There's still 4 days left to submit, trainees!! Enter into our design competition to get your design on this year's SAS conference merch! PLUS: As a special thank you, SAS will also recognize your contribution with a free swag item of your choosing. bit.ly/4j6UVTT

Yeah! Let's get this year started off right. A new theoretical model for everyone's favorite sensitive and specific neural marker. So why is it a marker of goals if it is called the Reward Positivity? 1/4

Invited speaker lineup is out for SPP 2026! More information on the meeting here: www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html Submissions accepted until Jan 16! Come hang in Baltimore; conference is at Johns Hopkins from June 17-20, 2026! @socphilpsych.bsky.social @joshrottman.bsky.social #SPP2026

New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A

Help shape the look of SAS 2026! We’re inviting trainee members to submit original designs for our ✨first-ever✨ merch competition!! Designs may appear on conference materials and merch—with proceeds supporting trainee funding. Deadline: Jan 10, 2026. Submit using this form: bit.ly/4j6UVTT

@affectscience.bsky.social notices are out! 🎉 If you’re going to #SAS2026, consider attending its very first Developmental Affective Science pre-conference too! @eriknook.bsky.social and I hope to see you there. 🤞🏻 Spread the word!

🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨 We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...

We’re so excited to have @bulezz.bsky.social joining the team in the new year! 🎉🎉

The Clinical Affective Science Preconference is back! Join us for invited talks, flash talks, and posters exploring how emotion research informs psychopathology and treatment—and vice versa! bit.ly/3Mx0778 @veravine.bsky.social @lisastarr.bsky.social

REGISTER FOR SAS 2026 NOW! EARLY BIRD DEADLINE IS 1/31/26! SEE YOU IN PITTSBURGH👀

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

Call for papers: Emotion special issue on Affect Dynamics Across Multiple Timescales (moments→days→years) and links to mental and physical health. Letters of intent due Jan 15, 2026. Details/submission: www.apa.org/pubs/journal... Please share with colleagues/trainees. @affectscience.bsky.social

Calling all Affective Neurosci, basic, clinical, animal, mineral & otherwise: SFN's accepting proposals for symposia @ the 2026 DC meeting. Please consider reaching out to your pals &, maybe even dropping a line to someone you admire from afar, & organizing a submission. www.sfn.org/meetings/neu...

Connect with researchers working at the intersection of psychology, AI, and affective science. This preconference will explore new directions, share emerging work, and build collaborations across disciplines. Abstract submissions are welcome for oral presentations and posters! bit.ly/3Mx0778

New preprint in advance of a Phil Trans paper. Outlining a theoretical argument bridging Bayesian causal learning and empowerment in reinforcement learning. And empirical data that kids do too! arxiv.org/abs/2512.08230

We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!! uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

We launched a PAC! “This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.” - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Well this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146

Had a great time at superlab! Honoured to be invited — it’s an awesome series. Loved the talks by Schimel, Gallego, Trach, & Churchland. Our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨New article just dropped!🚨 As we head into the holiday season, it’s a great time to reflect on how we connect with others! Check out this new article from Affective Science on the variation in function of different emotions by relationship context. doi.org/10.1007/s427...

Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly. Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help! 🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm

Just a quick reminder that applications for our new cross-lab PhD training model in cognitive science at Dartmouth are due Dec. 1. We're quite excited about this new approach, so please reach out if you have any questions!!

New paper from the lab, "Perceiving Event Structure in Brief Actions," now out in Cognitive Psychology :) Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun This was my lab's first foray into event cognition gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

Attending @abctnow.bsky.social and interested in learning about how age at onset of menstruation in adolescents is associated with self-injurious thoughts and behaviors? I will be presenting a poster on this topic with data from the Nock Lab—you can find me at PS8-23 on 11/22 at 4:30 pm!

PSA to academics posting threads about your paper here: you can (and should) post the link to the paper in the first post. Your X/Twitter brain rot have have you thinking otherwise, but please free yourself of that. (Also you can call them 'blue-prints' if you want).

We just launched Fast Fingers 👌🏼—a quick 3 min tapping game that uses your phone/laptop camera to measure hand dexterity. I got 54 taps in 10s. Can you beat me? 😏 Game link: actioncensus.org #Sensorimotor #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Psychology

My paper is out! Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets. rdcu.be/eQjLN

Good morning SFN! CoCoA lab posters today and tomorrow afternoon. Come by LL20 to chat with @jacobsellers.bsky.social about using fMRI and our forced response task to examine the dynamics of control

#SfN2025 Poster 2 of 6 Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p @khoudary.bsky.social TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with @aaronbornstein.bsky.social www.abstractsonline....

🚨 New and ongoing work from my lab will be at #SfN25! If you’re attending, come by our posters to talk social decision making, reward, and mood — details in the thread 👇

🧠 The LEAP Neuro Lab is headed to #SfN25! Check out our new work on intrinsic temporal tracking in the brain, emotion-temporal memory interactions, and the neural correlates of sympathetic activity during threat using a new MRI-compatible measure w/ high temporal resolution. Hope to see you there!

Come check out my SFN nano talk @ 4:15 on Sunday, especially if you’re interested in: - spicy debates in task switching - using control theory to compare latent dynamical systems fit to RNNs and EEG eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... Stay for the whole ‘Adaptive Choice’ symposium!

Our group has SIX posters at SfN! 🧵👇 links below in thread:

heading to @sfn.org? Check out our group's posters -->

2️⃣ PSTR293.21: “Distinct neurocomputational signatures of mental effort when motivated by success versus failure” by Ziwei Cheng (11/18, 8:00 AM)

Come see our lab’s presentations at #SFN2025! 🧠 1️⃣ NANO018.12: “Neural dynamics underlying divergent influences of reward and punishment on control allocation” (11/16, 3:45 PM) by @jasonleng.bsky.social

🚨📣 We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣🚨 Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing? Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905

Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness? @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring! @cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

SAS will hold FIVE different preconferences this year🤩 Of note, each will be a half-day event, so you could even go to 2 if you want! Catch them on March 12th, 2025. For more info: society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

The Publications and Communications Board of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Science of Motivation has opened nominations for the editorship of Motivation Science, a multidisciplinary journal that publishes significant contributions to the study of motivation.

My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more

I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.

🚨Abstracts are due for the SAS annual conference today (November 3rd, 2025)! Get your submissions in soon!🚨 society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...

Job Alert! 🚨 We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>

so far during trump's second term, when democrats have "increased the salience of immigration," this has had the effect of significantly decreasing trump's approval rating. effect is moderated through rising negative press coverage of trump's immigration policy www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Oy...should I? I suppose. Perhaps because I'm old enough to remember 1972 and because Goldwater was my Senator, my instincts are to err on the side of moderation, even with the evidence supporting it very slim. But this also gets into what I wrote about yesterday...

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...