from former BNBL-er and current postdoc at Northeastern University, London @h-merritt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/scan...

Three more days to submit to SANS 2026 in San Diego! Not done with data collection/analyses yet? In case you missed it, we have a "Pre-Registration" category where you can submit an abstract for a study you plan to conduct! More info here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/abstract-sub...

SANS 2026 deadline has been extended by a week to **next Monday Jan 19th 23:59 PT**! We encourage all current and prospective members of the SANS community to take advantage of the extended deadline and submit their work for consideration as either an individual poster or oral presentation!

We know this is a busy time of year, so we are extending the nomination deadline to ensure everyone has the opportunity to thoughtfully recognize the excellence of our members and community! The new deadline for SANS awards is: *January 11th, 2026*! Wishing everyone a happy new year!

Reminder that award nominations are due in two days!

We're still accepting applications to the SANS 2026 Awards! - SANS Service Award (inaugural!) - Distinguished Scholar Award - Mid-Career Award - Early Career Award - Innovation Award Deadline: Dec 20th 2025 Nominate yourself or some you know! More info here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/awards/

The SANS Society Fellows Program Application is still open (deadline: January 5th, 2026)! More information here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/sans-fellows...

SANS is incredibly grateful to the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen SDN Center for their sponsorship of SANS 2026! We’re thrilled to partner with a center doing groundbreaking work in social and decision neuroscience. We can’t wait to bring the community together at SANS 2026!

And if you're a scholar who belongs to a group that is underrepresented in social affective neuroscience, consider simultaneously applying for one of our travel awards! We'll be awarding 10 of them this year, at $500 each. See the quoted link for more details!

You can now start submitting abstracts for posters and talks at #SANS2026! The submission portal will be open until 11:59pm PT, January 12, 2026. See here for more information: socialaffectiveneuro.org/abstract-sub...

🧠 ALBA Webinar: Breaking Down the Ivory Tower — Ep7 This #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities, join us for a powerful conversation with Dr Dionna Williams (Emory University School of Medicine, US) @dwwilliamslab.bsky.social 📅 3 Dec 2025 ⏰ 10:00 EST | 16:00 CET 👉 loom.ly/-VJQ83g #DisabledInSTEM

#albadiversityweek 2025 DAY 4 📢 Calling all neuroscientists with disabilities! Join the ALBA Database of Scientists with Disabilities to increase representation, speak at conferences, or provide advice to improve policies and practices for inclusion in neuroscience. 🧵 ✍️Sign up here: loom.ly/zZ4n6xY

Today is the last day to submit symposia for #SANS2026! Get yours in by 11:59pm PT! socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...

On November 17th, we learned of the passing of Dr. Paul Ekman, who died peacefully at the age of 91, surrounded by those close to him. Dr. Ekman's research was profoundly influential in shaping our understanding of emotion and its physiological and cultural underpinnings.

Deadline extended! You can now submit symposia up to 23:59 (Pacific Time) on Monday, November *24*, 2025.

2 more days to submit a symposia for #SANS2026! Don’t miss your chance to be part of this year’s program! Make your Submissions using the online submission portal and submitted before our deadline of 23:59 (Pacific Time) on Monday, November 17, 2025. Submit here: t.e2ma.net/click/nj1i7j...

And don't forget to first renew your membership/become a member! In addition to major discounts on conference registration, membership in SANS comes with other bonuses, including a 20% discount on open access fees at SCAN (new this year)! Details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/membership/

Early bird registration for #SANS2026 is now open! Register between now and March 9 for this discounted rate. socialaffectiveneuro.org/registration/

We're excited to announce that the #SANS2026 Keynote address will be given by Dr. Elizabeth Phelps of Harvard! (brain.harvard.edu?people=eliza...). She will deliver a talk titled "The Human Amygdala, Threat, and Anxiety: Translational Progress and Challenges"

How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others? New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning rdcu.be/eL8mZ

Coming up on October 28! Dr. Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social (UPenn/Rice) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Motivational States Bias Choices, Information Consumption, and Memory" 1/

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We're excited to announce that the #SANS2026 Presidential Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Steve Chang of Yale! (medicine.yale.edu/profile/stev...). He will deliver an address titled "Diverse Social Strategies and Neural Mechanisms underlying Mutual Cooperation"

Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2026 in San Diego! The deadline for these submissions is November 17th at 23:59 Pacific. Check out the submission guidelines here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...

what happens during "resting state"? @jinke.bsky.social asked this question by (literally) asking what participants what they were thinking during rest, finding that ongoing thoughts are reflected in FC patterns and predict behavior/traits! excited to be part of this project!

📣 Attention all @sansmeeting.bsky.social members!!! Please share all the cool things you are doing by using this easy-to-use form 👇🏼 Don't be shy! Share with the community! Self-nominations (students, faculty) are what this is about (but also give a shout-out to a friend/colleague)!🥳

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨 Introducing the @sansmeeting.bsky.social Fellows Program! We are thrilled to recognize SANS members for their scholarship, mentorship, or service! Consider nominating a deserving individual, including yourself! socialaffectiveneuro.org/sans-fellows...

Six years in the making, a postdoc project with @freemanjb.bsky.social is finally now out in print. Many thanks to Jon and @hennavartiainen.bsky.social and everyone who made this important work possible.

New (i.e. finally published!) paper alert 🥳: We asked whether unpredicted visual movement feedback is processed differently depending on whether it is behaviourally relevant or not. MINI THREAD 👇 academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

1st SANS Social Media Highlight! UCSB PhD student @avamadesousa.bsky.social first first-author empirical paper is out! In a mini-meta analysis, the authors looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🚨Introducing the SANS Fellows Program 🚨 We’re excited to honor members whose scholarship, mentorship, & service have shaped social & affective neuroscience! Nominate someone—or yourself—to be a SANS Fellow! Details: socialaffectiveneuro.org/sans-fellows...

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

🎉 Got exciting news to share? We’re excited to highlight accomplishments from across the SANS community! If you (or someone you know) has a recent paper, award, or other recognition, please send it our way using the Spotlight form below! Submit here: forms.gle/CNpanwJZFTPg...

After 5 years, I finally carved out time to turn this blog post on FDR (markallenthornton.com/blog/fdr-pro...) into a manuscript. The preprint features a much broader range of simulations showing how FDR promotes confounds, and how this effect compounds with publication bias: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Exciting news from SANS! We’re now a member of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (@fabbs.org). FABBS advocates for the sciences of the mind, brain, and behavior - connecting researchers with policymakers and promoting evidence-based science in Congress and beyond.

In advance of next year's (likely dire) job market, here are the 2024-2025 numbers from the psych job wiki: the overall number of tenure-track job listings in psychology and neuroscience fell slightly, from 860 to 822 (this doesn't include canceled searches, which are often not properly reported).

Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉 Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social ‬and Jas Cloutier! @apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

🌟 Want to get more involved in the SANS Community? 🌟 Consider joining one of the SANS working committees! We welcome interest from all levels - from graduate student to emeritus professor! Interested? Fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: July 19, 2025

Please welcome your newest SANS Director-at-Large! Dr. Candace Raio (who will also be co-chairing the 2026 SANS Conference) Thank you Candace for joining the board, and to all who participated in this year's voting!

What a fantastic choice @psychscience.bsky.social!!! @minuekim.bsky.social does innovative research! @sansmeeting.bsky.social

Interested in #compassion based interventions? Learn all about their effects on #brain Big congrats & thx to @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...