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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CCP-volumeEM Show and Tell - February 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. 'A brief introduction to the use of containers for reproducible image analysis' with Dr Martin Jones Abstract: Reproducibility of scientific data analysis is critical, but can be particularly challe...

Do you do image analysis?

Want to make it more robust and reproducible?

Have you heard of containers, but don't know why they’re useful, and how to use them?

@martinjones.bsky.social will explain all: crick.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

13.02.2026 11:19 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Excited about this. We're busy putting together and in person day at the Crick on the 21st April so block out the day in your diary now!

#LNDOpenFest26

03.02.2026 11:17 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Engaging with Open Science practices helps to signal your integrity. It's what we've always said, but nice that someone has run the numbers!

29.01.2026 10:22 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A large industrial tube filled with diamonds suspended in clear liquid image by Globefill Inc., CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Would you like to publish in or otherwise support the work of Diamond Open Access journals? Check out the Diamond Discovery Hub created by @craft-oa.bsky.social and launched last October. It has a huge listing of journals and an easy search function ddh.diamas.org/en

29.01.2026 10:12 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

A screenshot of the new Crick dataset webpage. Two datasets are included and there are browsable facets at the top entitled Teams and Year published.

Open datasets and code from the @crick.ac.uk are now much easier to find thanks to today's launch of the Francis Crick Open Data Catalogue.

Check it out here: www.crick.ac.uk/research/pub...

21.01.2026 11:20 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

We will import and format your protocol Paper protocols floating on your benchtops? We can digitize them for you!

Happy International Love Methods week!

The Crick partners with @protocolsio.bsky.social to share open methods, and if you happen to be a Crick researcher, you can use their protocol writing up service for free (while codes last!)

www.protocols.io/we-enter-pro...

19.01.2026 09:21 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Did you know there's a starter pack to help you find people who've worked at the Crick?

If you're on here and you'd like to be added, let us or @drbeth.bsky.social know!

16.01.2026 11:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Before AI Can Accelerate Science, We Have to Fix Science Or, science’s tollbooth problem

Can AI accelerate exciting science, or is it just giving us more incremental papers to wade through?

timrequarth.substack.com/p/before-ai-...

16.01.2026 09:48 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…

Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?

Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP

#OAbooks

15.01.2026 10:56 — 👍 12    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 4

The Crash Course lectures at the @crick.ac.uk are a really great introduction to a biomedical subject.

Check out this one by @kathaschmack.bsky.social talking about psychosis and the research that her lab is doing.

10.12.2025 14:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Books piled up to look like a snowman

Books piled up to look like a Christmas tree

A library book popular stall with books on the table and a backboard with posters.

The library is on tour today, lending books in the atrium for the Christmas break.

We've built ourselves a Christmas tree and a Snowman. What do you think? 🎄⛄️

10.12.2025 12:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Did you know that our Head of Library & Information Services at @crick.ac.uk published a book last year?

A great resource for library staff to up their EDI game, but as it covers events, hiring etc. non-library ppl might also like it.

If you're at the Crick, we've got a copy in reading corner.

10.12.2025 10:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A path to success: Development's Pathway to Independence programme ABSTRACT. For post-docs pursuing an academic career, the transition to a group leader position can be a notoriously difficult one, not least because the availability of necessary support and training ...

Learn more about @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence Programme - supporting the transition of postdocs to group leaders

Catch up on where the 2022 PI fellows are now

Apply to become a 2026 PI fellow

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

08.12.2025 09:58 — 👍 18    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

The Francis Crick Institute Library & Information Services team has landed on bluesky!

Follow us to see what's going on 😀📚🔬

08.12.2025 09:55 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1