diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-main.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-main.yml
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ on:
       - '**/slides/*.html'
       - 'learning-pathways/*'
       - 'faqs/**'
+      - 'news/**'
 
 jobs:
   lint:
diff --git a/news/_posts/2023-12-20-matrix-bots.md b/news/_posts/2023-12-20-matrix-bots.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+---
+title: "GTN Helper Bots Connect the Galaxy"
+contributions:
+  authorship: [mtekman]
+  editing: [hexylena]
+  infrastructure: [mtekman, hexylena]
+tags: [gtn, communications]
+layout: news
+---
+
+🤖💬 Bleep bloop! Good news everyone! We have deployed some bots to enable our Matrix regulars
+to better engage with the contributions and questions of our users on
+the non-Matrix side of the Galaxy-verse.
+
+## Galaxy Help Posts
+
+The newest bot we've added looks through the [Galaxy Help](https://help.galaxyproject.org/) forum for topics in need of
+answering, and forwards those to the humans in Matrix channels related to those topics! 
+
+We are currently trialing this new integration to provide high quality human help with the Single Cell CoP. If it's successful, our first expansion will be to the admin channel.
+
+## GTN Contributions
+
+Our existing GTN bot summarizes the contributions to the GTN each day and delivers the great news to the
+[GTN Matrix Lobby](https://app.element.io/#/room/#Galaxy-Training-Network_Lobby:gitter.im), as well as single-cell specific updates just to the [Single Cell User Community](https://app.element.io/#/room/#!yuLoaCWKpFHkWPmVEO:gitter.im). 
+
+Would your community like to receive these daily GTN updates for your community? Reach out to us on [Matrix](https://app.element.io/#/room/#Galaxy-Training-Network_Lobby:gitter.im) or [GitHub](https://github.com/galaxyproject/training-material/issues/). Currently this integration is only available for Matrix but if it would be useful as an RSS feed please let us know.
+
+## Beep Boop
+
+Thanks to these new 'intergalactic' communication methods, the world just got a little smaller!