HIFIS News October 2025

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October 2025

Dear HIFIS Community and Friends,

Bremen was truly special, it’s good to meet in person once a year for our all-hands meeting. Many of you wished for even more time for exchange, we’ll make sure next year’s agenda leaves space for it. In the meantime we’ll remember the good mood, the purpose, life onboard a research ship and the incredible story of Alfred Wegener and Rasmus Villumsen.

What stood out most? That HIFIS isn’t just a service provider – we’re becoming a scientific partner. Not just by providing tools, but by meeting researchers where they are: in their workflows, their proposals, their questions – and embedding HIFIS into research workflows early. The strength we have across Helmholtz – a federation of centers that truly and trustfully work together – is something quite special that stood out again in Bremen. The unique setup of Helmholtz Information and Data Science (HIDS) offers valuable insights for broader initiatives like NFDI and EOSC, which have been weighing centralised and federated models for collaboration.

To bring this beneficial framework to new audiences – students, early-career researchers, and anyone curious about doing better science through trusted, open, and collaborative infrastructure – we’ll be hosting the Helmholtz Platforms Roadshow next month. Please help us spread the word to anyone potentially interested!

News from HIFIS
News from the Helmholtz Platforms
Data Science Jobs at Helmholtz

News from HIFIS

Helmholtz.software: Apply to Become a Spotlight

You can now apply to become a “Software Spotlight” in the Helmholtz RSD. And there is also a new API access token feature available, to automate interactions.

Being Transparent About the Use of LLMs in hifis.net

Since July, the HIFIS editorial team introduced a new transparency badge to indicate exactly how much AI assistance a piece of content received – from “none” to “heavy”.

The 19 Heads of IT Take on Our Services Usage

How do the Helmholtz Centers use and benefit from the Helmholtz Cloud? Find out how the Heads of IT estimate the service adoption.

“Is It Down Right Now?” for the Helmholtz Cloud

We’ve launched a new Helmholtz Cloud Status Page at helmholtz.cloud/status, showing live availability and historical uptime for all services in one place. It’s also simple way to see whether a service is down — or if it’s just you again.

Upcoming Changes to Helmholtz ID

You’ve probably already heard about the upcoming changes for Helmholtz ID. These affect only people who have an account at a Helmholtz Center but no direct contract – typically students who are employed by their university instead.

External collaborators are not affected.

How to Save Time Logging-in?

We’ve recently added a new category in the hifis.net blog: Tips. The latest one is on Single Sign On for Helmholtz ID.

News from the Helmholtz Platforms

Data Science Unlocked: the Helmholtz Platforms present themselves

The Helmholtz Information and Data Science platforms – HIFIS, Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Imaging, HMC, and HIDA – are going on the virtual road again.

Join the Helmholtz Career Day for Data Science!

The virtual Helmholtz Career Day for Data Science 2025 is coming up on November 26 (2-5 pm CET)! Here, (inter)national data science and IT talent have the opportunity to explore exciting jobs at one of the 18 Helmholtz Centers!

If you yourself have a data science job opening and want to meet interesting candidates from all over the world, you can register here as “Employer/Recruiting” for free.

3D Data Visualization: Bring your volumetric data to life in this workshop

Gain hands-on experience with 3D visualization techniques using tools like Fiji, Blender, and Neuroglancer. Join this in-person course in Berlin on November 10-13, 2025.

Image: Andreas Müller, Deborah Schmidt, Martin Weigert. Blender rendering of organelles within a single beta cell.

Join us. Register today!

HMC Open Office Hours

Metadata Questions? We’re Here to Help!

Big or small, technical or conceptual – bring your metadata questions to HMC’s Open Office Hours. Hosted by different HMC units, our sessions offer free, hands-on advice from experts across Helmholtz.

Learn more and register…

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