Neuroscientist, Professor @UCLA — studying the neural basis of social behavior
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2019
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Weizhe Hong retweeted
If you are going to the SfN meeting in DC (@SfNtweets) and are interested in social neuroscience, please join us for the Social Neuroscience Social (11/16/2026). @S4SNeuro
Hosted by the four of us: Me, @TheHongLab, Ziv Williams, @DrNancyPadilla
Weizhe Hong retweeted
My new Extrospection #blog at @PsychToday is live!
We explore how social interaction is the "dark matter" of #AI. Not a feature but a constitutive condition!
New #NeuroAI work from @TheHongLab & @KanakaRajanPhD shows why...
🔗psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
Weizhe Hong retweeted
The idea that prosocial behavior repurposes parenting circuits has been around for a while & was deeply explored in @pschurchland (my mum!)'s book Conscience. Now @TheHongLab has the mechanistic proof in a stunning new Nature paper. The right idea finally meets the right tools.🧠
Why do we help strangers in distress? A new paper from @TheHongLab's lab at @dgsomucla finds that the brain circuit underlying parenting & the one driving prosocial helping behavior are the same. The neural systems that evolved to care for vulnerable offspring may be the very foundation of human empathy. This is the kind of discovery that could only come from fundamental research, and it is happening right here at UCLA. 🧠nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Symposium submissions are due tomorrow, March 31, 2026!
Symposium Proposal Deadline Extended!
2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN 2026) will take place in Montréal, Canada, August 23–26, 2026
The deadline for symposium proposals has been extended to Tuesday, March 31
Learn more: s4sn.org/s4sn2026
Weizhe Hong retweeted
Symposium Proposal Deadline Extended!
2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN 2026) will take place in Montréal, Canada, August 23–26, 2026
The deadline for symposium proposals has been extended to Tuesday, March 31
Learn more: s4sn.org/s4sn2026
Weizhe Hong retweeted
Please join us in Lisbon for the 2025 S4SN (@S4SNeuro) meeting this year. We have a wonderful set of speakers and symposium sessions!! 👇👇👇
Weizhe Hong retweeted
Check out our (@TheHongLab) new review discussing the concepts and neural mechanisms of prosocial helping behavior! 😁 linkinghub.elsevier.com/retr…
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The BRAIN Initiative has been an engine of innovation but is now fighting for its survival. Here we discuss why BRAIN is special and why we must all fight for it now nature.com/articles/s41593-0… @TheHongLab @DrZoePhD @bjmarlin @doristsao @moriel_z @HongkuiZeng XiaokeChen ZivWilliams
Weizhe Hong retweeted
Interested in the #social_brain?
Great opportunity to join us for this meeting in Andalucia later this year!
@FelixFelxfel @camillabellone @UNIAuniversidad @Cornhelix @LabPapaleo @ScottRussoPhD @LimaLab3 @Froemkelab @moccalin @TheHongLab @ChrisKeysers @jonnykohl @CharletLab
Save the data for for this exciting workshop on social interactions organized by @carmensandi10 @camillabellone and myself in Andalusia next Fall. DM me for more information.
Weizhe Hong retweeted
🚨 SoCal Learning & Memory folks🚨
Check out this exciting learning & memory symposium being held at UCLA March 11th.
It’s completely FREE to attend and no registration is required. Hope to see you there!
bri.ucla.edu/iclm-home/event…
Weizhe Hong retweeted
Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Nguyen Phi
who was awarded an NIH NRSA F31 Diversity Fellowship! Congratulations also to her faculty mentor, Dr. Weizhe Hong!
@TheHongLab
#uclamcip #uclabiologicalchem
Weizhe Hong retweeted
Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, @KaylaYingYan who was awarded an NIH NRSA F31 Diversity Fellowship! Congratulations also to her faculty mentor, Dr. Weizhe Hong! @TheHongLab #uclamcip #uclabiologicalchemistry
Weizhe Hong retweeted
🚨neuro postdocs! UCLA is starting an extramural postdoc seminar series (SYNCS)! 🥳 we are so excited to bring a diverse group of postdocs to visit!
applications due Oct 3. apply!!
application link: tinyurl.com/uclasyncs
Weizhe Hong retweeted
Our recent @Nature paper about mapping the mouse cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic loop just got highlighted in @NIHDirector Collins' blog! Read our paper here: rdcu.be/cy1T9 and the blog post: directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/1…
Weizhe Hong retweeted
super excited to have my @BBRFoundation Young Investigator Grant funded!!
huge thanks to my co-sponsors @TheHongLab and @KateWassum !!
Weizhe Hong retweeted
We are in the @NYTimes with @SINeLabDTU, @ThaliaWheatley, and @TheHongLab!!!
Glad to see multi-brain neuroscience & inter-brain synchronization recognized as legitimate fields of study nytimes.com/2021/05/25/scien…
Thanks @virginiahughes for the discussions —and kudos for your rigor!
Weizhe Hong retweeted
Very proud of our new Brain Initiative Grant with @DanielBAharoni, Michael Yartsev, @TheHongLab, @DrZoePhD, @Antihebbian, to study neural dynamics in CA2 of mice, voles, and bats during affiliative and attachment male-female social behaviors. Message us if you are interested!
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Congratulations to @lylekingsbury in @TheHongLab for receiving a 2021 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award! This is terrific honor!
A huge congratulations to the awardees of the 2021 @WeintraubAward! These thirteen exceptional graduate students exemplify the bold, creative, and pioneering spirit embodied by Dr. Hal Weintraub. fredhutch.org/en/news/releas…
Weizhe Hong retweeted
super happy and grateful to receive the NOA for my F32 on prefrontal circuitry for social behaviors! huge thanks to the many people who supported my application!! @TheHongLab @alcinojsilva @AmarSahay_ @veenemalab @ladenardo (and twitterless Peter Holland)
Weizhe Hong retweeted
I’m just at @Neurosci2019 for the fun but my awesome new colleagues in @TheHongLab have two posters tomorrow (Monday), one on synchronized activity across brains (morning W43), and one on parenting (afternoon U13). come see @lylekingsbury and @RongfengH talk about their science!!
