@jtedds.bsky.social
@elixir-europe.org Programme Manager for Scientific Computing, Tools, EOSC. Honorary Research Informatics, Astro @UniofLeicester. Lead @BRISSKit @redinformatics.bsky.social @OWLS_Trust Schools Trust
📣 Join the #EOSCENTRUST online workshop on 25 February 2026 to discuss: 🎯 Challenges faced by data spaces, #AIFactories and #EOSCFederation💡 How outcomes from EOSC-ENTRUST relate to these challenges.
📆 25 February 2026 🕚 11:00-12:30 CET 👉 https://loom.ly/mREJp2E
✨ ELIXIR features in both life science projects selected in the second oscarsproject.bsky.social open call 👉 https://loom.ly/T0DHrV8
🔬 MultiCellML-TDR - #FAIRness of computational models
🩺 FLEX4HEALTH - #federatedlearning across sensitive health datasets
#Opensource software and workflows are doing a lot of heavy lifting 🏋️ in the life sciences! Let's revisit ✨ ELIXIR's report on "Open source software and workflows: a driving force for innovation in life sciences" to find out the importance of #OSSWs 👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17570133
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🤔 Why are life science companies turning to #opensource software and workflows? 💡 Because innovation moves faster when you don’t build everything from scratch!
Read the ELIXIR report to explore how companies use OSSWs to handle complex research data 👉 https://loom.ly/88rZbdo
#OpenSoftware
In 2025, ELIXIR supported 💪 11 Staff Exchanges, enabling experts from ELIXIR Nodes to work with peers across the network 🌍.
🎯 Strengthens links between ELIXIR Nodes
💪 Builds capacity within Nodes
🙌 Exchanges of best practices in bioinformatics service
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/WXQsmCU
📹 Watch the highlight video of the 2025 BioHackathon Europe: loom.ly/AfKwtZA
16.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to chairing our 2026 #ELIXIR Biohackathon. It's a huge team effort at @elixir-europe.org Hub, bringing together a wide range of #bioinformatics communities across Europe & beyond, including online. Outcomes have proven to be highly influential in future grant funded research
16.02.2026 12:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Enough BS (bad science) - here are the facts.
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An image of the CERN Globe of Science and Innovation and the nearby Steel sculpture "Wandering the Immeasurable" by Gayle Hermick, a Canadian sculptor.
Passionate about quality of Research Software?
Join the EVERSE Community Engagement Event to explore tools & resources, share best practices, connect with peers, and help shape future priorities.
📅 5 Feb 2026 📍 CERN, Geneva 💻 In person (or online)
Info/register: everse.software/news/2025-10...
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📣 8 ELIXIR-funded projects, worth a total of €705,000 and aimed at strengthening 💪 #OpenScience and supporting #FAIR practices in the life sciences, have been selected to begin in 2026.
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/o8QF2CI
🤔 What are the challenges in acknowledging #researchsoftware, on par with data and publications? 📣 Join the #ELIXIR_STEERS policy event to discuss with experts from #policy, research and infrastructure communities.
🗓️14 January 2026 📍Brussels, Belgium 🔗 https://loom.ly/eZL9Gkk
Large, complex datasets 💾 are fundamental to the life sciences and form the backbone of innovation. 📣 ELIXIR has published a report on the contribution of #OpenSource #software and #workflows to innovation in the #lifesciences 🔬.
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/THB_IX4
Recent policy changes have led to disruptions to the support of internationally shared #opendata infrastructures.
ELIXIR’s position paper recommends: 🌍 Europe invest in open data as a critical enabler of innovation 👉 https://loom.ly/ZjbrX2c
#OpenScience #Science4EU
📣 ELIXIR has awarded €124,000 in infrastructure service funding to support the Beacon network. The funding will support 💪 operational activities at ELIXIR Spain, ELIXIR Switzerland & ELIXIR Finland.
@ga4gh.org
Read the news: https://loom.ly/HZeATDA
📣 ELIXIR has published a position paper on the importance of #OpenData infrastructure for 🌍 European competitiveness in life sciences.
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/22XW72k
#ResearchInfrastructure #Science4EU
📣 #EOSC_ENTRUST project (coordinated by ELIXIR) published its first policy brief highlighting the importance of European investment in #TrustedResearchEnvironments.
Read the news and the full policy brief 👉 eosc-entrust.eu/news/eosc-en...
ELIXIR has published strategy documents for two of the scientific priority areas defined in the Scientific Programme 2024-28:
🔬 Cellular and molecular research
🌱 Biodiversity, food security and pathogens.
Read the news for a summary of the strategies 👉
Join #EBIF2025 to discuss #FederatedData’s challenges and its global impact 🌍 with experts from industry, academia and international organisations:
1️⃣ publicly funded initiative 2️⃣ industry approaches
Register now 👉
📣 Join #ELIXIR’s international and dynamic team to support administrative processes at the ELIXIR Hub and 🙌 enable users to access services that are vital for their ground breaking research!
Apply now 👉 loom.ly/O5-9pWw
#ResearchInfrastructures #hiring
📣 Join this year’s ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum #EBIF2025 to explore:
🙌 Publicly-funded initiatives in #federateddata analytics with the GDI project & @ga4gh.org
🔵 Industrial approaches in federated data analytics with #PistoiaAlliance.
Map of Europe showing AI Factories (AIF) as part of the EuroHPC initiative. Countries are color-coded: dark blue for AIF Hosting Countries, yellow for AIF Partner Countries, and light blue for other EuroHPC participants. The map highlights 11 AI Factories, including LUMI AIF in Finland, MIMER in Sweden, PIAST AIF in Poland, AIF Austria, BRAIN** in Bulgaria, Pharos in Greece, SLAIF in Slovenia, ITALIA in Italy, JAIF and HammerHAI in Germany, AIZF in France, BSC AIF in Spain, and Meluxina-AI in Luxembourg. The European Commission and EuroHPC logos appear in the top right, with a note on Switzerland’s conditional participation.
What if the next big AI breakthrough came from Europe?
Today we announced an ambitious AI Continent Action Plan to make this happen ↓
europa.eu/!xPDyVf
⚠️ The deadline for the submission of #BioHackEU25 project proposals is midnight today!
🔗 Submit your project proposal now:
📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872
🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Join us at 13th Plenary in Uppsala, Sweden from 6 to 10 October!
We are excited to collaborate on this event with @scilifelab.se , our meeting co-host. Register by 23 April to take advantage of our Early Bird registration rate.
Learn more and register: broadinstitute.swoogo.com/ga4gh13plena...
Two men standing at a table, smiling to camera.
We announce changes in EMBL leadership as Edith Heard steps down as Director General.
EMBL will be led jointly by Peer Bork as Interim Director General and Ewan Birney in a new role of Executive Director until the appointment of EMBL’s next Director General.
www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
We are proud to announce the launch of FAIR Image Analysis Across Sciences, supported by the OSCARS project, in collaboration with Simula Research Laboratory, #EPFL & University of Bergen (UiB)! 🎉
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Because of what I do at work, people quite often ask me about "more responsible" ways to use GenAI, so I've written a blog post with 7 things to look out for and 3 ways of making intentional choices when using text generators
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
Today kicks off the #GA4GHConnect2025 meeting in Boston! Connect gathers the GA4GH community and close collaborators to advance standards development and responsible genomic and health data use. Virtual participation is available all week: broadinstitute.swoogo.com/connect25bos/
01.04.2025 13:04 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Save the date! Our first #EVERSE webinar is coming up on 15th April at 10 AM CEST. We’ll present results from a recent landscaping survey in research software quality and talk about the roles of indicators and dimensions in #RSQ. See here for more details: indico.cern.ch/event/1531998/
01.04.2025 15:08 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Really enjoyed the soaring voice and music of #Nyssa supporting the excellent Berlin based @annaerhard.bsky.social (Blue Men Group!) at @theinternational.bsky.social in #Leicester last night with @andyleitch.bsky.social & Jon Immins. Great sound quality. We have to support these local venues :)
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