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🎄 The ELIXIR-UK Advent Calendar is back! Every day in December, we’re sharing a highlight: • FAIRytales from our community • Stories for International Women’s Day • A major PHI-base update (hello PHI-base 5!) • And a fan favourite: Saskia Lawson-Tovey’s REDCap RDMbite follow along! 🎁

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4 Dec 2025

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...

elixiruknode.orgData and research governance – it’s a complex issue | ELIXIR-UKA FAIRytale by Liz Merrifield – a personal story about good data governance and data controllership from someone who understands the researcher’s persp ...

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4 Dec 2025

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...

elixiruknode.orgCelebrating International Women's Day | ELIXIR-UKAs we mark International Women's Day on March 8th, we are proud to highlight the crucial role women play in leadership within our ELIXIR-UK Node. With ...

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4 Dec 2025

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...

elixiruknode.orgPHI-base update: deeper insights into pathogen and host genesELIXIR UK is pleased to announce the release of PHI-base 5 in January 2025, a significant update to the Pathogen-Host Interaction database. As an ELIXIR-UK- ...

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4 Dec 2025

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?...

youtu.beRDMbites | REDCap: how to download PDFs of your surveysYouTube video by ELIXIR-UK

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To our community.... Is there something you want featured this month? Reach out to us. We want to hear from you 🙌

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17 Dec 2025

🎁 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

elixiruknode.orgMaria Traka brings UK leadership to ELIXIR Food & Nutrition CommunityIn March 2025, Dr Maria Traka was appointed as the new co-Lead of the ELIXIR Food & Nutrition Community, joining Dr Jildau Bouwmann (ELIXIR Netherlands) ...

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17 Dec 2025

🎁 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

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

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17 Dec 2025

🎁 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

elixiruknode.orgInteroperability, data stewardship and skills at the ELITma courseIn 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 ...

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17 Dec 2025

🎁 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

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