.@ELIXIREurope Programme Manager for Scientific Computing: Tools, Compute Platforms & EOSC elixir-europe.org. Coordinate life science informatics, software, services in @eosc_entrust, @eosc_everse, @oscars_eu. Honorary Fellow @unileicester for @BRISSKit, Astronomy. @REDinfx

🧠 Nearly one million people live with dementia in the UK - a number expected to rise sharply over the next 15 years. Clinical trials are essential to improving care, but too few people have been able to take part.  The Dementia Trials Accelerator, spearheaded by HDR UK and the @UKDRI, has taken a major step toward increasing participation in dementia clinical trials across the UK.   A selection of participants from the REACT study at @imperialcollege have been invited to the initial clinics, delivered by Inuvi, for vital measurements that will make them ‘trial-ready’ for future dementia research opportunities. Funded by the @The_MRC, this work supports the government’s Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programme.  Read more: hubs.li/Q049PPcW0 #DementiaTrialsAccelerator #DementiaResearch #ClinicalTrials #BrainHealth #UKResearch #LifeSciences

Deadline for #BioHackEU26 project proposals submission is midnight today! 🎯 If you have a project idea, but don’t know how to push forward 🏃, submit your proposal by midnight today: loom.ly/5gopDeQ

Latvia 🇱🇻 and Poland 🇵🇱 have joined ELIXIR as Observers! Observer status enables the Latvian and Polish bioinformatics communities to 🤝 strengthen collaboration with other ELIXIR Nodes and supports their transition to full membership. Read the news 👉 loom.ly/silnn-s

708 GB image of the Moon 🎥 Darya Kawa Mirza

Stunning shots coming through from #Artemis II after its lunar flyby yesterday. 🌖🌍 UK expertise is playing key roles in the mission, from helping build the spacecraft to tracking its journey through space 👉 x.com/spacegovuk/status/2039…

🚨 In 1993, Steve Jobs literally predicted the future of technology decades before it happened. Most people still haven’t seen this. Long before the iPhone, modern Internet, or AI boom… He was already describing it. Watching it today feels unreal. He talked about computers becoming personal companions not just tools, but extensions of how we think and live. Devices you carry, systems that understand you, and technology that feels almost human. He imagined a world where everything is connected, information flows instantly, and software adapts to people not the other way around. And his biggest insight? The future isn’t about machines. It’s about people. That’s why this still hits hard. Because while most people wait for the future… A few can see it coming years before it arrives.

A week left to prepare for the project proposal for the #BioHackEU26. 🧑‍💻 Join hundreds of willing #bioinformaticians 🧬 Huge range of expertise in #bioinformatics 🌥 Work on blue sky ideas or advance existing projects 🔗 Submission deadline 15 April: loom.ly/5gopDeQ

Looking forward to chairing our 2026 #ELIXIR Biohackathon. It's a huge team effort at @ELIXIR 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

📣 We are pleased to announce that ELIXIR is live on @bluesky! Follow us to get the latest news and explore the platform with us. 🦋 bsky.app/profile/elixir-euro…

📣 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 👉 loom.ly/o8QF2CI

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 👉 loom.ly/THB_IX4

Today, a global community of hackers gathers in Berlin 🇩🇪 for the start of #BioHackEU25. Since 2019, over 2200 participants have gathered together for an intense week of collaboration to advance 275 projects. Read the news: loom.ly/6sE_kdI

🧵 (2/2) The four organisations will bring together 🤝 biodata expertise and resources to improve access to repositories, software tools, services, standardised workflows and reproducible methods for 🧬 #lifescience researchers.

📣 ELIXIR, @EuroBioImaging, @instructhub and @embl have joined forces to establish 🙌 the #EOSC Life Sciences Connect Node as part of the newly formed #EOSC_Federation. Read the news: loom.ly/9BLk_tY 🧵 (1/2)

The ozone layer is showing signs of steady recovery, particularly evidenced by a noticeably smaller ozone hole in 2024 compared to the average size in recent years (2020–2023). This improvement is largely thanks to long-term international agreements such as the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol, under which the production and use of ozone-depleting substances, mainly chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), have been virtually phased out globally. Moreover, the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which targets hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), not harmful to ozone but potent greenhouse gases, has been widely ratified and is anticipated to help limit further warming by up to 0.5°C by the end of this century. According to the World Meteorological Organization, if current trends continue, ozone levels over Antarctica could return to their 1980s state by about 2066, over the Arctic by 2045, and elsewhere globally by around 2040. The 2024 Antarctic ozone hole was shallower than the average over the past decades, reinforcing the conclusion that these treaties are working. 👉 share.google/rLThggv6WJaE2O6…