Welcome! The mission of the
@S4SNeuro
is to serve as an international, interdisciplinary, distributed gathering place to advance and foster scientific training, research, and applications in the field for the sake of humankind. 🧠
Find more info here:
We are deeply saddened by the loss of
@lyoun03
, a founder of the
@S4SNeuro
, a legend in the field, and a brilliant scientist who is loved by many, many members of this society and beyond.
Our
#S4SN2025
meeting will be dedicated to the life and memory of Dr. Larry Young! ❤️
Congratulations to the winners of the S4SN 2020 Early Career Awards: Olga Dal Monte
@OlgaDalMonte1
for animal research and Oriel FeldmanHall
@orielf
for human research! Very well deserved!
#S4SN2024
will be held in-person in Tsukuba, Japan from March 25th to 28th 2024. More info can be found here (). You can submit symposia here until November 1st. Please send us your amazing symposium proposals!
The second winner for animal work is Talmo Pereira (
@talmop
from
@salkinstitute
).
Talmo is the creator of a free software to track animal poses called SLEAP:
Check out more of Talmo's work here:
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🌸 NEWS 🌸
We will have two amazing keynote speakers (Shihui Han & Masaki Isoda) and two Early-Career Award presentations (
@DrNancyPadilla
&
@CasparEmilie
)!
We are also looking for volunteers to support the event, please reach out to
@MoeNeuro
(moniquesmith
@ucsd
.edu)!
We are happy to confirm that we will be having a hybrid meeting this year on December 12-14, 2021! The in-person meeting will take place in beautiful Austin, TX. Join us in person or watch online! Get involved!
#S4SN2018
| Congratulations to the 2018 Early Career Award Winners: Eliza Bliss-Moreau, UC Davis & Matthew Apps, University of Oxford. The Early Career Award special lectures will take place on Friday, November 2, 2018, 5:30 - 6:00 pm at the S4SN 2018 Annual Meeting in San Diego.
The cat's already out of the bag but we warmly congratulate both
@DrJKhokhar
and
@helenahhartmann
for receiving the Open & Reproducible Science Prize for
#S4SN2024
! 🔥🥳
Read more about the contestants here:
2️⃣ We will have an in-person
#S4SN2024
meeting from March 25-28, 2024 in Tsukuba, Japan. More details on this will be coming soon! 🌸
We look forward to welcoming you at both meetings and can’t wait to discuss the latest social neuroscience with you! 🤩
The State of Texas has become a hotspot for the Delta variant, making it difficult to plan onsite activities. This coupled with the relatively low vaccination rates in the state led us to err on the side of safety.
Exciting work from Dr. Mary Phillips
@mlphillips17
shows that ventral hippocampal inputs to the medial prefrontal cortex regulate social memory in mice
#S4SN2018
Sad that you can't make it to San Diego this weekend?
Attend remotely! Watch all of Friday's talks either live or by recording! Come to talks and posters in our virtual space Saturday morning!
Online registration is free with membership! Deets here:
For our
@S4SNeuro
December 2021 meeting, we have an amazing line-up of researchers from all across the globe! 🔥🧠
See the thread below for all the great topics we will cover.⬇️
Are you interested in social, affective and/or cognitive neuroscience? A (non-exhaustive) thread on amazing labs you need to follow. ⤵️
Feel free to add other great labs in the comments!
Next up ⤵️
A symposium on "social buffering, touch, and trauma: A cross-species perspective", featuring
@ljnbrent
,
@SusannahCWalker
,
@ConnorHaggarty
, and Harriet de Wit! 🧠✨
We are PUMPED! 🔥
#S4SN2023
will be held online on November 2nd and 3rd 2023 over three time zone sessions! ✨
You can now submit an abstract for a symposium here until October 2nd (so plenty of time!):
Congrats to our new S4SN President-Elect Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo from
@UChicago
and our new secretary/treasurer Alexa Veenema!
@veenemalab
We know they are a great addition to our leadership!
If you're attending our S4SN 2020* meeting:
1) Hooray!
2) If you haven't received an email about it, please check your spam folder. All registrants should have received relevant links and details.
3) A complete program is available on our website!
4) See you there.
Tomorrow at
#S4SN2020
: Social connection and social isolation, with talks from
@kaymtye
@TurhanCanli
Takefumi Kikusui and
@jtung5
!
Social set-points, lonely gene expression, dog tears, and baboon buddies. It's going to be fun!
First up for human work, we have David Smith (
@DVSneuro
from
@TempleUniv
)!
Not only is David adopting multiple open science practices but he also inspires and teaches people around him to do the same! ✨
Check out David's work and lab here:
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#S4SN2024
needs YOU to register and submit abstracts until January 15th! 🙌
Better get this thing off your to do list before Christmas 😁 and see you very soon in Japan! 🌸
Thank you to everyone for making
#S4SN2023
such a great success 🔥
In the meantime… it's already time to start planning
#S4SN2024
in Tsukuba, Japan (March 25th-28th 2024)!
You still have time to submit your symposium proposals and poster abstracts until November 10th, 2023.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Tsukuba and we are on track to have the LARGEST S4SN ever! 😱
The deadline for early bird registration is Feb 7, 2024 - After this date, prices will increase by $100. We are also still accepting poster abstracts! Submit by January 31! 🔥
1️⃣ Monique Smith (
@MoeNeuro
) from
@ucsdbiosciences
@UCSDNeuro
for her animal work on "anterior cingulate inputs to nucleus accumbens control the
social transfer of pain and analgesia" 🐁🧠⚡
Thank you to everyone for making
#S4SN2023
such a great success 🔥
In the meantime… it's already time to start planning
#S4SN2024
in Tsukuba, Japan (March 25th-28th 2024)!
You still have time to submit your symposium proposals and poster abstracts until November 10th, 2023.
#S4SN18
keynote:
@lyoun03
walked us through 20 years of research covering social bond, empathy and social stress. Oxytocin mediates all of these in a yin yang manner. It facilitates reward in bonding and empathy, but promotes aversion after social loss.
Aaaand the awards just don't stop! We are excited to congratulate two great winners of the
#S4SN2022
poster awards! 🥳
1️⃣
@OliviaMeisner
for animal research 🐀🐁
2️⃣
@M_R_Jones
for human research 🧒🧑
Congrats, you both did amazing jobs on creating and presenting your posters!
The award winners for this year's
@S4SNeuro
Open & Reproducible Science Award have been selected! 🔥
Congrats to both winners! 🥳 Now let us tell you a bit more about who won and why! 🤩
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What you need to know:
1️⃣ The
#S4SN2023
meeting will be held virtually on November 2nd & 3rd 2023.
You can submit an abstract here: and register here: (Registration is free with membership)
@S4SNeuro
Abstract Submission is open - please come join and share your new exciting work in social neuroscience at our December virtual conference! Registration is only $20 for trainees and $50 for faculty 😃
The newly founded
@S4SNeuro
Open and Reproducible Science Committee wants to know why and how you use (or don't use) open science practices in your research!
Contribute by filling out this short survey:
Please share widely!
#OpenScience
#AcademicTwitter
Our president,
@sirileknes
, sent you a message so check your inboxes! 💌
S4SN was launched 14 years ago and brings together social neuroscientists studying social processes across a wide variety of model species, including bats, coyotes, healthy human, and patient populations 🤯
We are excited to present to you the
@S4SNeuro
social media and outreach committee who is responsible for the society's Twitter () and Facebook () pages. ✨1/4
2️⃣ Irene Perini (
@NeuroIP
) from
@CSAN_LiU
@Heilig_Lab
for her human work on "probing social acts in experimental settings" 🫂👩🔬 👩💻
Congrats to both! ✨
You can now register for our annual meeting, which will be held online Feb 1-3 (11am-3pm ET). We have a list of fantastic speakers, short sessions with time for interaction, trainee presentations, and pre-meeting training workshops. Abstracts due Jan 15!
OMG. Tomorrow is the deadline to register for S4SN 2021!
With ~70 posters, 3 wonderful days of talks, and a pre-meeting workshop, all for just <*checks notes*> $20 for students!?
It me.😥
S4SN 2021 will be online. Dates have changed slightly, but the meeting is still fantastic. Training workshops will be on Sun. Dec. 12, & the scientific meeting on Dec. 13-15.
Registration & abstract submission opens Sept. 1. Preliminary program out soon!
Academic conferences: "We are thrilled to announce that we will hold the next annual meeting in person!"
Delta variant: "I have more of a comment than a question..."
Hey you! Yes, you! 👋
Are you an early career researcher? Then you might be the right one to apply for our
@S4SNeuro
Early Career Award! 🔥
📅 Deadline to apply: November 15th 2021
ℹ️ More information can be found here:
And there are more awards from
#S4SN2022
! ✨
Of course we also want to officially announce and congratulate our two early career awardees 🔥
Stellar, rigorous, and fascinating work! 🤩
Abstracts are due this Friday 01/15 for our annual meeting being held virtually Feb 1-3 from 11 am - 3 pm ET, with a great lineup of speakers, pre-meeting workshops and trainee presentations. Registration is just $20 for students, technicians and postdocs!
#S4SN2024
will be held in-person in Tsukuba, Japan from March 25th to 28th 2024. More info can be found here (). You can submit symposia here until November 1st. Please send us your amazing symposium proposals!
Great poster from Froemke Lab and
@CarceaLab
shows social transmission of maternal behavior from dams to virgin female mice. This learning effect is dependent on oxytocin cell activity.
Check out
@royalsociety
's recently published special issue: Interplays between oxytocin and other neuromodulators in shaping complex social behaviors - compiled and edited by
@neurophilip
and
@stevewcchang
. Articles can be accessed at
#S4SN2019
Society for Social Neuroscience 2019 Annual Meeting Abstract Submission Coming Soon. You can Prepare for Abstract Submission Now, Submissions will Open April 11 - May 2, 2019. Activate Your S4SN Membership today visit:
We are pleased to announce that S4SN will hold its 12th annual meeting at the University of Texas at Austin, on December 12-14, 2021 in a hybrid online/in-person format. Details about submitting a symposium proposal (deadline July 12) can be found here👇:
75 participants and counting are ready for the first keynote kicking off
#S4SN2021
!
After a short welcome and introduction from
@evolbrain
, we are excited to hear
@DeanMobbs
' talk on "survival and the social brain".
We are slowly implementing information on the website in Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean (Hangul) (aside from English of course)! 🙌
And we uploaded some helpful maps with restaurants and shops so you can plan your visit! 🥳
Come & have a look:
Don't forget to upload your 6-minute poster presentation to our Google Drive folder before the end of today, Dec 3rd, in order to be featured in our preview! 🔥
🚨 All poster presentations should be uploaded latest by Dec 6th! 🚨
#S4SN2018
Annual Meeting | Symposium 1: “Representation of social information in the prefrontal cortex and its autism-associated disruption” by Ofer Yizhar. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays an important role in regulating adaptive responses to social...
Abstract submission for
#S4SN2022
is finally open AND you can still submit (self-)nominations for our awards! What are you waiting for? 🤩
Registration ➡️
Abstracts ➡️
Awards ➡️
Day 1 of
#S4SN2020
features a session on prejudice and group biases, with a keynote from
@david_m_amodio
, followed by talks from
@profcikara
, Shihui Han and Martin Kavaliers. It's a timely theme with a gloabal perspective!
#S4SN2018
Annual Meeting | Keynote Address: "The Neurobiology of Social Bonding, Social Loss and Empathy: Implications for Autism”, by Larry Young. The monogamous prairie vole provides an opportunity to examine the neural and genetic mechanisms...
A highlight of our annual meeting is the pair of talks given by early career researchers - one focused on human studies, the other on animal work. They inspire us every time.
Nominate someone, maybe yourself, for this award. Applications are due Oct 1.
The Zoom and Gathertown links for
#S4SN2023
has been sent out via email, so check your inboxes! 💌
Also, feel free to tag us and use the hashtag when tweeting about the conference! 💙
#S4SN2023
is only a month away! 🤯
We now present to you the program schedule with exciting symposium & keynote presentations:
Please mark the dates in your calendar! If you haven't registered to attend yet, remember to do so before the meeting.
What is better than giving a talk from your living room? 🛋️
Not much, except interacting with tons of other social neuroscientists 🤩
The deadline to submit symposia for the virtual
#S4SN2023
ends in 11 days, so get your abstracts ready now!
It's time to submit YOUR symposium ideas for
#S4SN2023
! ☝️
We especially encourage you to submit symposia proposala with a balance of animal and human research 🐀🫂 but one focus is also fine! 🌟
Submit here until July 31st ⤵️
#S4SN2018
| Keynote Address by Larry Young, The Neurobiology of Social Bonding, Social Loss and Empathy: Implications for Autism. Friday, November 2, 2018 in San Diego, CA. For more information visit:
I am excited to announce my friend/mentor/PI
@MayoOnTheBrain
is this year's Early Career award winner for
@S4SNeuro
for human research (adding to an already impressive list of accolades). The
@mayobrainlab
are really representing at this year's conference and I am here for it!
If you're bored over Christmas, don't forget to book your trip to and accomodation for
#S4SN2024
! 🌸
The symposia line-up will be announced in January 🙌
We can't wait to see you soon! ❤️
Currently standing virtually next to my Poster / Video (48) during the final session of
@S4SNeuro
.
Great conference, and run really smoothly!
Somewhat disappointed by the catering though...
Also, there's a rumor that there will be secret science happy hours in the virtual space. Hang out as long as you like. Just be sure to lock up when you leave.
#S4SN2019
| We are please to announce that the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) 2019 Annual Meeting will be held this October in Chicago, IL. Stay tuned for more news coming soon!
🔥 Award Nominations now open! 🔥
The
@S4SNeuro
has two awards to recognize contributions to social neuroscience: The Early Career Award and the Open and Reproducible Science Award! 🌟
Nominations are now open! Apply by September 15, 2023 & find more info about each award ⤵️
We are still accepting poster abstracts, but you only have 2 days left! 😱 Submit by Jan 31:
The deadline for early bird registration is Feb 7! After this date, prices will increase by $100, so be quick!
Poster booklet:
What an amazing meeting we have planned. Check your email and for updates!
November 11: A full day of talks and posters in person and online.
November 12: A morning virtual session of talks and posters.
#S4SN2023
is only a month away! 🤯
We now present to you the program schedule with exciting symposium & keynote presentations:
Please mark the dates in your calendar! If you haven't registered to attend yet, remember to do so before the meeting.
Upcoming virtual Society for Social Neuroscience meeting
#S4SN2023
on Nov 2-3
Three time zones, all welcome!
Submit posters as a pdf (no recorded videos needed) - & or even preregistration posters for feedback
#OpenScience
Please RT - deadline Oct 2
The
#ABCSeminarSeries
is back! I am super excited to announce or first speaker
@ClaMassaccesi
who will talk about 'Mu-opioids, stress and social reward' on Monday Nov 15 at 1pm CET! Get in touch if you want to listen in!
In case you chose the last option 😁⤵️
Register here for the conference and/or workshop: ! 💪
Abstract submission is this way and still open until Nov 22nd: ! 🧠
Gabard-Durnam et al. examine the development of amygdala functional connectivity in 80 children ranging from 3 months - 5 years of age. As determined from a whole-brain connectivity analysis, they find similar connectivity in this...
#S4SN2019
Society for Social Neuroscience 2019 Annual Meeting Abstract Submission Coming Soon. You can Prepare for Abstract Submission Now, Submissions will Open April 11 - May 2, 2019.
Activate Your S4SN Membership today visit:...
The deadline for symposia submissions has been extended until August 15th! 🔥 Now you really don't have any excuse not to join
#S4SN2023
!
Submit: ⬅️
Note: Your submission can be for both the virtual 2023 meeting & the 2024 in-person meeting in Japan. 🙌
⁉️
Looking to sign up to
#S4SN2021
's Open & Reproducible Workshop on Dec 12?
It is FREE of charge with great & inspiring talks + tutorials from
@laubach_mark
,
@rotembot
&
@lei_zhang_lz
!
says it's full but that's wrong🤯
It's still OPEN & FREE!
@S4SNeuro
Moreover, three great symposia await:
Symposium
#1
: Social buffering, touch, and trauma: A cross-species perspective - with Lauren Brent,
@SusannahCWalker
,
@ConnorHaggarty
, and Harriet de Wit.