At #ISMBECCB2025, we teamed up with HDR UK, AIBIO-UK, and BioFAIR for a UK Trail. We showcased 24 of the services we endorse “It was great to see real curiosity about the KnetMiner. It helped bring a lot of our efforts into the light" — @Arne De Klerk, KnetMiner & Rothamsted Research

🎤 One of the highlights of #ISMBECCB2025 ? Co-hosting the Bioinformatics in the UK track, chaired by Carole Goble and Janet Thornton, and sponsored by HDR UK, AstraZeneca UK, BioFAIR, UCB, AIBIO-UK, Astex Pharmaceuticals, and ELIXIR-UK. elixiruknode.org/news/2025/is...

ELIXIR-UK members — last call to apply for the 2025 Flexible Bursary (up to £5K) to support: • Community events & conferences • Training & skills development • Collaborative visits • Local/regional engagement 🖇️ elixiruknode.org/opportunity/...

ELIXIR-UK was everywhere at #ISMBECCB2025 🇬🇧 alognside @elixir-europe.org 🧬 25+ talks/posters 🤝 UK booth trail with @biofair.bsky.social HDR UK and @aibio-uk.bsky.social 🎤 Co-hosted UK track 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/is... #ISMBECCB2025 #FAIRdata #OpenScience #LifeScience

ELIXIR-UK joined @elixir-europe.org, Pistoia Alliance and @ebi.embl.org for a strategy event on cross-sector collaboration. Carole Goble (our Head of Node) chaired the final panel on sustainability & led a session on interoperability 🔗Read more: elixiruknode.org/news/2025/pi...

Here she is! Maria Doyle, @bioconductor.bsky.social, the proud winner of our UK Trail Bingo game at the #ISMBECCB2025 We hope you had as much fun as we did welcoming delegates to our booths for a chat about our work with a touch of gamification.

We're sad to say goodbye to the #ismbeccb2025 crowd, but we'll be leaving today with a bag full of ideas and inspiration Oh, and you can't miss the ISMB highlights video featuring our Head of Node and co-chair of the event, Carole Goble! 📹 youtu.be/9dTEhpwYp6A?...

We’re at the ISMB/ECCB in Liverpool. If you’re here, come to our booth and take the FAIR oath with us “I solemnly swear to make my data #FAIR. To document clearly, standardise wisely and leave no metadata behind”

Going to BioHackathon Europe? You might be eligible for up to £5K from ELIXIR-UK’s new bursary scheme – open now. 💸 Covers registration and travel 🗓️ Apply by 15 Aug, 5PM BST 🔗 elixiruknode.org/opportunity/... #BioHackathon #ELIXIRUK #OpenScience #FAIRdata #Funding

What’s it like being a research data steward at a busy university? Nick Owne (UCL) walks us through a typical day: the tools, the teams, the questions, and what makes the job worth doing. 👇 🔗 elixiruknode.org/blog/2025/a-... #ELIXIRUK #FAIRdata #OpenScience #DataStewardship

Mo Aboshokor (Cardiff) shares how they deployed and customised it – and even tested it with LLMs to pre-fill DMPs 🔗 elixiruknode.org/blog/2025/fa... #FARIytales #FAIRdata #ELIXIRUK #DMP #LLM

What does it take to make a DMP tool useful for your institute? Richard Ostler (Rothamsted Research) shares how he customised the Data Stewardship Wizard to reflect real policies, workflows and researcher needs. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/blog/2025/cu... #FAIRdata #OpenScience #DMP #DataStewardship

📢 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

At BEeS 2025, ELIXIR-UK’s Carole Goble gave a keynote on FAIR workflows for biodiversity 🌱 She shared how tools like WorkflowHub help scientists reuse and scale complex analyses across ecosystems. Full story: 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/fa... #FAIRworkflows #Biodiversity #OpenScience #WorkflowHub

Proud to help drive cross‑Node collaboration at ELIXIR All Hands 2025 in Greece 25+ members joined the annual meeting to talk about #FAIR, #knowledgesharing, #nutrition #womenleadership, #digitaltwins & #softwarequality + a closing keynote 🔗 Read more: elixiruknode.org/news/2025/20...

Big news: ELIXIR-UK has been awarded ~£2M from BBSRC funding to boost engagement, training and support across the UK’s #lifescience #data community. A huge step towards national coordination and inclusion elixiruknode.org/news/2025/el... @elixir-europe.org @ukri.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

How do we make #toxicology data and training more FAIR? ELIXIR-UK attended a Basel workshop that addressed key challenges. Next up is Birmingham in July, focusing on #FAIR educational resources Full update & workshop details: elixiruknode.org/news/2025/advancing-fair-data-in-toxicology/

🎉 Maria Traka @quadraminstitute.bsky.social has been appointed co-Lead of the @elixir-europe.org Food & Nutrition Community! Her expertise in #FAIR data, #NutritionResearch & #microbiome will strengthen UK efforts & drive innovation across Europe Read more elixiruknode.org/news/2025/ma...

🇬🇧 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...

🆙 PHI-base 5 This ELIXIR-UK Node service released a new version offering improved gene insights, data integration and expanded content Run by our members at @rothamsted.bsky.social . . . . Learn more: elixiruknode.org/news/2025/ph... #Bioinformatics #ResearchImpact

Thank you for having us at this week's @psdi-uk.bsky.social and @digitalcuration.bsky.social PSDI forum, for data librarians and research support professionals working within the physical sciences across the UK and EU. Phil presented two lightning talks, on @elixiruknode.org and the mTeSS-X project.

💜 Happy #IWD2025 Women in our community are leaders, mentors and innovators We celebrate the day with two stories 💡 Be OK with change - Allyson Lister 💡 Soft skills ARE leadership skills – Wendi Bacon Read the full blog post elixiruknode.org/blog/2025/ce...

#Leadership is a journey, not a leap 🚀 ELEAD offers #mentorship, peer support & training to help you rise! After a successful pilot, the programme is back—stronger & better! 💪 🎯 Apply by Feb 28 to join the next cohort of ELIXIR future female leaders . . . . . 🔗 elixir-europe.org/internal-pro...

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...

Three days. Incredible minds. Big ideas. 💡✨ Just wrapped up an amazing hackathon with the folks at HDR UK – diverse talent, bold ideas at the intersection of #LifeScience and #HealthData. Can’t wait to share what we built! Until then, here’s a little visual teaser. Stay tuned for more! 👀

Join us Jan. 23, 17:45 for the first 2025 LSN event! 🧬 Designing de novo tRNAs for Genetic Code Expansion Amir Guppy 🧪 Harnessing synbio tools for solving crucial biotech questions Dr. Anastasiya Kishkevich events.humanitix.com/copy-of-lond...

🎄 Day 23 of ELIXIRUK #AdventCalendar Discover how FAIRsharing & Data Stewardship Wizard integrate to support users in the #FAIR journey across the data lifecycle Read more in Allyson Lister and Marek Suchanek's latest blog post: elixiruknode.org/blog/2024/jo... #openscience @ox.ac.uk

ELIXIR UK Advent Calendar – Day 20 ✨🎄 Another #FAIRytale… @saskialawsontovey.bsky.social created a 90-minute FAIR workshop for UoM, blending collaboration and a pinch of data management magic! The success = a new recurrent FAIR training course at Manchester Full story 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🎄✨ ELIXIR-UK #AdventCalendar – Day 18 ✨🎄 Once upon a #FAIRytale... 📚🔬 Phillip Crout’s seminar on open data revealed: 📂 Long-term hosting like figshare & zenodo = data happily ever after 🧬 Metadata = saving future researchers from headaches Full story 👉 fellowship.elixiruknode.org/latest/outre...

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

🎄 Day 17 #adventcalendar Have you heard of @pombase.bsky.social? You probably have, but what about Canto, its online community curation tool? One of our Fellows, Manuel Lera, created an interactive tutorial to help community #curators Check this out 👇 fellowship.elixiruknode.org/latest/contr...

Looks interesting and I hadn't come across this before...but 2 'Ds' symbols? Mendeleev wouldn't be impressed!

🎁 Day 12 of our #AdventCalendar Have you read our #FAIRytales? Short stories from Digital RTPs This one from Adam Partridge "New training and support to address the barriers to implementing #Open and #FAIR data practices" at University of Sheffield fellowship.elixiruknode.org/latest/outre...

💬 “It’s the co-creation that makes this question of how you define a technician so important.” As signatory to the #TechniciansCommitment, we're reflecting on the range of roles across the Earlham Institute to ensure visibility and support of all #technicians. www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/how...

🎁 Day 7 of our #AdventCalendar Did you check out our 2024 course on #RNASeq – Data readiness for #machinelearning applications? Developed by Ed Parkinson at Cardiff University fellowship.elixiruknode.org/latest/carpe...

🎄 Day 4 of our #AdventCalendar Did you know one of our Fellows steered the creation of this course on #FAIR #bioimage metadata? Check out this course created by Laura Cooper and Julia Jakiela training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat... @galaxyproject.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

🎄 Day 3 of #AdventCalendar: rewatch a great talk from this year by @carolegoble.bsky.social Presented an overview of ELIXIR's capabilities and talked through learning from 10 years of European scale infrastructure wrangling At HDR UK conference 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOyp...

🎄 Day 6 of #AdventCalendar: Spotlight on @rostler.bsky.social on of our#datastewardship Fellows Richard’s Carpentries course offers guidance on managing #agriculturaldata for long-term reuse, supporting #FAIRprinciples 👉 Learn more: fellowship.elixiruknode.org/latest/carpe...

🎄 Day 1 of our #Adventcalendar! 🎉 We're kicking off with an insightful whitepaper on #EDIJ & #Decolonisation in #DataManagement🌍 Meet Ciara Loughrey – one of our Fellows – an exceptional early-career researcher Don’t miss it! zenodo.org/records/1419... #InclusiveResearch #Biosciences #DataScience

A little something for our community this December.... 🎁 We've created our own version of the #adventcalendar. Every day this December, we'll share with you a story, resource, or video on data stewardship, interoperability, data analysis... Do you want to join us in this campaign? Get in touch

Proud moment for ELIXIR-UK last month at #EOSC2024 Carole Goble & Nick Juty led discussions on FAIR data, interoperability & AI-driven frameworks. UK innovation continues engaged in European and global research standards 🌍🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2024/el...

Always thrilled to hear about our Fellows thriving with their efforts to upskill peers in #datamanagement for the #lifesciences

📸 This week, we brought a bit of all ELIXIR Europe to Manchester to discuss #FAIRdata #interoperability, future plans and direction. Watch this space if you want simple steps towards FAIR #data #processes #training from across all life sciences domains in ELIXIR

In October,our team and BioFAIR's met with Health-RI (ELIXIR-NL) to discuss building robust national data infrastructures 💡 Key outcomes: ✅ Insights from Health-RI’s tested governance & workflows ✅ Shared training & resources ✅ Advancing #BioCommons collaboration elixiruknode.org/news/2024/he...

What a great All Hands! co-hosted with our members at Cardiff University. Check this out. What a great pic of our community with our funders, scientific and industry advisory board and potential collaborators 👇

Photo from ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe, November 2024 (by Katherin Wermke). Here, I am presenting our project progress in the middle of the week, titled 'Bioschemas for Mortals'. We are improving the guidance for less-technically-minded people who are adding FAIR markup to their data or training.