If you’re at CCN go check out Seps work investigating the role of valence, identity and sophistication on social agent attributions!

Sepehr Razavi@srazavi.bsky.social · yesterday

If you’re at CCN swing by at 2pm to hear about a social agency project I’ve been working on under the supervision of @joebarnby.com & @hayleydorfman.bsky.social (and Reuth Mirsky)

Exciting news from Hypatia 🎊 we were lucky enough to win Best R&D Innovation at the Aussie INCITE Awards! Huge congrats to the team, and thanks to the judges for their confidence in us. ALSO: We're hiring 2 roles (research manager & business/ops developer) within Hypatia... 👇

And congrats to Sep for winning BOTH the #cpc2026 travel award and best poster award 🎉 🎉

Joe Barnby@joebarnby.com · 3w ago

If you’re at #CPC2026 come and visit Seps poster ! Sep is leading work testing how social environment complexity interacts during learning to form maladaptive beliefs using connectionist models

If you’re at #CPC2026 come and visit Seps poster ! Sep is leading work testing how social environment complexity interacts during learning to form maladaptive beliefs using connectionist models

Coming up next week at the SoCR lab talk series is @alimahmoodi.bsky.social, who will be discussing his recent thought-provoking perspective, which advocates for a computational view of neural mechanisms of social cognition (contra an anatomical one).

🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!

How do exclusion and adversity drive social learning in adolescence? Here, @drjk.bsky.social, Lyn Ellett and I show that social exclusion reduces adolescent belief flexibility about others at a later point in time, and reduces the ability to generalise from social cues - 🧵 1/5

This Thursday, we’re delighted to welcome @carocharp.bsky.social, PI of the Social Learning and Decisions Lab at the University of Maryland. She will be delivering what promises to be an insightful talk: 'Seeking advice and seeking feedback: cognitive mechanisms and relevance for psychopathology.'

What connects difficulties in social cognition, self-awareness, and abstract reasoning in those with Corpus Callosum Dysgenesis (CCD)? Here, across three experiments, we find that the corpus callosum is integral to metacognitive efficiency - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very happy to announce next week's SoCR lab guest, Andreas Hula, who will be talking about the uses and misuses of I-POMDPs in model-building human social decision-making 🧵

Excited to say that Hypatia has secured a second round of funding thanks to the @wellcometrust.bsky.social 💫 This milestone allows us to build the technology and team and conduct validation efforts across the UK and Australia to bridge the ecosystems.

What happens when we can't use recursive belief to compete? We can use anomaly detection instead! Here, we (led by soon-to-be-Dr @nitalon.bsky.social ) devise a multi-agent account where compression & reward expectation are used to notice deception jair.org/index.php/ja...

It's a pleasure for me to announce our next Social Computation and Representation Lab invited speaker @mkwittmann.bsky.social for a talk on dimensionality reduction and basis functions in social cognition

Here we go! #ToM4AI2026 @aaai.org - thanks @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social for the hats 🎩 www.tom4ai.GitHub.io @nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social

New job alert 💫 We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning. Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis 🧑‍🔬 Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...) Please RT :)

Full details for the 2026 ToM4AI Workshop @aaai.org are now live (ToM4AI.com) 100+ registrations, 40 papers, 3 keynotes, & a hackathon, spanning cog sci, philosophy, psychiatry, computer science, and robotics @nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social

Curious why we sometimes see minds where there are none? 🧠 Join us to uncover the foundations of attributed agency. Fully funded PhD for next year as part of DRIVE-Health, working with me, Adam Hampshire & @stefansarkadi.bsky.social Deadline: 12/1/26 Reach out for an informal chat!

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health@drivehealth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨Apply now for our #fullyfundedPhDs in #HealthDataScience at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Calling all #healthdatascientists, #computerscientists, #engineers, and #AI 100+ projects available ⬇️ Deadline 12 January 2026. @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social @kingshealth.bsky.social

Curious why we sometimes see minds where there are none? 🧠 Join us to uncover the foundations of attributed agency. Fully funded PhD for next year as part of DRIVE-Health, working with me, Adam Hampshire & @stefansarkadi.bsky.social Deadline: 12/1/26 Reach out for an informal chat!

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health@drivehealth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨Apply now for our #fullyfundedPhDs in #HealthDataScience at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Calling all #healthdatascientists, #computerscientists, #engineers, and #AI 100+ projects available ⬇️ Deadline 12 January 2026. @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social @kingshealth.bsky.social

💭 In the first interview for Inside Discovery, @joebarnby.com discusses how deeply human questions about our social world can be explored through elegant, technical science. Read the full conversation: buff.ly/CKx4k5c

Excited to receive 57 paper submissions for our 2026 workshop 🙌 Stoked about the interest in this space! We also have 4 free student regos to award; tough choices ahead with many worthy authors @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social @nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social tom4ai.github.io

I am pleased to announce that @davidschultner.bsky.social will be our next guest as part of the SoCR Lab's Invited Talk Series. Dr. Schultner will present recent work that offers evidence for a parsimonious and mechanistic explanation of human social learning strategies via reward learning!

Just one more week to get submissions in for this! Join us in Singapore to discuss the intersection of cog sci, comp. sci, psychiatry, and philosophy to understand Theory of Mind 🧠 DM me for informal qs 📜 @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @nitalon.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social

Joe Barnby@joebarnby.com · 11mo ago

🤖After a fantastic debut in 2025, the Theory of Mind in AI workshop at AAAI is back for 2026! We invite submissions on ToM in artificial & biological intelligence—across comp sci, cog sci, comp psych, psychiatry & more. CFP 👉 tom4ai.github.io/AAAI2026/cal... 2025 procs 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2505.03770

1/6 Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! rdcu.be/dYl7T Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @xiaosigu.bsky.social, @joebarnby.com, & I call for cognitive models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms🧵

Nature Computational Science@natcomputsci.nature.com · 10mo ago

🚨To celebrate #WorldMentalHealthDay, our October issue includes a Focus that examines the advances in computational psychiatry and the challenges of developing computational models to address mental health disorders. #mentalhealthresearch #Psychiatry ➡️ nature.com/collections/... 🧵(1/8)

Just one day left to apply to this role! ⏱️ Come work with us developing computational models to pick apart the mechanisms underlying social cognition and threat using THC 💊 neuroimaging 🧠 and interactive behavioural paradigms 👥 Apply here -> lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Joe Barnby@joebarnby.com · 11mo ago

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

The #FKNE Leadership Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Application deadline: 15 Oct. 2025 fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders... @fens.org

Next week, we have the distinct pleasure of (e-)hosting the fantastic @hayleydorfman.bsky.social at the SoCR Lab's Invited Talk Series. Dr Dorfman will presenting some of her recent work on agency-modulated reinforcement learning 🧵👇

🤖After a fantastic debut in 2025, the Theory of Mind in AI workshop at AAAI is back for 2026! We invite submissions on ToM in artificial & biological intelligence—across comp sci, cog sci, comp psych, psychiatry & more. CFP 👉 tom4ai.github.io/AAAI2026/cal... 2025 procs 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2505.03770

📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis #NeuroPsychSky

Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al.

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Joe Barnby@joebarnby.com · last yr.

A recently proposed «pseudosocial cognition approach» aims at our previous work on the social dimension of paranoia. The shortcomings of their article raise important questions on how we all connect behavioural models to neural data. Our letter of response: osf.io/preprints/ps... summary 🧵👇

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5