@ELIXIREurope Senior Programme Manager for Scientific Computing; EOSC,ITSM. Hon Research Informatics, Astro @UniofLeicester. Lead @BRISSKit @REDinfx @OWLS_Trust
🧠 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: https://t.co/BF7kqvjDJq
#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: https://t.co/oldDqgBDqF
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 👉 https://t.co/6BruYUsR99
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 👉 https://t.co/3jLZ8uzQ9S
🚨 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.
The Artemis II crew's Earthset and eclipse images are now on https://t.co/OOSOoeWeyD in full resolution:
Earthset: https://t.co/pVFle2FKFb
Captured with a Nikon D5 and Nikon 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 at 400mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO 400
Eclipse: https://t.co/Ig6WT3s5q1
Captured with a Nikon Z9 and Nikon 35mm f/2D at 2", f/2, ISO 1600
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: https://t.co/oldDqgBDqF
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
📣 BioHackathon 2026 will be held on 9-13 November 2026 in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸! Call for project proposals will open on 16 March and close on 15 April at midnight. More information on project proposal scopes: https://t.co/jsq3JFdxCr
📣 We are pleased to announce that ELIXIR is live on @bluesky!
Follow us to get the latest news and explore the platform with us.
🦋 https://t.co/GwJQsTfdON
@sainsburys Bad weather happens and there is disruption, we all understand that. But why no customer notification if an online scheduled delivery is cancelled / rescheduled? Called day later and still don't know when it will be fulfilled. Manager failed to call back. V.poor :(
@sainsburys Bad weather happens and there is disruption, we all understand that. But why no customer notification if an online scheduled delivery is cancelled/rescheduled? I had to call up a day later to attempt to find out why and I still don't know when it will be fulfilled.
📣 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 👉 https://t.co/1t9FnnmqGy
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 👉 https://t.co/ux90aaoVqm
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: https://t.co/Fk9uygWMsH
Hello Everyone, Comet LEMMMON has been putting on an amazing show, and this is the wildest I have seen the tail. I captured this last night. I used my Celestron RASA telescope, ZWO ASI533MC color camera, and an Antlia L-Filter.
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), discovered in January by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona, is now approaching its best visibility as it sweeps through the inner Solar System for the first time in over a thousand years.
Currently around 0.6 AU from Earth, it has brightened far beyond early expectations, developing a vivid green coma and an elegant dust tail shaped by the solar wind. Its nucleus, likely between 10 and 20 kilometers across, is releasing large amounts of volatile material as sunlight warms its surface, creating a glow that may already reach magnitude 4 under dark skies, visible without optical aid.
From the Northern Hemisphere the comet now appears low in the west-northwest after sunset, offering a brief but beautiful window for observation before it continues toward its perihelion in early November and begins its long retreat back into the outer darkness.