Don’t forget to register for this month’s LIPID MAPS #webinar, titled ‘The Caenorhabditis elegans lipidome – What we know and don’t so far… ’. This webinar is kindly sponsored by #AvantiResearch Register Here: buff.ly/ryrci80

📢 We are excited about the future of WikiPathways and grateful for your continued support and contributions. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about important technical developments as we continue to evolve the platform. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, want to get […]

WikiPathways will continue under the leadership of Martina Summer-Kutmon and Egon Willighagen. Both have been deeply involved with WikiPathways for over a decade and have been in leadership roles for many years, working alongside Alex to develop and maintain the platform. Together with our […]

His contributions to #pathway #curation, #openscience, and the broader #bioinformatics community have left a lasting impact, and we are grateful for everything he has built with this project. Kristina has coordinated our curation efforts from the very beginning, and we are happy that she will […]

Dear WikiPathways #community, We want to share an important update about our WikiPathways leadership. ✨After nearly 20 years of dedication since co-founding WikiPathways in 2007, the Gladstone team, including Alexander Pico and Kristina Hanspers, are transitioning away from their leadership […]

new blog: "Open Infrastructures #2: the SURF Fediverse" https://doi.org/10.59350/1ja9h-jem83 https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/02/08/open-infrastructures.html "But SURF operates a second fediverse server, one using the PeerTube software, also […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

Our team organized in December the 7th @vhp4safety hackathon in Maastricht. The photo is the hackathon in action. A report is available here: https://www.sciencrew.com/c/9347/a/335618490?title=Report_of_the_7th_VHP4Safety_Hackathon More about the VHP4Safety […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

new paper: "Food Additive Titanium Dioxide (E171) Alters Gut Microbial Metabolic Activity and Butyrate Production in the TIM-2 In Vitro Colon Model" https://doi.org/10.1093/jambio/lxag042 "E171 undergoes distinct physicochemical transformations depending on […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

February 2026 WikiPathways update: 95 edits by 9 contributorsin the last month. More news at https://github.com/wikipathways/wikipathways-help/discussions/221 Accessible via #webservices, #rstats, #PathVisio and #Cytoscape. Supported by #AWSOpen […]

it had been a while for me, but we just had a very useful Knowledge Exchange meeting with the Open Science Community Netherlands, as part of our NWO grant for @oscmaastricht #openscience #inosc

while everyone seems to be taking a PISS as some journals (see the PISS preprint), did people notice the significant growth of the stock sentence: "No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study." It seems to be a new publisher thing […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

«During 2025, nearly half (46 percent) of 82 routinely-updated databases managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) experienced delays or total cessations of new data» That's very bleak, these are data sets used by so many groups and are now made unusable or at least a […]

I commented on @PubPeer on "Advances in nanomaterial-mediated CRISPR/Cas delivery: from lipid nanoparticles to vesicle-derived systems" https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2025.1669104, that got published today. I don't do this often, and even hesitant to post here. But I have some questions […]

TIL about a new #chemistry flagship journal, but the German Chemical Society, full #openaccess, kind of up-lifting from Angewandte Chemie (their words: "up-transfer"): Angewandte Chemie Novit https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202503680 From the citations of the first articles, it does not seem to […]

#metabolomics postdoc "The exact focus will be tailored to the candidate’s strengths and evolving opportunities in the field." https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_1gSP4dmYD54u5EqbLs

I have to sit down regularly this year to think of research that will a positive impact on society. I am happy that several ideas gained ground and that my contributions are making a change. yet, as ongoing history makes clear, all is lost in no time (as many researchers already saw in the past […]

one thing I like about Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint(s), is how easy you can work out new ideas... I still happy with this one: it shows the citations to a retracted article, *before* and *after* the retractions :) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

congrats to Maastricht University with their 50th Dies Natalis! #um50 #maastricht

RE: https://fediscience.org/@fairsharing/115762966569825594 with the ELIXIR Toxicology Community, we have improved multiple records in @fairsharing and will continue to do so.

hi, if you are using the #WikiPathways (@wikipathways#wikipathways RDF, please send me a ping. In the coming months, changes are going to happen. To fix and improve some old designs, to add new functionality (like in the January release with more direct IRI links to other knowledge graphs). Some things may […]

NEW BLOG POST📝- The new #lipidmatters blog is titled: 'Mechanistic snapshots of lipid-linked sugar transfer'. Click the link to read the blog NOW!! - lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi...

hi, if you are using the #WikiPathways (@wikipathways#wikipathways RDF, please send me a ping. In the coming months, changes are going to happen. To fix and improve some old designs, to add new functionality (like in the January release with more direct IRI links to other knowledge graphs). Some things may […]

a @wikipedia page about aromaticity in #cheminformatics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromaticity_(cheminformatics) Anything missing?

yesterday evening work with @EvoMRI on the @wdscholia instance on Toolforge. We noted that our main instance only shows half of the results, only @wikidata 'main' part. The 'scholarly' articles part are no longer there. That day has been pending. We seem very close. I wrote up a status 3 weeks […]

my apologies to the NL Reproducibility Network (NLRN) board and the "Netherlands Reproducibility Network Annual Symposium 2026: Culture Shift - Embedding Reproducibility" (https://reproducibilitynetwork.nl/abstracts-2026/) organizers. I am not going to make it today :( I was really hoping I […]

new preprint: "Fostering and sustaining collaborative innovation: Insights from ELIXIR Europe's life science Communities" https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.168288.1 "The ELIXIR Communities framework is made up of a suite of tools and processes that ensure […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

about two years ago, the American Chemical Society held a survey. it suggested the ACS wanted to become more international. We do not have the European equivalent, and many Dutch chemists frequently join ACS meetings for decades. That includes me. I even organized an ACS symposium back in 2010 […]

"Probing Valence Electron and Hydrogen Dynamics Using Charge-Pair Imaging with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction" https://doi.org/10.1103/kny2-gf5x "seeing" (hydrogen) bonds is something I show our students with AFM/SEM as part of an introduction into protein structure and why x-ray diffraction […]

new blog: "Chemical blogs history" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/01/17/chemical-blogs-history.html https://doi.org/10.59350/v13h7-7av66 "Like many awesome internet phenomenu, blogging started in the late nineties. Nature authors and editors recognized the effort early. In 2006 […]

looking forward to visiting my alma mater, @djoerd and talk about indexing the #chemistry on the web and what role @openwebsearcheu could play here: "Search engines and finding the long tail of science: is Bioschemas the solution?"

one collecting is a private library of Peter Debye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Debye), Nobel Prize winner, born in #maastricht, and continously remembered with the debye unit for the electric dipole moment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debye) There has been controversy over his work […]

new blog post: "Where does the WikiPathways Cited In information come from?" https://doi.org/10.59350/0xxqw-90533 https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/01/10/where-does-the-wikipathways-cited-in-information-come-from.html "with so many articles […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

Hi @egonw.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy ! We are very happy to have you in our Stammtisch!

NEW BLOG POST📝- The new #lipidmatters blog is titled: 'The elusive origin of brain DHA, and the importance of publishing replication studies.'. Click the link to read the blog NOW!! - lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi...

Save the date 📅 June 23–25, 2026 Beilstein Dialogues Symposium “Representation and reality: Rethinking scientific models” in Rüdesheim, Germany. 🔗 https://www.beilstein-institut.de/en/symposia/dialogues/?M=y Follow the hashtag #BeilsteinDesigningMatter2026 […] [Original post on hessen.social]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@biohackrxiv/115850146291648899 so many nice things come out of biohackathons :)

Missed last month's webinar? James delves into how lipid droplets and protective pathways regulate lipid balance and ferroptosis, the suppression of lipid peroxidation and cell death, and how genetic screens and lipid metabolism reveal new cancer therapies. Check it out here: youtu.be/ontxd5KTo58

new blog post: "" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/01/05/plantmetwiki.html https://doi.org/10.59350/wyz5v-vts33 "I am happy that Elena and Denise pulled me into a collaboration to create an RDF-based knowledge graph about plant pathways." tl;dr: […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

looking at @dalke's "Superimposed Coding of Count Fingerprints to Binary Fingerprints" https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2026-j3hbj "This paper proposes a novel method based on random superimposed coding to convert count fingerprints to binary fingerprints such that the binary Tanimoto […]

BridgeDb Java 3.0.30 is released: https://github.com/bridgedb/BridgeDb/releases/tag/release_3.0.30 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18157075 "This release updates to BridgeDb Datasources 20260105 adding a few hundred more species and updates various dependencies and Maven plugins." BridgeDb Java […]

new BridgeDb Datasources release: https://github.com/bridgedb/datasources/releases/tag/20260105 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18156816 Some @bioregistry alignment improvements, some TAIR updates, and many more plant species. BridgeDb Datasources is a dataset with metadata about data sources […]

new blog post: "" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/01/05/plantmetwiki.html https://doi.org/10.59350/wyz5v-vts33 "I am happy that Elena and Denise pulled me into a collaboration to create an RDF-based knowledge graph about plant pathways." tl;dr: […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

a new BridgeDb metabolite ID mapping database has been released, compatible with PathVisio 3.3: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30993322

it's been too long since @bridgedb release new ID mapping databases. The Ensembl-based Gene/Protein ID mapping database has a vacancy. But also several other databases need updating. The last 18 months, I did not really get around to it, and even the metabolites databases (which had monthly […]

this @wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matricin could be a @wikipathways

new (review/position) paper: "Challenges and Future Directions in Assessing the Quality and Completeness of Advanced Materials Safety Data for Re‐Usability: A Position Paper From the Nanosafety Community" https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202500567 "While the FAIR […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

2025 has come to an end. This year, we published 45 preprints resulting from 16 different biohackathons. Sometimes reports come in late, as we will see. A quick list of #biohackathon meetings with preprints in 2025: - DBCLS BioHackathon 2023 #bh23jp: https://index.biohackrxiv.org/tag/BH23JP - […]

Curious how your #Fediverse instance has been doing in 2025, in terms of activity? Check out https://fedidb.com/servers/ 2025 has been a good year for social.edu.nl 😻😻 @SLURF @SURF 😻😻 And we have some plans to make it do even better next year. More about this […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

new blog post: "Rescuing @wdscholia #2: getting closer" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/12/31/rescuing-scholia-2-getting-close.html https://doi.org/10.59350/6t2qh-2f839 "But we are getting close. So, please give qlever.scholia.wiki a go, and let us know your observations. As […]

My first time ever on this list 😉 . While I don't like gamification, it is certainly something I couldn't miss today when cleaning tabs. #nanopub #gamification