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Beware of scam! (See below.) Official SANS 2025 accommodation options can be found here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/accommodation/

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Congratulations to Kevin Ochsner for winning the SANS 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award! socialaffectiveneuro.org/awards/

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Statement from the SANS Executive Board: Supporting Scientific Integrity for Advancing Social and Affective Neuroscience (Image for convenience, text in quoted thread.)

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Recently proposed U.S. policies including cuts to NIH funding, keyword censorship of grants, withdrawal of information from the public, and mass layoffs of employees in federal agencies threaten the integrity of science and well-being of people throughout the world.

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I have always considered SANS to be my "home" conference/society, so I am delighted and deeply honored to receive this year's SANS Early Career Award!

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Please join us in congratulating the SANS 2025 Award winners! Mid-career award: Cate Hartley (www.hartleylab.org) Early-career award: Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social Both awards will be presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting at Chicago (registration now open)!

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Congratulations to SANS members @markthornton.bsky.social and @minuekim.bsky.social for winning the APS's 2025 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions!

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Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉 #AcademicSky #Psychology @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social @chazfirestone.bsky.social @ashleylwatts.bsky.social @minuekim.bsky.social @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @markthornton.bsky.social @gemmasharpe.bsky.social

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Registration for SANS 2025 is now open! Join us in Chicago, April 23-26, for a fantastic program of social and affective neuroscience! Register by March 15 for our early bird rate, and don't forget to renew your membership first too! socialaffectiveneuro.org/registration/

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Last day to submit your SANS abstract! Hope to see you in Chicago!

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10 days left to submit your abstracts for SANS 2025!

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SANS 2025 Award Nominations Close Tomorrow! Don't forget to nominate deserving colleagues (or yourself)!

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Reminder: SANS 2025 Award Nominations Open! 2025 Award Categories: Distinguished Scholar Award Mid-Career Award Early Career Award Innovation Award Please see: socialaffectiveneuro.org/awards/ for details! Self nominations are welcome!

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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain academic.oup.com/scan/article...

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We are SO excited to bring debates back to #SANS2025! If you aren't sure if you should submit to SANS 2025 -- I am here to tell you that you should :)

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We have been working hard to put an awesome line-up of researchers with what we are hoping will be thought-provoking and inspiring symposia. Abstract submissions deadlines have been extended to December 30th -- would love to see your work!

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#SANS2025 will feature two debates! First Damien Fair will debate @thaliawheatley.bsky.social about the usefulness of large consortia vs. small bespoke studies, then @mohammadatari.bsky.social will debate @markthornton.bsky.social about caution vs. acceleration in applying AI to social neuroscience!

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The #SANS2025 Program-at-a-Glance and Preconference workshop information are now both available on the SANS website! socialaffectiveneuro.org/program/

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Registration for #SANS2025 is open: socialaffectiveneuro.org/registration/ Register by March 15 for Early Bird Registration Rates! Registration is also less expensive for members than non-members.

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New starter pack: people doing science with narratives, naturalistic memory, natural conversations, and using language models for psych/cog sci 📖💻📚 (Reply with 🙋 if you'd like to be added!) go.bsky.app/LGRYMvQ

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I've started working on a (very incomplete!) starter pack for social interaction researchers! If you're working in this space, please asked to be added (or suggest others)! Meant to be inclusive of many disciplines, methods, interaction types, and types of interacting agents: go.bsky.app/44VAEhU

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SANS abstract submission deadline now extended to December 30th! Submit here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/abstract-sub...

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Joining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.

submitted 108 days ago • 46 comments

Joining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.

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One more week to prepare your abstracts for #SANS2025! Don't miss it!

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🚨SANS 2025 Awards Now Open!🚨 Know a distinguished scholar, mid-career researcher, or rising star in Social and Affective Neuroscience? 🧠 Or perhaps you've read a pioneering paper that’s shifting the way we think about the field? 📄 Now’s the time to give them the recognition they deserve! 🎉

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We're excited to announce the plenary speakers for #SANS2025: Beatriz Luna will deliver the Keynote Symposium, and Earl K. Miller (@earlkmiller.bsky.social) will deliver the Presdiential Symposium! Learn more about our speakers here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/speakers/

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We're excited to announce that abstract submission for #SANS2025 is now open! socialaffectiveneuro.org/abstract-sub.... Join us at Chicago, April 23-26, 2025!

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Doing research with #fNIRS? Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is soliciting submissions for a special issue on the unique contribution of fNIRS to our understanding of social and affective processes and we'd love to consider your work! academic.oup.com/scan/pages/g...

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Packed house in the @sansmeeting.bsky.social Computational Preconference

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Popularity of brain regions and networks in the #SANS2024 program. @sansmeeting.bsky.social I'm sad I can't make it this year, but I hope everyone enjoys Toronto. 🇨🇦

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📢The SANS EDIJ Committee has put together a navigating SANS event for first-time attendees! Join hosts @hpopal-brain.bsky.social, Melanie Kos, & @catcamacho.bsky.social from the SANS EDIJ committee who put together a great event! All are welcome!!! Registration info below. @sansmeeting.bsky.social

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📢🗣️The Hartley Lab at NYU (www.hartleylab.org ) is hiring a full-time lab manager to start this summer!!🧑‍💻 If you're looking for research experience before grad school & are interested in cognitive development and/or reinforcement learning, get more details & apply here: apply.interfolio.com/142391

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Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...

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Early bird pricing for #SANS2024 registration ends in just a few weeks! Register by March 11 to receive the lower rates! socialaffectiveneuro.org/registration/

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New paper from @beausievers.bsky.social & me, now out in SCAN! "Deep social neuroscience: The promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain" Open access link🔓: doi.org/10.1093/scan...

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I see a lot of psych/neuro researchers look at neural nets and go “huh… cool… better not mess this up… better to not even try lol” We wrote this paper to share “building blocks” for thinking about neural nets: what they can and can’t do, their benefits and risks bsky.app/profile/mark...

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New paper at Nature Communications from me & @dianatamir.bsky.social! "Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New paper demonstrating the hidden cost of receiving favors led by Xiaoxue Gao with @eshjolly.bsky.social, Hongbo Yu, Huiying Liu, & Xiaolin Zhou. We demonstrate that brain patterns of emotional states can be integrated with economic utility models to predict reciprocity behavior bit.ly/41Pm7O2.

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There are big changes happening at Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, our field's flagship journal and SANS conference sponsor. It's remarkable how far things have come over the years, and the future is looking bright.

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