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

🧠 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

Just a reminder that this is happening tomorrow :) Feel free to reach out to me or better yet @joebarnby.com for a link!

📢 @markkho.bsky.social & I are recruiting a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & mental health 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Apps are reviewed on a rolling basis 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

For any postdocs who are are looking to transition to independence and might be keen to join us here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social, King's Prize fellowship applications are open (deadline 27 Nov) 👇 See link for details, and feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/119505-...

Having severe fomo not being able to attend #cpconf2025 this year but make sure to check out @gjcooper.bsky.social’s poster #50 today on making comp modelling scalable and intuitive to use 🖐️ ! Also say hi and buy phd student @srazavi.bsky.social a beer 🍺 to celebrate his first cpc

Our new study published in TheLancetPsych! We found that pramipexole augmentation substantially reduced depressive symptoms in patients with treatment-resistant depression over 48 weeks of treatment. This is an important advance in how we treat depression! 1/6 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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 🧵👇

✅ Our Version of Record (or what will become it) is now up on @elife.bsky.social :) We've now added several supporting analyses since the first version. Thanks to the reviewers for their constructive critiques 🤝 More work along this line to come soon... 👀 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

At @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social this week? Check out our social learning workshop from @amritalamba.bsky.social and I tomorrow! Inc. talks from @natashajaques.bsky.social, @nitalon.bsky.social, @carocharp.bsky.social, @kartikchandra.bsky.social & more! Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/rldm202...

Why not use cognitive science to test AI social skills? In our new @aclmeeting.bsky.social paper (@eitanwagner.bsky.social, @nitalon.bsky.social, me & Omri Abend), we bring Theory of Mind to AI evals; Richer, more humanlike, more interactive 🧠 Read here 👉 lnkd.in/edDj-r3B #AI #ToM #ACL2025

Finishing your PhD or under 2 years out of your PhD? Apply to a Forrest PostDoc Fellowship in sunny Perth 🏖️ Very generous salary (~$108K/~£51K) + additional living expenses, research funding + travel allowance DM me to chat about projects or process 🧠 forrestresearch.org.au/fellowships/

We're very excited to share the proceedings from our #ToM4AI2025 workshop @realaaai.bsky.social ⭐ 28 works on how cog sci, phil. of mind, and computer science can inform Theory of Mind in AI! arxiv.org/abs/2505.03770 @nitalon.bsky.social l @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social [email protected]

Theory of Mind (ToM) is an active research frontier in AI. The question of whether AI can achieve ToM is crucial to our ability to develop AGI. In this paper arxiv.org/abs/2503.24215 with @joebarnby.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social and @stefansarkadi.bsky.social we show how AI can achieve ToM!

New work from us led by the brilliant @drjk.bsky.social from our grant with the @britishacademy.bsky.social ⭐ Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents A brief explainer below... 📜 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

Today is the day! Our workshop (sites.google.com/view/theory-...) on Theory of Mind in AI kicks off in Philadelphia, and we are lucky enough to have @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social opening the day with a comprehensive overview of how we (un)successfully measure Theory of Mind @nitalon.bsky.social

Very excited to write that our mental health & neuro grant to the @wellcometrust.bsky.social has been funded! Over the next four years, we'll be using THC as an experimental compound to understand the social 🫂, biological 🧠 and computational 🤖 mechanisms of paranoia in health and disorder.

🚨 New paper in Molecular Psychiatry led by the amazing Maite Arribas 🚨 We used EHR data from 6,462 patients and temporal network analysis to look at the dynamics of symptoms in the prodromes to depression, bipolar disorder and psychosis t.co/0v013kFbB7

The symposium “Metacognition and social cognition: common ground or false equivalence?” organised by @smfleming.bsky.social is about to start! With @mkwittmann.bsky.social @vhsouthgate.bsky.social @joebarnby.bsky.social #EWCN2025

Final reminder that I’m advertising for a postdoctoral research associate to help me with a project on eating disorders and control-seeking, using #ComputationalPsychiatry! Applications close on the 12th. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

A few spots still remaining for our Cognitive Science Research Skills workshop later this week at UCL (in-person), sign up for free here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cognitive-...

🚨 New paper (with @eitanwagner.bsky.social @joebarnby.bsky.social and Omri Abend) on how we (should) evaluate Theory of Mind in Large Language Models. While recent work claims LLMs have ToM capabilities, we're missing crucial aspects from cognitive science. Here's why this matters 🧵

Symposium submission deadline now EXTENDED to 15th January! Please get together and submit your most interesting computational psychiatry projects - this will be a great meeting...

We have a starter pack that we will continue to expand that represents the #MentalHealth and #Neuroscience research community. Please let us know if we missed you! #Psychology #AcademicSky #Research go.bsky.app/6LKA9F4

📢 Exciting news: Notifications for our AAAI workshop on Theory of Mind for AI are out! Congratulations to all those accepted 🎉 We received over 50 submissions of cutting-edge research across AI, multi-agent systems, cognitive science, neuroscience, and more. sites.google.com/view/theory-...

Go work with Alex! She's awesome, you'll learn loads and get heaps of room for developing your career 🚀

I am very excited to announce that I’m joining the editorial board of Computational Psychiatry, cpsyjournal.org! Looking forward to reading new contributions that advance the field, particularly in social cognition, interaction, and decision-making 🫂

Lee HS, Holt DJ, Park S (2024) Altered Representation of Peripersonal and Interpersonal Space in Psychopathology. Clinical Psych Rev 114, 102509. doi.org/10.1016/j.cp... Regulation of the space surrounding the body -> central role in adaptive behavior -> direct implications for psychopathology

Only 10 days left to send us submissions 🌶️ 🔥Join us in Philly for a unique opportunity to cross disciplinary boundaries to define and understand theory of mind ! sites.google.com/view/theory-...

CPsy journal now on Bluesky! please follow for updates...

I'm putting together a Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack, still tiny! Drop a comment if you feel like you should be added :) go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj

I've started working on a (very incomplete!) starter pack for social interaction researchers! If you're working in this space, please asked to be added (or suggest others)! Meant to be inclusive of many disciplines, methods, interaction types, and types of interacting agents: go.bsky.app/44VAEhU

My dept (UCL Experimental Psychology) has 12 funded PhD studentships for next academic year (Sept 2025 start)! These are only for UK citizens or with right to remain. I would be happy to support applications from students who would like to join my lab. See: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...

It was only a matter of time - a metacognition starter pack! Do let me know if I’ve missed people or if you’d like to be added #neuroskyence 🧪 go.bsky.app/9PSjwLF

📢 Out now in Nature Mental Health Social factors greatly impact the progression & treatment of psychiatric conditions — @joebarnby.bsky.social, @xiaosigu.bsky.social & I propose that modeling social complexities rooted in mental health & disorder will enhance computational psychiatry rdcu.be/dYl7T

New work led by Michael Moutoussis! When evaluating others' motives, people first make a rough good/bad judgement and then (if all goes well) refine their views. Serotonin may help us learn beyond the good/bad impression: academic.oup.com/scan/advance... #neuroskyence #psychscisky

A reminder: we currently have an open call for our AAAI workshop on Theory of Mind 🔥 We encourage submissions from cog sci, CS, and psychiatry - we want to bring together several fields, work together, and understand ToM 🧠🤖 sites.google.com/view/theory-...

We're hiring a pre-doctoral RA to work with us on the Hypatia project in 2025 🎉🧠🧑‍🔬 You will be supporting & assessing the development of cognitive decision-making models for scientific, industrial, and clinical use Dm for informal queries! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #neuroskyence 🧪

We’re putting on a workshop - expertly led by Nitay Alon - on Theory of Mind across natural and artificial intelligence at AAAI2025 - send in your abstract and be part of this interdisciplinary push to develop our knowledge and technology sites.google.com/view/theory-...

Testing if this works... Trying to make a starter pack for researchers in #perception science Please share ! Will be adding more folks as I learn how #academicsky works ! go.bsky.app/V99fSBK

I came across this cool feature of notebooklm.google (via @cjhodgetts.bsky.social @drberry.bsky.social ) - you can upload your paper and it generates a podcast-style conversation... just embedded these for a couple of our recent outputs... joebarnby.com/publications/ Some thoughts... 🧪

Thanks to Nora Raschle and the Jacob’s Centre for being amazing hosts over the last week for our FENS-Kavli exchange! It was exciting to blend approaches to think about how to best test neurocomputational mechanisms of social cognition in childhood and adolescence 👀 🧒

Nitay Alon's excellent work simulating the benefits and pitfalls of recursive theory of mind is now published in Computational Psychiatry. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10.... Simulations show how ambiguous behaviour must be viewed as intentional with an overmentalised lens to generate paranoia.

Very excited to share our latest work, disentangling the computational processes underlying social information generalisation: osf.io/preprints/ps...