Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)

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More information on eligibility and nomination materials here: forms.gle/xZbjfquWEzWW...

Submit by April 17, 2026!

Two awards will be given:

1️⃣ for human research
1️⃣ for non-human animal research

Bonus for providing information on your open science practices (e.g. data, code, and resource sharing, preprinting manuscripts).

Self-nominations are allowed! 😁

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✨ EARLY CAREER AWARD nominations are open! ✨

This award recognizes the formation of new approaches or paradigms within the field of social neuroscience, and/or the development or advancement of research that cuts across multiple fields of neuroscience to understand social cognition & behavior. 🏆

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

I definitely feel this.

Stopped going to SfN due to increased inaccessibility of rodent research (all tech terms now 🙄)

@s4sn.bsky.social on the other hand- still reaches across the divide, insisting on inclusion of different species perspectives in symposia & organisation 👏👌

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🗣️ 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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✨ 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

Really excited to attend the next S4SN meeting, the first in 8(!) years in which I will have no responsibility at all - it's going to be super fun

Great science, great location, great crowd - see you there!

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We look forward to welcoming you to Montreal for an unforgettable week of science, collaboration, and celebration! 🥳

On behalf of the S4SN team:
Jennifer Bartz (Chair of the Local Organizing Committee)
Weizhe Hong (President)
Steve Chang (Past President)
Elizabeth Hammock (Treasurer)

✨ #S4SN2026 Annual Meeting ✨

🗓️ August 23-26, 2026
📍 Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada

We bring together researchers working across human & non-human animal models to investigate the neural & biological foundations of social cognition & behavior.

Mark your calendars & polish your abstracts! 💪

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We are already looking ahead to our #S4SN2026 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, next fall. Please keep an eye out for the exact dates in the coming weeks.

See you in Montreal! 👋

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Finally, we are very excited for our incoming President, @honglab.bsky.social, who will lead the Society in 2026.

Steve will be transitioning into the Past-President role and looks forward to working closely with him.

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We were honored to host two world-renowned scientists, Catherine Dulac and Matthew Rushworth, as our Keynote Speakers.

We also presented Early Career Awards to two exceptionally promising investigators, Vikram Gadagkar and Caroline Parkinson.

Thanks to Liz Hammock and Zoe Donaldson for organizing an excellent symposium dedicated to the memory of Larry Young, a co-founder and past President of this Society. This year’s meeting was, in fact, dedicated to our colleague, mentor, and friend, Larry.

Huge thanks go to the Program Committee, chaired by Zoe Donaldson, and Rui Oliveira, who served as the local committee chair and hosted the meeting in Lisbon. I also thank key local organizing members, Niccolo Bonacchi and Helena Matos-Aguas, who coordinated closely with our local partners.

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✨ Letter from the President ✨

Steve Chang would like to express his sincere gratitude to everyone who contributed to making #S4SN2025 such a great success. This year’s meeting took place in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal, in September.

S4SN- Board of Governors Nomination Dear fellow S4SN members, We are currently seeking nominations for 2 positions (specifically human researchers) on the Board of Governors. The term is for 3 years and involves attending monthly board ...

👆 Nominees must be current members of S4SN.

To submit a nomination, please nominate someone by December 31st 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Nominations should include a short paragraph and the reason for nominating the nominee.

Self-nominations are very welcome! 🤩

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We are currently seeking nominations for two positions (specifically human researchers) on the Board of Governors. 🌟

Term: 3 years

Duties: attending monthly board meetings and contributing to the organization of the annual meeting. 💪

It was really a lovely time! ⤵️♥️

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Thank you for joining us in Lisbon, you all made the conference a truely wonderful event! ♥️

See you next time - more details of next meeting will be announced later. Stayed tuned!

#S4SN2025

Tagging @moeneuro.bsky.social 😁

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Check your inboxes - the post-meeting survey has been sent out to all attendees! 💖

We're looking forward to your feedback and input!

This is such a fun meeting. If you are in social neuroscience - you should come. Heck even if you are not - the science is great in general! And a fun mix of animal and human research!

Next time in Canada!

I had such an incredible time at @s4sn.bsky.social. I took a lot of pictures of Portugal but none at the conference, so here's a video of an otter at the aquarium.

Thanks so much to the organizers for putting together a great conference, and thanks to all the presenters!
#S4SN2025

And that's a wrap for #S4SN2025! 💖

Now, after so much science, new impressions, and stimulating discussions, off to the last social event at #S4SN2025! 🥳

After all, 'social neuroscience' includes being social and that can be done at a party 😁💃🕺

In Marco Wittmann's #S4SN2025 talk, we learned that the brain reduces complexity in social situations by tracking the relationships that exist in a social group.

These basic functions are computed in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex. 🧠

And Pyungwon Kang shows that observational learning is influenced by social factors, but the neural mechanisms underlying this are still relatively unknown.

Masaki Isoda talked as about important brain areas for monitoring the actions of others.

They identified 3 subtypes of neurons: active during self actions, active during both self and other actions and active during other actions! 🤯