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Claire Hill

@claire-hill.bsky.social
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Senior Researh Fellow interested in healthy ageing and kidney health 》Bioinformatics 》Omics 》Working towards a healthy world 🌎 📍North Coast of N. Ireland 🔗 orcid.org/0000-0002-2481-5162

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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Sharing our new article published this month! 🎉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... We generated a range of epigenetic clocks for the NICOLA study, using DNA methylation data from 1,870 participants to explore how environment and lifestyle shape biological aging. #aging #ageing #epigenetics
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Baseline epigenetic clock measures in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA) - BMC Research Notes
Objectives DNA methylation (DNAm) can change dynamically in response to intrinsic or external exposures. Characteristic methylation profiles are associated with accelerated biological ageing and poore...
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Prof AJ McKnight @aj-mcknight.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
An unusual end to an excellent @ukkidney.org #UKKW26….sadly no flight home tonight or tomorrow from Leeds so fingers crossed we make it Leeds->Manchester and get home that way tomorrow evening! Hope everyone else travelled safely home. #RenalResearchNI #RareDiseaseNI @claire-hill.bsky.social
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🌟 Today is International Day for Women and Girls in #STEM 🌟 I am so fortunate to have been surrounded throughout my journey by many inspiring role models - women who excel in STEM, and individuals who champion, encourage, and support the next generation of women and girls entering STEM fields.
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
👀 Sneak peak at some of the colouring in 💜Valentine's Day 💜 cards we designed as part of our contribution to 'Love Your Health' @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social at NI Science Festival - Feb 14. @aj-mcknight.bsky.social @vivensa.bsky.social @kidneyresearchuk.org @lifearc.bsky.social
Photo of Kidney themed Valentine's Day cards.
'I kidney believe how much I love you'
'We're a perfect pair'
'Healthy kidneys, Happy heart'
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The time of day for cancer immunotherapy is associated with major outcomes. Early is better. Results from a randomized trial of lung cancer, backs up the importance of our circadian rhythm and immune system www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
💗 Love Your Kidneys – They’ll Love You Back! 💗 📍 Part of Love Your Health at QUB WWIEM for NI Science Festival 🔗 lnkd.in/ethSwjpK 💙 Thanks to our funders: @vivensa.bsky.social • @lifearc.bsky.social • @kidneyresearchuk.org • lnkd.in/eJkEMSvH @aj-mcknight.bsky.social
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Queen's University Belfast @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Your safety and wellbeing are our top priority. That's why the University campus will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday 27 January, due to the amber weather warning across Northern Ireland. See you back on campus soon!
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CAMPUS UPDATE:
WEATHER WARNINGImage shows an aerial photograph of the Lanyon Building. Above it is white text that reads:
Your safety and wellbeing are our top priority. That's why the University campus will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday 27 January, due to the amber weather warning across Northern Ireland.
 
Where appropriate and possible, teaching will move online for our students and your School or Centre will be in touch to let you know about the arrangements in your area.
 
Where necessary, some staff will continue to work on campus to carry out crucial roles, delivering and supporting essential services.
 
Student support services will be available remotely and Queen's Accommodation will remain open as normal. 

The McClay Library will close from 7.00am on Tuesday morning but aims to reopen at 9.00pm that evening.
 
See you back on campus soon!
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Love this: 'science is our attempt to become less wrong over time' What an excellent way to phrase it!
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Great to share some of the research and plans as part of my @vivensa.bsky.social Fellowship with colleagues at the Centre for Public Health yesterday. Nice way to start the new year!
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Beautiful sky over Portstewart today #WinterSky #Chilly #NYE #NorthCoastIreland #Portstewart
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
** #PhD opportunity ** Come & work with our team within the @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Centre for Public Health. An exciting project bringing together molecular, bioinformatic & big data opportunities, focusing on aging, sex inequalities & kidney disease. #epidemiology #aging #ageing #kidney
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Had an amazing day at the @vivensa.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Event! Incredible work on display and such a supportive environment. Honoured to share a bit about our journey toward sustainable science 🌱🌎 @aj-mcknight.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Delighted to be at the @vivensa.bsky.social Early Careers Researcher Event today in London. Looking forward to taking part in the panel event to share some of our experience of environmental sustainability in research! @aj-mcknight.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
library(ggplot2) ggplot() + geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+ geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+ annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) + ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+ theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint") #RStats #ggplot2
A density plot with added eyes and mouth to resemble a ghost and a title saying Happy Halloween in a spooky font
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Covid in England is definitely on the way down, but Flu is on the way up - and over a month early. My latest substack open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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England's Covid wave recedes but is replaced by flu
Making Sense explores how evidence and data can help us make sense of the world — from the NHS and Covid to science, democracy and politics. Christina Pagel is a Professor of Operational Research at...
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🧬 PhD Opportunity | Using Molecular Biomarkers of Aging to Decode Health Inequalities 🧬 📅 Deadline - 8th December 2025 🔗 Apply now or learn more: lnkd.in/eWhnyVQg @vivensa.bsky.social @aj-mcknight.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Today is #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons, a day to reflect on the health challenges faced by older adults and the research that supports healthy aging.
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Great to be at the Kidney Research UK Driving Discoveries meeting in Bristol this week. Lots of wonderful research and work on show so far. Looking forward to the Early Careers Forum this afternoon!
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🎂 Data, but make it delicious 🍰 As a joke, I searched for a dataset about The Great British Bake Off… and guess what? There’s an R package called `bakeoff`. So naturally, I baked up a quick analysis. Here’s what I found: --- #GBBO #GreatBritishBakeOff #DataScience
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Enjoying some downtime at the moment. Reading. Running between shade. Melting in the heat. All good stuff. Here's a snap from our day trip to Castell de Santa Bàrbera.
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Prof AJ McKnight @aj-mcknight.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
#RenalResearchNI opportunity to sign your name to an open letter highlighting the importance of #KidneyDisease to the UK government and NHS. Time for Action to support kidney disease! @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.ukkidney.org/prime-minist...
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Add Your Name: Call on the Prime Minister to Tackle Kidney Disease
Kidney disease affects more than 7 million people in the UK, yet was largely overlooked in the Government’s new 10-year health plan for the NHS. Without action, it will place an unsustainable burden o...
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Beautiful spot for the summer solstice. 📍Portstewart Cliff Path
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Flight delayed back from UK Kidney Week but I picked up some excellent reading in the airport!!
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Congratulations to @aj-mcknight.bsky.social on her Osman Award at UK Kidney Week 2025! Her award lecture was a fantastic overview of her work explorong kidney disease determinants - including genetic, epigenetic and environmental - and her impacts on rare disease research/care in NI and beyond. 🎊 👏
Prof McKnight presenting at UK Kidney Week. Her slides show projects such as GENIE, NICOLA, SPACE, Rardtac, Rain and RenGenPect
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Niina Sandholm @niinasandholm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It was great to present our #multiomics work on #DKD at the #UKKW25! And wonderful to meet with the UK colleagues
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Landed at UK Kidney Week 2025 in Bournemouth! A great day 1. Looking forward to day 2 tomorrow. I'll be co-chairing the session 'Beyond the Blueprint: Multiomics in Kidney Disease Research'
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Prof AJ McKnight @aj-mcknight.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
@ukkidney.org Trustees meeting tomorrow & then roll on #UKKW25 in Bournemouth. Looking forward to excellent conversations, catching up with colleagues, & exciting science! #KidneyDisease #RenalResearchNI
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Gilmore Girls Fraiser Friends The Office (USA version) Schitt's Creek Close calls: Dawson's Creek Everybody Loves Raymond Derry Girls Seinfeld
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Hometime! We had a great time in Amsterdam. Coming home with a new friend.
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
It was an honour to present at EDNSG 2025 and I was delighted to receive this award! 😀 such a great meeting! Thanks to all the wonderful scientists who contributed to the work 👏
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A great Day 1 at EDNSG yesterday. So much wonderful research on diabetic kidney disease on display, topped off with a fab boat tour and dinner. Lovely to meet and chat with collaborators and make some new friends! 😀 #diabetes #DKD #DiabeticKidneyDisease
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Prof AJ McKnight @aj-mcknight.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Well done @claire-hill.bsky.social presenting accelerated biological ageing with #diabetes and further diabetic #kidney disease in Amsterdam. #RenalResearchNI @finndiane.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Image of Dr Claire Hill giving her presentation
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Loving Amsterdam XXX Time for the science tomorrow! Looking forward to presenting some of our work on epigenetic ageing in diabetic kidney disease.
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Exploring beautiful Amsterdam before EDNSG annual meeting this Friday-Saturday! EDNSG -The European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group
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UK Kidney Association @ukkidney.org · 18/03/2025
🌍 Keen to make kidney care more sustainable? 🌍 Kidney care has the largest carbon footprint across our healthcare system but we can make a difference! 🌱The #SustainabilityKidneyChampion Information Pack has everything you need to get started.🌱 Be the change!💚 sustainablehealthcar...
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit! A few snaps since last year. We are making more of an effort to explore this beautiful island we are lucky to call home ☘️💚
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Dia dhuit (Hello) It's Seachtain na Gaeilge - Week of the Irish Language (which technically runs for more than a week)! Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge (I am learning Irish). I still have a long way to go but... Is breá liom é (I love it)! #SNAG25
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's World Kidney Day today! What a beautiful morning it is. I'm looking forward to taking part in the NI Kidney Research Fund event today! 🗓 Thurs, 13th March 📍 Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast Foyer ⏰ 10AM-4PM 💡 Learn about kidney health, organ donation, & disease prevention. #WorldKidneyDay
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It was brilliant to be part of this exciting workshop and publication, 'Research recommendations from the 2024 Breakthrough T1D, Diabetes UK and Kidney Research UK, diabetes and kidney disease expert workshop' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Diabetic Medicine</em> | Diabetes UK Journal | Wiley Online Library
Aims To develop a position statement that identifies research priorities in diabetic kidney disease and provides recommendations to researchers and research funders on how best to address them. Me...
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
When it's pancake Tuesday and your birthday 🎂 🥞
Stack of pancakes with candles on top. Some strawberries on the side.
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Did you know? It's #RareDiseaseDay today! Whilst individually uncommon, rare diseases collectively impact a lot of us. 1 in 17 people will be affected by a rare disease, which equates to 110,000 individuals across Northern Ireland. 1/4
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Delighted to be part of this special issue! Thanks for having us. Our article explores 'Integrated multiomic analyses: An approach to improveunderstanding of diabetic kidney disease' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #omics #kidneydisease #diabetes #NephSky
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Integrated multiomic analyses: An approach to improve understanding of diabetic kidney disease
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Prof Claire Hills @chillslincoln79.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Our special issue for DiabeticMedicine entitled 'From Bench to Bedside: An integrated and multi-disciplinary approach to tackling diabetic kidney disease' is available online now. 👇👇 #KidneyDisease #Diabetes #NephSky #KidneyResearch #Diabetes #CardioSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14645491...
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<em>Diabetic Medicine</em> | Diabetes UK Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Making my lab meeting presentation for tomorrow and had the idea to make a Publications 2024 Wrapped! Here's a snapshot. Thanks to Canva for the template. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Claire Hill @claire-hill.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Couldn't say no to the Elphaba cup! #Wicked
Elphaba cup with a miniature figure of Elphaba on top, alongside a pink popcorn tub with Glinda vibes.
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Danny Miller, MD, PhD @danrdanny.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Show me a worse fortune for an early career researcher…
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 19/11/2024
Tuesday afternoon #NephSky update We have @ajkd.bsky.social @kidneymed.bsky.social & @natkidneyfdn.bsky.social on board now 4th pack is almost halfway: go.bsky.app/YeuH82 3rd pack: go.bsky.app/2yLiYN4 2nd pack go.bsky.app/N27Kzri 1st pack: go.bsky.app/H4td28C Reply/DM to add
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Martin Schwartz beat you to that punch
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