Thank you for joining us in Lisbon, you all made the conference a truely wonderful event! ♥️ See you next time - more details of next meeting will be announced later. Stayed tuned! #S4SN2025

Check your inboxes - the post-meeting survey has been sent out to all attendees! 💖 We're looking forward to your feedback and input!

This is such a fun meeting. If you are in social neuroscience - you should come. Heck even if you are not - the science is great in general! And a fun mix of animal and human research! Next time in Canada!

I had such an incredible time at @s4sn.bsky.social. I took a lot of pictures of Portugal but none at the conference, so here's a video of an otter at the aquarium. Thanks so much to the organizers for putting together a great conference, and thanks to all the presenters! #S4SN2025

And that's a wrap for #S4SN2025! 💖

Now, after so much science, new impressions, and stimulating discussions, off to the last social event at #S4SN2025! 🥳 After all, 'social neuroscience' includes being social and that can be done at a party 😁💃🕺

In Marco Wittmann's #S4SN2025 talk, we learned that the brain reduces complexity in social situations by tracking the relationships that exist in a social group. These basic functions are computed in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex. 🧠

In the symposium on a cross-species perspective on the role of the frontal cortex in monitoring one's own actions and those of others, #S4SN2025 featured great minds: Chunyu Ann Duan told us that mice dynamically adapt their strategies in a foraging task as soon as it becomes competitive.

On the last day of #S4SN2025, there were many more cool presentations! In the symposium on cortical mechanisms of behavioral coordination and competition, Jarildy Javier showed that mice have different phenotypes in coordinated reward behavior - workers & parasites! 😱

Btw, this week I'm (kinda live) posting for @s4sn.bsky.social as it is their annual conference #S4SN2025 in beautiful Lisbon! If you're interested in social neuroscience, follow along! ⤵️

Wow that's already day 3 done! Who's ready for the last day of #S4SN2025 social neuroscience fun tomorrow? 🥲

And we're on!!! Don't forget to tag us or use the hashtag #S4SN2025 for all your conference activities! 🤩

And a few great short/invited talks by cool people at #S4SN2025! ⤵️ Tommy Lee explains how variation in OXTR Levels affects partner preference in voles!

In the #S4SN2025 symposium "Behavioral, neural and computational mechanisms of dynamic social coordination in primates", there were some great talks! Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer presented work on coordination of joint action in primates 🐒

More cool topics at #S4SN2025! Daniela Schiller investigates how people encode affiliation with others in relation to themselves! 🗣️👤

New day, new talks at #S4SN2025! For example, William Li showed how animals act in a naturalistic competitive foraging setting. 🐭🥜

Great symposium today with @honglab.bsky.social Andreas Olsson and Grit Hein on empathy across species at @s4sn.bsky.social in Lisbon! #s4sn2025

Aaaand invited speaker Michael Yartsev studies natural social behavior in groups of bats. 🦇 Why bats? Bats live their lives almost entirely in collective social settings and they live quite long so they interact a lot with others. Fascinating! #S4SN2025

In another short talk, Diana Prata talked about oxytocin and human social psychophysiology! #S4SN2025

Thomas Pomberger presented a cortical circuit for communicative salience! How does the insula encode social vocal signals in mice? 🐭 #S4SN2025

Thomas Pomberger presented a cortical circuit for communicative salience! How does the insula encode social vocal signals in mice? 🐭 #S4SN2025

The #S4SN2025 award talk by Caroline Parkinson was on integrating social neuroscience & social networks. They created a big network from people's social networks in same-study programs/ student dorms. The results? 1) People can positively predict the position of someone in this social network.

Great keynote at #S4SN2025 by Catherine Dulac on the neurobiology of sickness behavior! 🤒 If an individual is sick they express specific sickness behaviors (e.g. shivering, loss of appetite etc). If you put a sick mouse and healthy mouse in the same cage, they will avoid each other, ...

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Last in the empathy symposium, Grit Hein presents on social transmission of empathy! 👭 Empathy can be learned - if participants observe another person expressing high empathic vs. lower empathic ratings they will adapt their own ratings accordingly. #S4SN2025

Next is Andreas Olsson talking about prosocial behaviors under threat. In humans, vicarious threat learning leads to similar brain activity in observers and demonstrators - the more synchronized brain activity, SCR and eye-to-eye coupling, the better the observer learned in the task. #S4SN2025

Next up, @honglab.bsky.social! Mice show prosocial behaviors and coordinate with each other to achieve mutual rewards. 🐭 Mice also get better at coordinating over time (waiting for the other, nose poking to time their behaviors)! 🐁 #S4SN2025

The fantastic @moeneuro.bsky.social talking about social transfer of pain & analgesia in mice today! 1) Mice express pain-related behaviours they observe in others & this transfer effect is related to Activity in ACC and NAc! #S4SN2025

Day 1 was already amazing - are you ready for day 2? 🌟

What a great symposium to honor our founder, Larry Young! 🌟 #S4SN2025

Touch is not all the same! #S4SN2025

“Social behavior is the cause of and solution to all of our problems,” Liz Hammock giving a beautiful talk at the Larry Young Memorial symposium at #s4sn2025 @s4sn.bsky.social

Starting now! #S4SN2025 🤗

Beautiful and timely talk by Inbal Ben Ami Bartal @s4sn.bsky.social #S4sn2025

Come work with us! We're hiring a postdoc to lead a new project on human social learning in threatening and volatile contexts. Deadline Sept 14. Happy to chat at #S4SN2025 🔗 More info & apply: ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🫶🏻 Countdown to S4SN 2025! 🎉 Only a few days to go until we gather in beautiful Lisbon from September 23 to 26! Can’t wait to see you all as we honor our cherished founder, Prof. Larry Young, and celebrate advancements in social neuroscience. 🌍✨ #S4SN2025 #SocialNeuroscience #Lisbon

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection 🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025 🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply #comppsychiatry #socialneuro

And we're on!!! Don't forget to tag us or use the hashtag #S4SN2025 for all your conference activities! 🤩

Only one more day before the fun begins! #S4SN2025 🥳

🙆‍♀️ Countdown to #S4SN2025! 🙆‍♀️ Only a few days to go until we gather in beautiful Lisbon from Sep 23-26, 2025! Venue: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon More info: gulbenkian.pt/en We can’t wait to see you all as we honor Prof. Larry Young, and celebrate advancements in social neuroscience! 🌍🌟

TWO MORE DAYS. I repeat, two more days. This is not a drill. 😱 Who's in Lissabon already? 😁 #S4SN2025

Our 2-day social cognition workshop "From Self-knowledge to knowing others" in Brussels on Dec1-2 now welcomes registration and abstracts for poster/talk ! Go www.self-knowing-others.org @selfknowingothers.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social

Just three more days 😱❤️ Time to get ready for the newest social neuroscience!

Only four days before we all see each other at #S4SN2025 in sunny Lisbon! 🌞 Have you registered yet? 😁

See you in Lisbon next week!

Only one more week before the #S4SN2025 meeting in beautiful Lisbon! 😱 Get your presentations ready, print your posters and pack your suitcases! 🚉 We are looking forward to meeting you and exchanging the latest social neuroscience research! 🌞

✨ Exciting news for our upcoming S4SN Lisbon meeting! ✨ Join us from September 23-26 for a dynamic program filled with inspiring talks, poster presentations, and networking opportunities. Get ready to connect, learn, and share ideas in the beautiful city of Lisbon! The program is out 😍

Join us as they present their groundbreaking work in Lisbon! ✨ Don’t miss the chance to engage with these rising stars and all other scholars in the field! 👉 Register now and be part of this inspiring event! www.s4sn2025.org/registration

🌎 Exciting news! Registration is still open for the Lisbon meeting! ⭐ We're also thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 S4SN Early Career Awards (*drumroll*) ⤵️ #S4SN2025 #LisbonMeeting #EarlyCareerAwards