Attention
@SANS_news
! We are pleased to announce that Emily Falk has been named the 2020 Early Career Award Winner! Stay tuned for her talk at virtual
#SANS2021
!
@falklab
Congratulations to Luke Chang (
@lukejchang
) of
@DartmouthPBS
for winning the first ever
@SANS_news
Mid-Career Award! Join us at
#SANS2024
for his talk "Towards a computational social and affective science"
We're delighted to announce that Dani S. Bassett (
@DaniSBassett
) will be our keynote speaker at
#SANS2023
! We can't wait to hear their talk "On Being Curious" in Santa Barbara! Read about Dani's fascinating work on curiosity and (many!) other topics here:
Congratulations to our new Directors-at-Large,
@caro_charp
,
@orielf
,
@Eshjolly
, &
@YuanChangLeong
! We're excited to have you join the SANS Board ()! And thank you so much to all who ran and voted in our latest election!
We're delighted to announce that Ajay Satpute (
@AjayBSatpute
) will be our vice president at
#SANS2024
! The SANS VP is also president-elect, so Ajay will succeed
@helleryeahz
to lead the society in 2024-2025!
Measuring physiological responses during blind dates reveals that men stare more while women smile and laugh and have higher SCR and heart rates - but none of these predict attraction levels. What does? Physiological synchrony
#SANS2019
work by Elisa Prochazkova
We're excited to announce our
#SANS2023
Early Career Award winner: Dr. Oriel FeldmanHall (
@orielf
)! Dr. FeldmanHall will deliver her talk on Friday, April 28th at 09:00 PT. Learn more about
@orielf
and our other speakers here:
The sold-out
#SANS2024
Computational Preconference kicks off! Featuring hands-on workshops on reinforcement learning, neural decoding, and automated facial expression analysis led by
@leorhackel
,
@phkragel
, and
@Eshjolly
, respectively.
We're excited to announce that
@mr_delgado1
of
@rutgersnwkpsych
will be the Distinguished Scholar for
#SANS2024
! We look forward to his award talk on "The Inherent Reward of Social Connection" on April 12th in Toronto!
Computational approaches to emotion:
@torwager
gets artificial neural networks to accurately classify multiple emotion categories, and these can be linked to distributed regions within the occipital lobe
#SANS2019
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to the unprecedented nature of the Coronavirus pandemic,
#SANS2020
will be postponed until May 2021 in Santa Barbara, California.
Congratulations to our 2022 Innovation Award winner, Dr. Patricia Lockwood! Read her paper ‘Is There a ‘Social’ Brain? Implementations and Algorithms’ here:
@thepsychologist
That's it for
@SANS_news
coverage of
#SANS2024
! Thanks for a fantastic conference from your social media chair
@Mark_A_Thornton
! Safe travels home, and see you in Chicago in 2025!
Thanks to all who submitted logo suggestions! Now help us choose the winning logo for
#SANS2020
! Choose your favorite of these terrific designs (images in part 2 of thread) submitted by
@shannon47burns
! Poll closes in 3 days...
Congratulations to Justin Minue Kim (
@minuekim
) for winning the
@SANS_news
Early Career Award! Join us at
#SANS2024
in Toronto to hear his talk "Corticolimbic and Connectome-Wide Representations of Anxious Traits"
The Executive Committee of
@SANS_news
affirms our commitment to combat racism’s destructive effects on current and future generations of scientists and strives to better support those in our community facing racism as a lived reality. (1/2)
The
@SANS_news
EC is pleased to announce that
@utafrith
and
@cdfrith
are the winners of the 2021 SANS Distinguished Scholar Award ()! Be sure to check out their talk at
#SANS2021
!
@rencalabro
@GraceQMiao
Finally,
@Mark_A_Thornton
discusses how deep learning can reshape social and affective neuroscience by providing tools for scalability, multimodality, permeability, and causality.
Jen Silvers explores the development of neural systems for self-regulation, asking why people show enhanced emotion regulation ability as they age
#FacultyBlitz
#SANS2018
First up,
@Eshjolly
discusses research using the
@cosanlab
Friday Night Lights fMRI dataset to study how relationships between characters shape how we represent and remember them.
Abstract Submission Deadline for
#SANS2020
in Santa Barbara has been EXTENDED until December 15th! For more information about the meeting and to access the abstract submission portal, please check out the conference website!
Congratulations again to
@cate_hartley
and
@falklab
, our 2021 and 2020 Early Career Award Winners! Be sure to check out their talks on Day 2 of
#SANS2021
! Visit the conference site () to check out the program at a glance.
Don’t miss the chance to hear about the amazing work from
@falklab
and
@hartleylabnyu
when they give their Early Career Awardee Talks LIVE today at 1:15PM PST/4:15PM EST! Live Q&A moderated by
@robchavez
#SANS2021
Congratulations again to
#SANS2022
Early Career Awardee
@freemanjb
and thanks for both the great talk and all you’ve done/continue to do! Looking forward to what is to come in the next stage of your career!
“productive labs tend to be places where lab members are made to feel that they belong, that their work is valued, that they have a sense of autonomy, and that they know how to succeed”
#SANS2024
Symposium 4: Neural, Network, and Neural Network Approaches for Social Relational Representation, moderated by
@Eshjolly
and Jae-Young Son, starting now!
Apply for a SANS Diversity Travel Award ($500) to attend the 2020 SANS Annual Meeting in Santa Barbara! Application deadline is December 15, 2019!
Full details and application here:
SANS is now on Instagram! There, we plan to focus on spotlighting the people in our society with an eye towards community building, especially for early career researchers in our field. Follow us and look soon for announcements on how you can contribute to our content there!
This is the week:
#SANS2023
starts Thursday! We're so excited to see you in Santa Barbara! Check out the program so that you're ready to get the most of out all of the great talks, posters, and events:
Missing the annual
@SANS_news
meeting? Check out our youtube channel () to watch many of the talks from SANS2019 in Miami! Thanks to
@LucinaUddin
&
@helleryeahz
for coordinating this!
Starting now,
#SANS2024
Symposium
#2
on The Neurocognitive Dynamics Fostering Social Connection and Agreement in Conversation, moderated by
@DianaTamir
! 🧵👇
@SANS_news
is on site in Toronto for
#SANS2024
! Can't wait to see you all here! Please remember to use the conference hashtag so that we can amplify your posts!
Get ready for Symposium
#5
: Naturalistic fMRI Data Analysis Challenge, where the the 3 winning teams will be announced! Join
@lukejchang
@Mark_A_Thornton
and
@jimthommo
for this exciting session in 15 minutes (3:30pm ET/12:30pm PT)!
#SANS2022
I just saw this Tweet I wrote that was never responded to. I feel very strong about it, still. From 2015 "They should do neuroscience standup at social affective neuroscience next year.
#ComicSANS
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