Excited to share this super comprehensive review of psychedelic research in NHPs! W/ Alex Kwan. This work was by our grad student Jamie who is passionate about psychedelics. Her in-depth knowledge is impressive as reflected here. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super excited to share this new collaborative work - marmosets use diverse and highly flexible strategies when they cooperate. These strategies are powerfully determined by both social factors (sex, dominance, familiarity) & individual partner identity. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Very timely and insightful OpEd by Prof. Cory Miller on WSJ. It lays out an important point - Advanced AI cannot be developed in a vacuum without understanding the sophisticated machines we have in our brains. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Leading neuroscientists share their top tips to optimise learning: teach, sleep, repeat! www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/neu...

Super excited to share this new work from the lab! We show that oxytocin infusion in the amygdala sustains prosocial behavior via state-dependent amygdala-prefrontal modulation www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Very excited to share a new collaborative work with @neuralnandy.bsky.social and Monika Jadi on using a novel ‘super-seasoning’ approach and dynamic Bayesian network modeling to reveal multi-area causal network dynamics underlying social interaction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Have you registered yet? 😁 Secure your spot at #S4SN2025 at share.google/vRumlIDQBNLX... and join us this September in beautiful Lisbon! ✨

Super excited to share this new work from the lab (led by Guangyao Qi)! We demonstrate compositional social gaze codes in the prefrontal-amygdala circuits, by testing three predictions from the compositionality hypothesis. 👇👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are so excited to see you all soon !! REGISTRATION IS HAPPENING NOW !!! Come join us at SimCo 2025 in Durham !! Register now for early bird discount and re-share!!! www.simiancollective.com/2025-confere... @janzimmermann.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @anitadisney.bsky.social

REGISTRATION IS HAPPENING NOW !!! Come join us at SimCo 2025 in Durham !! Register now for early bird discount and re-share!!! www.simiancollective.com/2025-confere... @janzimmermann.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @anitadisney.bsky.social

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction (13-15 October 2025). “Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike.” What a great topic for a meeting! events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

Please join us in Lisbon for the 2025 S4SN (@s4sn.bsky.social) meeting this year. We have a wonderful set of speakers and symposium sessions!! 👇👇

Psyched & honored to deliver 1st keynote on this virtual free event on the neurobiology of empathy organized by NAS USA tinyurl.com/empNAS join me & stellar speakers e.g. @moeneuro.bsky.social @valeriagazzola.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @torwager.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social

2025 Simian Collective Conference in Durham. Abstracts and young investigator solicitations: Extended deadline. 5/31 !!!!! www.simiancollective.com @janzimmermann.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @neurodisney.bsky.social

2025 Simian Collective Conference in Durham. Abstracts and young investigator solicitations: Due May 15th!!!! www.simiancollective.com @janzimmermann.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @neurodisney.bsky.social

I am super excited to share this new team-based work from three labs and two co-leading authors. We learned that marmosets use diverse and flexible strategies that are, gaze-dependent and gaze-independent, to cooperate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🏆 Early Career Award nominations now open! 🏆 Until June 15, we are inviting applications recognizing new approaches or paradigms within the field of social neuroscience, and/or the advancement of research that cuts across multiple fields of neuroscience to understand social cognition and behavior.

1️⃣ We are excited to announce that the call for symposium proposals is extended until April 20 for our upcoming S4SN meeting in beautiful Lisbon! This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase your research and engage with a diverse community of neuroscientists. Please refer to www.s4sn2025.org/symposia

2️⃣ By June 1st, 2025: Poster Abstract Submissions and Early Bird Registration are open NOW until June 1, 2025. Details refer to: www.s4sn2025.org/abstracts www.s4sn2025.org/registration

3️⃣ Early Career Award details are coming soon, stay tuned 👀

Registration now open for the upcoming Erice Workshop at the Ettore Majorana Centre. For cutting-edge research on oxytocin and vasopressin, highlighting how these neuromodulators shape brain function, behavior, and cognition. In the memory of *Larry Young* 👉 centromajorana.it/neuromodulat...

PRIME-DRE supports the valuable work done at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Please co-sign this letter to remind Oregonian leadership of its importance prime-dre.github.io/onprc

If you are involved in social neuroscience research, please consider submitting symposium proposals and/or individual abstracts to present your findings at the S4SN meeting in Lisbon!! @s4sn.bsky.social

Join us in advancing social neuroscience through diverse perspectives! We look forward to your submissions and seeing you in Lisbon!

Poster abstract submissions and early bird registration are open until June 1, 2025. For details refer to: www.s4sn2025.org/abstracts www.s4sn2025.org/registration Early career award details are coming soon, so stay tuned.

We are excited to announce that the call for symposium proposals is extended until April 20 for our upcoming #S4SN2025 meeting in beautiful Lisbon! This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase your research and engage with a diverse community of neuroscientists. More info: www.s4sn2025.org/symposia

2025 Simian Collective Conference in Durham. Abstracts and young investigator solicitations: Due May 15th!!!! www.simiancollective.com @janzimmermann.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @neurodisney.bsky.social

Excellent @theatlantic.com story on NIH and here it is: "what if the halt was continuing, not because the agency was adhering to the president’s executive orders, but because it was pursuing a new agenda..Such shifts take time.. the agency couldn’t continue its work until it had reoriented itself."

Here's a cool new study from @dulaclab.bsky.social to cleanse your timeline: They show that a mouse's brain maintains an animal's need for social interaction in the same way that it tracks hunger, thirst and sleep! 🧪 #neuroskyence

Thank you to @stevewcchang.bsky.social and Yuki Oka for sharing their thoughts on this work!

SimCo 2025 lineup with wonderful invited speakers! More trainee and junior talks to come as well as a program packed with exciting science, outreach, advocacy and ethics. @neurodisney.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @janzimmermann.bsky.social

Save the date! SimCo 2025: August 25-27 at Duke in Durham. With science so hot it makes deepseek seem ancient! @neurodisney.bsky.social @stevewcchang.bsky.social @janzimmermann.bsky.social

What do we mean when we say BCI? As neuro technologies mature, it's important for scientists to use cohesive language to talk about them with the public. Here's a nice commentary piece where Jacob Robinson and co. lay out a proposal. Just in time for the holidays 😂

I like to end this academic year with thanking scientists who do peer review It is an unpaid and hugely time-consuming part of our job Lab had 7 papers get reviewed in 2024 (3 still in revision/limbo) & dealt with >50 reviews - over 75% of which, even the most critical ones, were fair & helpful🙌

How cool is this?! Mark September 23-26 2025 in your calendars for the best social #neuroscience in both human and the widest & most informative range of animal models Also, there’ll likely be more cash prizes for #openscience in talks + posters 🤩💷💶💴💰🏧

@s4sn.bsky.social BIG NEWS! We will have two amazing keynote speakers (Catherine Dulac & Matthew Rushworth) at our conference in Lisbon this September!

We have news: #S4SN2025 will be from September 23rd to 26th 2025 in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal! ☀️ Stay tuned for more info and mark your calendars! 🗓️

Scientists - consider writing up your research for Frontiers for Young Minds (if you are brave enough to face kid reviewers 😉). Here's how: kids.frontiersin.org/participate/... Like Liza Fazio! @lkfazio.bsky.social Or Yann LeCun! @ylecun.bsky.social kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

The best thing we can do right now as a community is to FULLY support eLife! Send them your best work. elifesciences.org/inside-elife...

Thank a monkey !

Grim times ahead for the NIH. Plan to empower states to "do their own research." I'm sure having 50 state bureaucracies making funding decisions about whom to fund will lead to better science than pointy headed "experts" at the NIH

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3... Please read this recent timely piece in J Neurosci by Basso et al - the SimCo crew! @simiancollective.bsky.social

There are many nuances regarding the structural neural plasticity associated with antidepressant drugs. 💊🧠 We share our thoughts here in a Nature Reviews Neuroscience article, led by Clara Liao with co-authors from Conor Liston’s lab at Weill Cornell. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Let's brainstorm how we scientists, science writers, and other well-informed individuals can help "say things loudly and clearly in this environment we are in". About what? eg, The importance of basic research; the fiscal benefits of investing in science; health I'll start. Please add! 🧪

Terrific piece summarizing a recent report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

Uber NHP starter pack go.bsky.app/Va3h1Vs