Galaxy 25.1 is here! 🚀 New card-based history UI, Sample Sheets for complex workflows, enhanced Tool Discovery, Galaxy Charts with IGV.js browser, Recent Exports page, workflow editor search, redesigned User Preferences & more! https://gxy.io/r/v25.1

🚀 The BioFAIR Fellowship launched today! Leaders in data & workflows, working together to advance FAIR practices for the life sciences. 👉 full details: biofair.uk/updates/2025... #FAIR #OpenScience

Nicola Soranzo presented 'Making Galaxy workflows sustainable and FAIR' on Day 2 of European Galaxy Days. Read more: https://www.earlham.ac.uk/research-project/elixir-uk ##EGD2025 ##galaxy_workflows ##sustainable ##galaxyproject ##workflows ##eosc ##fair ##open_science

📢 ELIXIR-UK’s new Flexible Bursary scheme is open! 🧪 Up to £5K for: • Travel to ELIXIR events • Running local training or meetups • Technical visits & collaboration 🗓️ Deadline: 15 Aug, 5PM BST 🔗 elixiruknode.org/opportunity/... #ELIXIRUK #OpenScience #FAIRdata #LifeScience #Funding

🦫 We are excited to announce the completion of an annotated reference assembly for the North American beaver, Castor canadensis! Ryan Langlois and his lab at the University of Minnesota will use the genome to study mechanisms of virus susceptibility and resistance. 🦠 (1/3)

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Up until June 2 (Monday) you can apply for scholarship to attend GBCC2025 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This is the Bioconductor / Galaxy joint conference at the end of June. You should submit a poster abstract to apply for scholarship. Scholarship details below.

Join #EBIF2025 to discuss #FederatedData’s challenges and its global impact 🌍 with experts from industry, academia and international organisations. Register for free 👉 loom.ly/6DEG-M4 @elixiruknode.org @ga4gh.org

Check this out! Our ELIXIR-UK Head of Node, Carole Goble and BioFAIR UK Director, Tony Burdett waving the flag of best data practices for AI in biosciences at the AIBIO-UK annual meeting this week👇 @aibio-uk.bsky.social @elixir-europe.org @biofair.bsky.social

1 week to go! The Galaxy Training Academy kicks off next Monday! Join learners from around the world for a week of free, self-paced training in topics like: 🧬Genome Assembly 🦠Microbiome 🧠Machine Learning 🌦️Climate 🐍Python ...and more! Register by May 8th! training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...

High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/GaetanBenoit...

Another banger from Cory Doctorow about complex systems and fraud (the optimal amount of fraud in a system is never zero): pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/h... Cory is keynoting #PyConUS 2025, so don't miss the opening keynote on Friday!

⏩ Is your institute part of the @elixir-europe.org Network? ⏩ Do you work with #biodiversity #data? The ELIXIR #Biodiversity Community 🟢 Recommendations: f1000research.com/articles/10-... 🟦 Goals: elixir-europe.org/communities/... 🟢 Community: f1000research.com/articles/12-...

EOSC and the UK - a community discussion on potential contributions to a UK node | FAIR-IMPACT https://www.fair-impact.eu/events/fair-impact-events/eosc-and-uk-community-discussion

Survey about a week-long Galaxy Admin Training in Europe Read more at https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2025/04/16/admin-training-survey.html @galaxyproject.bsky.social

🌟 Join Us for Optimising Metagenomics Assembled Genomes (MAGs) Building Workflows! 🌟 galaxyproject.org/events/2025-... MAGs building wfs are crucial for building new genomes & reducing microbial dark matter! Join our hackathon to collaboratively improve these workflows! #Metagenomics #Workflows

This week, the small scale @galaxyproject.bsky.social admins will meet on Thursday (April 17th): galaxyproject.org/events/2025-...

On this day, five years ago, we lost James Taylor. The Galaxy continues, and the JXTX Foundation has enabled numerous students to attend genomic data science meetings. Help us continue by donating here: jxtxfoundation.org/donate/

📝 New blog post Released! https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-03-26-gta-registration-open/ 🌠 Join the GTA2025 and learn how to analyze your data using Galaxy @galaxyproject.bsky.social ##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##UniFreiburg ##EOSC ##EuroScienceGateway

🌍 Get ready for the Galaxy Training Academy 2025! Looking to boost your Galaxy data analysis skills or get started with Galaxy? Join us for GTA2025 – a self-paced online event perfect for beginners and advanced learners. 👉 For more info and to register: training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...

🇬🇧 Calling all UK bioinformaticians, researchers, data stewards, data managers... Showcase your work at ISMB/ECCB 2025's UK track! Focus on Biodiversity, Agritech, Health & AI. Submit talks & posters via the official site (select "Bioinformatics in the UK" track) elixiruknode.org/event/bioinf...

Galaxy and Bioconductor joint conference in June! Talks and workshops for both users and developers. Speakers: - Sergei Pond - Charlotte Soneson @csoneson.bsky.social - Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social @galaxyproject.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social

SPOC HDR UK ELIXIR-UK CoFest 2025: How did it go? Read more at https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2025/02/14/spoc_hdr_cofest.html @galaxyproject.bsky.social

🗓️ Join us for a webinar on March 26, 1PM EDT where we will discuss functionality of https://BRC-Analytics as well as improvements to Galaxy as a whole, workflows as a primary topic. See https://galaxyproject.org/events/2025-03-26-brc-galaxy-webinar/ for more information. ##UseGalaxy ##NIAID ##BRC

Applying the FAIR Principles to computational workflows. #FAIR #Workflows #Bioinformatics #Genomics #ScientificData 🧬 🖥️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MARTi: a real-time analysis and visualisation tool for nanopore metagenomics 🧬🖥️🧪 Preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.14.638261v1 Source https://github.com/richardmleggett/MARTi Docs https://marti.readthedocs.io Demo app https://marti.cyverseuk.org/

Call for Trainers and Helpers for the Galaxy Training Academy 2025 Read more at https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2025/02/14/gtn2025-call-trainer.html @galaxyproject.bsky.social

Applications close soon for a Senior Technical #ProjectManager to join the BioFAIR Hub at the Earlham Institute. This role will: ☑️ provide key project management leadership ☑️ establish the structure, staffing, partnerships and governance 📆 Apply by: 18 February #openscience #FAIRdata

Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage https://go.nature.com/4aYn9Me

A short report from the project I joined at the first HDR UK & @elixiruknode.org Joint Hackathon (thanks Wendi and Morgan!): training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat... It was a great event, hope to see it organised again next year!

On my way to Nottingham for the first HDR UK & @elixiruknode.org Joint Hackathon! Looking forward to contributing to some of the exciting projects for the next 3 days! elixiruknode.org/event/2025-h...

🎉 GBCC2025 Abstracts & Registration Open! Join us June 23-26, 2025, at Cold Spring Harbor Lab for the first Galaxy & Bioconductor Community Conference. 🗓️ Abstract Deadline: April 1 🔗 Submit/Register: https://gbcc2025.org ##UseGalaxy ##GBCC2025 ##DataScience ##OpenScience

The Freiburg Galaxy Team is happy to announce this year's European Galaxy Days https://galaxyproject.org/events/2025-10-01-egd2025/ . Please mark you calendar: October 1st to 3rd We are looking forward seeing you in Freiburg ! ##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##UniFreiburg ##EOSC

Applications close soon for two part-time secondments to the role of BioFAIR Architects. These positions will involve supporting the initial stages of the technical design of the BioFAIR UK infrastructure. 📆 Apply by: 14 February #FAIRdata #OpenScience @elixiruknode.org

🆕 Registration has is open for our training course '#Nanopore #Metagenomics: from sample to analysis. The course provides a thorough overview of lab and in-field, real-time @nanoporetech.com sequencing, including DNA extraction, library preparation, and data analysis and visualisation. 🖥️ 🧬

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The Investigatory Powers Act could prohibit companies from revealing that the UK government has ordered them to remove encryption. “That raises the real risk of false reliance on a safety feature that isn’t there,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @bloomberg.com.

On my way to Brussels for the 2025 #ELIXIR-STEERS General Assembly, one year into this exciting project!

Credit where it’s due: GTN Reviewers in the spotlight We would like to recognise and thank all of the reviewers who have contributed. Today, we are highlighting your efforts across every learning material in the GTN https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2024/12/02/reviewing.html

Next week, the small scale @galaxyproject.bsky.social admins will meet for their first meeting this year, on Thursday (Jan 16th): galaxyproject.org/events/2025-...

Are you an ELIXIR Europe member working on #biodiversity-data-related topics? Then join the ELIXIR Biodiversity Community (elixir-europe.org/communities/...) in 2025 to explore synergies across Nodes and help to deliver connected data for biodiversity research f1000research.com/articles/12-...

Exciting news! 🎉 Tony Burdett is the new Director of BioFAIR! With his expertise in FAIR data & leadership at EMBL-EBI and ELIXIR, BioFAIR's mission to enable global, FAIR-compliant data sharing is in great hands. Learn more: elixiruknode.org/news/2024/ap... #FAIRData #LifeSciences #Leadership

VACANCY: We're looking for a #postdoc with experience in #singlecell and #spatialtranscriptomics data, and an understanding of statistics in biology, to join the group of Prof Irene Papatheodorou, as part of the #Gut #CellAtlas programme. 📅 Apply by: 06 January 2025 📄 Contract length: 24 months

Applications close Friday (20) for PhD projects as part of the @daniorecode.bsky.social MSCA doctoral network. Project available with Prof Irene Papatheodorou working on comprehensive cell atlases of regeneration in three different species. #zebrafish #singlecell

This is good news Friday www.ukri.org/news/ukri-de...! Good to see #FAIRData and a more integrated and consistent approaches to data management are in the pipeline plus promoting open research #OpenData

This is Erasmus: A transformative EU initiative providing education, training, and growth opportunities. Returning to Erasmus+ means empowering the UK with life-changing experiences and skills. Learn more and support our campaign to bring Erasmus+ back! www.europeanmovement.co.uk/this_is_eras...

Through a blend of lectures and hands-on sessions, this course, led by @conradn.bsky.social and team will provide you with the skills necessary to analyse base modification profiles in various contexts. 📍 Online, via Zoom 🗓️ Register by: 03 January 2025 @nanoporetech.com

Hey folks! We're hiring at SANBI (at University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa). This is part of the ISO in a Box project and we're looking for a bioinformatics developer, some people skilled in Linux and Scientific Computing and some training folks. www.sanbi.ac.za/vacancies/

Last week the Python package "Ultralytics" suffered a supply-chain attack on its build and release process. This is a review of the attack from @pypi.org's perspective. There's plenty of advice for how Python projects can increase their #security posture: blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-1...

🆕 We're recruiting a #postdoc to join Prof Irene Papatheodorou at the Earlham Institute. The role will work with #scRNASeq data as part of a wider collaboration contributing to the Gut #CellAtlas – normal and Crohn’s Disease research programme. 📅 Apply by 06 January 2025 #singlecell #scijobs