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Rocco Chiou @rocco-chiou.bsky.social · 2d

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. 👊

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The Centre for Human Brain Health @thechbh.bsky.social · 5d

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

Poster for a CHBH seminar with Dr Daniel Yon on uncertainty in perception and social interaction, held on 9 October 2025 at the University of Birmingham. Includes event details, a photo of Dr Yon, a QR code, and the CHBH University slogan.

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Matilde Vaghi @matildevaghi.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 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!

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Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Aug 3

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’ !

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

Deadline Sun 6th July

Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 6

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...

PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence at Birkbeck, University of London

Find a PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!

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Birkbeck Psychological Sciences @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

#booksky #neuroskyence #nonfiction

Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 27

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...

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Birkbeck Psychological Sciences @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social · Jun 23

Catch Birkbeck’s Dr Daniel Yon on the latest BBC Instant Genius podcast! 👏

@danieljamesyon.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #psychology

Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 23

Great to be on the BBC’s Instant Genius Podcast, talking about ‘A Trick of the Mind’ - and the ways that your brain invents your experience of the world, of other people and itself 🧠

Spotify: lnkd.in/eqMK45kr

Podcasts: lnkd.in/eFYeH37g

#booksky #neuroskyence

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Birkbeck Psychological Sciences @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social · Jun 16

“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

Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 13

Delighted to see ‘A Trick of the Mind’ reviewed in @theguardian.com as Book of the Day! 🧠 🍎

Also in the print edition tomorrow 🗞️

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 6

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...

PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence at Birkbeck, University of London

Find a PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · May 29

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

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · May 27

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...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · May 25

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...

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Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · May 21

🎓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

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Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · May 15

🔥 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

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Birkbeck Psychological Sciences @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social · May 16

Check out a great new paper from Carl Hodgetts and Birkbeck’s Ulrike Hahn 👇

@cjhodgetts.bsky.social
#psychology #cognitivescience

Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Very pleased to share that our latest paper, "The limited place in cognitive space", is now out in Topics in Cognitive Science. Link below👇🏻

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Limited Place in Cognitive Space

The idea that objects can be represented within multi-dimensional ‘cognitive spaces’ remains popular within psychology and neuroscience, and yet the restrictive topology of such spaces is seldom cons...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · May 7

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

Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · Apr 30

💃 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 💃

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Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · May 1

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

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Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · Apr 30

💃 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 💃

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Denise Cadete @denisemcadete.bsky.social · Apr 25

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.

The Invisible Hand

The hand has a central role in both human evolution and cultural development—in our descent and in our ascent. It is, Immanuel Kant said, “the visible pa...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Apr 25

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...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Apr 23

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

Sundays at Somerville: Daniel Yon and A Trick of the Mind - Somerville College Oxford

We are delighted to help Daniel Yon (Experimental Psychology, 2010) celebrate the publication of his first book! Daniel Yon and A Trick of The Mind How does your brain decide what it’s seeing, from th...

www.some.ox.ac.uk

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Nadja Althaus @nadjaalthaus.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

Exploring the development of face recognition across childhood via logistic mixed-effects modelling of the standardised Cambridge Face Memory Test - Behavior Research Methods

Individual differences in face identity recognition abilities are present across the lifespan but require developmentally differentiated methods of assessment. Here, we examine the empirical validity ...

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