Phil Ewels

🎉 Nextflow Training Week by @seqera.io kicks off today! Join 1000+ others diving into workflow management with our beginner-friendly courses, including Hello Nextflow, RNA-Seq, and Imaging.

🚀 Register now: hubs.la/Q042fkSy0

nf-core Details of past and future hackathons around nf-core.

🎉 Registration for the nf-core hackathon is now open! Join us online or in-person on March 11-13 for collaborative coding, pipeline development, and community building 💻

Bring your own project or choose from our community issues.🔧 Every project has a lead to guide you! nf-co.re/events/hacka...

Let's goooo! Registration numbers for 2025 were insane, let's see if we can do even better in 2026 😉

The Nextflow Podcast, by Seqera | The home of open science Seqera's podcasts covering the Nextflow workflow orchestrator, bioinformatics, data pipelines, and much more.

For podcast episodes, I write a summary blog post that goes on the seqera.io/podcasts episode page 🎙️

So if audio isn't your thing, you can get an overview by reading that. Or point your favourite LLM at the web page (which also has the full transcript) and ask about the episode interactively ✨

It's doubly powerful for YouTube, as that has an automatic translation mode for closed captions / subtitles, so you can follow along in your native tongue.. 🗺️ 🌐

Oh, and training.nextflow.io/latest/ is also now fully translated into 10 languages 🎉 (tell us if you'd like more!)

Current status: deep into video editing mode 👨🏻‍💻 🎧

Did you know that all @nextflow.io #training videos (and podcasts!) have their subtitles manually curated? They're really high quality - even for technical terms.

Great if English is not your first language, or if you can't understand my accent! 😆

The wet-lab results from @adaptyv.bio's Nipah Binder Competition are in! 🧪 While our candidate didn’t bind, the results highlight the importance of experimental validation in protein binder design.

📚 Read the blog: hubs.la/Q041NGGt0
💻 Attend the webinar: hubs.la/Q041NH8C0

This is shaping up to a very interesting webinar - quite excited to hear this one myself!

Sign up for free and join us next week!

Or follow the training async whenever you like. Join the revolution 🎉 ✨

The courses now all teach the new Nextflow "strict syntax" and modern features like Workflow Outputs. Even if you've done the training before it's perfect for a refresher and to put these new language features in context 🗺️

We've been working really hard on a refresh of the super popular #Nextflow training materials.

@geraldinevda.bsky.social has rewritten much of #Hello #Nextflow and #Nextflow #Run and I'm in the process of recording new videos 📹📼🎞️

This was a lot of fun! 🎙️The way that @seqera.io #Fusion filesystem (and the new #Fusion #Snapshots) works has always seemed like magic to me 🪄 so I got Lorenzo to break it down and explain.

Ok it's still magic, but now I have *some* idea what eBPF and Kernel operations and process freezing means 😂🧊

Home | SDKMAN! the Software Development Kit Manager SDKMAN! is a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on most Unix based systems.

Ah I feel you. In the Nextflow docs we recommend using SDKMAN! Generally I find that once you get that running stuff works.. sdkman.io

Cool! This is the VSCode extension? What were the difficulties / solution?

Hackathon - March 2026 A hybrid hackathon to develop nf-core together

🎉 Save the date! nf-core Hackathon — March 11-13, 2026!

Hybrid format: in-person hubs worldwide + online participation
👉 nf-co.re/events/2026/...

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Phil Ewels: Bioinformatics at Scale: nf-core + Nextflow The Bioinformatics CRO Webinar Series February 18, 2026: Phil Ewels gives a talk about Nextflow and nf-core for scalable, reproducible bioinformatics.

Next month, @ewels.bsky.social (Product Manager for OSS at @seqera.io)will be joining the Bioinformatics CRO webinar series to discuss #Nextflow, @nf-co.re, and exciting new features for reproducible bioinformatics at scale. 👇

hubs.la/Q040__J00

Stay tuned for this hitting the @nextflow.io training ("Hello Nextflow" and "Nextflow Run" courses) imminently. We might spin a Claude skill up for writing quizzes too, I could share if of interest..

Yup, that's what I've been doing in training material elsewhere - the syntax is pretty simple so if you give it the link to the mkdocs-quiz docs and tell it to write quizzes for your material it does a pretty good job out of the box.

It works with local files, git repos, and even web URLs. And you don't need MkDocs if you only want the terminal experience! Pretty cool.

github.com/ewels/mkdocs-quiz

The CLI is handy if you're already in a terminal - run `quiz`, pick from available quizzes in your repo, and test your knowledge without switching to a browser.

It uses rich for beautiful markdown rendering with syntax highlighting 🌈, plus has a `history` command to track your scores.

I just released v1.4 + v1.5 of "mkdocs-quiz" this week with some fun new features:

✍️ Fill-in-the-blank quizzes (not just multiple choice)
💾 QTI export for Canvas/Blackboard/Moodle
✨ Interactive terminal CLI quiz runner

github.com/ewels/mkdocs-quiz

New #Nextflow #Podcast is out! 🎙️

It's been a while..! 😅 Had a lot of fun looking back at 2025, so much happened..

Stay tuned for more podcast episodes in 2026, hoping to get back to a more regular cadence again 🙂

Pocket Money | Phil Ewels A family pocket money tracking app to help manage children's allowances and savings.

Weekend vibe project: website / phone app (PWA) for tracking kids' pocket money.

Making green field mini projects like this in such a short time is suuuper addictive 😅

phil.ewels.co.uk/projects/poc...

I wrote a new blog post about our work making @nf-co.re pipelines (and their software) compatible with ARM CPU architecture. Check it out!

Next #Nextflow training week coming soon!

We're hoping to have brand new fresh material ready, including updated Nextflow syntax. Should make for a great refresher even if you've dabbled in Nextflow before!

Sign up for free to be notified when it's ready and get help as you progress 📆🧑‍🎓

I dropped an issue on their GitHub already 🙈

Kickstart 2026 with all the latest features of Nextflow, including static types & workflow inputs/outputs!🚀 Watch the latest @seqera.io webinar showcasing these capabilities using @nf-co.re /RNAseq!

👀 Watch on-demand: hubs.la/Q03ZRYYg0

Stake.. holders..? 🥁

Sorry 🙄

Add QTI export for Canvas/LMS import by ewels · Pull Request #32 · ewels/mkdocs-quiz Implement QTI (Question and Test Interoperability) export functionality to enable quiz import into Learning Management Systems like Canvas, Blackboard, and Moodle. Features: New CLI command: mkdoc...

I started vibe coding this, in case it's helpful. Feedback welcome!

github.com/ewels/mkdocs...