In the first #SANS2026 session on social learning @csavasegal.bsky.social shows that self-generated interpretations anchor how we remember ambiguous social info, even when others offer a different take, and how neural shifts help us make the shift

For those who are getting in town early, reminder that we'll be kicking-off with there'll be three pre-conference events on fMRI methods ("Navigating the fMRI multiverse"), career development ("Building a Thriving Research Career"), and the PI Summit on Funding & Resources!

#SANS2026 starts TODAY in San Diego! ☀️🧠 We can't wait to see everyone. If you are already here! Join us for the pre-conference workshops kick off this afternoon! socialaffectiveneuro.org/conference/

Hope everyone is getting excited for #SANS2026! Tag us @sansmeeting.bsky.social for all #SANS2026 content, so that we can repost it!

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New paper out in JPSP with @erichehman.bsky.social! We asked: What is the framework underlying our impressions of environments? Our large bottom-up study shows that people pay attention to 4 factors. We’re calling it the Environment Impressions Model: doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Huge congrats to Kevin Ochsner (SANS2025 Distinguished Scholar), Aina Puce & Elizabeth Kensinger on their election as @aaas.org Fellows! All three are pioneers in social and affective neuroscience who have made significant contributions to science in the service of society!

I am so looking forward to #SANS2026 this week! I haven’t been since 2019 & miss my SANS family so much 🥰 Also if you or someone you know is looking for a funded postdoc or postbac, we‘re hiring! FMRI of pain & emotion in the context of a novel drug. Reach out to discuss during the meeting!

🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨 ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts. internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

@sansmeeting.bsky.social members! Please follow COSSA for more information on how to #SaveSBE

📣SPSP Members📣 Check out the Action Alert from @cossa.bsky.social below to learn how you can advocate for protecting the SBE Directorate at NSF. (More action items to come from SPSP and our partner organizations soon!) #WhySocialScience #SaveSBE

🎉 Exciting news!! Kahiau Among is joining the IFSN Lab as a PhD student next year! She is currently completing a post-bacc as a full-time clinical research coordinator at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Learn more about Kahiau here: www.ifsnlab.org/kahiau-among

So excited to see everyone soon!!

Early career researchers - Join me and some other fabulous researchers in Granada this September to talk misinformation research

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The recent presidential budget request has a 40% increase in military spending and 10% cut to non-military spending, including a 25% cut to the NIH. It seems worth pointing out that NIH (and other R&D) boosts the economy by 250%, whereas military spending (except R&D) shrinks the economy by 10%.

Today is Election Day in Wisconsin. Judge Chris Taylor has shown she’ll protect collective bargaining and stand up for working people. The stakes are real for union families and our rights on the job. Make your voice heard.

Bluesky compression destroys it but here's a link to a random dot autostereogram animation. I mean come on. cogneurolab.org/PSYC310/rds_...

tutorial generating summary tables in R (stargazer, gtsummary) with code for exporting tables in APA format to MSWord. Does anyone have a good pipeline they use for making this process easier? reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_TableE...

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Motivated to share our PCAST report on the value of the social and behavioral sciences. Sigh… www.erichorvitz.com/pcastreports...

Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study: LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... (deadline 5/1)

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Pre-doc Researcher/Lab Manager! 🚨🚨 Full-time pre-doc research opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). Review begins April 10 Apply: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive... Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

Looking forward to this! Congrats on the travel award! 🎉

I’m confused, is SBE at NSF gone or is it a proposal?

🎉 Congrats to all the amazing new SANS Fellows!!!

It's not too late to register for #SANS2026 and #SANS2026 pre conference workshops!

While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.

Postdoctoral fellowship in developmental science at Wesleyan University. Joint in H. Barth & R. T. Dubar labs. Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. 1 year, extendable to 2 years. Share and apply! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thrilled to serve as a Guest Editor for the Political Ideology and Religion collection for Scientific Reports! This Collection welcomes research examining the psychological determinants of political ideology and religion. Please submit by 12/17/26 and reshare! www.nature.com/collections/...

Grateful for the recognition — excited to see everyone at SANS 2026 in San Diego!! 🙌

For you scientists out there this goes without saying But for the non-scientists: once you slam the break on Science, like Trump is doing, you can't just restart from where you were There are literature searches to help determine whether some other lab is now ahead of you. 1/4 #MedSky #GreenSky 🧪

I am honored to be continuing my service to the field of Psychological Science. I hope to see you all in Barcelona!

This is an excellent paper! Insightful and theoretically important. I highly recommend it to folks interested

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Colleagues: UC San Diego is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Computational Social Science and Cognitive Science. Great opportunity for those at the intersection of linguistics, CSS, and cog sci. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience linguistlist.org/issues/37/1070/?utm_source=dlv...

I am excited to share that we are opening two fully funded 4-year PhD positions in my group at the University of Amsterdam The PhD candidates will work on the @erc.europa.eu funded project EMODEV: The emergence of distinct emotions in human development. Application deadline: 3 May

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Sometimes I feel like academic work is a poor fit for the moment. While the university is under threat, engagement with the public is not incentivized. Along with some friends, we started Society Workshop as a way to bring more social science to the public. www.societyworkshop.org

Society Workshop is a nonprofit that (1) uses social science in partnership with communities to solve challenges, (2) puts research-backed knowledge and insights in the hands of the public, and (3) offers training to future social scientists.

📈 New research suggests that political moral conflict often comes down to one question: "Who is vulnerable?" Liberals and conservatives don't disagree about whether harm is wrong, but they disagree about who is at risk of it. Read more in #PSPB: https://ow.ly/GH0G50YsRwZ

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Any formers that are willing to participate in a research study please reach out to me. I have someone who is working in Canada that will respect your anonymity.

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Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18. osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...