Conall Eoghan Mac Cionnaith Ph.D.

Conall Eoghan Mac Cionnaith Ph.D.

Neuroscientist/Data analyst/Programmer

Freelance

Biography

Hello friend,

Welcome to my personal website and blog! Here you’ll find posts aboout neuroscience, endocrinology, and data-drive blogs on whatever topic currently has my interest. If you ended up here to scope me out for a job, then you’re even more welcome. I am recently minted Ph.D. and I am looking to work. My interests are wide and motivation is high.

A little about myself:

I was born and raised in Kildare (Cill Dara), Ireland (Éire) to Irish speaking parents. My parents gifted my the privilege of being a proud Irish speaker. In my early 20’s, I ended up in Montréal as a exchange student and fell in love with city. After finishing my undergraduate degree in psychology at Maynooth University (a wonderful psychology department btw), I decided to pack my bags and cross the waters back to Montréal to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology at Concordia University. This led me deep into the beautiful worlds of sex research, neuroscience, and endocrinology.

I spent several years watching rats have sex…Well, there was a bit more to it than that. I ended up studying the role of the hormone oxytocin (which is also a neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, and neurohormone if you want to be pedantic) in sexual behaviours and reproduction.

During this time, I learned to program and fell in love with all things data.

Here I am now, (primarily) self-trained in R and Python. I spend a lot of my time analysing data with R, and on app and API development with Flask (Python).

Interests

  • All things science and neurobiology
  • Oxytocin
  • Sex research
  • Data analysis
  • Programming (R, Python)
  • Irish music (Fiddle, Mandolin, Bouzouki)
  • Cheese making
  • Cheese eating

Education

  • Ph.D. in Psychology (Behavioural Neurobiology), 2023

    Concordia University

  • B.A Hons. Psychology, 2015

    Maynooth University

Skills

In-vivo animal models

Programming

Statistics

Microscopy

Immunoassays

Surgery

Recent Posts

The weak suffer what they must

Grocery Greedflation? How uncompetitive markets make higher prices for consumers. A look at the retail food market in Canada, Ireland, the UK, and the USA.

What's the German for phenomenology?

Neuroscience is in the business of studying how neural states cause feeling, thoughts, and emotions. It sounds rather straight forward. But there are problems with this approach.

The generalizability crisis goes pandemic.

Psychology has had a rough few years; failed replications and low generalizability. While neuroscience sits blissfully unaware. Can we avoid a crisis by pretending it’s not there?

Posters

Signalling the Vaginal Code. A Dual Role for Oxytocin in Sexual Partner Preference and Reproduction

The role of oxytocin transmission in sexual preferences and reproductive behavioural responses

The facilitating effect of oxytocin on sexually conditioned partner preference in the female rat

The effect of i.p. oxytocin administration on sexually conditioned partner preference

Fos expression in female rats with a conditioned partner preference for an individual male

Oxytocin neurons are activated by males associated with past copulation

Contact

Feel free to email me. Or slide into my DMs on Twitter, they’re open!