📣 This cycle I’ll be reviewing apps for the PhD program UCLA psychology (Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscience areas). Lab website & logo in dev 👀. You can learn more about my lab’s research topics here psych.ucla.edu/faculty-page/j… Please help spread the word!

We are hiring! Come join us!

Our department is hiring!! Can confirm that it is highly collaborative 🥳 come join us!

🚨Another job alert from our department! We are (also) hiring in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences area (in addition to the Dev & Clinical areas) at the Assistant level. I am happy to answer questions. Please share widely! usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angele…

Excited to share the new "news" section of our website -- where we chronicle our journey as a young lab! All credit goes to our fab lab manager, Jacob, for his hard work on putting this together! Warning: at the moment, news mostly consists of the lab pup socolab.org/news

So proud of my lab members who dedicated today to pilot our lab’s first ever fMRI study AND successfully set up and run an fNIRS session! First year as faculty is a whirlwind, but I am so lucky to be able to do science with such talented and inspiring young scholars ❤️

All SANS trainees: Please fill out the survey below and provide feedback! We would love to hear how we can support you during the conference and throughout the year!

I will be presenting preliminary findings on the link between social media activity using 5 months of the entire Persian Twitter (750mil tweets) and on-the-ground dynamics—unveiling insights into street-level traffic, protest frequency, arrests and executions. #WomanLifeFreedom

Heading to San Diego for #spsp2024. Here is a summery of YES Lab presentations. YES Lab UCSB

My lab is on the lookout for a new full-time RA to join our team! Please spread the word, esp to folks who might be a good fit. More info and application link: acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri…

See you at #SPSP2024! Come hang out with the Social Connection Lab at the following poster sessions. Looking forward to (re)connecting with my favorite social psychologists in San Diego!

Come see us at #SPSP2024 ! Exciting new work from @diegoareinero, Denise Cortes, Arden Spehar Shannon Burns, PhD and Steven Mesquiti along with Dani Cosme, PhD and others!

🚨New paper alert🚨In this Perspective, we propose a holistic approach to studying social emotions, which emphasizes the integration of the adaptive goals of a social emotion, formal modelling of its underlying cognitive operations, and measures of its biological implementation.

I’m hiring a full time lab manager/SRA to start this summer UCLA! Great opp to gain social & affective decision neuro research exp (behavior/fMRI/PET) before applying to grad school. Apply here: tinyurl.com/castrellonlab - please share! Join us in sunny LA 🤩 (pic taken last week)

My lab’s poster from our first fMRI data collection, presented by fab lab manager Jacob Zimmerman on behalf of grad students Begüm Babür and Chang Lu who couldn’t attend due to visa issues. So proud of all my lab’s hard work in making this possible! #sans2024

We are so excited to see you next year in Chicago! I don’t know how we’re going to match this year’s top notch conference, but we will try our best!🌟

Postdoc Dr. Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo and former grad student Dr. Elisa Baek, were invited to discuss their work on loneliness on an episode of NPR’s science podcast, Short Wave, titled “Feeling lonely? Your brain may process the world differently:" npr.org/2023/12/08/119…

Hey #APS24SF! Were' here! Today, Rachel Kee will kick things off with a project examining ERP responses to infant faces pre-post cleft lip/palate repair surgery. Poster Session I, Number I-119; 7:30pm. Download the high-resolution file here: cogcommscience.com/were-at-aps-20…

#ICA24 attendees: if you are on the job market or are interested in finding out more about job hunting, join us at 9am for this workshop in global perspectives at the Star L2!

Past Elisa thought it was a good idea to go to two conferences that overlap in two different continents and present Elisa is…tired. But had a super fun time connecting w old friends in Australia at #ICA24 and so excited to learn all things brain in Seoul at #OHBM2024!