Yakov Smirnoff earned a master's degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania

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Humphrey Tonkin served as a university president and literature scholar within the international Esperanto movement

Terence Tao publicly expressed distress regarding automated releases disrupting patient, multi-year mathematical research by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers

As of October 2026, the median author count for academic mathematics papers is two authors

Until the twentieth century, the majority of published mathematical research papers were single-authored rather than collaborative efforts

Andrew Wiles worked in secret for seven years before publishing his initial proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

The doorman fallacy refers to the cognitive error of reducing a complex profession to its single most visible task and presuming that task encapsulates the role's total value

Kevin Buzzard organized Imperial College London undergraduates to transcribe undergraduate mathematics curricula into Lean code for Mathlib

Kevin Buzzard is a number theorist at Imperial College London working on the p-adic Langlands program

Jeremy Avigad spent a 2009 to 2010 sabbatical year formalizing the Feit-Thompson theorem using the Rocq proof assistant based on dependent type theory

Psychologist Tanya Lombroso is a faculty member at Princeton University

Jonathan Rottenberg serves as a professor of psychology at Cornell University

Tanya Lombroso previously taught as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley

The tube test is a neurobehavioral laboratory assay used in rodents to evaluate social dominance, competitive drive, and persistence

Neurobiological research by Dr. Lindsay Schwarz demonstrates that specific midline thalamic circuits regulate behavioral switches between forward engagement, freezing, and retreat in response to predatory threats

In rodent tube test experiments, prior winning experiences increase the statistical probability of subsequent victories in future bouts

The mammalian hypothalamus contains primitive neural circuits that govern fundamental instinctive drives including mating, feeding, fighting, and fleeing

In Wintering, Katherine May describes toxic positivity as offering upbeat slogans to people who are unhappy rather than acknowledging their suffering

Terry Bradshaw underwent three days of brain testing at Yale University, which showed no evidence of dementia or Alzheimer's disease

Silencing specific prefrontal cortical neural circuits in mice causes previously dominant mice to lose territory battles in the rodent tube test

Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. Josef Parvizi demonstrated that electrical stimulation of the human anterior midcingulate cortex evokes a subjective feeling of an impending challenge combined with a resolve to fight it