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...

Excellent group! Check it out @sansmeeting.bsky.social

Interested in joining our lab as a PostDoc? The European Project Center at @tudresden.bsky.social offers a fantastic workshop on MSCA fellowships 👇 Get in touch if interested. @kanskelab.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social @sfn.org @sansmeeting.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/forschung-tr...

@sansmeeting.bsky.social This is an excellent opportunity!

@sansmeeting.bsky.social! Check out this really tremendous effort!

Call for Nominations! SANS is seeking 1 Director-at-Large to join our Board! Self-nominations welcome! Deadline: June 6, 2025 Email your nominations to: [email protected] Details in screenshot 👇

@psyhongbo.bsky.social and his students Amber Chen and Shangcheng Zhao discussed a dual-route model that integrates facial features as well as conceptual knowledge about a person in how we estimate social traits.

This looks excellent! We need more work mapping fMRI to mobile methods @sansmeeting.bsky.social

Thank you for having me and the @nirx-nirs.bsky.social team at SANS this year! It was so inspiring to see how fNIRS and other neuroimaging is used to study how we communicate and feel. Looking forward to the next one!

I feel so honored to be President-Elect of @sansmeeting.bsky.social. These are dark times for science, but together we are stronger. With President @dfareri.bsky.social, I look forward to advocating for science, bringing together our community, and finding a path forward.

Still recovering and reflecting from #sans2025 and how our lab went from one poster last year to six (!!) this year. So proud and thankful for the brilliant people I get to do science with. Excited to see what we'll find in the next year to share in San Diego!

I love SANS, this year was no exception. Happy to get to see @dfearagon.bsky.social present a slice of the stuff we've been working on, and catch up with some of my favorite people. I'm already looking forward to next year. #SANS2025

First time at #SANS2025! Thrilled to hear about all the fascinating work and to present our own from @sinelabdtu.bsky.social @ale-dabr.bsky.social!

Huge thanks to Hanlu for representing our lab's work and my poster at #SANS2025 🚀

That’s a wrap on #SANS2025! Had a great time presenting my work on how our brains learn from rejection & how loneliness relates to patterns in our daily language

Feeling fortunate that #SANS2025 was in Chicago, and so much of the lab was able to be part of the meeting! It's crazy how much the lab has grown over the past 3y10m, and I'm so proud of the work we are doing together! Happy that we could host the lab, alums (and surprise guests)! #CASNL@SANS

We are strong together💪 Chinese students and scholars at SANS2025 #SANS2025 @sansmeeting.bsky.social

SCRAP Lab had a great time at #SANS2025! Can't wait till next year!

Had an incredible time at #SANS2025! The research was outstanding, and the community’s passion for scientific progress made it even more inspiring. Can't wait for #SANS2026 in San Diego

First timer at #SANS2025 Will certainly be back!

And it's worth "plumbing" (pun intended) the depth of our minds! #sans2025 @kevinochsner.bsky.social

Already looking forward to next year #SANS2026

Come to sunny San Diego, April 14-20, 2026, for #SANS2026!

More Dartmouth PBS at #SANS2025!

Another year of live coverage of @sansmeeting.bsky.social done! It's intense - wouldn't do it for any other conference - but the quality of the content makes it more than worthwhile, & @ycleong.bsky.social is a great partner! Safe travels home all - hope to see you in sunny San Diego for #SANS2026!

“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025

If you have questions about media addictions, @kyliewoodman.bsky.social is our in-house expert. See her present 2 posters at #SANS2025: examining the neural mediator between psychopathology and Gaming Disorder, and another on gender differences in the neural development of general media addictions.

Science doesn’t grow in a vacuum; it thrives on shared ideas and fresh perspectives. Thanks to #sans2025 for building bridges and connecting the dots, and to @elisabaek.bsky.social & @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social for creating the opportunity!

Closing event of #SANS2025 - The Business Meeting

SANS president @ajaysatpute.bsky.social introducing Dr. Kevin Ochsner, the #SANS2025 for his Distinguished Award Address - Taking the self out of of self-control