University of York joins ELIXIR-UK life sciences research infrastructure University of York has joined ELIXIR-UK, building on existing ties through Data Stewardship Fellows, ELIXIR-badged training, and a strong open research culture.

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.
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Events and Communication Assistant (ELIXIR-UK)

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

Empowering biological knowledgebases: advances in human-in-the-loop AI-driven literature curation Abstract. Biological knowledgebases facilitate discovery across the life sciences by structuring experimental findings into human-readable and computable f

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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:
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ELIXIR-UK awarded DisCouRSE funding for PeerLadder pilot ELIXIR-UK members secure DisCouRSE Flexible Fund support for PeerLadder, peer-mentoring for inclusive leadership for digital research professionals (dRTPs)

💙 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.

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#WomenInScience

ELIXIR-UK leads impact evaluation on gender balance in leadership ELIXIR-UK leads the impact evaluation for ELEAD, examining early progress on gender balance in ELIXIR leadership across the European infrastructure.

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.

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#WomenInScience #Leadership

ELIXIR-UK contributes to national discussions on training for digital research professionals ELIXIR-UK took part in a national meeting on coordinated training for digital Research Technical Professionals, sharing expertise from its training initiatives

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.

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#bioinformatics #dRTPs #Training #ELIXIR

Checking the paperwork: the Safe People Registry soft launch Highlight the soft launch of the Safe People Registry, developed by HDR UK to support consistent ‘safe people’ assessment for access to sensitive data.

Who is qualified to access sensitive data?

HDR UK’s Safe People Registry is welcoming trial projects from UK-based organisations
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#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

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🎁 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.

🎁 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

🎁 23 Our national Clubs and Communities continue to grow. Not yet part of our network, join us.
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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 ...

🎁 22 Did you know that ELIXIR-UK was awarded BBSRC funding to continue supporting the UK life sciences data community?
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University of Warwick joins ELIXIR-UK as its 29th member Warwick joins ELIXIR-UK, bringing bioinformatics, training and digital health expertise to strengthen national research support

🎁 21 The University of Warwick joined the ELIXIR-UK community in 2025.
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ELIXIR-UK members selected for the BioFAIR Fellowship | ELIXIR-UK 5 active contributors join the new national Fellowship advancing FAIR practices, strengthening UK capability in reproducible and interoperable research.

🎁 20 Five ELIXIR-UK members were selected as BioFAIR Fellows this year 🎉
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KnetMiner | AI-Accelerated Gene Discovery for Plant Science Accelerate Trait Discovery. Search deep knowledge graphs, visualize gene networks, and get AI-grounded literature reviews with citations for unparalleled research speed.

🎁 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

Health Data Research Gateway joins ELIXIR-UK Services | ELIXIR-UK The Health Data Research Gateway joins ELIXIR-UK Services, linking UK health data to European research through FAIR, secure and federated access.

🎁 18 The HDR UK Gateway is now an ELIXIR-UK endorsed service, enabling FAIR and federated access to health data.
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Strengthening career pathways for Data Stewards through CaSDaR ELIXIR-UK members join the launch of UKRI-funded CaSDaR Network, promoting professional recognition, career pathways, and training for Data Stewards in the UK

🎁 17 ELIXIR-UK joined CaSDaR at its launch in Birmingham, with UK Node members contributing at board level.
#ELIXIR #partnerships

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A day in the life of a UCL Research Data Steward | ELIXIR-UK Nick Owen shares his journey into data stewardship at UCL, highlighting how the role supports researchers through better data practices.

🎁 16 A day in the life of a UCL research data steward – a personal FAIRytale by Nick Owen.
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#RDM #FAIR

Customising Data Stewardship Wizard for an Institute | ELIXIR-UK How a data steward tailored DSW to specific datatypes and workflows at Rothamsted Research

🎁 15 Customising the Data Stewardship Wizard at institutional level: reflections from Rothamsted Research with Richard Ostler
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#datastewardship

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

🎁 14 How can local deployment boost DMP adoption? Mo Aboshokor shared Cardiff University's experience with the Data Stewardship Wizard
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Behind the scenes at the first HDR UK & ELIXIR-UK Joint Hackathon The first HDR UK & ELIXIR-UK Joint Hackathon brought together technical professionals at the intersection of health data and life sciences for three days.

🎁 13 Our first National Joint Hackathon with HDR UK brought communities together to explore innovation at the intersection of health and life sciences data.
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ELIXIR-UK contributions to BioHackathon Europe 2025 | ELIXIR-UK ELIXIR-UK teams contributed to key projects at BioHackathon Europe 2025, advancing FAIR data, interoperability, benchmarking and sustainable workflow practices.

🎁 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.

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Closing the bioinformatics skills gap in Europe | ELIXIR-UK Krzysztof Poterlowicz explains how national programmes and international collaboration are helping close Europe’s bioinformatics skills gap

🎁 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

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#training #skills

ELIXIR-UK at ISMB/ECCB 2025: Impact, talks and UK trail ELIXIR-UK showcased 25+ services and talks at ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool, co-hosting the UK track and leading a successful cross-node booth trail.

🎁 10 Flagship events
We sponsored ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool and ran a UK track co-chaired by Carole Goble and Janet Thornton.

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#ISMBECCB #community

ELIXIR-UK at the ELIXIR–EMBL-EBI–Pistoia Alliance strategy event ELIXIR-UK joined a joint ELIXIR, EMBL-EBI, and Pistoia Alliance strategy meeting to support sustainable, cross-sector collaboration in life sciences.

🎁 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

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Carole Goble presents WorkflowHub at Workflow Community talks Carole Goble joined Johan Gustafsson for a Workflow Community Talk to showcase WorkflowHub, supporting FAIR sharing and reuse of over 1,200 registered compu ...

🎁 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

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#workflows #researchinfrastructure

Interoperability, data stewardship and skills at the ELITma course In May 2025, ELIXIR-UK members Xènia Pérez Sitjà (Earlham Institute) and Nick Juty (University of Manchester) took part in the ELITMa course on data managem ...

🎁 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

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#RDM #datastewardship #interoperability #FAIRdata #training

ELIXIR-UK co-hosts FAIR toxicology training workshop An ELIXIR-UK co-hosted workshop on FAIR training materials brought together toxicology trainer to improve the reuse and discoverability of educational resources

🎁 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

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#toxicology #FAIRdata

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) ...

🎁 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

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#adventcalendar #leadership