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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 6d

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · 7d

SoCoLab celebrates fall 🎃👻🍂
How did I get so lucky to end up with a group of such fabulous, kind, and funny human beings?

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 8d

We're excited to announce that the #SANS2026 Presidential Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Steve Chang of Yale! (medicine.yale.edu/profile/stev...). He will deliver an address titled "Diverse Social Strategies and Neural Mechanisms underlying Mutual Cooperation"

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 15d

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...

Symposia Guidelines - Social Affective Neuroscience Society

socialaffectiveneuro.org

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 16d

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Sep 4

Having colleagues like @richardhuskey.bsky.social @soojongkim.bsky.social would be a dream!

Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · Sep 4

We’re hiring @ucdavis.bsky.social Comm! TT Asst Prof in Mediated Interpersonal Communication. Our dept blends behavioral, biological & computational strengths at one of the most interdisciplinary campuses anywhere. Apps due Oct 15. Glad to chat recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07289

Department of Communication - Mediated Interpersonal Communication

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations Kylie!

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john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to present our new work reading minds!

Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Aug 28

Amazing opportunity for grad students looking for a postdoc! Excited to see all that @youngkihong.bsky.social’s new lab will venture into in the coming years 🎉

Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Aug 28

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026!

We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods.

Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

Postdoctoral Associate

jobs.colorado.edu

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to share this work led by @avamadesousa.bsky.social! This paper is so significant to me, not only because it reveals important insights into the disruptions in emotion representations that characterize loneliness, but also because it is a clear example of the power of team science 🌟

Ava Ma de Sousa @avamadesousa.bsky.social · Aug 28

So excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in
@commspsychol.nature.com
🎉

In a mini-meta analysis of seven studies, we looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(1/4)

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Aug 27

SoCoLab, Year 3! It has been a rough start to the new year, but first lab meeting of the semester with the best team reminds me of what this is all about. It feels like just yesterday that the lab was just me and @begumbabur.bsky.social 🥲 …now we fill the conference room!

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Yuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · Aug 20

what happens during "resting state"? @jinke.bsky.social asked this question by (literally) asking what participants what they were thinking during rest, finding that ongoing thoughts are reflected in FC patterns and predict behavior/traits!

excited to be part of this project!

Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · Aug 20

New preprint! 🧠

Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behavior

Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)-brain connectivity observed when people rest with no external tasks-predicts individual differences in behavior. Yet, rest is not idle; it involves streams...

www.biorxiv.org

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phil newsome @philnewsomejr.bsky.social · Aug 18

🧠Out now in @ohbmofficial.bsky.social ! 🧠

We scanned 32 first-time dads (~8 mos postpartum) while they watched videos of their baby, an unfamiliar baby, their romantic partner, and an unfamiliar woman…1/8

doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

My Baby Versus the World: Fathers' Neural Processing of Own‐Infant, Unfamiliar‐Infant, and Romantic Partner Stimuli

First-time fathers processed own-infant stimuli in mentalizing, emotion regulation, and reward processing regions, and posterior midline responses tracked with bonding and parental stress. Whole-brai....

doi.org

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Payam Piray @payampiray.bsky.social · Aug 12

New paper with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social in Nature Communications: an RL model that builds a successor map compositionally. The new model plans as well as the best models, and it links components of the map used for planning to neural codes in the medial entorhinal cortex.
rdcu.be/eAofi

Reconciling flexibility and efficiency: medial entorhinal cortex represents a compositional cognitive map

Nature Communications - How the brain creates compositional cognitive maps that support both flexible and efficient planning remains poorly understood. Here, authors propose a...

rdcu.be

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João Guassi Moreira @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at
@uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold!

psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

Joao Guassi Moreira – Information for Prospective Graduate Students

Dr. Joao Guassi Moreira – Information for Prospective Graduate Students Website: https://psych.wisc.edu/staff/guassi-moreira-joao/ Current research: Dr. Guassi Moreira’s Computational Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory (CDNLab) studies the neurodevelopment of affective and social phenomena between late childhood and emerging adulthood. Currently, CDNLab is particularly interested in the development of emotion regulation and decision-making, and the nexus between the two.…

psych.wisc.edu

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Yi Zhang @yizhang96.bsky.social · Jul 30

🥳Excited to share that our new paper is live at Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social! We show that Pavlovian learning can grow empathy for another person. 🧵👇

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨We are recruiting a lab manager who will spend 80% of their effort in my lab and 20% of their effort in @leorhackel.bsky.social's lab. Please share widely!

Apply at usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange... with:
completed questionnaire (socolab.org/lab-manager-application), CV & Cover Letter!

Home | Social Connection Lab

The Social Connection Lab ("SoCoLab") at USC investigates what helps people feel socially connected to one another.

socolab.org

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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨New paper in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?

We review the “psychology of virality,” or the psychological & structural factors that shape information spread online and offline: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lRke4sIRv...

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · Jun 2

Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at @colorado.edu as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will study social cognition, focusing on the cognitive and neural bases of stereotyping and bias interventions.

Home

colorado.edu

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Jul 3

This paper exemplifies what I envision as my research pipeline: use neuroimaging to garner insight into psychological phenomena and then test the phenomena directly with experimental design to inform social psych theory 🧠💡

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Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Jul 3

Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...