Hah. Samesies. Running experiments on the weekly rn!! Made me miss a meeting today- oops!

Next up, @honglab.bsky.social!

Mice show prosocial behaviors and coordinate with each other to achieve mutual rewards. 🐭

Mice also get better at coordinating over time (waiting for the other, nose poking to time their behaviors)! 🐁

#S4SN2025

Aaaand invited speaker Michael Yartsev studies natural social behavior in groups of bats. 🦇

Why bats? Bats live their lives almost entirely in collective social settings and they live quite long so they interact a lot with others. Fascinating!

#S4SN2025

2) MDMA makes mice more empathic, just like humans! So Serotonin seems to play a role! 🤔

The fantastic @moeneuro.bsky.social talking about social transfer of pain & analgesia in mice today!

1) Mice express pain-related behaviours they observe in others & this transfer effect is related to Activity in ACC and NAc!

#S4SN2025

Day 1 was already amazing - are you ready for day 2? 🌟

Great symposium today with @honglab.bsky.social Andreas Olsson and Grit Hein on empathy across species at @s4sn.bsky.social in Lisbon! #s4sn2025

“Social behavior is the cause of and solution to all of our problems,” Liz Hammock giving a beautiful talk at the Larry Young Memorial symposium at #s4sn2025 @s4sn.bsky.social

Beautiful and timely talk by Inbal Ben Ami Bartal @s4sn.bsky.social #S4sn2025

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

Starting now! #S4SN2025 🤗

🫶🏻 Countdown to S4SN 2025! 🎉

Only a few days to go until we gather in beautiful Lisbon from September 23 to 26!

Can’t wait to see you all as we honor our cherished founder, Prof. Larry Young, and celebrate advancements in social neuroscience.
🌍✨ #S4SN2025 #SocialNeuroscience #Lisbon

One of the problems is that civilians hear “grant“ and think it’s a “fill out a form and get money” process, not a “harrowing Hunger Games competition against the brightest minds in the country” process.

Related to our previous post- if you had a grant terminated, Pro Publica wants to hear from you. Your work was funded because it was good, important science meant to help Americans. Reach out, and make your voice heard.

www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Will be presenting on pain and negative affect during social interactions and social support following traumatic birth!

Are you curious about headache and migraine pain? Join the Gulf Coast Consortium for a deep dive into the world of headaches and migraines at the #Pain2025 Workshop, featuring talks from @moeneuro.bsky.social, Yarimar Carrasquillo, and Greg Corder bit.ly/3JaeHzL #PRF

In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies

NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24

🚨 NOA! CONGRATS to Smith Lab MD/PhD student Amanda Nguyen for this huge accomplishment on her FIRST TRY! (5th percentile!!!). This is VERY good news. The first in awhile- and we have been fearing the worst. Thanks #NIH #NIMH

Y'all, this past week for science funding lawsuits has been 🔥🔥🔥

✅ Major recent wins regarding:

1. U of California researchers
2. NSF indirects
3. NIH terminations
4. EPA terminations

Plus:

5. Brand new NSF lawsuit (about terminations & slowdown of new awards)

🧵 Let's break it down

Important update about local impacts of funding cuts.

Depressing but compelling...

Thanks to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and his team for putting this together.

scienceimpacts.org

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University.

That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...