Scientific figures can strongly influence how research findings are interpreted. This ‘How to’ Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour outlines a practical strategy for creating figures that communicate clearly across audiences and scientific contexts. go.nature.com/3R00b1t #Academicsky 🧪

The COSI Science Festival was a blast!! We had a great time doing some neuroscience demos and thanks @isaacliao.bsky.social for representing our lab!!

New paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social!! 🧵 When people learn to fear one person, who else do they mistake for a threat, and does race shape the pattern? Read here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m~aL51f8~...

At NASSPD @nasspd.bsky.social in Toronto — at the opening keynote, Anthony Ruocco showed connections between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and neuropsychological/social cognitive functioning, plus how these functions can change following BPD treatments.

Updated preprint: @clare-shaffer.bsky.social and I synthesize brain evidence to argue that psychopathy is a disorder of allostasis and interoception (regulating and sensing the body, respectively). 1/ doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

New preprint led by awesome undergrad Abby Bonno! By probing temporal memory for individual items in a sequence, we uncover a 'representational space' of memories that reflects the structure of encoded experiences and provides insight into how different kinds of structure shape memory. osf.io/t5kyx

My lab (u.osu.edu/spal/) and Ken Fujita’s lab (u.osu.edu/fujita/) at OSU are hiring a joint lab manager (a full-time postgraduate researcher) to start this summer! Come work in two incredibly fun labs in a thriving social psychology department. Application and more information soon to come!

psych post-bacc jobs are scattered across wikis, twitter/bsky, and random lab sites. hard to find if you're not already in the field. I started a slack to pool them in one place — a low-effort bulletin board, channels by subfield, updated live! 🔗⬇️

More art… in case your timeline needed some color! 🎨 #brainart #stilllife

There's still time to vote! 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbm-com.com @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social @ohbm-dic.bsky.social @ohbmbrainart.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to share that I was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Thanks to all my mentors and lab mates for the incredible support :)

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain — a Perspective by Lisa Feldman Barrett & Earl K. Miller @lisafeldmanbarrett.com @earlkmiller.bsky.social #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can’t believe it’s been about a month since #SAS2026 already! Here are some of my highlights from this year’s conference. Am grateful to get to share my work & have gotten selected for the Best New Ideas Poster Award! This year was a memorable one and I look forward to the future SAS Conferences!

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

Happy to see this paper officially published in Cognitive Psychology! A nice collaboration with Yuxuan Zeng and David Osher at OSU. We find face-like holistic processing in non-face stimuli - and Configuration is the answer! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

🎓 Q&A: Re-Applying to PhD Programs in the Sciences We'll cover the current grad school landscape, strategies to strengthen your application, and tips to set yourself up for success in the next round. 🗓️ When: Tuesday, April 21st at 4pm ET 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/qa-re-appl...

I wrote this article to explain in plain English what is happening with the proposed 2027 NSF budget & why so many social psychologists are alarmed. THE GOOD NEWS: Congress has not finalized this yet. We have time to change Republican politicians’ minds. www.linkedin.com/pulse/saving...

Using this article to shamelessly promote my own work. Dr. Marsh states that people with psychopathy show "pretty consistent differences in an area of the brain called the amygdala." My own work shows otherwise. 1/

Applying to STEM grad programs? Know someone who is? Be a good friend/colleague/mentor/labmate.... tell them to apply to #GSMI!!! ❤️ 👉👉 cientificolatino.com/gsmi 👈 👈

📢 New Publication Alert at JoPaCS! Many studies use variability as a proxy for flexibility across domains. Using emotion regulation as an example, we show that variability decoupled from context can be harmful volatility. Variability ≠ Flexibility. 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

New article from @cientificolatino.com !!! On the struggles of first year grad students and how to support them 💜

We’re hiring a full-time Research Coordinator in the Preston Lab at UT Austin (start May/June 2026). Work on behavioral + fMRI studies of how memory & decision-making develop from childhood to adulthood. Learn more & apply: preston.clm.utexas.edu/news/join-th... Please repost!

Happy to share some of the work done in our lab in this mega-thread of nine (!) papers/preprints (+1 sneak peek) from the last six months. Here goes (in no particular order)! **Please repost** and let me know if you need access to any of the PDFs! #sleeppeeps #sleep #neuroscience 1/12

🎓 Dr. Kristen Lindquist The Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Endowed Chair in Social Psychology at Ohio State University. Her work has advanced constructionist models of emotion, and shown how affective experiences emerge from distributed brain networks interacting with cultural and social learning

More awards to recognize!! We want to recognize our best poster and flash talk winners, our winners for best paper of the year, and last but not least all our diversity award winners. Such great work going on at SAS! #sas2026

Come check out our symposium on emotional concordance and clinical implications, led by @veravine.bsky.social and @emmailyaz.bsky.social #SAS2026 I will talk about interoception and trust decision-making - work with Kristen Lindquist, @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social @adriennebonar.bsky.social

See you tomorrow at @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026!

We only experience time moving forward. But memory can both predict what comes next and reconstruct what must have happened before. In a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint, we show how hippocampal development enables this flexible representation of time 🧵

So excited for the Rutgers Child Study Center to roll deep at the 2026 @affectscience.bsky.social conference later this week! Here's a guide on where to find us and when! Hope to see you there! 🤩 #SAS2026

Come check out the fun Friday morning AI empathy symposium led by @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026. I'll be talking about empathy choice for AI empathy work with @jdweng.bsky.social @minzlicht.bsky.social, and why recipient experiences matter for this debate

Looking forward to the interesting conversations to come at SAS 2026!

We're excited about SAS 2026! Mark your calendars to check out our lab's latest work. Beginning with the Thursday preconferences, we have two lab members presenting at the Dev Precon and the Clinical Precon! @affectscience.bsky.social

My latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

The Affective Science Lab will be well-represented at this years @affectscience.bsky.social conference!

Excited to share that our lab will be presenting multiple projects at SPSP 2026! If you’re interested in social perception, race talk, intergroup dynamics, or collective action — come check us out! #SPSP2026 #SocialPsychology #PersonalityPsychology #AcademicResearch #RaceTalk

Delighted to be collaborating with @xiaosigu.bsky.social with support from @srndna.bsky.social 🎉

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yuta Katsumi, Bradford C. Dickerson, et al: Detecting short-interval longitudinal cortical atrophy in neurodegenerative dementias via cluster scanning: A proof of concept doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Join us at SAS 2026 for the Presidential Symposium! Consider the lessons affective scientists can learn from non-human and non-traditional systems like plants, animals, and AI! 🐒🌱🤖🐁 #SAS2026

New paper: The metabolic framework of reward We reframe reward as a computation of metabolic optimization. Dopamine and opioids, do not signal reward but act as physiological agents. Learning and behavior serve the brain’s goal of optimizing energy use. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! 🧠 For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains. #rstats #neuroimaging #openscience

This hasn't stopped in Los Angeles, it's just no longer "news" - the only reason this kidnapping was reported is be because it happened directly in front of an NPR journalist who writes on immigration.

Hey everyone! I’m leading a student mentoring table at SPSP on Family Planning and Pregnancy during graduate school. I'm trying to collect some useful data: If you had kids in academia (any career stage)-- I would be grateful if you filled out this 10-question survey: forms.office.com/r/JeLL5cBk3w

🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌 Applications due: Feb. 26 Start date: flexible, as early as June More 👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

We are looking for a Clinical Research Coordinator for a project combing work on aging, peripheral physiology, and fMRI. Perfect for any students looking to get involved in research before graduate school. If you have great students looking for opportunities in Boston, please send them our way!

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

The brain’s energy landscape as a potential window into brain health www.nature.com/articles/d41... (study led by Martin Picard and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten)

Big congrats to everyone who’s applied to grad school! 🥳🎉 It’s a huge milestone, and we’re so proud of all the hard work you’ve put in. Take a moment to celebrate—you deserve it! 🌟 Tag a friend who’s on this journey so we can cheer them on too! 🙌🎓