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We study the neural basis of human social interaction. 🔗
https://www.soz.psy.unibe.ch/
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SfN Journals
7 days ago
New in
#JNeurosci
from Hynes et al: Ventral striatal cholinergic interneurons influence risky decision-making and motor impulsivity differently in male and female rats across learning in a gambling task.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0764-25.2025
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Donner Lab
7 days ago
🚨New preprint on
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
: “Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence” by Alessandro Toso,
@ayeletarazi.bsky.social
,
@jrochav.bsky.social
,
@ktsetsos.bsky.social
& Tobias H. Donner 🔗
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Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence
Mounting evidence indicates that decisions emerge from a competition between populations of neurons encoding the different choice options. Theoretical models propose that the outcome of this competiti...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.684827v1
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
7 days ago
Intrinsic electrophysiological activity maps a latent dimension of poor sleep quality and reduced cognitive performance: a magnetoencephalography study using Cam-CAN data.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.686036v1
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Kate Wassum
7 days ago
We’re hiring a technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
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Matteo Lisi
7 days ago
We are hiring, come work with us! Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob
#psychscisky
#neuroskyence
#VisionScience
#academicsky
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
8 days ago
#Call
for Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your
#research
experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 17. November 2025. ➡️
sohub.io/51a4
🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026
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Matthew Apps
19 days ago
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the
@msnlab.bsky.social
in the
@thechbh.bsky.social
. Deadline 27/11. More info:
tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
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The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-computational-and-neural-dynamics-of-human-motivation-and-cognitive-control/?p189023
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Shawn Rhoads
19 days ago
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in
@natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵
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Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
https://rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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SANS
19 days ago
How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others? New work by
@shawnrhoadsphd.com
,
@aa-marsh.bsky.social
,
@thepsychologist.bsky.social
,
@drjocutler.bsky.social
, et al. in
@natcomms.nature.com
reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
19 days ago
Sleep deprivation constrains dynamic configurations of integrated and segregated brain states impacting cognitive performance
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.683658v1
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CNS 2026 Annual Meeting
27 days ago
#CNS2026
Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more:
isrw.bio.uci.edu
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IIASA
21 days ago
🌍 Applications for
#YSSP2026
are open! Spend your summer at IIASA in Austria with researchers from around the world tackling global challenges. 🧠 For advanced PhD students 🗓️ 1 Jun–28 Aug 2026 ⏰ Apply by 12 Jan 2026 (midnight CET) Build your network. Advance your research:
iiasa.ac.at/capacity-dev...
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Brain and Sleep Research Laboratory
3 months ago
Enhancement of Sleep Slow Wave Activity using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation with Temporal Interference
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Enhancement of Sleep Slow Wave Activity using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation with Temporal Interference
Slow waves mediate restorative functions of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. To enhance slow wave activity (SWA, 0.5-4 Hz) non-invasively, we employed a novel neuromodulatory tool, Transcranial El...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.25333452v1
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23 days ago
Is confirmation bias a real cognitive flaw, or a statistical ghost created by our models? My new PNAS paper shows a startling result: fitting Q-learning models to behavior in bandit tasks detect a bias, even from the behavior of a perfectly rational Bayesian learner.
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David Poeppel
23 days ago
CogNeuroLanguage: new by
@lauragwilliams.bsky.social
&
@jeanremiking.bsky.social
(w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation
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Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the human brain | PNAS
Speech comprehension involves transforming an acoustic waveform into meaning. To do so, the human brain generates a hierarchy of features that conv...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422097122
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
22 days ago
Map of spiking activity underlying change detection in the mouse visual system
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.17.683190v1
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
22 days ago
A simple, open-source restraint system for magnetic resonance imaging in awake rats
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.18.683153v1
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Sebastian Speer
22 days ago
Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026! The Coupled Minds Lab at
@tamu.bsky.social
will use a multimodal approach combining fMRI hyperscanning, computational modeling, and natural language processing to study how conversations transform minds. Learn more:
coupled-minds.github.io
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Coupled Minds Lab
Coupled Minds Lab — social neuroscience of conversation, negotiation, and human–AI interaction.
https://coupled-minds.github.io/
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Leana Hosea
22 days ago
Scientist
@hanspeterarp.bsky.social
reflects “Considering all we know about Pfas – their persistence, costly clean-up, and emerging hazards – it remains a shock that there is so little oversight of emissions from production factories." 9
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Regulators overlooking toxic Pfas found around Lancashire chemicals plant
Exclusive: Environment Agency not testing for ‘forever chemical’ made by factory despite evidence of emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/19/environment-agency-pfas-forever-chemicals-lancashire-wyre
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Social Psych Lab Basel
22 days ago
📣 The EASP General Meeting 2026 is on Bluesky! Follow them for updates and news about the best conference of the year 🤩
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Wouter Poortinga
24 days ago
🌿 PhD Opportunity in Environmental Psychology: We would like to invite students to apply for the student-led 2026 WGSSS PhD Studentship Competition at Cardiff University. (1/3) 🗓️ Deadline: 11 Dec 2025 🔗
wgsss.ac.uk/student-led-general-competition
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Student-led General Competition – Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences
https://wgsss.ac.uk/student-led-general-competition
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BPS Environmental Psychology Section
26 days ago
📣The journal
@peopleandnature.bsky.social
is looking for environmental psychologists to join their editorial board📣 Could this be you? Please DM
@melissamarselle.bsky.social
if interested.
#EnvironmentalPsychology
#envpsy
#environmentalpsych
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Michael Eisen
27 days ago
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!!
formatmypaper.com
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International Association for People-Environment Studies
26 days ago
📢 Call for submissions is now open 👇👇👇
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Viktoria Cologna
27 days ago
👉 Learn about our submission criteria and how to contribute on our Call for Collaborations page:
janpfander.github.io/trust_climat...
🙌 This project is led by
@janpfa.bsky.social
and myself at
@eawag.bsky.social
and
@madalina.bsky.social
and
@smconstantino.bsky.social
at Stanford.
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megan peters 🧠
28 days ago
📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London
@ucl.ac.uk
to join the Experimental Psychology department in
@uclpals.bsky.social
! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
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ESRS
about 1 month ago
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝! Due to the high volume of requests, the deadline for Sleep Europe 2026 symposia submissions has been extended to 15 Oct 2025. This is your opportunity! Submit here:
https://esrs.eu/sleep-congress/symposia/
#ESRS
#SleepEurope2026
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📢Excited to share our new paper in Journ. of Env. Psych.!🌍 We studied how attitudes and attention affect eco-decisions using eye-tracking with real trade-offs👀 Team effort by
@zbollen.bsky.social
, Annika Wyss, Emmanuel Guizar Rosales, Zarah Le Houcq Corbi & Daria Knoch. 📄
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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Siri Leknes
about 2 months ago
Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/286516/postdoctoral-research-fellowship
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Quentin Huys
about 1 month ago
New
#job
alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in
#computationalpsychiatry
at the
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
/
@uclqsion.bsky.social
and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=38378&jobTitle=Clinical+Research+Fellow
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Katharine Hayhoe
about 1 month ago
The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
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SfN Journals
about 2 months ago
Editor-in-Chief Sabine Kastner discusses the educational component of making the review process more transparent. Read more in her editorial “Introducing Open Peer Review at JNeurosci.”
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2045-23.2023
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Sander van der Linden
about 2 months ago
If you're looking to do a PhD on a timely subject, I'm on the advisory board of a cool new project; "When Lies Take Root: Investigating the Impact of Misinformation on Those at Risk" at the top-ranked Amsterdam School of Communication Research/ Do share & apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Position: "When Lies Take Root: Investigating the Impact of Misinformation on Those at Risk"
Are you motivated to protect those most vulnerable against misinformation and to develop new interventions against misinformation? Do you want to know more about how mis- and disinformation impact at-...
https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/phd-position-when-lies-take-root-investigating-the-impact-of-misinformation-on-those-at-risk-netherlands-14457
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SANS
about 2 months ago
Symposium submissions are now open for
#SANS2026
in San Diego! The deadline for these submissions is November 17th at 23:59 Pacific. Check out the submission guidelines here:
socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-gui...
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Symposia Guidelines - Social Affective Neuroscience Society
https://socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-guidelines/
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Boryana Todorova
about 2 months ago
🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action! When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT Where? Online - register here:
planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...
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Next Gen Speaker Series - Boryana Todorova - Planetary Health Alliance
Boryana Todorova is a Visiting Researcher at the Net Zero Observatory, University of Queensland, and a member of the Neuro Climate Working Group. Her research examines the two-way relationship between...
https://planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-gen-speaker-series-boryana-todorova/
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Covering Climate Now
2 months ago
Climate change is the defining story of our time, and journalists everywhere need the tools to cover it with depth, accuracy, and impact. That’s why we're offering journalists a free, live, online training program designed to support them in telling stronger climate stories. Apply by Sept. 8.
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The Covering Climate Now Academy
Journalists from around the world can explore key climate topics together.
https://buff.ly/M7aoEKD
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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds - Fonds National Suisse
2 months ago
🗓️ Möchten Sie beim SNF oder bei Innosuisse ein Forschungsgesuch einreichen? Die beiden Organisationen präsentieren ihre Förderinstrumente an 3 Online-Veranstaltungen (23.10 , 13.11 und 28.11 2025). Die Anmeldung ist ab sofort offen. 🌐Sprache ist Englisch 👉 Programm und Anmeldung:
buff.ly/2Dtbjgx
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🧠💤 New in Neural Networks: Prosocial people show lower intracortical functional connectivity during deep
#sleep
within the social brain. ✨ 📄To the paper
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
3 months ago
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Wilhelm Hofmann
3 months ago
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...
Postdoc:👉
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...
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Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7658390e1cdfc4040aedc5449896f2a8d7ac0ec50?ref=homepage
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DocGaby
3 months ago
Gerade für Entwicklungsländer, die auf frei verfügbare Daten angewiesen sind, wäre der Verlust fatal. Sie nutzen die Informationen, um Strategien zur Klimaanpassung zu entwickeln und Klimafinanzierungen zu beantragen.
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USA schalten Klimasatelliten ab: Blackout am Himmel
Die Trump-USA wollen zwei der wichtigsten Klimasatelliten abschalten. US-Forschergruppen versuchen, Wissen vor der Löschung retten. Die Trump-USA wollen zwei der wichtigsten Klimasatelliten abschalten...
https://www.fr.de/politik/usa-schalten-klimasatelliten-ab-blackout-am-himmel-93896531.html#google_vignette
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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
3 months ago
Just one week left to apply to our NREE's new climate editor:
bit.ly/40Tvux7
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - New York City, New York (US) job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12842276
Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Organization: Nature Portfolio Locations: New York or Shanghai -Hybrid Workin...
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🔥Honored that our work was highlighted by
@natclimate.nature.com
🌍🧠 👉 To the full paper: 📄
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neural traits of pro-environmental behaviour - Nature Climate Change
Nature Climate Change - Neural traits of pro-environmental behaviour
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02403-0
3 months ago
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🧠💤 New in Neural Networks: Prosocial people show lower intracortical functional connectivity during deep
#sleep
within the social brain. ✨ 📄To the paper
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
3 months ago
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Many thanks to
@scanunit.bsky.social
for the kind mention! 🙏 👉 To the full study:
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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Yuval Nir
3 months ago
Enhancement of Sleep Slow Wave Activity using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation with Temporal Interference
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Enhancement of Sleep Slow Wave Activity using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation with Temporal Interference
Slow waves mediate restorative functions of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. To enhance slow wave activity (SWA, 0.5-4 Hz) non-invasively, we employed a novel neuromodulatory tool, Transcranial El...
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Thrilled to see our work featured in the latest issue of SLEEP🧠💤 Mayeli & Ferrarelli @FabFerrare highlight that besides mindfulenss as a state, trait mindfulness, as assessed in our work, is key to fully unpack the link to sleep.Excited for what's next✨
over 1 year ago
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Excited to share our latest publication about mindfulness and sleep🎉 Team effort by @WunderlinMarina, @MirjamStudler, @MarcZuest, @lorenagianotti and Daria Knoch. 📝 Read here:
over 1 year ago
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What an incredible talk at our
#SNS_colloquium
by @boryana_td titled "A Social Neuroscience Approach for Climate Change" 🌍🧠. Truly brilliant and insightful work!👏🙌
#ClimateChange
#Neuroscience
over 1 year ago
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🌍 Excited to welcome @boryana_td in our
#SNS_colloquium
tomorrow! Together we will explore the neural basis of pro-environmental behaviour and discover how social neuroscience can help us understand & inspire climate action. 🧠🌱
#ClimateAction
#Neuroscience
#Sustainability
over 1 year ago
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