BioFAIR has committed £4M to build the Methods Commons – a national hub for FAIR computational workflows. Built on foundations ELIXIR-UK members have championed for years. Led by Carole Goble, ELIXIR-UK Joint Head of Node elixiruknode.org/news/2026/bi...
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We are the UK Node of ELIXIR https://elixiruknode.org/
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You've spent years building technical expertise. You're good at what you do. But maybe you've noticed: the leadership table doesn't always look like you. And no one's handed you a map. PeerLadder is peer-mentoring for dRTPs from underrepresented backgrounds elixiruknode.org/opportunity/...
New paper: ELIXIR-UK member Valerie Wood co-authors on human-in-the-loop AI for biocuration How AI can support curators without replacing expert review 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2026/sc... #AI #Bioinformatics @elixir-europe.org
The University of Southampton has joined ELIXIR-UK 🎉 From open-access glycan databases to data stewardship, Southampton brings a wealth of expertise to the network. Read more: elixiruknode.org/news/2026/un... @elisafadda.bsky.social @glycoshape.org #openscience #bioinformatics #datastewardship
You've spent years building technical expertise. You're good at what you do. But maybe you've noticed: the leadership table doesn't always look like you. And no one's handed you a map. PeerLadder is peer-mentoring for dRTPs from underrepresented backgrounds elixiruknode.org/opportunity/...
Funded by DisCouRSE Network+ Support by ELIXIR-UK, but open to all in the UK, not only in the life sciences. Find out more: discourse-network.github.io/projects/1-1...
You've spent years building technical expertise. You're good at what you do. But maybe you've noticed: the leadership table doesn't always look like you. And no one's handed you a map. PeerLadder is peer-mentoring for dRTPs from underrepresented backgrounds elixiruknode.org/opportunity/...
Not a tick-box. Not a networking event. A structured, funded programme with real peer mentoring, leadership training, and people who get it. 📅 Applications close 27 April. 3+ years in a dRTP role? Based in a UK research organisation? You're likely eligible. elixiruknode.org/opportunity/...
Calling UK dRTPs underrepresented in leadership: PeerLadder applications are open. Join tomorrow’s Q&A webinar, Discover PeerLadder, on 16 April at 11:00 am to hear about the programme, who it’s for, and how to apply. elixiruknode.org/event/discov...
The University of York has joined ELIXIR-UK 🎉 With three Data Stewardship Training Fellows already in the network and strong regional training links, York is a very welcome addition to our research infrastructure. Read more: elixiruknode.org/news/2026/un...
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Applications close 09 April for an Events and Communications Assistant to join the @elixiruknode.org team based at Earlham Institute, helping support our community engagement activities, coordinate events, and develop clear and engaging communications. #scicomm
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Empowering biological knowledgebases: advances in human-in-the-loop AI-driven literature curation url: academic.oup.com/bioinformati... @elixiruknode.org @biocurator.bsky.social
HDR UK is joining forces with ELIXIR-UK to help turn up the signal for the UK Human Data Community, becoming the UK Human Data and Tech Club With Wendi Bacon joining the leadership team! 🔗 Learn more and join the community: elixiruknode.org/news/2026/uk...
💙 Nice way to mark #11F International Day of Women and Girls in Science New DisCouRSE funding for PeerLadder led by ELIXIR-UK members – a peer-mentoring pilot focused on inclusive leadership for digital RTPs. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2026/di... #WomenInScience
Highlighting a key report on a day like today for the #11F 💙 ELIXIR-UK leads the impact evaluation for the ELIXIR's female leadership programme’s second edition. 📘 elixiruknode.org/news/2026/me... #WomenInScience #Leadership
ELIXIR-UK contributed to a national discussion on training for digital Research Technical Professionals, sharing experience from life science data stewardship and European-scale training infrastructure. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2026/na... #bioinformatics #dRTPs #Training #ELIXIR
Who is qualified to access sensitive data? HDR UK’s Safe People Registry is welcoming trial projects from UK-based organisations 🔗 Learn more and express interest: elixiruknode.org/articles/202... #TREs #SDEs #SafeHavens #healthdata #humandata
UKRI has published how it will invest its £38.6bn four-year allocation from government Funding will be delivered across three R&D priority ‘buckets’ under a new single UKRI mission Life sciences has been placed as a significant Industrial Strategy growth sector 🔗 www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
🎁 24 New ELIXIR-UK travel bursaries are now available – open to all staff at member organisations. You may be a member and not yet aware of it. Check it out 🔗 elixiruknode.org/members/ #opportunities
🎁 Wrap-up This December, we shared highlights from across the ELIXIR-UK community – from hackathons and FAIRytales to services and partnerships. Thanks to everyone who contributed and represented UK life sciences data infrastructure. Catch up here: elixiruknode.org/news-and-sto... More in 2026.
🎁 22 Did you know that ELIXIR-UK was awarded BBSRC funding to continue supporting the UK life sciences data community? 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/el...
🎁 23 Our national Clubs and Communities continue to grow. Not yet part of our network, join us. 🔗 subscribepage.io/2fTn1q
🎁 20 Five ELIXIR-UK members were selected as BioFAIR Fellows this year 🎉 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/el...
🎁 21 The University of Warwick joined the ELIXIR-UK community in 2025. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/un...
🎁 18 The HDR UK Gateway is now an ELIXIR-UK endorsed service, enabling FAIR and federated access to health data. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/he...
🎁 19 KnetMiner enables AI-assisted reasoning over complex biological knowledge graphs, accelerating discovery. Follow them for more or sign up for free and try Graph Chat yourself today 🔗 knetminer.com #AI #biology
🎁 16 A day in the life of a UCL research data steward – a personal FAIRytale by Nick Owen. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/blog/2025/a-... #RDM #FAIR
🎁 17 ELIXIR-UK joined CaSDaR at its launch in Birmingham, with UK Node members contributing at board level. #ELIXIR #partnerships elixiruknode.org/news/2025/st...
🎁 14 How can local deployment boost DMP adoption? Mo Aboshokor shared Cardiff University's experience with the Data Stewardship Wizard 🔗 elixiruknode.org/blog/2025/fa...
🎁 15 Customising the Data Stewardship Wizard at institutional level: reflections from Rothamsted Research with Richard Ostler 🔗 elixiruknode.org/blog/2025/cu... #datastewardship
🎁 12 Community engagement UK Node members took part in the annual BioHackathon as both co-leads and participants, contributing to collaborative problem-solving across Europe. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/bi...
🎁 13 Our first National Joint Hackathon with HDR UK brought communities together to explore innovation at the intersection of health and life sciences data. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/in...
🎁 10 Flagship events We sponsored ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool and ran a UK track co-chaired by Carole Goble and Janet Thornton. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/is... #ISMBECCB #community
🎁 11 Training & outreach Our Training Coordinator, Krzysztof Poterlowicz, spoke about the benefits of joining ELIXIR and the UK Node activity in a global health magazine interview 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/bi... #training #skills
🎁 8 Workflows across Europe Our Head of Node, Carole Goble, represented ELIXIR-UK at Workflow Community Talks, BEeS 2025, CoRDI 2025 and more throughout the year 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/wo... #workflows #researchinfrastructure
🎁 9 Strategic influence ELIXIR-UK contributed to major international discussions at an OECD workshop, the ELIXIR–Pistoia–EMBL strategy meeting, FONDA Fall Retreat and Falling Walls 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/pi...
🎁 6 European visibility UK expertise on show at the ELIXIR Toxicology Community meeting in Birmingham, with contributions from Sara Morsy, Alexia Cardona and Iseult Lynch 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/to... #toxicology #FAIRdata
🎁 7 RDM & data stewardship Strong UK representation in the ELIXIR RDM Community, with Munazah Andrabi, Xènia Pérez Sitjà and Nick Juty supporting data stewardship, training, curation and interoperability 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/su... #RDM #datastewardship #interoperability #FAIRdata #training
🎁 5 Community leadership UK Node member Maria Traka (@quadraminstitute.bsky.social) was elected co-lead of the ELIXIR Europe Food and Nutrition Community, strengthening UK leadership at European level 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/ma... #adventcalendar #leadership
The University of Warwick is now a formal member of ELIXIR-UK 🎉 Already welcomed at our 2025 All Hands, with Richard Stark's presentation; Prof. Sascha Ott on the Steering Committee and prior community involvement via Laura Cooper as an ELIXIR-UK Fellow. 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/un...
What does the ELIXIR-UK community think about AI in research? We’ve published the write-up from our All Hands AI panel + World Café: skills, bias, data access, productivity and some real concerns about critical thinking and scraping This will shape our AI strategy elixiruknode.org/articles/202...
3 🎁 Services we endorse – PHI-base released a big update to the Pathogen–Host Interaction database this year with the launch of PHI-base 5. elixiruknode.org/news/2025/ph...
4 🎁 From the archive – one of our most-watched resources remains Saskia Lawson-Tovey’s (The University of Manchester) RDMbite: “REDCap: How to download PDFs of your surveys.” youtu.be/-jhdBO-l9_o?...
1 🎁 FAIRytales – personal stories written by our members on FAIR-related topics. This year’s first story was “Data and research governance – it’s a complex issue” by Liz Merrifield (Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd). elixiruknode.org/blog/2025/da...
2 🎁 Celebrating International Women’s Day – earlier in 2025, we featured inspiring profiles from Allyson Lister (University of Oxford) and Wendi Bacon (Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)). elixiruknode.org/blog/2025/ce...
BioHackathon Europe brought together a diverse community earlier this month to co-develop standards, tools and workflows for data-driven life science research ELIXIR-UK contributed to projects spanning benchmarking, FAIR data, interoperability, workflows and more 🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2025/bi...
Carole Goble, ELIXIR-UK Head of Node, was invited to two meetings in the German research infrastructure landscape this autumn: the FONDA Fall Retreat and NFDI’s executive table on connected & resilient AI enablers. elixiruknode.org/news/2025/ca... @esciencelab.org.uk