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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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!

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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.

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Delighted to be among the Publishers Weekly picks from 2025 ! Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social !

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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 · 03/07/2025

Het is gepubliceerd! 🇳🇱 Excited to get my hands on the Dutch Edition of 'A Trick of the Mind' - published by Atlas Contact 🧠 More here: www.atlascontact.nl/boek/een-tru...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Looking forward to bringing some neuroscience to the pub in Brighton with BRIGHTHINK on Mon 7th July! 🧠🍻🌊 I'll be talking about my new book - describing how the scientist in your skull invents your experiences of the world, other people & yourself. Tickets here: www.brighthink.org/brightalks/a...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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 · 12/06/2025

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 · 29/05/2025

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 · 27/05/2025

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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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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 · 25/05/2025

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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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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 · 17/03/2025

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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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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.

A view of Birkbeck's Malet Stree Building.

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

You may think you’re a Bayesian. But do you live on…

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Really looking forward to the EPS London meeting this week - particularly our symposium on uncertainty w/ talks from Nick Yeung, @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social, Claire Sergent, Hanneke den Ouden, @philcorlett.bsky.social, @beckyneuro.bsky.social (& me) eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

We find that these empirical patterns can be well-explained by a new metacognitive learning and prediction model - which uses prediction errors from the self and from the other to learn about the uncertainty we should expect to feel.

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Across experiments, we find robust evidence for 'confidence matching' - with participant confidence ratings gravitating towards those of their partner. Critically though, we find that these biases in metacognition persist even after the interaction is over.

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

In this paper, Einar developed a new metacognition task - inspired by work on group decision making by Dan Bang. Participants proceed from making perceptual decisions alone, to decisions with a 'partner', and then alone again.

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

How can sharing our uncertainty with others alter our confidence when we're alone? Delighted to share the lab's new paper, with Einar Andreassen and @cdfrith.bsky.social. Particularly pleased as it's Einar's first! Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Excited to say that in 2026 I'll be a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. I'll be trying to combine psychology, neuroscience, economics and anthropology to understand the cultural evolution of confidence. www.asc.ox.ac.uk/news/visitin...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Trying to decide whether my new Bluesky followers want to hear about our latest paper or our new dog 🤔

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Cool new paper from Giulia Cabbai and co, suggesting there are spontaneous mental images in the visual cortex of aphantasics - which they can’t see ! 🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

At @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social we’re recruiting a new permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor)! We’re particularly interested in researchers with an emerging record in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational approaches to cognition 🧠 💭 Deadline: 2nd Dec Link: t.co/VRmbxzeiGg

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

How can communication about agency alter our sense of control? New paper out in Cognition, w/ George Blackburne and @cdfrith.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.co... @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social #neuroscience

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Thoroughly enjoying Nick Shea's new book 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 With characteristic clarity of thought, Nick explains the power concepts have to gear together the specialised and general-purpose parts of our minds OA: philpapers.org/rec/SHECAT-11 #philosophy

Front cover of Nick Shea’s « Concepts at the Interface »

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

At @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social , we’re recruiting two new permanent Lecturers. We’re especially interested in recruiting in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational modelling 🧠 If you’d like to know about life & science at Birkbeck - please get in touch! 🧠🟦 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Nipping past the Pantheon this morning, on my way to the École Normale Supérieure - where I’ll be talking about confidence, uncertainty and the difference. lsp.dec.ens.fr/en/agenda/co...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Are you sure? Would you like another look? Here we find a double dissociation between the kinds of uncertainty that control information seeking & those that shape subjective feelings of confidence. w/ Georgie Edwards-Lowe, Elisa La Chiusa & Helen Olawole-Scott Link: t.co/bC7j2bEQ83 #neuroskyence