I got to celebrate my early career award from Psychological Sciences with one of my favorites Luke Smillie the same week as the investigator grant outcomes and my dogs finally immigrating to AUS 🇦🇺🐶🐶 🥹 the dream is officially reality

5/n. Thanks to Alejandro de la Vega (@neurozorro.bsky.social) tal yarkoni and an amazing team of collaborators and trainees, it does! Welcome to the world of Neurosynth Compose! compose.neurosynth.org

We’re pleased to announce that three early-career MSPS researchers – Drs Elise McGlashan, Sarah Tashjian and Caitlin Hitchcock – have secured funding under the NHMRC Investigator Grant scheme.

New job alert 📣 I’m hiring a postdoc to work with me on a Wellcome project investigating peer influence/social contagion effects on adolescent mental health Oxford ExpPsychology. Get in touch with any questions. Deadline June 7th! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation nature.com/articles/s4156… with Jo Cutler Sanjay Manohar + many others. We show multiple causal roles of vmPFC in prosocial motivation, effort and reward in a rare large cohort with focal vmPFC damage

What an absolute treat to introduce my PhD advisor as keynote speaker and see my first PhD student present AS4SANinc ! 🧠🦘

Amazing opportunity to tackle big questions on adolescent mental health! Susanne Schweizer is not only brilliant, she’s kind and UNSW is a fabulous place to study!

Thrilled to finally see our review on the role of sleep/sleep architecture in implicit and explicit affect regulation out in the world! Proud of a truly an interdisciplinary collaboration effort. doi.org/10.1016/j.ynst…

Excited to dig into this timely work by Swati Pandita “ The Disembodiment, Anonymity, and lack of Disinhibition (DAD) framework conceptualizes three core roots of impaired social interactions and how they persist in a vicious cycle.” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This was a super fun study to be part of - hypothalamic coordination of switching between attacking virtual prey and escaping virtual predators with the extraordinary Jaejoong Kim and Dean Mobbs Now out in #PLOSBiology: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Three roots of online toxicity: disembodiment, accountability, and disinhibition Opinion by Swati Pandita (Swati Pandita), Ketika Garg (Ketika Garg | केतिका गर्ग), Jiajin Zhang (Jiajin(Molina) Zhang), & Dean Mobbs Free access until August 27: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jONv4sIRvTB…

Also as part of my new position, I will be recruiting a student this application cycle to start in 2025. Please feel free to get in touch or pass this along to people who might be interested! e-m-mccormick.github.io

Looking forward to sharing work on sleep in adolescents at Monash University in a few weeks. Zoom link available!

Come along to discuss international postdoc experiences with us!

Looking forward to discussing the grant writing process Flux Society 2024 pre conference. See you there!!

We hosted a tour for a bunch of curious kids from the Venny yesterday and it was a blast! Such a rewarding experience seeing their eyes light up with new knowledge, experience and discoveries!

An amazing amazing opportunity to learn from the best!!