FYI - We went to the moon😜. Photos of each of the six Apollo landing sites photographed from low orbit by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The astronauts' tracks, as well as the rover and other items, are clearly visible.

Jupiter and the moon over Toulouse

The sunsets in Toulouse are stunning. Fallen in love with this city(especially its food😀)

The dates for the Summer School on Affective Neuroscience are now open! More details to come in the new year!

Ask AI to put our dog on a bike with a Christmas hat on.

Just saw this article by the wonderful Sheena Josselyn on role models. I fully back up what Sheena is saying - Joe (@theamygdaloid.bsky.social) is a great scientist, thinker, and human being.

academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...

Here is a piece I wrote on Affective Neuroscience for the new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
oecs.mit.edu/pub/qwrz95aw...
For those interested in human psychology and related fields, I highly recommend reading these free articles.
oecs.mit.edu/open-encyclo...

Our dog(jungles) contemplating the beauty of the Alps

Friend suggestion on Facebook🤣🤣🤣 In what world did the FB algorithm think that I would be friends with this scumbag

New paper on the complexity of danger in the real world and how this led us to evolve both specialized and generalized survival strategies. It attempts to bring together the theories of Panksepp, LeDoux, and Feldman-Barrett and align them with ethology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week, I gave a talk at the École Normale Supérieure. It was exciting to speak at the institution that produced Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. Most importantly, I got to hang out with these wonderful people! @juliegrezes.bsky.social+Frederique de Vignemont+@stepalminteri.bsky.social+Rocco Mennella

First official post! It is great to be back on social media (I think). I quit X 2 yrs ago when Musk took over. I fundamentally disagreed with X's direction, which went on to be a massive hate and misinformation machine. Social media should be used to connect us, not to brainwash and tear us apart.