ELIXIR-UK

Sponsored by @elixiruknode.org, HDR UK , @biofair.bsky.social and and @aibio-uk.bsky.social

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.

YouTube video by WebsEdge Science Welcome to ISMB - From the Co-chairs

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”

2025 ELIXIR-UK flexible bursary | ELIXIR-UK The Flexible Bursaries Scheme provides financial support to ELIXIR-UK members for community events and activities. These bursaries aim to facilitate partici ...

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

From Zero to DMP: implementing a localised instance of DSW How an RSE deployed and configured a local DSW instance at Cardiff University

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

2025 ELIXIR-UK flexible bursary | ELIXIR-UK The Flexible Bursaries Scheme provides financial support to ELIXIR-UK members for community events and activities. These bursaries aim to facilitate partici ...

📢 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...

ELIXIR-UK awarded BBSRC funding to deepen member engagement ELIXIR-UK has been awarded a five-year grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UK ...

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

Advancing FAIR Data in toxicology: ELIXIR-UK collaboration ELIXIR-UK demonstrates its commitment to advancing FAIR data practices in toxicology by participating in and organising several workshops

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 brings UK leadership to ELIXIR Food & Nutrition Community In March 2025, Dr Maria Traka was appointed as the new co-Lead of the ELIXIR Food & Nutrition Community, joining Dr Jildau Bouwmann (ELIXIR Netherlands) ...

🎉 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...

Abstracts deadline: 17 April 2025

Sponsored by ELIXIR-UK, HDR UK, AIBIO-UK and @biofair.bsky.social

Bioinformatics in the UK Track at ISMB / ECCB 2025 Join us for a special one-day UK track, showcasing the best of UK bioinformatics research, innovation, and talent – part of the 33rd ISMB and 24th ECCB

🇬🇧 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 update: deeper insights into pathogen and host genes ELIXIR UK is pleased to announce the release of PHI-base 5 in January 2025, a significant update to the Pathogen-Host Interaction database. As an ELIXIR-UK- ...

🆙 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
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Learn more: elixiruknode.org/news/2025/ph...

#Bioinformatics #ResearchImpact

Phil stood in front of the poster presentation

Phil speaking at the lectern, gesturing

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.

Celebrating International Women's Day | ELIXIR-UK As we mark International Women's Day on March 8th, we are proud to highlight the crucial role women play in leadership within our ELIXIR-UK Node. With ...

💜 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
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🔗 elixir-europe.org/internal-pro...

Thanks @europepmc.org for your support. If you have an opportunity that is relevant to our community, don't hesitate to share it with us 🙌

Join our first HDR UK & ELIXIR-UK Joint Hackathon in 2025 Get ready for three days of a hackathon bringing together the minds of UK professionals in both health data and life sciences to tackle shared challenges.

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! 👀

London SynBio Network 6 London SynBio afterwork talks and networking event on Thursday 12th of December

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...

FAIRytale. Common themes in data management emerge at the MRC's open data workshop – ELIXIR-UK Fellowship A a personal story about working with FAIR data

🎄✨ 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...

ELIXIR-UK welcomes appointment of Tony Burdett – BioFAIR Director ELIXIR-UK is proud to see BioFAIR, originally conceived within its community, take an important step forward with the appointment of Tony Burdett.

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

Tutorial for Canto – PomBase's online community curation tool – ELIXIR-UK Fellowship A step by step video and text guide for curating a paper using Canto

🎄 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...