Some power cuts have affected the science area in Oxford from approx. 5am this morning and this has had a knock-on effect on our network. Our IT team are attempting to restore connectivity as soon as possible.
02.02.2026 11:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Types and directions of FAIRsharing relationships; just one of the topics covered in this year's webinar.
@debsethorpe.bsky.socialโฌ
@gerdos.bsky.socialโฌ
@gabrielpelletier.bsky.socialโฌ
@hughshanahan.bsky.socialโฌ
@kylecopas.bsky.socialโฌ
@lnanderscience.bsky.socialโฌ
โช@jettenmijke.bsky.socialโฌ
@romaindavid.bsky.socialโฌ
@stephenserjeant.bsky.socialโฌ
๐ฅ Our Annual FAIRsharing Webinar for 2026 is now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Learn how our community-curated registry of standards, databases and policies has grown in scope, connectivity and reuse; also, how we support data management, FAIR assessment, policy implementation & more.
22.01.2026 16:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
We've now completed this work and the system appears to be running nicely. Our IT team continue to work on the cooling problem.
13.01.2026 11:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
FAIRsharing
After 10:00 local time we plan to take fairsharing.org offline for a short time for a hardware upgrade. Currently, there is also some network disruption due to cooling fault in our server room. We hope that the disruption will be kept to a minimum.
13.01.2026 09:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
@gerdos.bsky.socialโฌ
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@hughshanahan.bsky.socialโฌ
@kylecopas.bsky.socialโฌ
@lnanderscience.bsky.socialโฌ
โช@jettenmijke.bsky.socialโฌ
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@stephenserjeant.bsky.socialโฌ
Happy Holidays from FAIRsharing! We'd like to celebrate the 2025 efforts of our maintainers and #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions, welcome our newest Champions and say "until we see you again" to recent alumni. Find out more on them, our 2025 work and our holiday closure at blog.fairsharing.org?p=1086
22.12.2025 11:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A jolly, festive image, showing snowflakes upon a blue background. At the top is the logo for FAIRsharing.org (standards ,databases, policies) with the text below saying "happy holidays from the FAIRsharing team".
From the end of today most of our staff will be on holiday and the department closed. Support will be on a best-effort basis until early January. We wish you all a great holiday, and will see you in 2026!
19.12.2025 13:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
We're back online - thanks for your patience.
01.09.2025 14:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Our FAIRsharing application server has stopped responding and we're currently investigating this; the site will be unavailable until this is fixed. Apologies for the inconvenience.
01.09.2025 08:46 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
The whole team at #FAIRsharing would like to thank David Tomkins๐ฅwho joined our #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions in 2023 and for a recent short-term contract.
Find out more about David's time with us: blog.fairsharing.org?p=1057 ๐ฅณ
Take a look at just 1 of the 1000s of edits he performed! โฌ๏ธ
04.08.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Summer holidays at FAIRsharing โ FAIRsharing Blog
Summer holidays are here, and we'll be operating at a reduced capacity from 4 August โ 1 September, with significantly reduced capacity from 18-25 August. During this period all support will be on a "best effort" basis.
Blog post:
blog.fairsharing.org?p=1062
We wish you all an enjoyable summer!
30.07.2025 08:04 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
And here are all of the alumni Champions we could find to say thank you to! :) @debsethorpe.bsky.social @gabrielpelletier.bsky.social @stephenserjeant.bsky.social
Please let us know if you're on Bluesky and we haven't found you!
Thank you for 3 great years of the #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions!
09.07.2025 11:56 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
There are 47 current and alumni Champions to thank. Here's as many current Champions as we could find on Bluesky! @romaindavid.bsky.social @gerdos.bsky.social @hughshanahan.bsky.social @kylecopas.bsky.social @lnanderscience.bsky.socialโฌ โช@jettenmijke.bsky.socialโฌ
09.07.2025 11:56 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐ฅณ Please join me in celebrating the 3rd birthday of the #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions Programme! Did you know that over the past 3 years our Champions have made nearly 10,000 edits, created over 200 records and updated nearly 1500 records!? They're all amazing!
More at blog.fairsharing.org?p=1020
09.07.2025 11:56 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
ELIXIR 2024 Annual Report cover
The ELIXIR annual report highlights the achievements of experts from 22 ELIXIR Nodes including Oxford e-Research Centreโs Data Readiness group. The FAIR Cookbook, @fairsharing.bsky.social & MARS resources feature as core to data management services for the life sciences oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/fairsha...
02.07.2025 14:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ A case study from #PathOS project has demonstrated the value and impact of #UniProt, the universal protein resource. ๐ช Findings of this case study strengthen the case for sustainable funding for ๐ global #openscience resources.
Read the news ๐ https://loom.ly/Rcpa8cU
26.06.2025 02:01 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Services are now restored! Thanks for your patience.
25.06.2025 14:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Work is still continuing and we hope to hear more later this afternoon.
25.06.2025 11:55 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Unfortunately, some maintenance in our server room has turned out to be more problematic than anticipated. The IT dept. will return to work about 12 hours from now and we hope they will resolve the situation as soon as possible. We apologise for any nuisance caused by this outage.
24.06.2025 19:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
We're back up again (apologies for the delay) but the service should be considered at risk for the moment. We'll let everyone know if any further issues crop up.
19.06.2025 14:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Engineers are on site and working on fixing the cooling issue in the relevant server room. We expect to have more information from them around midday local time (around two hours from now).
19.06.2025 08:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
a cat attempting to relax.
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Please note that power has gone off to part of the network at @ox.ac.uk due to overheating. @fairsharing.bsky.social is currently unavailable as a result. IT is working on it and we will let you know when it is back up and running.
Perhaps a short cat nap is in order.
18.06.2025 13:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Read about the MOMSI WG dashboard and @fairsharing.bsky.social collection at fairsharing.org/5742 incl ~200 Omics standards!
Congrats on these results to all in the WG with a special mention to the #FAIRsharingCommunityChampions and WG co-chair @lnanderscience.bsky.social ๐ฅณ
03.06.2025 09:05 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ขCome to this webinar on 15 April and see what #OSTrails is up to! @fairsharing.bsky.social is a member of this project and this webinar will introduce you to all of the exciting work @ostrails.bsky.social is doing ๐
10.04.2025 09:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Our @allysonlister.bsky.social contributed to @elixiruknode.org's #IWD2025 post today, together with #WendiBacon - please take a look! And if you look closely, you'll also see our #SusannaSansone there too!
Happy #IWD2025!
08.03.2025 16:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
13 is our lucky number today! ๐โโฌ There's an update to the Editorial Reference Handbook!
We now have 13 checks โ๏ธ covering reproducibility of digital research objects in manuscript submissions.
๐Learn more: publishers.fairassist.org
05.03.2025 07:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
There's an update to our @tier2-project.eu #EditorialReferenceHandbook! We now have 13 "lucky" ๐โโฌ checks covering reproducibility of digital research objects in manuscript submissions. ๐ฅณ Take a look at publishers.fairassist.org
@becktaylorgrant.bsky.social @mattcannontf.bsky.social
03.03.2025 16:13 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
The Metascience Alliance is launching at #Metascience2025! This new cross-sector network is building collaboration to better understand & improve the research system.
We want your input! Here's how to get involved (๐งต)
17.02.2025 12:45 โ ๐ 38 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4
I'm speaking at the T&F webinar on building and maintaining trust with open research on 15 March, please join us! @tier2-project.eu @fairsharing.bsky.social will be discussed, incl our Editorial Reference Handbook at publishers.fairassist.org
authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/events/build...
27.02.2025 13:04 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
RROx is a collective of students and staff working to support open research practices across the University of Oxford, as part of the UKRN.
Bioinformatician, Research Scientist at ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary.
Welcome to our official account ๐ Follow for the latest news, research and updates about life at Oxford.
Building a data management planning platform focusing on integrations into existing research workflows.
Join DMP insights and tips โ https://fair-wizard.com/newsletter?utm_source=bsky&utm_content=bio
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The European plug-in to the Research Data Alliance: building the social and technical bridges that enable global open sharing of data.
The Research Data Alliance builds the social and technical bridges that enable the global, open sharing and re-use of data.
Become a member today: https://www.rd-alliance.org/
@elixir-europe.org Programme Manager for Scientific Computing, Tools, EOSC. Honorary Research Informatics, Astro @UniofLeicester. Lead @BRISSKit @redinformatics.bsky.social @OWLS_Trust Schools Trust
Delivering the Commons to Plan-Track-Assess research in EOSC.
A life sciences research infrastructure, bringing together #bioinformatics resources across Europe to store, analyse, share and reuse data.
Dutch Node of ELIXIR Europe, research infrastructure for #bioinformatics resources in Europe; https://www.health-ri.nl/en/elixir
Institut Franรงais de Bioinformatique et noeud franรงais d'ELIXIR Europe
The Institut Franรงais de Bioinformatique is the national #bioinformatics infrastructure for #lifesciences communities and the French node of #ELIXIREurope
๐ป https://www.ifb-elixir.fr/
Estonian Node of ELIXIR Europe, research infrastructure for #bioinformatics resources in Europe.
Twitter: https://x.com/ELIXIREstonia
The de.NBI network provides bioinformatics services and comprehensive compute resources to researchers in the life sciences and biomedicine in Germany and Europe. Since August 2016 the German Node of ELIXIR, ELIXIR Germany, is run by de.NBI partners.
Cognitive Neuroscientist turned Open Science facilitator
Open Science Alliance Officer @Tanenbaum Open Science Institute
PKP, a Core Facility of SFU, is a community-governed organization dedicated to increasing the quality, access, and reach of non-commercial #ScholarlyPublishing โ the trusted and original home of #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS), OMP, and OPS: https://pkp.sfu.ca
A global initiative established to help ensure the long-term sustainability of the worldโs Open Science infrastructure.
Head of comms @GBIF.org, writer, poet, communicator, producer, husband, father. ๐ฉposting about literature, music, biodiversity, sustainability, design, #biodiversity. Decolonization begins at home (and abroad), restoring Indigenous roots.
ISSDA is Irelandโs leading centre for quantitative data acquisition, preservation & dissemination.
Funded by @ucdlibrary.bsky.social, @researchireland.bsky.social & member @cessda.bsky.social
https://www.ucd.ie/issda/
Director of Open Science Strategy & Innovation, Taylor & Francis. Open Science & Open Data person with a Humanities twist!
TIER2: enhancing Trust, Integrity and Efficiency in Research through next-level Reproducibility, #HorizonEurope (GA 101094817)
๐ https://tier2-project.eu
