🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Our paper looking at motivational vigor and dopamine function in older and younger adults is now published in Neurobiology of Aging! doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… thanks to great co-authors including Marc Guitart-Masip and Ulrik R. Beierholm

Stay cool during the #heatwave ☀️ The stone walls keep the cathedral lovely and cool throughout the year. If you're in the city centre, escape the heat and make time for peaceful reflection out of the sun

Evaluating Gaussian Grasp Maps for Generative [Robotic] Grasping Models - presented today at #IJCNN by Comp Sci @ Durham PhD student William Prew. Joint work with Magnus Bordewich and Ulrik R. Beierholm. Paper: tinyurl.com/5h379zy7 Video: youtu.be/Zl507msrIz0 #robotics #AI

I NEED EVERY UCU MEMBER AND SUPPORTER TO RT THIS THREAD. University bosses are rattled. Across the UK they are threatening UCU members with unfair and immoral pay deductions if they take part in action short of striking. This thread exposes every single one of them #ucuRISING

I asked ChatGPT to rewrite Bohemian Rhapsody to be about the life of a postdoc, and the output was flawless:

A big congratulations to William Prew for successfully defending his PhD thesis "A Helping Hand: Improved Deep Neural Networks for Generative Robotic Grasping"! Well done Will! (And congratulations to fellow supervisors Toby Breckon and Magnus Bordewich )

Are you interested in the cognitive and neural underpinnings of #FaceRecognition? Then this #Postdoc is for you! Holger Wiese and Mike Burton are hiring a postdoc for a 3yr ESRC-funded project on EEG correlates of familiar face recognition. Apply here! jobs.ac.uk/job/CWY973/pos…

The Probabilistic AI summer school is back, this year in Trondheim, Norway. Go ahead and apply! (DL March 1st, but may close earlier if overwhelmed by applications)

🎉🎉 Student and Teaching Assistant applications are now open for Neuromatch & Climatematch Academy 2023! ⚠️Submit your application through the portal on our website for Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning, or Climatematch Academy courses by April 24. Visit academy.neuromatch.io

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

Following Elsevier's decision to raise the APC for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. EiCs Stephen Smith Til Ole Bergmann Birte Forstmann) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately. I am joining this action and have also resigned imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.p…

BREAKING: Students not progressing at Durham whilst management refuse to sign joint statement calling for negotiations. At four preliminary boards examiners that happened today, hundreds of students did not progress to their next year of study.

I’m starting treatment for #breastcancer today. I’m feeling strong and am sharing this news in the hope that others will get their #cancer screenings done. A routine scan likely saved my life! Pls RT UCLA Health David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

The second talk of the BMVA Summer School concerns Cognitive Vision and is given by Ulrik Beierholm from the Durham University. The BMVA

Happy to share a new theme issue of Royal Society Publishing Phil Trans B, edited by myself and Uta Noppeney. It’s about multisensory integration but focusing on higher-order processes like decision making, top-down control/attention, and metacognition. Please RT! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/…

Looking for a post-doc position? New 3-year ESRC-funded project on face learning Durham Psychology using EEG/eye-tracking/computational modelling with Soazig Casteau Ulrik R. Beierholm and me! Please circulate widely! DM me if interested! timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…