⏰ Search for datasets ⏰ As part of a planned study on pain-related empathy, we are searching for suitable stimulus material, ideally short video sequences (1–3 seconds) depicting pain-distorted facial expressions 🫤😵‍💫😬

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Symposium submissions are due tomorrow, March 31, 2026!

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)@s4sn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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

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

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

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)@s4sn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

✨ 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

✨ 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. 🏆

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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 👏👌

Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative. It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇 www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

✨ 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

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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!

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)@s4sn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We look forward to welcoming you to Montreal for an unforgettable week of science, collaboration, and celebration! 🥳 On behalf of the S4SN team: Jennifer Bartz (Chair of the Local Organizing Committee) Weizhe Hong (President) Steve Chang (Past President) Elizabeth Hammock (Treasurer)

✨ #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! 💪

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)@s4sn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are already looking ahead to our #S4SN2026 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, next fall. Please keep an eye out for the exact dates in the coming weeks. See you in Montreal! 👋

✨ 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.

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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. 💪

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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

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Check your inboxes - the post-meeting survey has been sent out to all attendees! 💖 We're looking forward to your feedback and input!

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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!

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)@s4sn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Saykat Ray observed natural behavior in fruit bats 🦇 and found that spatial place cells also encode social information. These place cells are a cognitive map of the social environment! 😱

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! ⤵️

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)@s4sn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Wow that's already day 3 done! Who's ready for the last day of #S4SN2025 social neuroscience fun tomorrow? 🥲

Wow that's already day 3 done! Who's ready for the last day of #S4SN2025 social neuroscience fun tomorrow? 🥲

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And we're on!!! Don't forget to tag us or use the hashtag #S4SN2025 for all your conference activities! 🤩

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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