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.

Bio-IT EMBL chat 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. Sounds great!