The Fields Medal, awarded every four years to mathematicians under 40, was given to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang for their groundbreaking work. Wang is only the third woman to win.

For only third time ever, a woman shares math’s top prize

This year’s Fields Medal honors four mathematicians in their 30s who have made their mark in geometry and physics.

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Very grateful to be able to attend and share my PhD work at the 4th computational psychiatry conference #cpconf #cpconf2026, at Yale University, New Haven. Come to visit 👋 We examined how competing outcomes reshape established approach-avoidance tendencies.

Very happy to share this work on a preprint! Coauthored with @mikebrowning.bsky.social @Erdem Pulcu @lhuntneuro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... How do we learn when rewards and punishments change independently—and how does this go awry in anxiety and depression?

Valence-specific representation of uncertainty in the anterior cingulate is impaired in those with affective symptoms

The ability to seek reward and avoid punishment is a fundamental survival instinct. In natural environments, however, the statistics of rewards and punishments can change independently of one another....

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Excited to share our new Nature Methods paper on DeepCor, a contrastive autoencoder for denoising fMRI. DeepCor separates neural signal from noise at the voxel level, works for single participants, and outperforms CompCor by up to 215% on real data. 1/7 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

DeepCor: denoising fMRI data with contrastive autoencoders - Nature Methods

DeepCor is a deep-learning-based denoising approach for task-based and resting-state fMRI data that can be used even for single participants.

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To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides: gershmanlab.com/lectures.html I'll continue to update these as I improve them.

🧵 I gave Claude two things: a short paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) and a raw behavioural dataset with 3 lines of variable descriptions. Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3

Understanding social brains

Understanding social brains

Social environment and species-specific experiences of macaque monkeys shape the development and plasticity of the amygdala.

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We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Postdoctoral Position

Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individ...

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I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here. osf.io/preprints/ps...

📣🔥Submit your symposium (30 Jan) and poster (12 Feb) abstracts to the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference www.cpconf.org Excited to announce new keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Eyiyemisi Damisah @adredish.bsky.social Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner. See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026

Computational Psychiatry Conference

New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)

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Really delighted to share our new article in Current Biology showing that the cingulate-to-dorsolateral prefrontal pathway is not involved in trial-to-trial short-term adaptation but rather in sustained motivational control. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

New @naturemedicine.bsky.social The power of our mind to shape immune response, as seen in a randomized trial of trained neurofeedback for increased reward activity. More positive expectation-> more antibody response nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41...

We're extremely happy and proud to announce that the RTG 2660 will be extended for a 2nd funding period of 4.5 years! 🥳https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/rtgs-11-2025/

Research Training Groups: A Boost for Early-Career Researchers

A new Research Training Group in medicine and an extended one in psychology, psychiatry and neurobiology: researchers in Würzburg are celebrating funding success from the German Research Foundation (D...

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Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely. buff.ly/UEtcRd4

Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃 #PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8! 3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

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We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested! More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Tobias Hauser@tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm very excited to share that @wellcometrust.bsky.social has awarded us a big grant on studying information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia in patients, rodents, using modelling & clinical interventions. More details here: devcompsy.org/2025/07/15/n...

Hallo #CPConf2025, Poster 3.7! Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference. Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈 Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃

A super interesting meta-research on flexibility of exp design of reversal learning paradigm. "methodological standards diverge dramatically across taxa... "The number of reversal phases differed more than threefold among groups." osf.io/preprints/ps... reminds me a similar work in my group ->

Very glad to share my first published PhD paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli. Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

This study advances our understanding of how individuals control automatic approach and avoidance tendencies to appetitive and aversive stimuli. Merging behavioral, physiological, and oculomotor resp...

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We are looking for a Postdoc who loves fMRI, psychophysiology and data analysis 🎉. We run studies on social cognition and related processes with a focus on schizophrenia. German skills could be beneficial, bc the position involves teaching, but not mandatory. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d)

Bewerberfrist: 06.07.2025

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Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...). We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills. Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

DFG Research Unit 5389

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Next poster from the group #pug2025 - B 191 by @menghuanchen.bsky.social on approach-avoidance control

Hi #PuG, B 191: Come and visit👉 How competing outcomes (reward vs. threat) bidirectionally but asymmetrically reshape approach-avoidance behavior, physiology and attention

🛌 Time for memory consolidation of the first day at the #PuG2025

🚨 Job adverts LIVE! 🚨 We want to understand how the brain supports abstract cognition in psychosis, using cutting-edge neuroscience. Non-Clinical RA: lnkd.in/eva-Zzfj Clinical RA: lnkd.in/eSgdad_F Postdoc: lnkd.in/eid8gtbR Oxford University Due June 23

Dr Matthew Nour@mattnour.bsky.social · 2y ago

❗RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES❗ We're hiring for an ambitious @wellcometrust.bsky.social project exploring brain mechanisms of planning/inference in psychosis 🧠 Tackled at multiple scales: from single neurons to human behaviour/fMRI and neural networks. Opportunities for 1 post-doc 1 clinical fellow 👀