Joe Barnby

@JoeBarnby

snr. lecturer/assoc. prof. @ KCL & CAIML | director of SoCR Lab (http://socrlab.net) | FENS-Kavli scholar | founder @ Hypatia | social cog, brains & AI

London 🇬🇧 | Perth 🇦🇺

Joined September 2015

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Joe Barnby@JoeBarnby · Jun 3

Happy to announce that our paper was accepted to #acl2025 findings! Looking forward to discussing Theory of Mind (and other topics) at Vienna! @nitalon @JoeBarnby @AbendOmri x.com/EitanWagner/st…

EEitan Wagner@EitanWagner · Dec 19

“I heard there’s a new paper about Theory of Mind in LLMs!” “I know! There’s like hundreds of them!” … Could someone be driving in the wrong direction? Check out our new opinion paper. w/ @nitalon , @JoeBarnby, and @AbendOmri

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Joe Barnby@JoeBarnby · Jun 27

✅ Our Version of Record (or what will become it) is now up on @eLife :) 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-prepr…

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nitay alon@nitalon · May 8

We're very excited to share the proceedings from our #ToM4AI2025 workshop @RealAAAI ⭐️ 28 works on how cog sci, phil. of mind, and computer science can inform Theory of Mind in AI! arxiv.org/abs/2505.03770 with @JoeBarnby, @r_mirsky and @StefanSarkadi!

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Dom Oliver@Dom__Oliver · Jan 30

🚨 New paper in @molpsychiatry 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

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Vaughan Bell@vaughanbell · Jan 29

New from us, and first study from the PhD of Dr @ElliePChrys Delusional Themes are More Varied Than Previously Assumed academic.oup.com/schizophreniab… A global meta-analysis of the prevalence of delusional themes in psychosis, examining association with clinical features and culture

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nitay alon@nitalon · Dec 19

🚨 New paper (with @EitanWagner @JoeBarnby and @AbendOmri) on how we (should) evaluate Theory of Mind in Large Language Models. While recent work claims LLMs have ToM capabilities, we're missing crucial aspects from cognitive science. Here's why this matters 🧵

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ToM4AIworkshop@ToMWorkshopAAAI · Dec 13

Exciting news! 🎉 Workshop review process complete! 📝 Groundbreaking papers ranging from xAI, HRI to LLM, and VLM domains, all dedicated to ToM4AI. What a lineup of posters and spotlights that'll steer meaningful discussions. Join us at #ToM4AI @r_mirsky @JoeBarnby @nitalon

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Joe Barnby@JoeBarnby · Dec 2

I am very excited to announce that I’m joining the editorial board of Computational Psychiatry, @CPSYJournal cpsyjournal.org ! Looking forward to reading new contributions that advance the field, particularly in social cognition, interaction, and decision-making 🫂

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Joe Barnby@JoeBarnby · Nov 8

🚨Opportunities for PhD studentships at Royal Holloway🚨 If interested in Optimism biases in human learning and decision making, or computational approaches to understanding depression, and have strong programming and quantitative skills, get in touch!

RRoyal Holloway Psychology@RHULPsychology · Oct 30

We are inviting applications for PhD studentships via the South East Doctoral Training Arc (SEDarc) for September 2025 entry📝 royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-t…

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Joe Barnby@JoeBarnby · Nov 14

Only 10 days left to send us submissions 🌶️ 🔥Join us in Philly for a unique opportunity to cross disciplinary boundaries to define and understand theory of mind !

TToM4AIworkshop@ToMWorkshopAAAI · Nov 14

Researching the existence of ToM in LLM's? Working on incorporating ToM and AI? Wondering if ToM is crucial to AGI? Submit your work (extended abstracts) to ToM4AI workshop - deadline is 24/11/2024. sites.google.com/view/theory-of… @JoeBarnby @r_mirsky

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Joe Barnby@JoeBarnby · Nov 12

Thanks for inviting me! Great discussions all around

AAbhishek/Abhi Banerjee@abhii_mit · Nov 12

Fellow @FensKavliNet scholar @JoeBarnby hitting it over the boundary - very interesting ideas on the 'Nature knows best' approach to understanding deception-cooperation balance during decision-making and cross-individual inference in social cognition @QMUL @QM_Psych

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Shawn Rhoads@shawnrhoadsphd · Oct 28

📢 Out now in @NatMentHealth Social factors greatly impact the progression & treatment of psychiatric conditions—@JoeBarnby, @XiaosiGu, & I propose that modeling social complexities rooted in mental health & disorder will enhance computational psychiatry nature.com/articles/s4422…

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Michael; mastodon: @[email protected]@M_Moutoussis · Oct 26

New work! In evaluating other's motives, people first make a rough good/bad judgement, then (if all goes well) refine their views. Serotonin may help learning beyond the good/bad impression: academic.oup.com/scan/advance-a… . Thanks @JoeBarnby , @DrLiamMason , @RobbRutledge and gang!

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Toby Wise@toby_wise · Oct 22

Bit of a last minute announcement, but I have a project in the @KCL_MRCDTP catalogue - deadline is next week! See the link for more info, and get in touch if you want to know more kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/self-a…

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