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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Exciting news! SANS has received an R13 from the National Institute for Aging at NIH! It will provide support for trainee travel and programming focused on aging at the SANS Annual Meeting as detailed below:
SANS has received an R13 Conference Grant from the National Institute on Aging at NIH (1R13AG104345-01; PI/MPI Fareri/Satpute) that provides support for trainee travel and programming focused on aging at the SANS Annual Meeting as detailed below:

New Travel Awards for Trainees: Travel awards are available for trainees who are interested in learning more about aging and lifespan research. Specifically, 15 awards in the amount of $1,300/award will be available for the 2027 conference. You do not need to currently study aging to be eligible—curiosity is enough! If you are interested in how aging might intersect with your current or future work, we strongly encourage you to apply. Trainees receiving these awards will participate in dedicated opportunities to engage with experts in aging research, including networking and mentoring activities during the conference and follow-up activities after the meeting. Additional details and requirements will follow and will also be specified in the abstract submission portal. 

Special Symposium on Aging: The 2027 SANS Conference in Montreal on April 7-10, 2027, will feature a symposium highlighting aging and lifespan research in social and affective neuroscience and other aging-oriented programming. We encourage researchers working in this area to submit posters or talks. Submissions may also be considered for presentation in the special symposium.

We hope you are excited about the potential for this award to stimulate new research and scientific discussion among the SANS community. See you in April in Montreal!
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The SANS 2027 Logo Competition is now underway! We're looking for a creative logo that captures the intersection of neuroscience and the vibrant, connected, and distinctive feel of our host city, Montreal. Read the competition details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/sans-2027-co...
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SANS 2027 Conference Logo Competition - Social Affective Neuroscience Society
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2027! Submissions must be made through the online submission portal by 23:59 (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. More details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-sub...
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Interested in becoming a social and affective neuroscience influencer? SANS will soon be launching a new media initiative, in which we make short-form video content to reach a wider audience. If you're interested in joining this initative, please DM us here or email sans.media.chair@gmail.com!
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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Preprint alert! 🧠 Using movie-watching fMRI and NLP, we show that prior social impressions shape how new social information is processed and updated over time, while moments of sudden insight ("aha"!) accompany transient shifts in brain activity that predict impression updates. (1/10)
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João Guassi Moreira @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Excited to share my latest preprint, with @jasilvers.bsky.social and @raziasahi.bsky.social! We applied hierarchical Bayesian modeling to an EMA dataset of emotion regulation to uncover how trait-like repertoires of emotion regulation relate to momentary emotion regulation and experiences of affect
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Registration is open for the 4th annual Computational Psychology preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social Annual conference in Philly 🎊 We are on for a full day on Thursday, Feb 11. 3 keynote themes + a debate that couldn't be more timely 🧵👇
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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New paper with Liz Spelke, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that when 4- to 6-month-old infants observe two individuals share saliva, they infer that those individuals have a close relationship. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1niQg_Oow0...
A conceptual schematic illustrating the logic of the studies. (A) Infants observe a central actor who shares saliva with one actor and does not share saliva with another actor. (B) From such observations, infants may infer and represent whether the actors are connected and how thick each connection is. (C) These representations support infants' expectations of who will respond to the central actor's distress.
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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excited to share this new preprint from @lindseytepfer.bsky.social, @chujunlin.bsky.social, and me, in which we investigate the different ways our brains allow us to change our minds about people! "The neurocomputational mechanisms of naturalistic trait impression updating" osf.io/preprints/ps...
Schematics of scanner and online experimental designs. A) Scanner participants first completed individual difference surveys regarding their demographics, attitudes towards social groups, mood, and personality. In the MRI scanner, they then watched short autobiographical narrative videos. After the scan, they made ratings about the traits of the individuals in the videos they viewed. B) Online participants first made ratings about the traits of the individuals in the videos based on still frame images. They then made continuous ratings of the traits of these individuals over the course of the videos.Analysis schematic. A) Spatiotemporal representational similarity analysis was used to relate patterns of brain activity over the course of SEND videos to i) continuous ratings of the traits of the individuals in those videos, ii) multimodal annotations (face, voice, and speech semantics), and iii) representations learned by neural networks to support computational operations (compression, multimodal fusion, temporal integration, and prediction). B) Intersubject representational similarity analysis was used to relate intersubject correlations in brain activity to individual differences in trait impression updating, demographics, social group attitudes, mood, and personality. Computational operations of trait impression updating. The left column illustrates brain regions within which pattern similarity is uniquely associated with representations learned by neural networks trained to engage in the corresponding computational operation: compression, multimodal fusion, temporal integration, or prediction. The right column illustrates where these effects uniquely statistically mediate the association between brain activity and trait ratings. All results control for the raw annotations of face, voice quality, and speech semantics. Results are significant (p < .05) corrected for multiple comparisons across parcels via maximal statistic permutation testing.Individual differences in trait impression updating. IS-RSA results reflecting where individual differences were associated with ISC while watching SEND videos. A) Reflects where idiosyncratic trait impression updating was correlated with ISC. B) Likewise illustrates where four categories of potentially explanatory individual differences – social group attitudes, participant demographics, participant personality (Big 5), and participant mood (PANAS) predict ISC during SEND video viewing. C) Shows where social group attitudes statistically mediate the association between idiosyncratic trait impressions and ISC. Results are significant (p < .05) corrected for multiple comparisons across parcels via maximal statistic permutation testing.
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Symposium submissions are now open for #SANS2027! Submissions must be made through the online submission portal by 23:59 (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. More details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/symposia-sub...
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Meet @ycleong.bsky.social, assistant professor at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on how social context and affect construct subjective experience. Leong is also a 2026 APS Spence Award recipient www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
SANS membership for AY26-27 is now available! Join or renew to enjoy a range of benefits: socialaffectiveneuro.org/membership/
To our current SANS members, thank you for your continued support and involvement with the SANS community.

If you are new to the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society or have not joined, please consider doing so now. Please join us as a member to become part of a dedicated and enthusiastic community.

Member benefits include:
Access discounted registration and abstract submission fees for the Annual Conference
Engage in networking opportunities, participate in specialized areas of interest, and share your scientific knowledge
Job posting opportunities on the SANS website
Participate in voting on society matters and contribute your perspectives to the community
Travel award applications to offset annual in-person conference attendance costs
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@sansmeeting.bsky.social Check this helpful resource out!
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Are you a trainee interested in shaping the future of SANS? Consider joining our Trainee Committee! We're looking for 3-6 new members to help plan and run trainee-focused programming. More information and application here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Lauren Atlas @laurenatlas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Our multiverse analysis of associations between skin conductance and acute pain is published! >550 participants x 18 SCR pipelines = 1 winning approach to SCR analysis! (Ledalab + artifact detection). thread below. We hope others find this useful! Please RT :) journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
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Dr. Yin Wang @bruceyinwang.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
1/ I’m excited to share our new @NatureHumBehav paper “Social Functioning in Autism: A Systematic Review & Meta-analysis” 🧵We synthesized 35 yrs of autism research to ask a fundamental Question: How is social functioning organized, developed, and altered in autism? Free link: rdcu.be/figGl
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Social functioning in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Nature Human Behaviour - Impaired social functioning is a core feature of autism spectrum disorders. This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesizes the evidence for this across studies...
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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/
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Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events - PubMed
While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory ...
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
@sansmeeting.bsky.social For a spooky good time and great science 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Akram Bakkour @akrambakkour.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!
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Department SSD Institute for Mind and Biology: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Univer...
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Caroline Charpentier, PhD @carocharp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
And that's a wrap! We hope you had a great conference! Join us for #SANS2027 in Montreal! With program co-chairs @p1sh.bsky.social and Nina Lauharatanahirun
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Announcing our vice president for the 2026-2027 cycle Andy Chen
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Congratulations to @jadynpark.bsky.social and colleagues for winning the #SANS2026 Innovation Award for their paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
And welcoming new SANS president @jenikubota.bsky.social who will lead us into the 2026-2027 cycle!
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Consider joining SANS Board and working committees! Look out for emails!
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Thank you #SANS2026 Program Chairs Candace Rao @minuekim.bsky.social for an excellent conference!!!
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Current SANS president @dfareri.bsky.social gives his closing address at the #SANS2026 business meeting
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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Delighted to be at SANS sharing our latest naturalistic work on how emotion shapes temporal memory! 🕰️
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Congratulations to #SANS2026 distinguished award winner Dr. John O'Doherty! Thank you for sharing your work on how the brain constructs value
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Final poster highlights: first up Nathan Chabin - The relationship between amygdala function and facial emotion recognition across the lifespan
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Next up, the faculty blitz - Dr. Jon Freeman on the neural dynamics of impression updating
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Rachael Kee @rachaelkee.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Can’t wait to see some of you at my poster today! #SANS2026
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
@richlopez41.bsky.social opening the session - Advancing Emotion Regulation Research: Neural Mechanisms and Translational Applications
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Final day of #SANS2026 kicks off with symposium on Hyperscanning - where we will cover how we measure synchrony, what it means, and can we causally manipulate it We start with Dr. Anat Dahan on using graph theoretic methods to study interbrain connectivity
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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Last day of #SANS2026! Today, @rachaelkee.bsky.social will present her poster introducing Inoxity. It’s an open source iOS app that allows for high-throughput collection of EMA and bio-behavioral data. What can you do with high-throughput data? Check her preprint! doi.org/10.33767/osf...
Research poster by Kee, Madgula, and Huskey introducing Inoxity, an open-source iOS platform for high-throughput data collection. Inoxity integrates passive sleep tracking, Apple Screen Time capture, and EMA surveys to study sleep–media dynamics in real-world settings. An N=1 proof-of-concept shows strong agreement with Apple Health sleep stage data.
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#SANS2026 poster session 2 spotlight:
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Elizabeth Phelps gives the #SANS2026 Keynote address on "Mechanisms of Threat Control: Translational Progress and Challenges"
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Shuo Wang delivers the #SANS2026 Mid-Career Award Talk: "From Visual Features to Memory: Single Neuron Mechanisms of Face Representation in the Human Brain"
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 17/04/2026
Excited to be back in San Diego for #SANS2026! 🌅 Join the poster session today (4/17) to learn about our new computational framework for craving social connection & its links to chronic loneliness: osf.io/preprints/ps... Also reach out about collaborating & opportunities to get involved w/ the lab
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Now we start the #SANS2026 trainee data blitz!
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@neurodamian.bsky.social introduces the #SANS2026 EDIJ session
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Candace Raio introduces #SANS2026 Symposium 3: Affective and Decision-Making!
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Samantha O’Connell @thesamuraisci.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Here for Day 2 of @sansmeeting.bsky.social with @nirx-nirs.bsky.social. Come by if you want to learn more about how #fnirs can be used in your research! Would love to hear about your work!
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Friday Poster Session at 4pm Poster A-72 Neural Signature of Morality - the identification of a robust moral wrongness brain signal
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shangchengzhao.bsky.social @shangchengzhao.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Excited to share work from my amazing lab and I at #SANS2026! I’ll be presenting a poster on facial impressions in an election context on Friday poster session. Feel free to stop by and check it out! #SocialAffectiveNeuroscienceSociety
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Media Neuroscience Lab @medianeuro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Today, Dr. Weber was recognized for his pioneering work using naturalistic paradigms in fMRI research. We’re proud to see the Media Neuroscience Lab’s work honored through his recognition as a SANS Founding Fellow. #SANS2026
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Yang Teoh @yyangteoh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#SANS2026 thanks for being a great audience at my talk at this morning's symposium! check out our paper for more details.
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Excited to be at #SANS2026! Looking forward to talking about information seeking about threat and reuniting with lovely colleagues. Come say hi!
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Day 2 of #SANS2026 underway with the BIOPAC Systems presentation! "Advancing Brain-Body Research: Introducing the BIOPAC MedelOpt+ Integrated Neurophysiology Platform"
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@vpmurty.bsky.social hosting the Liz Phelps game during Comic #SANS2026
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