Daniel Yon

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...

I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Cheapskates assemble! For the month of September, A TRICK OF THE MIND is available on Kindle for a mere 99p. Read, enjoy, and discover the scientist inside your skull. amzn.eu/d/01clZD1R

Nice to be profiled in this piece for @psychscience.bsky.social In which I talk a bit about our research so far, what can make our kind of career challenging - and why we should all strive to be 'fish scales' 🐟 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Really delighted to have been made Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London.

The end to another Edinburgh Book Festival - had a wonderful time with @thereaderbank.bsky.social once more, fantastic to share a stage with Maggie O'Farrell for the Secret Life of Books Podcast, and great fun talking consciousness with @danieljamesyon.bsky.social & Michael Pollan

On my way to Edinburgh Book Festival - to consider consciousness this evening with @michaelpollan.bsky.social and @aldersonday.bsky.social @edbookfest.bsky.social

Can confidence spread from one head to another? Nice to see this piece from @christianjarrett.bsky.social in BBC Science Focus, highlighting work from The Uncertainty Lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. Led by Einar Andreassen and supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk

Real pleasure to be at #EPSEssex and the symposium celebrating 80 years of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social - alongside Bob Logie, Anna Franklin, @bhisma.bsky.social, @angeladebruin.bsky.social and Sophie Scott. Thank you @asifamajid.bsky.social!

Is your brain a scientist? Then where do its theories come from? And how do those paradigms shift? Lots of fun recording this with Dave Edmonds for Social Science Bites.

A real pleasure to be at #APS26BCN, and to meet and learn about the work of the other Spence Award winners. Thanks @psychscience.bsky.social !

Great to be at Hampstead Theatre Press Night yesterday for Blanche McIntyre's production of STAGE KISS. And lots of fun writing my notes for the programme on fantasy and reality in the brain.

Today is official publication day for the paperback of A TRICK OF THE MIND. Surreal as ever to see on the shelves (this time thanks to Waterstones Gower St for indulging me). More here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...

Really delighted to have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the @britishacademy.bsky.social , which I’ll be using to work on a new book about the human imagination 🧠

Public communication alters private confidence - cool study from @danieljamesyon.bsky.social and team www.cell.com/current-biol...

How does uncertainty transmit from one head to another? Our new paper out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how public communication alters private confidence. w/ Einar Andreassen & @cdfrith.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk 🧠📈

Excited to be in Vancouver and to be part of the CNS Rising Stars session this afternoon. I’ll be talking about “Stubborn and Flexible Predictions in Perception and Belief Updating” #CNS2026 🧠

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... 🧵

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...

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.

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!

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!

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...

Excellent book on the predicting mind.

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

Bad photos of an extraordinary weekend at #NewScientistLive. 1. @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social, @danieljamesyon.bsky.social and @chamkaurghag.bsky.social tell @rowhoop.bsky.social and myself all about their fascinating research on a special live episode of The World, The Universe & Us (on feeds soon).

How does the brain invent your reality? Great to be speaking at New Scientist Live this weekend - and signing a few copies of the book! 🧠 🍎 Thanks @newscientist.com and @waterstones.bsky.social

Next in line in our super cool Psychological Sciences Seminar Series: 🎤 Jim A.C. Everett from University of Kent 🗓 Wed 22 Oct, 1–2 pm 📍 Room 612, Malet Street, + online via Teams @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @jimaceverett.bsky.social

Next in line in our Psychological Sciences Seminar Series: 🎤 Connor Keating 🗓 Wed 15 Oct, 1–2 pm 📍 Room 612, Malet Street, + online via Teams @connortkeating.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Next week for all you South East Londoners! 👇

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨 Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook - @thechbh.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social MIBTP-funded PhD, using behavioural, computational and pharmacological approaches. Get in touch and please share!

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

We are delight to have @kjedlovszky.bsky.social visiting from @danieljamesyon.bsky.social lab, despite appearances we do not work in the Nakatomi Plaza from Die Hard!

Looking forward to being in conversation with Stacey Humphries about A TRICK OF THE MIND - next month at Waterstones Greenwich. Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-convers... @waterstones.bsky.social

In his new book, Daniel Yon explains how our brain is constantly constructing reality

Looking forward to reading A Trick of the Mind by @danieljamesyon.bsky.social! About the relationship between consciousness and prediction. #booksky #science #psychology