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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

Empowering biological knowledgebases: advances in human-in-the-loop AI-driven literature curation url: academic.oup.com/bioinformati... @elixiruknode.org @biocurator.bsky.social

16.02.2026 08:18 👍 3 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

This precisely matches my current experience.

14.11.2025 10:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 ELIXIR, @eurobioimaging.bsky.social, @instruct-eric.bsky.social & @embl.org joined forces to establish 🙌 the #EOSC Life Sciences Connect Node: https://loom.ly/9BLk_tY

#EOSC_Federation

27.10.2025 02:30 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

In fact all trolley problems can be solved by replacing the live people with mummified philosophers. An important insight is concealed here.

22.10.2025 05:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Few symbols are as Venetian as the lion on a column in the Piazzetta beside St Mark’s Basilica. But new research shows it may not be Venetian at all - its copper traces point to Tang dynasty China🦁 1/5

05.09.2025 13:33 👍 75 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 2
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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

01.07.2025 02:01 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Once again I find myself questioning the wisdom of choosing a Bene Gesserit dentist.

12.08.2025 15:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 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

24.06.2025 02:01 👍 27 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1
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Switzerland’s science future: continued leadership or drift into decline? The United States offers a cautionary tale of how a leading science nation can face abrupt disruption. Switzerland has an opportunity to decisively strengthen its own science leadership&nbsp...

SIB Executive Director @dessimoz.bsky.social‬ highlights Switzerland’s opportunity to invest in science where others are retreating, arguing for:

🇨🇭strengthened ERI funding & international collaboration;
🚀 funding for data infrastructure as a driver of innovation.

See more👇

13.06.2025 07:10 👍 8 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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Open and Sustainable AI: challenges, opportunities and the road ahead in the life sciences Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently seen transformative breakthroughs in the life sciences, expanding possibilities for researchers to interpret biological information at an unprecedented capaci...

Check out Gavin Farrell's new preprint (aided by a few other ELIXIR members along the way) 'Open and Sustainable AI: challenges, opportunities and the road ahead in the life sciences' arxiv.org/abs/2505.16619

30.05.2025 13:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum (EBIF) 2025 | ELIXIR BMA House Tavistock Square London WC1H 9JP United Kingdom

📣 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.

09.04.2025 13:01 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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BioHackathon Europe Find out about the 2025 BioHackathon Europe, where hackers get together to make life science research easier.

⚠️ The deadline for the submission of #BioHackEU25 project proposals is midnight today!
🔗 Submit your project proposal now:

14.04.2025 09:30 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Word Crunching


I 
wrote 
a poem 
on a page 
but then each line grew 
to the word sum of the previous two 
until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency 
because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency 


Brian Bilston

Word Crunching I  wrote  a poem  on a page  but then each line grew  to the word sum of the previous two  until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency  because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency  Brian Bilston

Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.

23.11.2024 08:50 👍 1296 🔁 327 💬 35 📌 26
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American astronomer Edwin Hubble, was born #OnThisDay in 1889. Hubble discovered that many objects beyond the Milky Way previously classified as nebulae were actually galaxies, and the Hubble Space Telescope is named in his honour; below is one of its most famous images, the Pillars of Creation.

20.11.2024 16:04 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Biodiversity and climate change: interlinkages and policy options | Royal Society The Royal Society highlights how climate change and biodiversity are interlinked and sets out the key actions and principles to guide a UK response that addresses the climate and the biodiversity cris...

#ClimateChange and #biodiversity loss are two of the biggest challenges of our time, with profound consequences for our world. This briefing highlights how they are linked and how both can be tackled together: #COP29 royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

21.11.2024 11:59 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
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"Integration, integration, integration"!

Dame Janet Thornton describes how she came up with the idea for the Open Targets Platform

The full Open Targets founders panel is available to watch on YouTube: youtu.be/an2fer-dxXU

#OpenTargetsAt10

21.11.2024 11:44 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1