This is being held at the Crick on the 21st April. Don't let impending tube strikes put you off - plenty of train and bus options to get to us!

Image of News in focus article from Nature entitled "How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas - in numbers"

The impact of bioRxiv in numbers

@richardsever.bsky.social

Text reads: Feedback Requested. Big headline: Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative AI. Subheadline: A consultation brief inviting stakeholder feedback and discussion. Purple background with a graphic and an STM logo.

Calling publishers, developers, researchers, institutions & funders — STM has published a new discussion document on responsible use of research content in GenAI. Your input shapes the next iteration.

Read & respond → stm-assoc.org/genai_consult #TrustinResearch

Guest Post - The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post offers a review of a panel of publishers and editors discussing the pros and cons of using Generative AI, along with ethical and policy implications.

Guest Post — The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/09/g...

Very exciting to see the full rogramme of the London #OpenScience & Scholarship Festival 2026! #LDNOpenFest26 Led by fantastic team of @uclopenscience.bsky.social Booking is now open. Check the sessions out and note that Tue. 21 April is in-person at the @fci-library.bsky.social 🎊

The Crick is hosting a full in-person day of workshop and panels about open research policy - useful for librarians, data stewards, research managers etc. Tues 21st April.

We'd love to see you there!

Would you like to come and work in our team? We're hiring a Senior Librarian. Varied and independent role, leadership within the small team without line management reponsibilities.

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

PhD student recruitment PhD recruitment information.

Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.

Apply by 17 March 2026.
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Same is true of scientific software.

We've updated our protocols.io page to highlight a couple of the protocols published by Crick authors recently.

If you're at the Crick, don't forget you can get your flat pdfs converted to the protocols.io format at no cost! 😀

www.protocols.io/organization...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CCP-volumeEM Show and Tell - February 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. 'A brief introduction to the use of containers for reproducible image analysis' with Dr Martin Jones Abstract: Reproducibility of scientific data analysis is critical, but can be particularly challe...

Do you do image analysis?

Want to make it more robust and reproducible?

Have you heard of containers, but don't know why they’re useful, and how to use them?

@martinjones.bsky.social will explain all: crick.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excited about this. We're busy putting together and in person day at the Crick on the 21st April so block out the day in your diary now!

#LNDOpenFest26

Engaging with Open Science practices helps to signal your integrity. It's what we've always said, but nice that someone has run the numbers!

A large industrial tube filled with diamonds suspended in clear liquid image by Globefill Inc., CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Would you like to publish in or otherwise support the work of Diamond Open Access journals? Check out the Diamond Discovery Hub created by @craft-oa.bsky.social and launched last October. It has a huge listing of journals and an easy search function ddh.diamas.org/en

A screenshot of the new Crick dataset webpage. Two datasets are included and there are browsable facets at the top entitled Teams and Year published.

Open datasets and code from the @crick.ac.uk are now much easier to find thanks to today's launch of the Francis Crick Open Data Catalogue.

Check it out here: www.crick.ac.uk/research/pub...

We will import and format your protocol Paper protocols floating on your benchtops? We can digitize them for you!

Happy International Love Methods week!

The Crick partners with @protocolsio.bsky.social to share open methods, and if you happen to be a Crick researcher, you can use their protocol writing up service for free (while codes last!)

www.protocols.io/we-enter-pro...

Did you know there's a starter pack to help you find people who've worked at the Crick?

If you're on here and you'd like to be added, let us or @drbeth.bsky.social know!

Before AI Can Accelerate Science, We Have to Fix Science Or, science’s tollbooth problem

Can AI accelerate exciting science, or is it just giving us more incremental papers to wade through?

timrequarth.substack.com/p/before-ai-...

Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…

Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?

Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP

#OAbooks

The Crash Course lectures at the @crick.ac.uk are a really great introduction to a biomedical subject.

Check out this one by @kathaschmack.bsky.social talking about psychosis and the research that her lab is doing.

Books piled up to look like a snowman

Books piled up to look like a Christmas tree

A library book popular stall with books on the table and a backboard with posters.

The library is on tour today, lending books in the atrium for the Christmas break.

We've built ourselves a Christmas tree and a Snowman. What do you think? 🎄⛄️

Did you know that our Head of Library & Information Services at @crick.ac.uk published a book last year?

A great resource for library staff to up their EDI game, but as it covers events, hiring etc. non-library ppl might also like it.

If you're at the Crick, we've got a copy in reading corner.

A path to success: Development's Pathway to Independence programme ABSTRACT. For post-docs pursuing an academic career, the transition to a group leader position can be a notoriously difficult one, not least because the availability of necessary support and training ...

Learn more about @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence Programme - supporting the transition of postdocs to group leaders

Catch up on where the 2022 PI fellows are now

Apply to become a 2026 PI fellow

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The Francis Crick Institute Library & Information Services team has landed on bluesky!

Follow us to see what's going on 😀📚🔬