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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! 🎁

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...

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?...

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

🎁 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

🎁 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

🎁 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...

🎁 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

🎁 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...

🎁 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

🎁 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