Symposium submissions are due tomorrow, March 31, 2026!

Symposium Proposal Deadline Extended! 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN 2026) will take place in Montréal, Canada, August 23–26, 2026. 🧠 The deadline for symposium proposals has been extended to Tuesday, March 31. Learn more: s4sn.org/s4sn2026

The deadline for symposium proposals has been extended to Tuesday, March 31! ✨

✨ EARLY CAREER AWARD nominations are open! ✨ This award recognizes the formation of new approaches or paradigms within the field of social neuroscience, and/or the development or advancement of research that cuts across multiple fields of neuroscience to understand social cognition & behavior. 🏆

Together with the European Social Club, the Society for Social Neuroscience is organizing a "Social brain networking event" during FENS forum fensforum.org, in Barcelona, Spain. It will be held at La Fuga, Consell de Cent 350, on the 7th of July from 7 pm. @s4sn.bsky.social

I definitely feel this. Stopped going to SfN due to increased inaccessibility of rodent research (all tech terms now 🙄) @s4sn.bsky.social on the other hand- still reaches across the divide, insisting on inclusion of different species perspectives in symposia & organisation 👏👌

✨ Exciting News! Join us for the S4SN Annual Meeting in Montreal this August 23-26, 2026! 🇨🇦 🗓️ Registration Deadline: August 21, 2026 🔗 Register here: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026/reg... Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity! #S4SN2026 #Montreal #Conference

Really excited to attend the next S4SN meeting, the first in 8(!) years in which I will have no responsibility at all - it's going to be super fun Great science, great location, great crowd - see you there!

✨ #S4SN2026 Annual Meeting ✨ 🗓️ August 23-26, 2026 📍 Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada We bring together researchers working across human & non-human animal models to investigate the neural & biological foundations of social cognition & behavior. Mark your calendars & polish your abstracts! 💪

✨ Letter from the President ✨ Steve Chang would like to express his sincere gratitude to everyone who contributed to making #S4SN2025 such a great success. This year’s meeting took place in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal, in September.

We are currently seeking nominations for two positions (specifically human researchers) on the Board of Governors. 🌟 Term: 3 years Duties: attending monthly board meetings and contributing to the organization of the annual meeting. 💪

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! 🤩