Originating in Princeton · 2020Vol. I · No. 1 · Summer 2026Ideas about intelligence.
About the Organisation
Thinking About Thinking.
An independent non-profit research and convening organisation, founded in 2020 and constituted as a 501(c)(3) public charity in the State of New Jersey.
Thinking About Thinking, ideas about intelligence.
Welcome to the oasis.
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday
Cognitive scientist and AI researcher. Princeton PhD under Tom Griffiths, postdoc with Sam Gershman. Founder of Thinking About Thinking and convenor of NeuroMonster.
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.
The fellows and ambassadors who hold a role in the running of the society. Our session chairs convene the technical sessions of our events and serve, more broadly, as our standing programme committee. And wherever we gather, in Rome, Tokyo, London, Boston, Split and Rhodes, the events themselves are run by fellows and ambassadors who volunteer the week.
Fellowship VolunteerSplit 2025 · Rome 2026 · London 2025
The Fellowship
A selection from the Fellowship: senior fellows, and fellows at work in the laboratories and research groups where much of the present science is being done.
The Fellowship runs to 1,612 fellows and ambassadors in more than 200 cities. See them all, and connect with them, in Thought Channel: our private members’ app.
Open positions in support of our events, programmes, and communications are listed here as they become available. The most direct route into the work, in the absence of a current vacancy, is the Ambassador Programme; a number of our present staff first encountered the institution by that route.
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
