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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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How does the brain decide what it is seeing? In his new book, A Trick of the Mind, @danieljamesyon.bsky.social uncovers how the ‘scientist inside your skull’ invents your personal reality. For more details visit: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/trick-... @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

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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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Out now @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, w/ @akalt.bsky.social & @drmattdavis.bsky.social. Are sensory sampling rhythms fixed by intrinsically-determined processes, or do they couple to external structure? Here we highlight the incompatibility between these accounts and propose a resolution [1/6]

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Brilliant to read such a positive review of A Trick of the Mind by our alumnus, Daniel Yon (2010, Psychology). "This is a complex area of psychology, with a huge amount of new work being published all the time. To fold it into such a lively read is an admirable feat." @danieljamesyon.bsky.social

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Congratulations to @danieljamesyon.bsky.social whose book ‘A Trick of the Mind’ was reviewed in the @theguardian.com as “an immensely readable dive”. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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“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

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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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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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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...

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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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Settling into my cell for the next few days at Tileyard London to record the audiobook for “A Trick of the Mind”. One sneeze and it’s back to Page 1….

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

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

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How do conspiracy theories work? And what happens in our brains to let strange ideas take hold? At the Brighton Book Festival I'll be in conversation with the investigative journalist James Ball - on the politics and science of strange beliefs. Book here: brightonbookfestival.co.uk/products/con...

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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.

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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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We're very much looking forward to this event next month - please do join us!

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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

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osf.io/preprints/ps... turns out, u can analyze meta-d' w/ just reaction times rather than confidence. loses some info & also a bit different. but maybe RT really isn't so metacognitive, so we might have to call it pseudo-meta-d' new preprint with Kiyo Miyoshi & Doby Rahnev 🧠📈

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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

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🚨 New paper out in Psych. Review 🚨 Matan presents our new model of perceptual detection, incorporating crucial concepts from metacognition - beliefs about visibility Several years in the making, excited it's out! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... @uclpals.bsky.social @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

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We have an open postdoc position with Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social and Emily Holmes, at the Emotional Cognition Lab dtalmi.wixsite.com/emotional-co..., @uniofcam.bsky.social to conduct advanced memory modelling. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50770/ Apply by 21.4!

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Our "I would have seen it if it were there" paper — a collaboration with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social — is now out in Psych. Review. There’s a lot in this paper, but here are what I see as the 3 main takeaways: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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🤩 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

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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

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Up bright & early at the BBC this morning to record Radio 4´s Start the Week! You can hear me talking about my new book ‘A Trick Of The Mind’, and discussing the imprint that uncertain times can leave on our minds and brains 🧠 Broadcast live at 9pm, or on catch up thereafter! Tune in!

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Up bright & early at the BBC this morning to record Radio 4´s Start the Week! You can hear me talking about my new book ‘A Trick Of The Mind’, and discussing the imprint that uncertain times can leave on our minds and brains 🧠 Broadcast live at 9pm, or on catch up thereafter! Tune in!

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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

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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.

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