Real pleasure to be at #EPSEssex and the symposium celebrating 80 years of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social - alongside Bob Logie, Anna Franklin, @bhisma.bsky.social, @angeladebruin.bsky.social and Sophie Scott. Thank you @asifamajid.bsky.social!

Is your brain a scientist? Then where do its theories come from? And how do those paradigms shift? Lots of fun recording this with Dave Edmonds for Social Science Bites.

Sage@sagepub.com · 2mo ago

How does the brain work like a scientist? Psychologist and neuroscientist @danieljamesyon.bsky.social explains how the brain makes predictions and builds theories to interpret ambiguous information. Listen to the new episode of Social Science Bites: www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/06/dani...

A real pleasure to be at #APS26BCN, and to meet and learn about the work of the other Spence Award winners. Thanks @psychscience.bsky.social !

Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to the 2026 APS Spence Award Recipients! #APS26BCN @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @williambrady.bsky.social, @esfinn.bsky.social, @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social, @ycleong.bsky.social, @danieljamesyon.bsky.social

Great to be at Hampstead Theatre Press Night yesterday for Blanche McIntyre's production of STAGE KISS. And lots of fun writing my notes for the programme on fantasy and reality in the brain.

Today is official publication day for the paperback of A TRICK OF THE MIND. Surreal as ever to see on the shelves (this time thanks to Waterstones Gower St for indulging me). More here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...

Really delighted to have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the @britishacademy.bsky.social , which I’ll be using to work on a new book about the human imagination 🧠

Birkbeck academic awarded 2025 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship

Dr Daniel Yon, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, has been announced as a recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

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Public communication alters private confidence - cool study from @danieljamesyon.bsky.social and team www.cell.com/current-biol...

Public communication alters private confidence

Andreassen et al. demonstrate that confidence exhibited in public affects our private assessment of confidence.

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How does uncertainty transmit from one head to another? Our new paper out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how public communication alters private confidence. w/ Einar Andreassen & @cdfrith.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk 🧠📈

Public communication alters private confidence

Andreassen et al. demonstrate that confidence exhibited in public affects our private assessment of confidence.

cell.com

Excited to be in Vancouver and to be part of the CNS Rising Stars session this afternoon. I’ll be talking about “Stubborn and Flexible Predictions in Perception and Belief Updating” #CNS2026 🧠

Check out Benjy’s new paper, the first from his postdoc in the lab! 👁️ 🧠 It reveals how our inferences about what’s present and absent in the external world are calibrated by perceiving w/ others. And we come to detect what our partners can. Thread below 👇 @benjyb.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

Benjy Barnett@benjyb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Do our social interactions influence what we become aware of? In our❗new preprint❗@danieljamesyon.bsky.social and I delve into this question: asking whether joint decision making in a detection task can bias awareness reports. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

Do our social interactions influence what we become aware of? In our❗new preprint❗@danieljamesyon.bsky.social and I delve into this question: asking whether joint decision making in a detection task can bias awareness reports. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social: The Deliberation Taboo Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/ osf.io/preprints/ps...

Really delighted to have received one of these awards from the Association for Psychological Science 🧠 Thanks to the APS, and to everyone in the Uncertainty Lab, at Birkbeck, and beyond for making our work possible! @psychscience.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congratulations to the 2026 APS Spence Award Recipients! @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @williambrady.bsky.social, @esfinn.bsky.social, @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social, @ycleong.bsky.social, @danieljamesyon.bsky.social, www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

Last call for this PhD studentship! Deadline Sun 22nd Feb

Daniel Yon@danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

Last call for this PhD studentship! Deadline Sun 22nd Feb

Daniel Yon@danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

A few more weeks left to apply for this PhD position 👇 Deadline 22nd Feb @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Daniel Yon@danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

A few more weeks left to apply for this PhD position 👇 Deadline 22nd Feb @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Daniel Yon@danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

Snowy Second Day in Oxford.

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London

jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

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Delighted to be among the Publishers Weekly picks from 2025 ! Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social !

ECR looking for a change in the New Year? We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch. Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Wrapping up an incredible three months at @wutsaiyale.bsky.social 👋 time flies when you're having a good time Thank you @philcorlett.bsky.social for having me in the lab and to the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for funding this visit!

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London

jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

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Next Wednesday Dec 10th, we are excited to have Dr @danieljamesyon.bsky.social join us for our last session of the year. Dr Yon will tell us about how our interactions with others alter metacognitive states of mind. Full details on our website (surl.li/mqtofs). All are welcome in person!

Last Consciousness Club of term tomorrow, Wed 3rd Dec 11am-1230pm UK time Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social will be telling us about “The private life of public confidence” Looking forward to it! All welcome- for more info see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Excellent book on the predicting mind.

Daniel Yon@danieljamesyon.bsky.social · last yr.

It's out! Such a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of A TRICK OF THE MIND at Pushkin House. So lovely to see so many, and to be able to thank everybody who made my first book happen. Thank you! Available in all good bookshops now! www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...

I finally gave my Professorial Inaugural Lecture. A great night with friends, family, & colleagues, & sharing the stage with a good friend @cmcgettigan.bsky.social🥂 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTG... Bookmarks flag both my lecture and @celiaheyes.bsky.social’s (far more entertaining!) intro

McGettigan and Press Inaugural Professorial Lectures 2025

YouTube video by UCL PALS

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Bad photos of an extraordinary weekend at #NewScientistLive. 1. @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social, @danieljamesyon.bsky.social and @chamkaurghag.bsky.social tell @rowhoop.bsky.social and myself all about their fascinating research on a special live episode of The World, The Universe & Us (on feeds soon).

How does the brain invent your reality? Great to be speaking at New Scientist Live this weekend - and signing a few copies of the book! 🧠 🍎 Thanks @newscientist.com and @waterstones.bsky.social

Next in line in our super cool Psychological Sciences Seminar Series: 🎤 Jim A.C. Everett from University of Kent 🗓 Wed 22 Oct, 1–2 pm 📍 Room 612, Malet Street, + online via Teams @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @jimaceverett.bsky.social