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Next Monday, we will be kicking off our #NFDITalks 2026. Here is an overview of the dates for the first quarter.

ℹ️ More information: www.nfdi.de/talks/

#nfdi #fdm #rdm
January 14, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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❄️ Winter Data Wonder #9

NFDI×CS is developing the Research Data Management Container (RDMC), bundling data, code, protocols and execution environments into citable, reusable “time capsules”

Contributed by @nfdixcs.bsky.social
Illustrated winter-themed graphic titled “Winter Data Wonder #9.” A dark blue rounded rectangle covered with snow and icicles contains white text explaining that NFDI×CS is working to make research data as reproducible and versioned as software by bundling data, code, and environments into a citable “time capsule.” Light blue snowy background with falling snow and a small snow-covered pine tree on the right.
January 12, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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❄️ Winter Data Wonder #8

The NFDI4Health Study Hub brings together metadata for ~46,000 studies, instruments & documents. It helps researchers discover, compare & understand health research resources across institutions and topics.

Contributed by #NFDI4Health

🔗 health-study-hub.de
Winter-themed graphic titled “Winter Data Wonder #8.” A dark blue panel with icy snow drips at the top contains white text stating that the NFDI4Health Study Hub provides access to around 46,000 studies, instruments, and documents, offering rich metadata to help researchers discover health-related resources and insights. The background is light blue with falling snow, and a snow-covered pine tree stands in the lower right corner.
January 7, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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❄️ Winter Data Wonder #7

Germany’s nationwide wildlife-vehicle collision registry is now accessible internationally via NFDI4Biodiversity — supporting biodiversity research, conservation planning, and traffic safety.

🔗 www.nfdi4biodiversity.org/de/news/tier...

Contributed by #NFDI4Biodiversity
Winter-themed graphic titled “Winter Data Wonder #7.” A dark blue text panel with icy edges sits on a snowy light-blue background. The text reads: “A nationwide registry documenting wildlife–vehicle collisions is now available internationally thanks to NFDI4Biodiversity, offering valuable insights for species protection, traffic safety, and ecological research.” A decorated Christmas tree stands in the bottom right corner, with falling snowflakes across the scene.
December 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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❄️Winter Data Wonder #6

NOMAD now hosts nearly 20 million materials science entries, from protein simulations to wastewater pollutants. Its rapid growth highlights the power of FAIR, open data for cross-disciplinary, data-driven discovery.

Contributed by @fairmat.bsky.social

🔗 www.nomad-lab.eu
Winter-themed graphic titled “Winter Data Wonder #6.” A dark blue text panel with icy edges states: “NOMAD now hosts nearly 20 million entries contributed by the community—covering everything from proteins in solution to wastewater pollutants. A remarkable testament to the scale and diversity of materials science data today.” Snowy background with falling snow and a decorated Christmas tree in the bottom right corner.
December 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Today's post completes our strategy video series with #NFDI Director York Sure-Vetter. This time, the focus is on ensuring sustainability through operating models.

➡️ More about the NFDI strategy: www.nfdi.de/verein/

#rdm #researchdata #OpenScience
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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We invite you to the workshop “Do they really guide? #Guidelines for the use of #LLMs in scholarly publishing” on Wed, 25 Mar 2026, 10:00–16:00 h at #GESIS in #Mannheim.

➡️ Register via: indico3-jsc.fz-juelich.de/event/262/
December 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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❄️ Winter Data Wonder #4

With nearly 190,000 analysis jobs in 2025, EXPLORE makes real LHC / ATLAS open data accessible to everyone — from classrooms to research.
A powerful tool for data-driven science and learning.

🔗 punchlogin.goegrid.gwdg.de

🔗 opendata.atlas.cern

Contributed by #PUNCH4NFDI
A winter-themed graphic titled “Winter Data Wonder #4.” Snow and icicles hang from the top of a dark blue text box. The text states that through EXPLORE, users ranging from high-school students to educators and researchers completed nearly 190,000 analysis jobs in 2025 using open data from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. A small decorated Christmas tree appears in the bottom right corner, with falling snow on a light blue background.
December 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Standards connect – and secure the future of research data.
The cooperation between DIN e. V. and #NFDI connects standardisation and academic research: one result is the book presentation "Harmonising Language Data: Standards for Linguistic Resources" at #DIN on 4 Dec.
Thorsten Trippel during the presentation.
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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❄️ Winter Data Wonder #3

FAIR Check now comes with a more intuitive, interactive design to help researchers assess how FAIR their data are — featuring a FAIRness wheel, progress bars, info boxes and a save function.

🔗 nfdi4culture.de/services/fai...

Contributed by @nfdi4culture.bsky.social
A winter-themed graphic titled “Winter Data Wonder #3.” At the top, snow and icicles hang over a dark text box. The text reads: “FAIR Check Receives a Major Upgrade! A more intuitive, interactive tool to help researchers assess the FAIRness of their data, introducing features like a FAIRness indicator wheel, progress tracking, and helpful info boxes.” A small decorated Christmas tree stands in the bottom right corner. The background shows light blue snow and falling white dots.
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Key to the success of sharing data is to describe it with metadata.
That is the focus of today's strategy series post with #NFDI Director York Sure-Vetter.

➡️ More about the NFDI strategy: www.nfdi.de/verein/

#rdm #researchdata #metadata
December 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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❄️ Winter Data Wonder #2

New dataset from NFDI4DataScience: 30 anonymised expert interviews on ethical, legal and societal aspects of data science — offering insights for responsible practice.

Contributed by: #NFDI4DataScience

More:🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
A winter-themed graphic titled “Winter Data Wonder #2.” A dark blue text box contains the message: “NFDI4DataScience provides a unique dataset of 30 expert interviews on ethical, legal and societal challenges in data science, offering valuable insights for future guidelines.” Snow, icicles and a small decorated Christmas tree are part of the design.
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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❄️Winter Data Wonder #1:

Submissions on research data management at Germany’s largest MSE conference have risen sharply—highlighting its growing importance and the need for reliable, user-friendly solutions.

We look forward to seeing this momentum at MSE 2026.

Contributed by #NFDIMatwerk

#NFDI
A winter-themed bar chart titled “Data Wonders.” It displays the number of submissions related to research data management (RDM) at the Materials Science and Engineering Congress: 5 submissions in 2020, 36 in 2022, and 106 in 2024. The background includes falling snow and a decorated Christmas tree on the left. A winter-themed graphic titled “Winter Data Wonder #1.” The text explains that submissions related to research data management (RDM) at the MSE Congress have increased significantly in recent years, highlighting how essential RDM has become in the materials science community. A small decorated Christmas tree is shown in the bottom right.
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Data literacy is a key skill in the digital world, especially for scientists. 📈 💡 That is the topic of today's episode in our strategy series.

➡️ More about the #NFDI strategy: www.nfdi.de/verein/
➡️ Section Training & Education: www.nfdi.de/section-edut...

#fdm #rdm #researchdata #dataliteracy
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Making data FAIR is at the core of #NFDI. Here is the next video in our strategy series with Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter – this time it's about enabling comprehensive implementation of the FAIR principles. 🙌

➡️ More about the NFDI strategy: www.nfdi.de/verein/

#fdm #rdm #researchdata #OpenScience
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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🔬From atomic structure to actionable insight🔬

atomRDF enables researchers to create, annotate, and query structures with ease

Link for the Tool: atomrdf.pyscal.org/en/latest/

#NFDI #FAIRdata #MaterialsScience #DigitalResearch #DigitalWorkflows #OpenScience
Graphic titled “NFDI Success Stories.” The headline reads: “From Structure to Insight: atomRDF in Action.” The text explains that atomRDF enables material scientists to create, annotate, and query atomic structures, improving data quality, traceability, and workflow integration. On the right side, there is a blue circular icon with a white gear symbol. The background includes a faint image of hands and digital circuit patterns.
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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🚀Accelerating materials modelling with automation🚀

Pyiron streamlines the entire development process of Machine Learning potentials.

Link for the Tool: github.com/pyiron#pyiro...

#NFDI #FAIRdata #MaterialsScience #DigitalResearch #DigitalWorkflows #OpenScience
Graphic titled “NFDI Success Stories.” The text reads: “Pyiron accelerates Machine Learning development. Pyiron’s automated workflows accelerate the development of machine-learning potentials across embedded-atom models, neural-network, and atomic cluster expansions.” On the right side, there is a blue circular icon with a white gear symbol. Background shows a faint image of hands and digital circuit patterns.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Collaboration is key to the success of #NFDI from the very beginning. Here is the next video in our strategy series with York Sure-Vetter – this time it's about working together. 🤝

➡️ About the NFDI strategy: www.nfdi.de/verein/
➡️ About the sections: www.nfdi.de/sektionen/

#fdm #rdm #researchdata
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Here is the next video in our strategy series with York Sure-Vetter – this time on the topic of internationalisation. 🌍

💡Our vision: data as a common good for excellent research, organised by the scientific community in Germany.

➡️ More about the #NFDI strategy: www.nfdi.de/verein/
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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We welcome five new #NFDI members to our association! 👋 🎉

🔹 Hochschule Hannover
🔹 OTH Regensburg
🔹 Technische Hochschule Brandenburg
🔹 FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik
🔹 TMF e. V.

We look forward to working with you for a FAIR data future!

#fdm #rdm #forschungsdaten #researchdata
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Welche Missionen haben eigentlich die #NFDI-Konsortien, welche Services bieten sie und wie sind sie international angebunden?

Die neuen Einseiter der NFDI-Konsortien bieten hierzu einen kompakten Überblick durch kurze, standardisierte Steckbriefe.

➡️ zenodo.org/records/1735...
October 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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🎉 We’re excited to launch our new video series on the NFDI strategy!

NFDI Director York Sure-Vetter introduces how we aim to make research data more usable for science and society.

📽️ Watch the intro now & follow the series!

#NFDI #ResearchData #OpenScience #FAIRdata
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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5 pictures from 5 years. Here is the last picture to celebrate our 5th birthday. 🎉

📸 Photo 5: 23 October 2024
By 2024, the topic of internationalisation gained momentum. #EOSC and NFDI have strengthened their connection and the #EOSCxNFDI event was held in Berlin.
October 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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This week we celebrate our 5th birthday with 5 photos from 5 years! 🎂 🎉

📸 Photo 4: 11 September 2023
Not only did the number of consortia and members grow in 2023, but the events also became increasingly larger.
October 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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This week we celebrate our 5th birthday with 5 photos from 5 years! 🎂 🎉

📸 Photo 3: 22 September 2022
The Parliamentary Breakfast in Berlin was one of the first events that #NFDI was able to hold in person.
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM