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Welcome

The ELIXIR Communications Group holds meetings quarterly for anyone interested in Node/Hub communications to share experiences.

Intranet page: https://elixir-europe.org/intranet/communication - details about past and future meetings + join the mailing list

Slack channel: fg_comms

Rolling minutes - please add your name, Node, role & AI explorations

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Agenda

Exploring generative AI – 45 minutes

Setting the scene + future plans (Elaine Harrison, ELIXIR Hub)
Round table of experiences/questions from Hub and Nodes participants

ELIXIR Communications update – 10 minutes

Mastodon (Zippy Tseng, ELIXIR Hub)
Meeting dates for next year

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Non scientific/technical applications of generative AI

Open AI -> GTP 3.5, GTP4, ChatGPT, DALLE -> CoPilot, Bing chat, Perplexity, ….

Google -> Bard, Adobe Firefly

Anthropic -> Claude, Claude 2

Text

Drafting e.g. reports/emails/web/social media/training materials
Researching
Summarising
Brainstorming/generating ideas
Transcription of recorded content
Captioning
Language translation
Citation management

Image/video

Editing images e.g. changing image dimensions, moving a logo
Creating images - e.g. for slide presentation
Editing videos - e.g. removing background noise
Creating videos - e.g. for social media

Out of scope - Coding, synthetic data generation, help desk bots, curation, annotation, ….

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ELSI considerations

Ethical

Transparency

Accountability

Bias and discrimination

Legal

Data protection

Privacy

Intellectual property rights

Attribution

Fraud

Social

Job displacement

AI literacy training

Mis-information

Cultural homogenisation

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Generative AI in ELIXIR - proposed working group

Who

Objectives

Outputs

Activities

Timelines

Next steps

Anyone: Communications Group, AI/ML Focus Group, Node Coordinators Group, Technical Coordinators Group, Training Coordinators Group, Innovation and Industry Group, Impact Group, ELIXIR Hub legal team

To be agreed: The group will gather stakeholders from throughout ELIXIR to share experiences and questions in non scientific/technical uses of generative AI, consider ELSI implications and produce….

Knowledge sharing (minutes) + summary document? guidelines? principles? webinar? All Hands Meeting 2025 session?

Regular meetings with clear aims and structured discussions, ….

Fixed length to achieve objectives (18 months?)

Kick-off meeting January 2024, details to follow next week

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Any questions/thoughts on the proposed working group?

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Agenda

Exploring generative AI – 45 minutes

Setting the scene + future plans (Elaine Harrison, ELIXIR Hub)
Round table of experiences/questions from Hub and Nodes participants

ELIXIR Communications update – 10 minutes

Mastodon (Zippy Tseng, ELIXIR Hub)
Meeting dates for next year

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Experiences with generative AI

Not so useful

Drafting news releases based on notes
Anything including information pre April 2023 (ChatGTP)
As a search engine (Bing chat)

Useful

Options for rephrasing
Research (pre-April 2023)
Writing job description for digital content editor
Searching internet (Bing chat/Perplexity)
Re-formatting bibliography
Asking stupid questions
Idea generation
Feedback from particular stakeholders

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Comms updates

ELIXIR Communications Group Meeting

4 Dec 2023

www.elixir-europe.org

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Mastodon update

Other options?

Joined on 26 Oct 2023 (trial)
81 Followers - the growth of the followers slow down after BioHackathon
Engagement rate of the posts is quite low with 1-2 likes/shares per post
The highest engaged post was the one for BioHackathon with 18 shares and 14 likes

Bluesky

Founded by former Twitter CEO
Decentralised social platform
Need invitation code to join - small community

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Communications group meeting dates for next year

Mondays - 13-14 CET - NOW UPDATED FOLLOWING FEEDBACK

March 11 2024
June 17 2024
September 9 2024
December 2 2024

Let Elaine know if any major clashes - elaine.harrison@elixir-europe.org

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ELIXIR-STEERS - overview

Software management and workflows

Start date: 1 Feb 2024, 36 months

Funding: €4M

PI: Andy Smith

Follow-on from CONVERGE, all ELIXIR Nodes

T4.2 ELITMa – Comms module

T 5.1 Main Comms WP

WP1	Coordination and support
WP2	Research software best practices through ELIXIR Communities
WP3	Infrastructure services to enable software best practices
WP4	Node capacity building in organisation, management and training
WP5	Communications, outreach, industry and international

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ELIXIR-STEERS - Node communications involvement

T5.1: Comms activities in WP5

Year 1

M1 - Kick-off comms (ELIXIR logo, webpage, social media)
M6 - Communications, Dissemination and Exploitation Plan

Year 2

M20 - Node communication and dissemination strategy toolkit

Proposed plan:

Kick-off & requirements gathering: Jan-March 2025
First draft of toolkit: April-July 2025
Node workshops and final draft - Sept-Nov 2025

Year 3

M30 - Series of short promotional videos showcasing impact of ELIXIR