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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza

@raymundobaez.bsky.social
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🇲🇽 Neuroscientist interested in social interactions. Dad & immigrant. Group Leader of the Social Neurobiology Lab @ German Primate Center UNAM -> MPI-BC -> Cambridge -> MGH-HMS -> DPZ www.dpz.eu/en/social-neurobiology-l…

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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Congratulations to this year's S4SN @s4sn.bsky.social early career award recipients Felix Leroy @leroyfelix.bsky.social and Marco Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social !!!
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Super Happy to be at @s4sn.bsky.social annual meeting in Montreal! Kick off by talks by Kay Tye, Teruhiro Okuyama and Dean Mobbs
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Steve W. C. Chang @stevewcchang.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
We will be accepting symposium proposals for the 2026 S4SN meeting (8/23-8/26 in Montreal, CANADA) until March 31st! Propose exciting social neuroscience symposium ideas! 👇👇 www.s4sn.org/s4sn2026
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2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience — S4SN
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Weizhe Hong @honglab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Excited to share our latest work in @nature.com showing shared neural substrates for parenting and prosocial helping behavior. Full text available here: rdcu.be/e6PnY
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Steve W. C. Chang @stevewcchang.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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
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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
✨ 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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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🗣️ Call for Abstracts (Individual and Symposium): Deadline: March 13, 2026 Submit your abstract here: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026/sub... If you have any questions, please contact debora.rashcovsky@gmail.com! ✨
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
How do we plan to reach for different objects? My colleagues at @primatenzentrum.bsky.social show that parietal (AIP) and premotor cortices (F5) show mixed selectivity with stable temporal and functional organization. AIP emphasizes the target, while F5 grip type doi.org/10.1016/j.pn...
Neural representation structure for reaching and grasping. Fig. 7 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008226000158
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Join us at the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School in picturesque Bad Bevensen for two weeks of intense exchange about Systems Neuroscience! When: 26 July - 7 August Where: Bad Bevensen, Germany Application deadline: 28 February More details here: www.dpz.eu/pcn2026
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Summer School PCN 2026 | DPZ
Sie befinden sich hier:
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Slavica Janevska @slavi-jan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📣 Job opportunity: I’m still looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join my lab @leibniz-hki.de who is interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering. We’ll work on an interdisciplinary project with the team of @luziagyr.bsky.social 👇🏻 www.leibniz-hki.de/en/job-offer...
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Doctoral Researcher (m/f/div) in Microbial Genetic Engineering - Leibniz-HKI
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DPZ Deutsches Primatenzentrum @primatenzentrum.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Kleiner Sneak Peek in unser neues Video: Wir schauen Tierpfleger Justin bei seinem Arbeitsalltag am Deutschen Primatenzentrum über die Schulter. 🎥 Hier den ganzen Film ansehen: youtu.be/x8FI2xuklds
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Neuroscience and Beyond @neuroandbeyond.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
🎧 Join us in the upcoming episode of our Challenges in Academia series, where Dr. Baez Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social unpacks how funding pressures shape lab dynamics, career paths, and scientific risk-taking. 🔗Stay tuned for the new episode! youtube.com/shorts/yYdKT...
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How does research funding reward quantity over quality, and what impact does that have on science?
YouTube video by Neuroscience and Beyond
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Neuroscience and Beyond @neuroandbeyond.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In our upcoming episode, Dr. Raymundo Baez Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social, neuroscientist at the German Primate Center @primatenzentrum.bsky.social, explains how game theory is used to understand cooperation, competition, and social risk in controlled lab settings. 🐒 youtube.com/shorts/Ac34u...
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How do researchers study social interactions?
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The Moyen Bafing Chimp Project @mbchimp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🌍✨ Still time to apply! The MBCP is looking for a Field Site Manager to join us in one of the most beautiful parks on the planet—work with an amazing team, semi-habituated chimps, and boost your project management chops for a career in #conservation or #research. Info ➡️ bit.ly/MBCPmanager2025
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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · 25/06/2025
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In memory of Professor Larry J. Young’s profound contributions to the field of social neuroscience & his commitment to supporting early-career researchers, the Society for Social Neuroscience is pleased to announce the Larry J. Young Memorial Travel Fellowship! #S4SN2025 #AcademicSky #NeuroSkyence
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Excited to take part in the European social club meeting in Coimbra and talk about synergies with the @s4sn.bsky.social #escCoimbra25
San Francisco convent in Coimbra Portugal
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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
✨ Deadline Extension Alert! ✨ We’ve extended the deadline for abstract submissions! ⭐ Don’t miss your chance to showcase your work. Plus, early career researchers can apply for our prestigious #EarlyCareer Award. #society-for-social-neuroscience #Conference #AbstractSubmission #S4SN2025
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smgDPZ @smgdpz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨Paper alert! Check out our latest publication in @naturecomms.bsky.social by @lukasamn.bsky.social, Virginia Casasnovas, and Alexander Gail: "Visual target and task-critical feedback uncertainty impair different stages of reach planning in motor cortex". www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Visual target and task-critical feedback uncertainty impair different stages of reach planning in motor cortex - Nature Communications
Visual uncertainty impairs reach accuracy. The authors show that uncertainty about the target always impairs cortical motor goal encoding in rhesus monkeys, while feedback uncertainty does so only whe...
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Lukas Amann @lukasamn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Excited to share that the final chapter of my PhD has just been published! Huge thanks to Virginia for the fantastic collaboration and to Alexander Gail for his invaluable supervision.
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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The DFG is funding independent research groups in AI (tinyurl.com/36f5m6kd). If you're interested in coming to Göttingen (Germany) by applying for one of these groups, we have an online event to inform you what the process is and how we could support you (tinyurl.com/yfpeambm). Check it out!
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Förderinitiative „Künstliche Intelligenz“
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
SFB Paper Alert! That’s teamwork: 14 SFB members across nine projects put together a perspective paper on “Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild”, which was published in @naturemethods.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild - Nature Methods
In this Perspective, Vogg et al. discuss the progress and challenges of using computer vision approaches in the behavioral analysis of primates in their natural environment.
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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
3️⃣ Early Career Award details are coming soon, stay tuned 👀
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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
2️⃣ By June 1st, 2025: Poster Abstract Submissions and Early Bird Registration are open NOW until June 1, 2025. Details refer to: www.s4sn2025.org/abstracts www.s4sn2025.org/registration
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Abstract submissions — S4SN2025
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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
1️⃣ We are excited to announce that the call for symposium proposals is extended until April 20 for our upcoming S4SN meeting in beautiful Lisbon! This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase your research and engage with a diverse community of neuroscientists. Please refer to www.s4sn2025.org/symposia
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Symposium proposals — S4SN2025
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Rewards motivate us, but they have many dimensions. How does our brain combine different reward dimensions? In this study, now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we discovered that amygdala neurons flexibly encode reward probability and magnitude, and its risk. s.gwdg.de/qsx23R 1/5
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Dynamic coding and sequential integration of multiple reward attributes by primate amygdala neurons - Nature Communications
The amygdala assigns value to stimuli, yet how its neurons process different value components is unclear. Here the authors show that monkey amygdala neurons respond to different reward attributes and ...
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DPZ Deutsches Primatenzentrum @primatenzentrum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🧠 How does our brain evaluate rewards? Every day, we weigh chances & risks: Play it safe or risk it for more? A study by @raymundobaez.bsky.social shows that amygdala neurons make these calculations!dpz.eu/en/public-engagement/news/article/wie-das-gehirn-belohnungen-bewertet
Computer-generated illustration of a rhesus monkey brain showing the shape and location of the amygdala (colored green). Creator: Igor Kagan
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DPZ Deutsches Primatenzentrum @primatenzentrum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🧠 Wie bewertet unser Gehirn Belohnungen? Täglich wägen wir Chancen & Risiken ab: Sicherer Weg oder Risiko mit großer Belohnung? Eine neue Studie von @raymundobaez.bsky.social zeigt, dass Neuronen in der Amygdala genau dies berechnen! dpz.eu/im-dialog/news/artikel/wie-das-gehirn-belohnungen-bewertet
Computergenerierte Abbildung eines Rhesusaffengehirns, die die Form und Lage der Amygdala (grün gefärbt) zeigt. Ersteller: Igor Kagan
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social from @raymundobaez.bsky.social’s group @primatenzentrum.bsky.social shows primate amygdala neurons flexibly encode reward probability & magnitude. Some signal probability alone, others combine both into value and risk signals for decision-making s.gwdg.de/qsx23R
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Dynamic coding and sequential integration of multiple reward attributes by primate amygdala neurons - Nature Communications
The amygdala assigns value to stimuli, yet how its neurons process different value components is unclear. Here the authors show that monkey amygdala neurons respond to different reward attributes and ...
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William O'Hearn @williamohearn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We have an open position as a @humboldt-foundation.de research fellow! The research topic is free and this fellowship is intended for you to conduct independent research within the remit of the lab’s interests. Deadline May 2025 DM for more info Please RT!
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I just started a Göttingen Neuroscience starter pack. Happy to add more accounts, reply below so that I can add you go.bsky.app/NP92rn3
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Join us in Lisbon for the Society for Social Neuroscience annual meeting this September. We are preparing a very special program: s4sn.org
Keynote speakers for the 2025 Society for Social Neuroscience meeting to take place in Lisbon
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Marcella Woud @marcellawoud.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Wir suchen noch Teilnehmerinnen für diese spannende Studie im Bereich der Körperakzeptanz, siehe unten für mehr Informationen! 😀
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Social Brain Lab @socialbrainlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Are you passionate about unraveling the mysteries of the brain and behavior in rodents? 🧠🐭 The Social Brain Lab is on the lookout👀for a Postdoc in Social Rodent Neuroscience. 📍Location: Amsterdam 📅 Apply by: December 31, 2024 🔗 Apply Now: nin.nl/vacancies/db... #neuroscience #academicjobs
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DBI2 Postdoc - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - Master the Mind
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I was fortunate to have been interviewed for a piece about immigration and science for @NPR. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Foreign nationals propel U.S. science. Visa limits under Trump could change that
The incoming Trump administration is likely to crack down on the H-1B visas used by tech companies and research institutions to hire top talent from other countries.
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Raymundo Báez-Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
How do other’s characteristics modify our judgments? In a study published today in Frontiers in Psychology we show that judgments are affected by single characteristics, like gender or how others dress, and that these are moderated by political leaning. t.co/8QlVdkar2j
Diagrams showing robust correlations between a well established measure of explicit bias and our new approach based on judging vignettes.
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