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Max Farrell @maxjfarrell

Ecology, evolution, infectious disease & biodiversity // Lecturer @UofGlasgow @UofGMVLS // maxfarrell@bsky.social

Joined September 2013
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One week left to apply! Please use the University of Glasgow portal to suit your applications! (Link on the right side of findaphd post)
Max Farrell@maxjfarrell
18 Mar 2025
Come do a PhD with me using LLMs and comparative methods to understand the emergence of companion animal viruses! 🧠☠️🕸️🐕🐈🖥️ Fully funded 3.5 year PhD based at @UofGSBOHVM @CVRinfo supervised by myself, Margaret Hosie, and Willie Weir findaphd.com/phds/project/co…
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Come do a PhD with me using LLMs and comparative methods to understand the emergence of companion animal viruses! 🧠☠️🕸️🐕🐈🖥️ Fully funded 3.5 year PhD based at @UofGSBOHVM @CVRinfo supervised by myself, Margaret Hosie, and Willie Weir findaphd.com/phds/project/co…

Comparative study of tropism and emergence of virulent companion animal viruses using AI-powered...

PhD Project - Comparative study of tropism and emergence of virulent companion animal viruses using AI-powered text mining at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Laurence De Clippele@LDeClippele
7 Nov 2024
**PHD* - Apply here to do a PhD on the #antimicrobial potential of Scottish #seagrass #microbiomes Project: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/docto… Apply here: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/docto… image credit: @IssyKey
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Liam Brierley@L_Brierley
7 Nov 2024
🔍🦠🦗 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲! Work with me, @MartaShocket, and @maxjfarrell building information systems and large language models to capture key biological host-pathogen relations from literature - that could control crop pests or conserve biodiversity! 1/2
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Michael Ormsby@MOrmsby8
1 Nov 2024
As part of the College Futures #PhD Programme (Planetary Health🌍) we have a PhD available studying bacterial environmental persistence & quantifying the role of climate change in #AMR! Link: shorturl.at/MF5ZC @ohrbid @UofGSBOHVM Apply: shorturl.at/avB7f Please RT!
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Joseph Hughes@blJOg
6 Nov 2024
Our @NorthWestBio1 PhD project applying natural language processing to virology literature is now open for applications: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/docto… Get in touch with if you are interested and want to find out more.
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🚨 I have two PhD projects included in the @NorthWestBio1 DTP 🚨 gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/docto… Both use Large Language Models to extract data from scientific literature. One is completely computational and the other has a mix of field, lab, and dry work Project details below! 1/3

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The first aims to identify novel antimicrobial compounds from seagrass microbiomes with @juliannemegaw @LDeClippele and Cindy Smith tinyurl.com/5xu8rxsb This involves field work in the beautiful Scottish coast, high-throughput bacteriology, metagenomics, and NLP! 2/3

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The second investigates the evolution and ecology of insect fungal pathogens with @L_Brierley and @MartaShocket tinyurl.com/4kw4zymz This uses large language models to identify and extract information on insect-fungus relationships from scientific literature 🐛🖥️ 3/3
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Lynn Dicks@LynnDicks
31 Oct 2024
An exciting opportunity for an early career researcher in ecology and conservation biology @CamZoology - a funded five year Fellowship linked to @ClareCollege jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48931/ @BES_careers @RoyEntSoc @royalsociety

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Hammed A. Akande
@drhammed
19 Oct 2024
The deadline to apply for the Mastercard Scholarship at McGill University🇨🇦 is October 25, 2024. MCF is a Full-ride scholarship for people with solid academic and leadership profiles. If you have specific questions about it, please ask in the CS. mcgill.ca/mastercardfdn-scho…

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Over the moon to announce I'll be starting as a lecturer @UofGlasgow @UofGMVLS next month! I'm excited to continue my research at the interface of biodiversity, infectious diseases, and artificial intelligence with fantastic colleagues at @UofGSBOHVM @UofGSii @CVRinfo
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Our primer on approaches for text mining in ecology & evolution is out @RSocPublishing 📚🖥️🧠🕸️ royalsocietypublishing.org/d…

The changing landscape of text mining: a review of approaches for ecology and evolution

Abstract. In ecology and evolutionary biology, the synthesis and modelling of data from published literature are commonly used to generate insights and tes

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Max Farrell@maxjfarrell
21 Feb 2024
🚨 New preprint "The changing landscape of text mining - a review of approaches for ecology and evolution" doi.org/10.32942/X2VG87 Methods for text mining are rapidly changing. Here we review available approaches, and map them onto three broad paradigms
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Daniel Streicker@DanielStreicker
30 Aug 2024
Deadline to apply extended until September 5th. Apply or get in touch!
Daniel Streicker@DanielStreicker
6 Aug 2024
New PhD on bat virus epidemiology in Belize and Kenya with @MafaldaSViana, Laura Bergner and me @UofGSBOHVM. Part of a larger NIH project with @DiseaseEcol @danjbecker & @lunn_tamika. Bats models metagenomics field experiment! Apply now, closing 1 Sept '24 findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
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Rory Gibb@roryjgibb
20 Aug 2024
Great opportunity to work with a fantastic group of people on zoonosis/One Health projects (including our UK/US/Nigeria SCAPES consortium) 🐀 x.com/David_W_Redding/status…

David Redding@David_W_Redding
19 Aug 2024
Come and work with my amazing team at @NHM_Science (London, UK) examining zoonotic diseases in a onehealth context. 2 & 3 yr post-doc positions with a stats modelling and meta-genomics focus respectively: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail… jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail… Closing: 8th Sept 2024
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Dream postdoc here!!
Liam Brierley@L_Brierley
15 Aug 2024
Applications still open until Monday for a three-year funded postdoc position within my startup lab group exploring new directions in computational virology, informatics, and macroevolution! #hiring #researchjobs
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Due to popular demand we are extending our abstract submissions till Monday 5th of August. Tell us about your exciting science and see you at the conference! #cbc24 @UofGARC
MVLS Shared Research Facilities@MVLS_SRF
30 Jul 2024
The @glasgowcompbio Conference is just around the corner! By purchasing a ticket, you ensure we can continue this incredible event. Don’t miss out—buy yours today! eventbrite.com/e/university-… @UofGMVLS @MVLS_NERD @UofGCancerSci @UofGSMB
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Shinichi Nakagawa | 中川震一@itchyshin
30 May 2024
My first day @CityofEdmonton @UAlberta - here to create a Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in #Ecology & #Evolution. Looking for ~5 postdocs to join me in establishing the centre. Please apply - i-deel.org/opportunities.htm… Please RT
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Liam Brierley@L_Brierley
22 Jul 2024
Deadline now extended - taking applications until August 19th! @CVRinfo @UofGSii
Liam Brierley@L_Brierley
8 Jul 2024
🚨👨🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁! Want to come work at @CVRinfo with me on biostatistical and ML models to understand how viruses infect and adapt to new hosts and new tissues? Apply @ my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…, deadline 22 July! #bioinformatics @UofGSii
A 3D graphic of an influenza virus showing the external proteins and a cutaway into the genome organisation. The background shows a densely connected network of nodes.

ALT A 3D graphic of an influenza virus showing the external proteins and a cutaway into the genome organisation. The background shows a densely connected network of nodes.

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