Congratulations to the new prize winners - all four funded by the ERC. Spinoza Prize: 🏅Karin Roelofs, also our Scientific Council member 🏅 Hermen Overkleeft Stevin Prize: 🏅 Iris Sommer 🏅 Claes de Vreese Hats off! 🇪🇺

Thanks for organizing Sam! What an amazing place (including the night hike with midnight sun); wonderful people and great discussions☀️

The end of academic freedom… www.science.org/content/arti...

Studies seem to show that research is becoming less ‘disruptive’ of established ideas. And this is a problem. @nature.com

PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

🧠 Congrats @felixklaassen.bsky.social with this unique DBS case study targeting the midbrain PAG. Direct PAG stimulation (and not a bordering control region) induces threat-specific bradycardia ❤️ @devoogdld.bsky.social @anneloeshulsman.bsky.social & co-authors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This case review remains important highlight to avoid misunderstandings

🧠 Can brain stimulation help socially anxious people approach what they fear? 😠😰 We used synchronized electrical brain stimulation to improve control over emotional behaviour in social anxiety, while scanning their brains to understand who responds best and why. 🆕📄 doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Very interesting work! Congrat Johannes, fantastic to see all this amygdala-TUS work coming out now.

A new way to improve emotion control in social anxiety by targeting rhythmic brain circuits via dual-site tACS: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

We are hiring! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

I’m thrilled that Lina Skora was awarded the prestigious MSCA; many congrats @linaskora.bsky.social 🎉🎉 We are so much looking forward to collaborating with you in the EPAN lab @dondersinst.bsky.social 🎉🎉

Great science and fantastic skiing in at #EWCN in Bressanone ! Thanks to the organizers and participants www.ewcn.eu for fostering so many inspiring and lively discussions!

It was great fun to have Jurre and Sahil @npo visiting the Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social Well done @jonathan Postema, @floris Klumpers. and @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social at testing and scaring them😄

Huge thanks to the Healthy Brain Study initiative for the great database, and to my co-authors Karin Roelofs (@epanlab.bsky.social), Bill Burk, Terrence Jorgensen, Anouk Scheres, and Bernd Figner for the great collaboration! (6/6)

Thank you all for the fantastic collaboration. All ERC grantees should be member of the association of ERC grantees ercgrantees.bsky.social. AERG does not only have great activities and initiatives, It is essential to form a network that is the voice of unbound excellence-based research in Europe.

It is a great honor to join the Scientific Council of the @erc.europa.eu. The ERC is precisely the kind of organisation I am proud to champion. Science is what binds Europe together and sustains its resilience

Join us for a PhD in affective neuroscience at the Donders Institute (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging) www.radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies...

It was a great pleasure to advocate for the role of fundamental science at the Brain and Innovation days. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

✨Super proud of dr. Floor Burghoorn @floorburghoorn.bsky.social , who obtained her PhD with the highest distinction! Congratulations on behalf of the whole @epanlab.bsky.social lab!🎉🎉@decisioncenter.bsky.social

Ik was a treat to join the summerschool of the RTG on emotional learning and memory. Thanks for all discussions and inspiring talks! www.linkedin.com/posts/elena-...

Nobel Prize winner Serge Haroche finishing his excellent talk on the laser for the @ercgrantees.bsky.social symposium at the ÖPG-SPS meeting in the @univie.ac.at main ceremonial hall with a famous message of Abraham Flexner that resonates with all those for whom science is more than a profession.

Congrats with this nice paper Floor! @floorburghoorn.bsky.social on Intertemporal Pavlovian biases and mental health rdcu.be/eBawi

I still have no words for it, what an immense loss. I know Andrea since our clinical training in 1999 and only a few months ago we toasted on our ERC’s. We have lost one of the most inspiring scientists of the world. We have lost a beautiful person. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Super excited to be part of this amazing @nwas.org consortium with Erasmus U (Crone & Marciniak); Amst.UMC (Nauta-Jansen), UVA (Frankenhuis), UU (Smit), @radboudumc.bsky.social (@ernohermans.bsky.nl) and many stakeholders, i.e. National Police. Thanks @Floris Klumpers! can’t wait to get started🎉🎉🎉

Research is NOT the same as innovation. Spend the money at least equally on bottom-up research by @erc.europa.eu. ERC grantees @ercgrantees.Baku.social are the most successful in the EIC, but there is no innovation without fundamental Bluesky research by the ERC sciencebusiness.net/news/europea...

Nice Phd position on neuro&biofeedback: collaboration between donders Maastricht univ. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Many thanks to this EPAN dream team ! @epanlab.bsky.social

🎉I am super excited and extremely grateful for having received an ERC Advanced grant #ERCAdG 🎉🎉 🎉 Thanks so much to my team, at Radboud and the #donders institute, my collaborators and all who have helped me. I can’t wait to get started! 🥰 @dondersinst.bsky.social @erc.Europe.EU #horizonEU

📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants! The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme. Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu

“It is essential to enable scientists to continue delivering their groundbreaking contributions to societal progress. The best way for them to do so is to enhance the autonomy and the funding of the ERC” AERG warns about the dangers for EU research www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Great to have the AERG president @axc.bsky.social and vice-president @epanlab.bsky.social advocate for fundamental research and invite Estonian scientists to apply for ERC grants at the “Exciting minds” conference in Tartu etag.ee/en/event/con...

As the AERG community @ercgrantees.bsky.social grows, the Board of Directors welcomes four new members. Meet Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social (SH, Spain), Dragan Mihailovic (PE, Slovenia), Vikas Trivedi @viktri08.bsky.social (LS, Spain) and Johannes Henn (PE, Germany)

What an amazing week on San Servolo on interoception and brain disorders; I learned so much, thanks all for the great discussions and thanks for the great organization and all the the fun! @skhalsa.bsky.social @sarahgarf.bsky.social

Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you. publicusaresearchbenefits.com They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!

Protect international education in Dutch Academia! openletter.earth/against-lang...

A warm welcome to all Ambassadors for the ERC @ercgrantees.bsky.social! #Amb4ERC

The Association of the ERC grantees with the @erc.europa.eu and our presidents @marialep.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social is happy to announce the launch of the initiative “Ambassadors for the ERC”, a milestone in our path to protect and empower frontier research in Europe More: aerg.eu/ambassadors

I’m thrilled to co-host the launch event of the “Ambassadors for the ERC network” initiative, together with fellow @ercgrantees.bsky.social ARRG board members @axc.bsky.social @mostlyphysics.net @epanlab.bsky.social and Eva Kassens-Noor. Read more about the initiative 👉 aercg.eu/news/the-amb...

Robbert Dijkgraaf sums up one result of the recent discussions on: ✴️ Understanding Europe’s competitiveness challenges ✴️ Enhancing Europe’s productivity through innovation ✴️ Prioritising areas of intervention Watch rest of this interesting summary 👉 bit.ly/3YyZ0qC

Great that our ERC consolidator’ team work has been featured by the ERC in @cordis_EU @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social #HorizonEU @rkaldewaij.bsky.social @devoogdld.bsky.social @felixklaassen.bsky.social @anneloeshulsman.bsky.social cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...

#resilience2025: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW SOLUTIONS - registration open, early-bird discounts The 11th Intl Symposium on Resilience Research will be more timely than ever. We will discuss how we can navigate an unsafe world - what keeps us sane - and how we can heal trauma and support the ...