Originating in Princeton · 2020Vol. I · No. 1 · Summer 2026Ideas about intelligence.
About the Organisation
Thinking About Thinking.
An independent nonprofit that runs research events, founded in 2020. We're a 501(c)(3) public charity registered in New Jersey.
We work on ideas about intelligence.
Leadership
Director of Thinking About Thinking
Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday BMBCh (Oxon) PhD
Cognitive scientist and AI researcher. Princeton PhD under Tom Griffiths, postdoc with Sam Gershman. Founder of Thinking About Thinking and organiser of NeuroMonster.
Professor James Whittington BMBCh (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)
Computational neuroscientist at Oxford. DPhil Oxford, Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship at Stanford. Work on hippocampal formation and structured representations published in Nature, Neuron, ICLR, NeurIPS.
These are the fellows and ambassadors who help run things. Our session chairs run the technical sessions at our events and act as our programme committee. In Rome, Tokyo, London, Boston, Split and Rhodes, the events are run by fellows and ambassadors who volunteer for the week.
The Fellowship has 1,612 fellows and ambassadors in more than 200 cities. You can see and message all of them in Thought Channel, our private members’ app.
We list open roles in events, programmes and communications here when we have them. If there's no vacancy, the best way in is the Ambassador Programme. Several of our current staff started there.
Thinking About Thinking, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit registered in the State of New Jersey. 28 Spring Street, Unit 156, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
