Daniel Yon

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

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...

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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...

Thanks! Looking forward to it 🙂

Thanks Aidan!

Thanks Rocco!

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

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

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

A few more weeks left to apply for this PhD position 👇

Deadline 22nd Feb

@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

A few more weeks left to apply for this PhD position 👇

Deadline 22nd Feb

@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Snowy Second Day in Oxford.

Facebook activates same brain regions as cocaine: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1216146...

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.

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

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!

Congratulations Peter!

NB: The post must be taken up in Autumn 2026, and must be awarded to a 'Home' student: which incl. British citizens, Settled Status & Refugees (among others). If you are not a British Citizen, and you are unsure whether you would be a 'Home' or 'International' pls do get in touch before applying.

Deadline for applications: 22nd February 2026

Happy to answer any questions via email to d.yon@bbk.ac.uk

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.

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

Thank you!

That’s so kind of you, Thomas! I’m really pleased you enjoyed it.

Precision and the Bayesian brain In this Primer, Daniel Yon and Chris Frith explain ‘precision’, a key concept in Bayesian models of the mind and brain. The idea of precision is central to current thinking across the cognitive scienc...

Yes! www.cell.com/current-biol...

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!

Looking forward to it!

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...

Thanks so much, David! I’m pleased you’ve enjoyed it

Excellent book on the predicting mind.

McGettigan and Press Inaugural Professorial Lectures 2025 YouTube video by UCL PALS

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