Ever since it’s launch in 2017, EMBL’s Bio-IT chat has been steadily growing in all directions, expanding the range of topics discussed, the number of daily active users and different functionalities, some fun, some productive. Since around this time last year, the chat has grown to have: over 1600 users of which 410 are active on a monthly basis 700 channels split between 120 public and 580 private 1.5 million posts, which is to say, half million exchanged messages since last year a little over 820 board cards, thanks to the adoption of the new Task Management Boards feature introduced last year With such fast growth and many places to visit, it is normal to find yourself a little lost.

Bio-IT EMBL chat reached 1M posts EMBL’s Bio-IT chat, initiated in 2017 to facilitate internal real-time interactions between people at EMBL, has reached the milestone of 1.000.000 posts in the first days of February 2022. At close to 5 years of service, and after a significant increase in adoption in the early days of the pandemic, the EMBL chat is now a very active platform with close to 600 channels and a daily exchange of over 2000 messages from over 330 active users.

EMBL’s (Bio-IT) chat has been initiated in 2017 to facilitate internal real-time interactions between people at EMBL, to promote group discussions and sharing of information. As of 2021 more than 1000 users are registered with over 120 active daily. In part due to the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic situation, the platform gained particular relevance and became a central hub for communication between members of all EMBL sites. The platform effectively became a pan-EMBL service in 2021, welcoming EMBL-EBI, that would join all other EMBL sites.