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reuth-mirsky.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧠✨ Call for Papers — JAAMAS Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Through Theory of Mind 🤖 🔗 Submission link: link.springer.com/collections/... 📅 Submission deadline: 30 December 2026 🙌 Please share widely — we look forward to your contributions!

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Sepehr Razavi @srazavi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Social Computation and Representation Lab talk series is back tomorrow! And no better way to start the new academic year than by following @setayeshradkani.bsky.social 's talk as she weaves together two complementary strands of her investigations into social cognition.

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 05/08/2026

If you’re at CCN go check out Seps work investigating the role of valence, identity and sophistication on social agent attributions!

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 20/07/2026

Exciting news from Hypatia 🎊 we were lucky enough to win Best R&D Innovation at the Aussie INCITE Awards! Huge congrats to the team, and thanks to the judges for their confidence in us. ALSO: We're hiring 2 roles (research manager & business/ops developer) within Hypatia... 👇

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 16/07/2026

And congrats to Sep for winning BOTH the #cpc2026 travel award and best poster award 🎉 🎉

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 14/07/2026

If you’re at #CPC2026 come and visit Seps poster ! Sep is leading work testing how social environment complexity interacts during learning to form maladaptive beliefs using connectionist models

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Sepehr Razavi @srazavi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Coming up next week at the SoCR lab talk series is @alimahmoodi.bsky.social, who will be discussing his recent thought-provoking perspective, which advocates for a computational view of neural mechanisms of social cognition (contra an anatomical one).

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Caroline Charpentier, PhD @carocharp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 28/04/2026

How do exclusion and adversity drive social learning in adolescence? Here, @drjk.bsky.social, Lyn Ellett and I show that social exclusion reduces adolescent belief flexibility about others at a later point in time, and reduces the ability to generalise from social cues - 🧵 1/5

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Sepehr Razavi @srazavi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This Thursday, we’re delighted to welcome @carocharp.bsky.social, PI of the Social Learning and Decisions Lab at the University of Maryland. She will be delivering what promises to be an insightful talk: 'Seeking advice and seeking feedback: cognitive mechanisms and relevance for psychopathology.'

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 16/03/2026

What connects difficulties in social cognition, self-awareness, and abstract reasoning in those with Corpus Callosum Dysgenesis (CCD)? Here, across three experiments, we find that the corpus callosum is integral to metacognitive efficiency - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Gemini said
This schematic outlines three experiments (Online, Lab, and VR) comparing individuals with Cerebral Cavernous Malformations (CCD) to Neurotypical (NT) controls using Random Dot Kinematograms (RDK).

Panel A: Study Overview
Experiment 1 (Online): 10 CCD vs. 85 NT participants using a computer mouse.

Experiment 2 (Lab): 11 CCD vs. 7 NT participants using a button box.

Experiment 3 (VR): 10 CCD vs. 13 NT participants using a VR headset.

Brain Icon: A blue line divides the hemispheres with a crossed-out arrow, suggesting a focus on disrupted interhemispheric communication.

Panel B: Classic RDK (Exp 1 & 2)
A trial sequence on a grey background:

Fixation (1600ms): A central cross.

Motion (1500ms): A circular field of moving dots (red, blue, and white).

Decision (Unlimited): Selection of "L" or "R" buttons.

Confidence (Unlimited): A slider ranging from "Decrease" to "Increase" to rate certainty.

Panel C: VR RDK (Exp 3)
A faster trial sequence used in the VR environment:

Fixation: Until central fixation is achieved.

Motion (180ms): Dots appear within a narrow vertical rectangle.

Decision (Unlimited): A prompt shows blue/orange bars for direction selection.

Panel D: Visual Presentation (Exp 3)
Diagrams showing how stimuli are mapped from the eyes to the brain hemispheres (L and R):

Binocular: Stimuli presented to both eyes, traveling to both hemispheres.

Lateralised: A 3° shift from center presented to one eye.

Monocular: Stimuli presented to one eye, directed specifically toward the right or left hemifield to isolate hemispheric processing.

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Sepehr Razavi @srazavi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Very happy to announce next week's SoCR lab guest, Andreas Hula, who will be talking about the uses and misuses of I-POMDPs in model-building human social decision-making 🧵

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 05/03/2026

Excited to say that Hypatia has secured a second round of funding thanks to the @wellcometrust.bsky.social 💫 This milestone allows us to build the technology and team and conduct validation efforts across the UK and Australia to bridge the ecosystems.

Announcement from Hypatia regarding second-round investment from the Wellcome Trust and 2026 hiring for five roles: Project Coordinator, Backend Engineer, UXUI Engineer, Artist/Designer, and Director of Operations. The graphic showcases Hypatia's international presence in the UK and Australia, featuring team photos and logos of partner institutions including King's College London, UWA, C-FIT, Orygen, and Emyria.

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 18/02/2026

What happens when we can't use recursive belief to compete? We can use anomaly detection instead! Here, we (led by soon-to-be-Dr @nitalon.bsky.social ) devise a multi-agent account where compression & reward expectation are used to notice deception jair.org/index.php/ja...

Two side-by-side images depicting the nested hierarchical IPOMDP and the non-hierarchical x-IPOMDP mechanism.

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Sepehr Razavi @srazavi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It's a pleasure for me to announce our next Social Computation and Representation Lab invited speaker @mkwittmann.bsky.social for a talk on dimensionality reduction and basis functions in social cognition

Talk Poster, Prof. Marco Wittmann, 19/02/2026 @ 9am GMT

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 18/12/2025

New job alert 💫 We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning. Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis 🧑‍🔬 Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...) Please RT :)

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 16/12/2025

Full details for the 2026 ToM4AI Workshop @aaai.org are now live (ToM4AI.com) 100+ registrations, 40 papers, 3 keynotes, & a hackathon, spanning cog sci, philosophy, psychiatry, computer science, and robotics @nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social

Poster showing the schedule for Theory of Mind in AI workshop at AAAI 2026, featuring 3 keynote speakers, a hackathon, posters, and flash talks. Sponsored by Edith Cowan University and Ketryx

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 02/12/2025

Curious why we sometimes see minds where there are none? 🧠 Join us to uncover the foundations of attributed agency. Fully funded PhD for next year as part of DRIVE-Health, working with me, Adam Hampshire & @stefansarkadi.bsky.social Deadline: 12/1/26 Reach out for an informal chat!

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

💭 In the first interview for Inside Discovery, @joebarnby.com discusses how deeply human questions about our social world can be explored through elegant, technical science. Read the full conversation: buff.ly/CKx4k5c

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 07/11/2025

Excited to receive 57 paper submissions for our 2026 workshop 🙌 Stoked about the interest in this space! We also have 4 free student regos to award; tough choices ahead with many worthy authors @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social @nitalon.bsky.social @stefansarkadi.bsky.social tom4ai.github.io

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ToM4AI initiative

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Sepehr Razavi @srazavi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I am pleased to announce that @davidschultner.bsky.social will be our next guest as part of the SoCR Lab's Invited Talk Series. Dr. Schultner will present recent work that offers evidence for a parsimonious and mechanistic explanation of human social learning strategies via reward learning!

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 16/10/2025

Just one more week to get submissions in for this! Join us in Singapore to discuss the intersection of cog sci, comp. sci, psychiatry, and philosophy to understand Theory of Mind 🧠 DM me for informal qs 📜 @stefansarkadi.bsky.social @nitalon.bsky.social @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 13/10/2025

1/6 Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! rdcu.be/dYl7T Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @xiaosigu.bsky.social, @joebarnby.com, & I call for cognitive models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms🧵

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 30/09/2025

Just one day left to apply to this role! ⏱️ Come work with us developing computational models to pick apart the mechanisms underlying social cognition and threat using THC 💊 neuroimaging 🧠 and interactive behavioural paradigms 👥 Apply here -> lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

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fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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

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Sepehr Razavi @srazavi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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 🧵👇

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 10/09/2025

🤖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

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Call for Papers - ToM4AI Workshop@AAAI 2026

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 05/09/2025

📖 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

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Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al.

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 03/09/2025

🧠 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

Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project

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Sepehr Razavi @srazavi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 31/07/2025

📢 @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

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Toby Wise @tobywise.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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-...

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King’s Prize Fellowship

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 14/07/2025

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

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Michael Browning @mikebrowning.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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...

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Pramipexole augmentation for the acute phase of treatment-resistant, unipolar depression: a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial in the UK

In this trial involving participants with treatment-resistant depression, pramipexole augmentation of antidepressant treatment, at a target dose of 2·5 mg, demonstrated a reduction in symptoms relativ...

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 30/06/2025

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 🧵👇

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 19/06/2025

✅ 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...

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Self-Other Generalisation Shapes Social Interaction and Is Disrupted in Borderline Personality Disorder

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 04/06/2025

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

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 04/06/2025

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/

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Fellowships - Forrest Research Foundation

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 17/03/2025

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...

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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! 🧠🧪

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 03/03/2025

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

Rebecca Saxe giving a talk on Theory of Mind

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 05/02/2025

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.

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Dom Oliver @domapoliver.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🚨 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

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-02896-3

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