Team PSDI wishes all of you a very Happy New Year! Thank you for making 2025 so amazing for us!

This topic provides a list of the different kinds of resources provided by PSDI and links to where you can find further information about them or guidance materials to help you use them. View all our resources here: lnkd.in/e9sA8Erx

On 11th December 2025, the PSDI hosted a webinar titled “How do we use metadata to plug your Physical Science data or software into PSDI?”, presented by Dr Aileen Day. For those who missed out, the full webinar is available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=plNH...

The PSDI team wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas and a restful holiday season! 🎅🏻 We are very grateful for the conversations, collaborations, and learning this year has brought! We hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

On 27th November 2025, the PSDI hosted a webinar titled “FAIR materials database for NMR Crystallography”, presented by Dr Sathya Sai Seetharaman For those who missed the live session, the full webinar is available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ows6...

This course provides an introduction to the concepts of good data visualisations, how colour perception is important to what graphics can show and how to implement some basic plotting using the python package matplotlib: resources.psdi.ac.uk/guidance/389...

This record contains a more detailed version of the presentation that was presented at the "How do we use metadata to plug your Physical Science data or software into PSDI" webinar presented by Dr Aileen Day on 11th December 2025. Slides available here: zenodo.org/records/1790...

Register here: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina... This webinar explores recent advances in MLIPs that revolutionize atomistic simulations with ab initio accuracy and expanded scales, while introducing software frameworks, and ML-PEG for data generation, benchmarking, training, and workflow integration

Join PSDI Coordinator and Principle Enterprise Fellow Dr Nicola Knight as she guides you through the PSDI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_20... Visit www.psdi.ac.uk for full resources.

Starting TOMORROW 📅 Dec 4, 2025 at 🕒 3 pm CET: Online #BeilsteinTalk “The value of data-sharing for reaction discovery and development” with Simon Coles and Sally Bloodworth @unisouthampton.bsky.social#BeilsteinTalk Register for FREE 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/28t68s9w #FAIRdata #DataSharing #BeilsteinTalks

The @beilstein-institut.bsky.social is hosting an online talk that aligns closely with PSDI’s work on data-sharing and research practice. It will be presented by Professor Simon Coles and Dr Sally Bloodworth 🔗 Register: www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/org...

Data accessibility in the chemical sciences: an analysis of recent practice in organic chemistry journals: www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...

This webinar introduces the first version of the PSDI launched in spring 2025, explaining how to integrate physical sciences resources like data, services, tools, and guidance into its resource catalogue and cross-data search using PSDI’s metadata framework 🎟️ Register: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina...

📣 News Digest RDM #NaturalScience Week 48, 2025! Finally back, check out the latest version: thefairelephant.com/newsdigest_k... Today with #DAPHNE4NFDI #NFDI4Cat @psdi-uk.bsky.social @elabftw.bsky.social @nfdi4chem.de @fairmat.bsky.social and #PUNCH4NFDI. Enjoy reading! #FAIRElephantNews

🚨 #FundingAlert 🚨 👉 Total funds: £400,000 👉 Max award: £100,000 (awards made at 80% FEC) 👉 Number of rounds: 1 👉 Number of awards per round: up to 4 👉 Project duration: Up to 12 months ⏰ Deadline: 24 February 2025 Details & Application link: www.genai.ac.uk/dataset-crea... @genaihub.bsky.social

Join Dr. Sathya Sai Seetharaman on Thursday for an exciting webinar about the ongoing work with the materials database built for the solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance community in the UK. Register for this webinar: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina...

The purpose of this webinar is to go through the guidance on ORCID IDs. Both how to store and collect these from staff members, but also how to send them in to HESA. Register: www.eventsforce.net/jiscevents/f...

On 16th October 2025, we hosted a webinar titled “We can only have good science if we have good data – the case for data auditing”, presented by Dr. Matthew Partridge. 💻 Slides: zenodo.org/records/1757... 📹 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_f1...

There's still time to register! Book your spot: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina...

The CaMMLs is a five-day intensive training course designed for PhD students working in the field of materials and molecular simulations who have coding experience but are not yet highly experienced with machine learning. 📅 Dates: 13–17 April 2026 👉 Apply here: spring2026.camml.ac.uk

Command Line: Bash and Git Skills4Scientists by Louise Saul, Joanna Grundy & Philip Leadbitter provides an introduction to using Command line functionality basics such as Shell, Echo and other commands. Access the course here: resources.psdi.ac.uk/guidance/1dd... (Login may be required)

Early Bird tickets for #IDCC26 are SOLD OUT! 🤯 Regular, One-Day, Student & LMIC tickets are available until 1 Feb 2026 (or until they sell out). Join Digital Curation Centre in Zagreb this February! 🎟️ Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20th-inter...

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... This webinar explores the creation of a materials database for the UK solid-state NMR community, showing how it supports evolving data-sharing practices through the principles of FAIR.

And it's a wrap! #Ontologies4Chem Workshop took place in Limburg, Germany. Thank you NFDI4Chem, Beilstein-Institut and NFDI for Catalysis-Related Sciences - NFDI4Cat for making this event a success. Picture credit: Oliver Koepler

Please see casdar.ac.uk/funding/ for more information. For us to ensure that the review process for the funding call runs smoothly and to tailor future funding calls, we are asking for interested parties to submit a registration of interest: t.ly/TBPtF

It is so surreal to see how CaSDaR has grown! From launching earlier this year, to hosting our first Townhall (which all of you made such a success! 💜 ), having Cassie join our team and now having our funding call, it has been nothing but an absolutely joyous and fruitful journey

🙌We're excited to join the 1st @rsc.org Protein and Peptide Science Group Conference this Dec at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social! Diana Kondinskaia, CCDC Research and Applications Scientist, will present her poster: “Can cavity prediction algorithms help in docking experiments?" ccdc-info.com/47lZDYp

Here’s the PSDI Showcase in one snapshot! 🎨 Looking back: this live illustration captures the talks, discussions and ideas shared throughout the day - from data-driven materials science to the future of research infrastructure.

The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure team is attending the Ontologies4Chem! Dr. Samantha Pearman-Kanza, PhD opened the conference alongside Philip Strömert - summarising the history of the "The Semantic Web and Chemistry" Dr. Aileen Day talked about PSDI's underpinning semantic metadata

The PSDI team warmly invites you to join the upcoming Beilstein talk: The Value of Data-Sharing for Reaction Discovery and Development 👉 Register here to secure your place: www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/org... Speakers: Professor Simon Coles Dr Sally Bloodworth

This Webinar explores the sociotechnical challenges of implementing ELNs to achieve FAIR data in research labs. Through PSDI, she has evaluated diverse ELN solutions, uncovering key barriers and strategies for success. Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4cT...

Presentation by Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza on: Introduction to PSDI & Associated Interoperability Projects, for MADICES (Machine Actionable Data Interoperability for Chemical Sciences).

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... This talk presents the ongoing work with the materials database built for the solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance community in the UK. It explores the evolving data sharing needs of the NMR researchers and how the database caters to these needs.

Dr. Philip Leadbitter is attending the iPRES2025 - The 21st international conference on digital preservation! The themes for iPRES 2025 are: Haerenga (Journey), Tūtaki (Encounter), and Tūhono (Connect).

The Royal Society of Chemistry Research Fund supports members with limited access to research funds to start new projects. The fund is now open for applications until 1 December 2025 1400 UK time (GMT). Apply for up to £5000: www.rsc.org/funding-and-...

Current state of data stewardship tools in life science Publication by: Anna Aksenova, Anoop Johny, Tim Adams, Philip Gribbon, Marc Jacobs, Martin Hofmann-Apitius: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A Whole New Lab: Transforming Research with ELNs (Electronic Lab Notebooks), for CAMS Data Analytics and SciY Presents FutureLab: Chemistry in the Digital Age. All slides can be viewed here: zenodo.org/records/1747...

Dr. Samantha Pearman-Kanza, is at Lab Innovations! 5 CPD-accredited stages in the conference focus on: 🌱 Sustainability | ⚙️ AI & Automation | ✅ Quality & Compliance | 🧬Biotechnology | 🧠 Skills & Development Learn more and claim your free conference pass here: invt.io/1lxbyg3tdhu

Shaping the future of polymer data through collaboration and open science: www.psdi.ac.uk/polymer-work...

This international training course—run in collaboration between PSDI and AIchemy, with support from STFC-SCD, CCP5, and CCP9—is designed for PhD students in the Materials and Molecular Simulations field who have coding experience but limited exposure to machine learning. Details below:

SharkCat, accompanied by Dr. Nicola Knight, has been enjoying his time in Australia! This time at the #Eresau2025! Sharkcat (in 2D form) had a great time networking with all the other plushies that were at the event, particularly his new koala friend from National Computational Infrastructure! 🐨🦈

Complete the spreadsheet to send in your entries: www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi... Entries are to be sent to Prof. Jeremy Frey at [email protected] Share your favourite festive recipe and help us make this the most well-documented Christmas feast ever. 🎉 📬 Deadline: 10th December.

RSC-CICAG is cooking up something special this festive season - our very own Christmas Cookbook! 🍪 📖 We are hoping to launch a festive CICAG Cookery Book in time for Xmas, which will of course meet the FAIR data standards and, rich semantic metadata and well specified units! [contd below]

📅 Call open: 13 October – 15 December 2025 💻 Q&A Webinar: 11 November 2025 (recording from the first session available on the BioFAIR website) For more information and to apply, click here: biofair.uk/pathfinder-p...

On 12 March 2025, more than 35 participants from across the UK gathered at Loughborough University for a one-day community workshop exploring the future of polymer data. 📖 Learn more about our collaboration with Loughborough University: www.psdi.ac.uk/collaborator...

It's #IDW2025 time! And Dr. Nicola Knight, along with SharkCat met Angus the data puffin as well as the IDW Kangaroo!

On 14th August 2025, the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) hosted a webinar titled “Seekest thou the road to, all that’s digital and FAIR – the Ballad of the ELN Journey”, presented by Dr. Samantha Pearman-Kanza.