Just finished by my very first lecture at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. I was very impressed by the students at Birkbeck, particularly their initiative and motivation. 💝 Many thanks to my colleague Raffa for helping us run the lecture smoothly. 👊

Join us for a CHBH Seminar with @danieljamesyon.bsky.social on 'Learning about uncertainty from ourselves and others' Thur 9 Oct 1–2pm LT6 Strathcona/Zoom Hosted by Prof Jennifer Cook Event info/registration: bit.ly/4gWAPdO #CognitiveNeuroscience#Metacognition#Learning #Uncertainty #SocialCognition

🚨 PhD opportunity (start Oct 2026) with @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social via UBEL DTP ! I’m looking for students keen to study cognitive & brain mechanisms of compulsivity through computational modelling 📊, advanced neuroimaging 🧠 & normative models 📈 Get in touch if this excites you!

Next up in our Psychological Sciences Seminar Series: 🎤 Prof. Clare Press 🗓 Wed 8 Oct, 12:30–1:30 pm (note the earlier time) 📍 Room 612, Malet Street, + online via Teams @clarepress.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Our 2025–2026 Seminar Series is ready to begin 🎓✨ We’re kicking off on 1 October with a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and beyond. Join us on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM at Birkbeck. Light refreshments provided ☕️🥐 Here’s the full programme 👇 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

What does living through uncertain times do to our minds and brains? Delighted to have this piece in the latest New Scientist - talking about some of the ideas in my new book ‘A Trick of the Mind’ !

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! Deadline Sun 6th July

👏 🧠 👏 Congratulations to Birkbeck’s @danieljamesyon.bsky.social on the launch of his first book A TRICK OF THE MIND 👏 🧠 👏 #booksky #neuroskyence #nonfiction

Catch Birkbeck’s Dr Daniel Yon on the latest BBC Instant Genius podcast! 👏 @danieljamesyon.bsky.social #neuroskyence #psychology

“A lively read” and an “admirable feat” ! “Immensely readable” new book A TRICK OF THE MIND from Birkbeck’s Daniel Yon reviewed in this weekend’s Guardian 👏👏👏 Congratulations @danieljamesyon.bsky.social ! #booksky #neuroskyence #psychology

Thrilled to get my hands on the first copies of my book! “A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality” in bookshops soon - from 26th June 🧠 🍎 (Though Ralphie more interested in the packaging….) www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515... #booksky #neuroskyence

Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...

Great to be on the front cover of the latest BBC Science Focus, with a feature on “A Trick of the Mind” - and the surprising ways your brain invents the world you live in. apple.news/ApHH-MrVgTam... #bbcsciencefocus

Looking forward to delivering this public lecture on 9th June as part of @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social’s Science Week. Thrilled too to share the stage with @denisemcadete.bsky.social who will be receiving the Faculty’s PhD Prize! 🥂 Tickets are free, but limited👇 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Lovely to be back in Oxford talking about “A Trick of the Mind” ! Thanks to @somervillecollege.bsky.social for hosting me, and for the lively and (predictably) thoughtful questions - about drugs, psychics, child development, neurodiversity, mystics, madness and more! tinyurl.com/ATrickOfTheM...

🎓Today marks the final seminar of the term in the School of Psychological Sciences at BBK It’s been a fantastic run of inspiring talks — huge thanks to all our brilliant speakers and attendees. The seminar series will be back in October 🧠 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

🔥 Join us for THE LAST SEMINAR OF THE YEAR to the School of Psychological Science! 👤 Elia Valentini 🗓️ Wednesday, 14th May 🕐 1 PM 📍 Room 612 or on Teams @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Check out a great new paper from Carl Hodgetts and Birkbeck’s Ulrike Hahn 👇 @cjhodgetts.bsky.social #psychology #cognitivescience

Looking forward to seeing the inimitable @guidorgs.bsky.social at the @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social seminar this afternoon, 1pm 👇💃🧠

Congratulations to all BBK students who graduated today 🤗 @danieljamesyon.bsky.social @mattlongo.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

💃 Join the next super cool talk from @guidorgs.bsky.social at Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences: Wednesday the 7th of May, 1PM, room 612 Malet Street and on Teams! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social 💃

Out now @mitpress.bsky.social: The Invisible Hand by @mattlongo.bsky.social - our hands shaped evolution, but their real power lies in the brain. 🧠✋ Longo blends anatomy, neuroscience, archaeology & more into a unified story of how we sense, move, and even think of our hands.

How does the scientist in your skull invent the world you live in? 🧠 As part of Birkbeck's Science Week, on Mon 9th June I'll be talking about my upcoming book "A Trick of The Mind", w/ @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social's @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social More below! 👇 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Excited to be going ‘back home’ to Somerville College, Oxford to talk about my upcoming book “A Trick of The Mind” You can join in Oxford (or online) on Sunday 25th May. Book at the link below 👇 @somervillecollege.bsky.social #psychology #neuroscience #books

Our new paper is just out in Behavior Research Methods! tinyurl.com/54jutzvd - with Louise Ewing, @ekfarran.bsky.social, Michael Papasavva, Ines Mares & @marielsmith8.bsky.social . We present data from 607 children aged 5-12 completing the Cambridge Face Memory Test for Children... 1/3

🚨 Available postdoc in my lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social See below 👇 for further details. 🧠 Any Qs feel free to email 📧

Wonderful opportunity to join Matilde’s growing group at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social - and to join her in doing creative work to rethink compulsivity 🧠 Apply! #neuroskyence

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Join the Vaghi Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social! We're seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong fMRI expertise to lead the development of neurocognitive paradigms and use dense-sampling fMRI in the general population and in OCD patients. 🧠 (1/3) cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Dr Gavin Buckingham is our next speaker at the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences seminar series, on the 2nd of April at 1 PM! Join in person (MAL 612) or online in Teams (email me for the link pls: [email protected]) @drgbuckingham.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Are high perceptual precision demands always necessary for training to drive auditory neural plasticity? 🧠 🔊🎙️ Find out more in this cool study with voice actors doi.org/10.1016/j.co... by @mkachlicka.bsky.social & @adamtierney.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social #auditory #neuroscience 🧵1/6

Congratulations to Ori Ossmy on our first Baby Grow publication - a review that examines automated tools for detecting atypical infant motor development #autsim #psychology #computervision #infant #development @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More detail here: tinyurl.com/5975u5u3 & code available here: tinyurl.com/5n9xmahe. Grateful for wonderful co-authors Letizia, Rebecca, @paola182.bsky.social, & Denis, the Birkbeck Toddlerlab (@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social), and funding from the @leverhulme.bsky.social. (4/4)

Our brains have an internal GPS that guides us through physical space. But does it do more than that? A recent preprint from the lab shows that the brain’s navigation system also maps sound 🧠 🌎 🔉 Read more here: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #auditory #neuroscience @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social 🧵1/4

🤩 Excited to host Prof. Steve Fleming for our next BBK School of Psychological Sciences seminar on Wednesday, March 26th! 📍 1 PM | Room 612, Malet Street Building 💻 Also on Teams (email me for the link!) Looking forward to a great talk! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

How do our minds and brains respond to uncertain times like the pandemic? You can listen to Birkbeck’s Dr Daniel Yon talk about this and his new book on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week! Link below 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @danieljamesyon.bsky.social #psychology #neuroskyence

Birkbeck's offering fully-funded PhD studentships as part of its Diversity 100 scheme. If you qualify as a Home student, & come from an ethnic background that's underrepresented in academia, you're eligible! If that sounds like you, and you'd like to discuss PhDs in my lab, please do get in touch.

So looking forward to having Dr Lucie Charles as our next speaker at the BBK School of Psychological Sciences seminar! 19th of March 1 PM Join in person (MAL 612) or in Teams (email me for the link pls: [email protected]) @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social

🔥🔥🔥 The updated program of the BBK School of Psychological Sciences seminar series 🔥🔥🔥 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Guess who is next? Dr Katie Gray is our next speaker at the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences seminar series, on the 12th of March at 1 PM! Join in person (MAL 612) or online in Teams (email me for the link pls: [email protected]) @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Getting ready for the next seminar of the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences, with Dr Ayelet N. Landau on the 5th of March at 1 PM! Join in person (MAL 612) or online in Teams (email me for the link pls: [email protected]) @ayeletlandau.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

I am thrilled to share the 'Navigating Genomics and Education' Report, the result of a joint project between the @nuffieldfoundation.org and Nuffield Council on Bioethics that I’ve been leading over the past year! www.nuffieldbioethics.org/news-blog/ne...

⏰CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS⏰ We're looking for London-based #participants who would like to take part in an fMRI study and gain insight into how our brains process second language speech 🧠🧠🧠 #auditory #neuroscience @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social Contact @mkachlicka.bsky.social for details. Please share!

Congratulations to Dr Daniel Yon from Birkbeck Psychology, whose forthcoming book, 'A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality', has been highlighted by Penguin Random House as a highly anticipated title release in 2025 🥳 Read more: ow.ly/XiB450UQmNL @danieljamesyon.bsky.social

Markus Bindemann is our next guest at the BBK School of Psychological Sciences seminars on Wednesday 5th of Feb, as always at 1 pm in Malet St! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Daniel Reznik is our next guest at the BBK School of Psychological sciences seminars this week! Wednesday 29th of January, as always at 1pm in Malet st! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Looking forward to the next seminar of the Birkbeck school of psychological sciences, with Toby Wise on the 22nd of January at 1PM! Join in person (MAL 612) or online in Teams (email me for the link pls: [email protected]) @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @tobywise.bsky.social

Fabulous EPS prize lecture by @danieljamesyon.bsky.social entitled "Understanding uncertainty in the human mind" at the London UCL meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social

First seminar of 2025 here at Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences! 15th of January, 1 PM with Elisabetta Versace - @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

What a fantastic lineup. Congratulations Daniel!

Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences is getting ready for the second exciting part of our seminar series! Starting on the 15th of January!! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social