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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 14d

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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...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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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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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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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · Sep 8

📣 Attention all @sansmeeting.bsky.social members!!!

Please share all the cool things you are doing by using this easy-to-use form 👇🏼

Don't be shy! Share with the community!

Self-nominations (students, faculty) are what this is about (but also give a shout-out to a friend/colleague)!🥳

SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · Sep 8

🎉 Got exciting news to share? We’re excited to highlight accomplishments from across the SANS community! If you (or someone you know) has a recent paper, award, or other recognition, please send it our way using the Spotlight form below!

Submit here: forms.gle/CNpanwJZFTPg...

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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨

Introducing the @sansmeeting.bsky.social Fellows Program!

We are thrilled to recognize SANS members for their scholarship, mentorship, or service!

Consider nominating a deserving individual, including yourself!

socialaffectiveneuro.org/sans-fellows...

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DongWon OH | 오동원 | 吳東源 @dongwonoh.bsky.social · 15d

Six years in the making, a postdoc project with @freemanjb.bsky.social is finally now out in print. Many thanks to Jon and @hennavartiainen.bsky.social and everyone who made this important work possible.

Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 19d

New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.

Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jakub Limanowski @jlimanowski.bsky.social · 16d

New (i.e. finally published!) paper alert 🥳:
We asked whether unpredicted visual movement feedback is processed differently depending on whether it is behaviourally relevant or not.

MINI THREAD 👇

academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

That’s (relevant for) me: Task set dependent brain responses to delayed visual movement feedback

Abstract. Bodily self-other distinction relies on the detection of (mis)matches between predicted and actual sensory movement consequences, but the brain c

academic.oup.com

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 21d

Have other news to share? Let us know using this form: forms.gle/CNpanwJZFTPg...

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 21d

1st SANS Social Media Highlight!

UCSB PhD student @avamadesousa.bsky.social first first-author empirical paper is out!

In a mini-meta analysis, the authors looked at whether loneliness is related to altered expectations of one’s own and others' emotion transitions.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Loneliness is associated with unstable and distorted emotion transition predictions - Communications Psychology

A mini meta-analysis finds loneliness is linked to distorted expectations of emotion transitions, including atypical models, reduced accuracy, perceived volatility in others, and an anti-positivity bi...

www.nature.com

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 27d

🚨Introducing the SANS Fellows Program 🚨

We’re excited to honor members whose scholarship, mentorship, & service have shaped social & affective neuroscience!

Nominate someone—or yourself—to be a SANS Fellow!

Details: socialaffectiveneuro.org/sans-fellows...

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!)

To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

Sinclair Lab

The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

www.sinclairlab-rice.com

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · Sep 8

🎉 Got exciting news to share? We’re excited to highlight accomplishments from across the SANS community! If you (or someone you know) has a recent paper, award, or other recognition, please send it our way using the Spotlight form below!

Submit here: forms.gle/CNpanwJZFTPg...

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · Aug 29

After 5 years, I finally carved out time to turn this blog post on FDR (markallenthornton.com/blog/fdr-pro...) into a manuscript. The preprint features a much broader range of simulations showing how FDR promotes confounds, and how this effect compounds with publication bias: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Effect of confound mass on true positive rates under FDR correction. Confound mass represents how large a confound is in terms of the product of its voxel extent and effect size. Results are shown at differing combinations of true effect size, true effect voxel extent, and sample size.

Inflated surface maps of meta-analytic z-statistics from Neurosynth for low-level confounds (top) and high-level cognitive tasks (bottom). Red reflects positive activations, blue reflects negative (de)activations, and darker colors indicate larger z-statistics. Maps are thresholded at |z| = 1 for visualization purposes.

Effect of confound effect size on true positive rates for task effects under FDR correction. Colors indicate sample sizes: N = 25 in blue, N = 50 in green, and N = 100 in orange. Effect sizes are reflected by the darkness of each color, with light shades representing d = .2, medium d = .5, and dark d = .8. The task brain maps and confound brain maps referenced in each panel are shown in Figure 3.

Effect of FDR-based publication bias on observed confound effects sizes. Simulated meta-analytic confound effect sizes are visualized through violin plots for each combination of task effect and confound effect examined in the neural data simulations. Meta-analyses featuring publication bias (orange) substantially inflate these effect size estimates in all cases, relative to meta-analyses featuring no publication bias (blue).

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 6

Learn more about FABBS’ work and opportunities for SANS members at fabbs.org!

FABBS – Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 6

Exciting news from SANS! We’re now a member of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (@fabbs.org).

FABBS advocates for the sciences of the mind, brain, and behavior - connecting researchers with policymakers and promoting evidence-based science in Congress and beyond.

FABBS – Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · Jul 28

In advance of next year's (likely dire) job market, here are the 2024-2025 numbers from the psych job wiki: the overall number of tenure-track job listings in psychology and neuroscience fell slightly, from 860 to 822 (this doesn't include canceled searches, which are often not properly reported).

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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...

Perceived community alignment increases information sharing - Nature Communications

Information sharing is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior. Here, the authors use neuroimaging and behavioral studies to show that people are driven to share information that they believe will be ...

www.nature.com

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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · Jul 15

🎉New paper out @Psychological Review on the neuroscience of intergroup contact🎉

Led by the fantastic @margaretrwelte.bsky.social ‬and Jas Cloutier!

@apajournals.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · Jul 1

🌟 Want to get more involved in the SANS Community? 🌟

Consider joining one of the SANS working committees! We welcome interest from all levels - from graduate student to emeritus professor!

Interested? Fill out the form here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline: July 19, 2025

SANS 2025/2026 | Committee Interest Form

Would you be interested in getting more involved in the SANS Community as a committee member ? If yes, fill out the below form and we will be in touch with additional information on opportunities ava...

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · Jul 1

Please welcome your newest SANS Director-at-Large!

Dr. Candace Raio

(who will also be co-chairing the 2026 SANS Conference)

Thank you Candace for joining the board, and to all who participated in this year's voting!

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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · Jun 25

What a fantastic choice @psychscience.bsky.social!!!

@minuekim.bsky.social does innovative research!

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · Jun 25

Meet 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence recipient @minuekim.bsky.social‬, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Sungkyunkwan University, whose interdisciplinary work examines the neurocognitive mechanisms of affective information processing and how they impact #mentalhealth.

Member Spotlight: 2025 Spence Award Recipient Justin Minue Kim On the Science of Emotion

This Spence recipient's interdisciplinary work examines the neurocognitive mechanisms of affective information processing and how they impact mental health.

www.psychologicalscience.org

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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · Jun 18

Interested in #compassion based interventions? Learn all about their effects on #brain
Big congrats & thx to @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · Jun 10

Excellent group! Check it out @sansmeeting.bsky.social

ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · Jun 10

"We're thrilled to introduce the ESCAN-Social Neuroscience SIG, formerly known as ESSAN. This group fosters collaboration in social and affective neuroscience across Europe and beyond.
Learn more: escaneurosci.eu/sig
#ESCAN #SocialNeuroscience #SIG"

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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · May 22

Interested in joining our lab as a PostDoc?
The European Project Center at @tudresden.bsky.social offers a fantastic workshop on MSCA fellowships 👇
Get in touch if interested.
@kanskelab.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social @sfn.org @sansmeeting.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/forschung-tr...

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