Steve W. C. Chang

This is super cool-

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?

In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.

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The Journal of Neuroscience: 46 (8)

Very excited to share a Special Collection at the Journal of Neuroscience (@sfnjournals.bsky.social) - Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research. This issue includes some of the latest perspectives on social neuroscience research. Please check it out!👇

www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8

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.
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S4SN 2026 Join S4SN 2026, August 23-26, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

Join us in beautiful Montreal for the 2026 S4SN Conference (Aug 23–26)!

Share your latest research, spark new collaborations, and engage with a vibrant social neuroscience community!

Symposium proposals and individual abstract submissions are underway: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026/pages

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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

I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏

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I will be there in March for a talk - super excited!

Come join us for 2026 GRC Cognition! Registration is limited, so sign up early. 🧠 💪

Come join us in beautiful NH this summer!

I really do miss it :)

Junior Specialist - Lapate Laboratory, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

📣 Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro 🧠🐬🏖️ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048

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We are excited to announce the 2026 GRC Neurobiology of Cognition (7/19-24) in beautiful Waterville Valley, NH! Registration/abstract submission open. Wonderful speakers/program covering cognition across scales & species, incl. AI & neuromodulation! @desrocherslab.bsky.social @erinlrich.bsky.social

Sharing an amazing postdoc opportunity in Paris in the lab of Julia Sliwa (@juliasliwa.bsky.social) in NHP Neuroimaging and Neurophysiology on social vision and cognition!

CNRS: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Paris Brain Institute: offres.institutducerveau-icm.org//fr/jobs/196...

That was fun! Thanks to everyone who joined us for the First Göttingen Cognition Forum this week.

We really appreciated the many talks and posters and the lively atmosphere at the meeting. We feel this was a great start and we hope that the Cognition Forum will continue ...

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Psychedelic studies in nonhuman primates: Past and future Molecular Psychiatry - Psychedelic studies in nonhuman primates: Past and future

Excited to share this super comprehensive review of psychedelic research in NHPs! W/ Alex Kwan. This work was by our grad student Jamie who is passionate about psychedelics. Her in-depth knowledge is impressive as reflected here.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diverse and flexible strategies enable successful cooperation in marmoset dyads Meisner and Shi et al. show that common marmosets flexibly coordinate with partners using both gaze-dependent and rhythmic strategies. Cooperation depends on active social monitoring and is shaped by ...

Super excited to share this new collaborative work - marmosets use diverse and highly flexible strategies when they cooperate. These strategies are powerfully determined by both social factors (sex, dominance, familiarity) & individual partner identity.

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Opinion | The Future of AI Lies in Monkeys, Not Microchips Neuroscience research on primates will help us learn how to build an efficient thinking machine.

Very timely and insightful OpEd by Prof. Cory Miller on WSJ. It lays out an important point - Advanced AI cannot be developed in a vacuum without understanding the sophisticated machines we have in our brains.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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Leading neuroscientists share their top tips to optimise learning: teach, sleep, repeat!

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Oxytocin in the amygdala sustains prosocial behavior via state-dependent amygdala-prefrontal modulation Prosocial behaviors are crucial for maintaining primates' complex social relationships. As central regions involved in social decision-making, the basolateral amygdala (BLA) processes social salience ...

Super excited to share this new work from the lab! We show that oxytocin infusion in the amygdala sustains prosocial behavior via state-dependent amygdala-prefrontal modulation
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Causal Dynamics of Social Gaze in Primate Prefrontal-Amygdala Networks Revealed by Dynamic Bayesian Modeling Social gaze is a fundamental channel of primate communication, shaping dynamic interactions and fostering mutual understanding. While prior studies have mapped the behavioral correlates of social gaze...

Very excited to share a new collaborative work with @neuralnandy.bsky.social and Monika Jadi on using a novel ‘super-seasoning’ approach and dynamic Bayesian network modeling to reveal multi-area causal network dynamics underlying social interaction.
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Have you registered yet? 😁

Secure your spot at #S4SN2025 at share.google/vRumlIDQBNLX... and join us this September in beautiful Lisbon! ✨

Compositionality of social gaze in the prefrontal-amygdala circuits Each social gaze can be deconstructed into primitive components, including gaze content, social state, and gaze duration. To reduce dimensionality and facilitate generalization, the brain needs to rep...

Super excited to share this new work from the lab (led by Guangyao Qi)! We demonstrate compositional social gaze codes in the prefrontal-amygdala circuits, by testing three predictions from the compositionality hypothesis. 👇👇

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We are so excited to see you all soon !!

REGISTRATION IS HAPPENING NOW !!!
Come join us at SimCo 2025 in Durham !! Register now for early bird discount and re-share!!!

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REGISTRATION IS HAPPENING NOW !!!
Come join us at SimCo 2025 in Durham !! Register now for early bird discount and re-share!!!

www.simiancollective.com/2025-confere...

@janzimmermann.bsky.social
@stevewcchang.bsky.social
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The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike. Und...

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction (13-15 October 2025). “Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike.” What a great topic for a meeting! events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

Please join us in Lisbon for the 2025 S4SN (@s4sn.bsky.social) meeting this year. We have a wonderful set of speakers and symposium sessions!! 👇👇