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Julia Sliwa
@juliasliwa.bsky.social
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Neuroscience of social interaction (sliwalab.org) @ParisBrainInst @cnrs she/her
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stevewcchang.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...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Post-Doctorate in NHP Neuroimaging/Neurophysiology (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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malu-murugan.bsky.social
Excited to share our latest preprint led by @jarildy.bsky.social looking at social and non social reward representations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... with help from @hyma2194.bsky.social and @jennisisaac.bsky.social.
Non-overlapping social and food reward representations in the basolateral amygdala
The ability to consider and appraise positively valenced stimuli in the environment, such as food and social interaction, to guide appropriate action is important for survival of most animals. Several...
www.biorxiv.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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chazfirestone.bsky.social
What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.

See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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stepalminteri.bsky.social
Check out @bcdavidson.bsky.social's preprint (w/ @georgiaturner.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social and co.) about the (computational) consequences of social isolation in social media use during covid!
bcdavidson.bsky.social Brandon C Davidson @bcdavidson.bsky.social · Sep 16
🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media.

🧵

Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited?

It turns out, yes!
September 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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julietteaychet.bsky.social
Our new chapter is out! 📢 Co-first-authored with @mawadafreville.bsky.social with attentive supervision of @chacanteloup.bsky.social🤗

How has intentionality been theorised in developmental psychology and primatology, and how is it studied in animal signals?🐒🦜👶 Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1016/B978...
Intentional Communication in Animals
The evolutionary origins of human language are deeply intertwined with the ability to communicate intentionally. Grounded in frameworks from developme…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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labpapaleo.bsky.social
HIRING! Are you looking for a PhD fellowship? Come join our group geco.iit.it
Opening position starting from November 2025, official call coming out soon. Write me if interested francesco.papaleo@iit.it
Home - Genetics of Cognition - IIT
geco.iit.it
May 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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simpson.bsky.social
Mutual gaze and facial mimicry as drivers of shared engagement in macaque play fighting @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social et al. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Redirecting
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May 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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smikulovic.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint on the neural mechanisms underlying helping behavior in mice! 🧠🐭 We show that dorsal hippocampal networks play a key role in rescuing a distressed peer: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
April 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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lisik.bsky.social
I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year!

I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
May 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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birchlse.bsky.social
David Omer and lab, "Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates". Marmosets call each other by individually specific vocal labels, aka names, and they recognize and respond to their own name. 3/5 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates
Humans, dolphins, and elephants are the only known species that vocally label their conspecifics. It remains unclear whether nonhuman primates share this ability. We recorded spontaneous “phee-call” d...
www.science.org
May 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
I just heard a terrific talk by @marlenecohen.bsky.social about this preprint (MT/PFC comparison) - very relevant!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Linking neural population formatting to function
Animals capable of complex behaviors tend to have more distinct brain areas than simpler organisms, and artificial networks that perform many tasks tend to self-organize into modules ( [1][1]–[3][2] )...
www.biorxiv.org
May 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Reposted by Julia Sliwa
jibarrondo.bsky.social
Chimpanzee drumming may give clues to the roots of rhythm | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Chimpanzee drumming may give clues to the roots of rhythm
Behavior is more complex than scientists realized, could reveal origins of musicality
www.science.org
May 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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nilskolling.bsky.social
To accommodate for the fact we started official registrations late and the early bird deadline was during school holidays for many, we have extended our early bird registration deadline to the 15th of May! The main website can guide you through registration : sbdm2025.github.io
12th Symposium on The Biology of Decision Making 2025 - Lyon
SBDM-2025
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May 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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leoniekoban.bsky.social
Reminder to register for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon!

Please check out our exciting program and register until next week for early registration rates! (please retweet / share)

sbdm2025.github.io
12th Symposium on The Biology of Decision Making 2025 - Lyon
SBDM-2025
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May 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
juliasliwa.bsky.social
Registration for the 12th Symposium on The Biology of Decision Making 2025 in Lyon, France with early tarif now extended to May 15th: sbdm2025.github.io.
May 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
A putative neural correlate of mood!

One big (scandalous?) idea, simple analyses, and the STRONGEST brain/behavior correlation I've EVER seen (which is shocking, given that it's mood).

Work with: You-Ping Yang, @catrinahacker.bsky.social and Veit Stuphorn.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The representation of mood in primate anterior insular cortex
Understanding how the brain reflects and shapes mood requires resolving the disconnect between behavioral measures of mood that can only be made in humans (typically based on subjective reports of hap...
www.biorxiv.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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judlowes.bsky.social
New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
A group of researchers standing outside a building. At first glance they look like different people because they have distinctive hairstyles and are wearing different clothes. But their faces are in fact identical and were generated by averaging many faces. This image illustrates how some people with face blindness (prosopagnosia) find it very difficult to tell faces apart despite seeing them clearly.
May 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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karihoffman.bsky.social
How does the brain integrate information from new experiences while preserving established memories? Have a look at our latest preprint,
"Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques" 🧵
🧪🧠🤖👩‍🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques
Memory formation requires neural activity reorganization during experience that persists in sleep. How these processes promote learning while preserving established memories remains unclear. We record...
www.biorxiv.org
April 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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biotay.bsky.social
1/7 Alternatives for a complex mind

Look at the image, it shows the proportion of neurons in the pallium (in blue) and in the cerebellum (red). Primates (including humans) have a rodent-like proportion

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
by @gallinaciega.bsky.social
via @Raccoonologist
April 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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leoniekoban.bsky.social
Registrations are now open for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon!

Please check out our exciting program and register until May 1st for early registration rates!

sbdm2025.github.io
12th Symposium on Biology of Decision Making 2025 - Lyon
SBDM-2025
sbdm2025.github.io
April 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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nature.com
Nature research paper: Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks

https://go.nature.com/4iEIBsz
Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks - Nature
Using advanced brain-recording techniques, parrots were found to have a brain organization for vocal control similar to humans, making them an important model for studying speech and for developing potential treatments for communication disorders.
go.nature.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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carandinilab.net
Like every year, our lab plans to attend the @sfn.org meeting in the US. But is it safe to go? This scientist was sent back (as confirmed by @lemonde.fr, no less). Other visitors were recently detained by ICE goons for days. It feels risky. See y'all at FENS in Barcelona? www.fens.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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seeingwithsound.bsky.social
A dynamic bifurcation mechanism explains cortex-wide neural correlates of conscious access www.cell.com/cell-reports... by @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social et al.; "The connectome defines a unified, all-or-none network in association cortex"; #ignition #neuroscience
Graphical abstract
March 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy
🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122

Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.
Map showing a highway section in red and social ties in space crossing the highway. Wherever a tie crosses the highway, there is a cross. There are 94 crosses.
March 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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dianatamir.bsky.social
📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢

We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought.

More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us

Please apply and share!
Join Us
Thanks for your interest in joining our lab! At the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, we believe that our science is better with a diverse team. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences ...
psnlab.princeton.edu
March 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM