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Chris Creevey

@hairyllama.bsky.social

All things Microbes, DNA and Computers Professor of Computational Biology @ Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). www.creeveylab.org

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REF: NILAB-2025 - BIO-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast

Available now:

Fully funded 4-year PhD studentship (with BBSRC NILAB)

Integrating AI and Taxonomy-Free Classification for Enhanced Microbiome Analysis of One Health Environments.

Merging AI & microbiomics to drive impactful advancements in One Health.

Apply here:
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

10.03.2025 10:39 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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LinneSys: Systematics Research Fund LinneSys: Systematics Research Fund The Councils of The Linnean Society of London and The Systematics Association jointly administer this fund for the benefit of systematics research. The Fund has …

Final day! You have until 23:59 GMT+0 March 10 to apply yo the LinneSys scheme.

We (@systassn.bsky.social and @linneansociety.bsky.social) provide up to 1500GBP for taxonomy and/or systematics projects.

You just need to be a member to apply.

Apply TODAY: systass.org/linnesys/

10.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 3    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

On the eve of international women’s day, it’s worth being reminded why it’s so important.

07.03.2025 09:35 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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It's #DarwinDay! Here is Charles Darwin as part of the series "Men of the Day" (1871) from Vanity Fair (UK), a weekly magazine. Unsigned chromolithograph by James Jacques Tissot that is accompanied by an article by Thomas Gibson Bowles.
Read here: bit.ly/40S5cdP

12.02.2025 11:10 — 👍 31    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2

#OnThisDay in 1941 the first patient, Albert Alexander, was treated with Penicillin. This event marked the success of antibiotics and their application in medicine. His story serves as a testament to inspire researchers to develop new life-saving antibiotics in an effort against AMR #KnockingOutAMR

12.02.2025 13:03 — 👍 12    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1

Love this :D

07.02.2025 11:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations DR @cmkobel.bsky.social on the successful defense of your thesis 🙌🏼 Massive thanks to @hairyllama.bsky.social and @manuelkleiner.bsky.social for the time and your style which made the day all the more entertaining.

20.01.2025 11:43 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Small but mighty. Small Genes, Big Impact: Exploring sORFs in Host-Parasite Interactions at Aberystwyth University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Small but mighty. Small Genes, Big Impact: Exploring sORFs in Host-Parasite Interactions at Aberystwyth University, listed on FindAPhD.com

First up a bioinformatics project with Dr Wayne Aubrey Small but mighty. Small Genes, Big Impact: Exploring sORFs in Host-Parasite Interactions www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

19.12.2024 10:57 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

3 funded PhD opportunities to work with me and my new lab. 2 led by me and the other I will co-supervise with parasitologist Prof. Geoff Gobert, QUB.
#PhD #bioinformatics #Genomics #AI #biodiversity

See next post to find out about these projects! 👇

17.12.2024 17:16 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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#PhD 1: Effects of Mercury in Amazonian Amphibians 🐸 as part of BBSRC funded NorthWestBio DTP. Based at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Project: tinyurl.com/frogHg
Apply: tinyurl.com/NWBapply
Deadline: 06/01/2025

17.12.2024 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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He’s making a list…

16.12.2024 09:03 — 👍 802    🔁 203    💬 11    📌 5

Congrats Lucy! It’s well deserved! It’s been a pleasure working with you.

15.12.2024 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If science talks were like social media videos #science

12.12.2024 10:29 — 👍 177    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 2

For anyone attending VIBE/ICBG conference 2024 this week in Galway, keep an eye out for some Creevey Lab members, including talks by Emmet Campbell and John-Paul Wilkins and posters by @lucydillon.bsky.social and Corey Woods.
vibe-icbg.com/Event_Schedu...

04.12.2024 14:08 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Prof Brian Cox on a stage talking in front of a picture of a vast and colourful galaxy

Prof Brian Cox on a stage talking in front of a picture of a vast and colourful galaxy

Not a bad start to a Tuesday, listening to Prof. Brian Cox putting all the petty things in perspective 🤯

12.11.2024 18:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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First time for me to be at Stormont, meeting First and Deputy First ministers as part of the launch of the Aquaphage project led by Tim skvortsov at QUB Pharmacy to tackle the algal blooms in Lough Neagh.

05.11.2024 20:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚀 Join Us as a Computational Research Fellow! 🌱

Passionate about sustainable food systems? The Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems @QUBelfast is hiring! Innovate and transform the agri-food sector with us. 🌍
📢 Apply Now: go.qub.ac.uk/5gkbc
#JobAlert #SustainableFood

21.10.2024 17:34 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Creevey 2025 Q2122 | SUSTAIN

We have a fully funded PhD opportunity to start on Oct 2025 on "Harnessing Explainable AI to Identify Key Microbial Drivers of Reduced Ruminant Greenhouse Gas Emissions" funded by SUSTAIN (www.sustain-cdt.ai/creevey)
Closing date Sunday 27th October 2024!
Please share.

14.10.2024 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
REF: SBIO-2020-1244 - BIO-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast

Join us for a competitively-funded PhD studentship applying machine learning for early-warning of AMR-Associated One-Health risks in Wastewater.
Open to international students!
Apply here: qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
Deadline August 1st!
#metagenomics #AMR #OneHealth

23.07.2024 10:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations Dr. Lucy Dillon on passing her viva yesterday! 🥳. Many thanks to examiners @jomcinerney.bsky.social and Dr. Deirdre Gilpin and convenor Dr. Simon Cameron.

28.05.2024 10:14 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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