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 or wish to revisit the discussion, the full webinar is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ows6xB-NBCU

The Skills4Scientists guidance materials are designed to enhance researchers' capabilities in areas such as computing, research data management, and other transferable research skills, supporting them in all aspects of their work.

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: https://resources.psdi.ac.uk/guidance/3894adca-5032-495d-aa36-8a0d00cfd37c

Our webinar series provide updates on our exploratory pathfinder work, and on relevant tools and technologies that have been developed by members of our community.

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: https://zenodo.org/records/17904604

Register here: https://www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webinar-data-knowledge-pathfinder/

This webinar, by Dr Alin Elena and Elliott Kasoar from STFC, explores recent advances in machine learnt interatomic potentials (MLIPs) that revolutionize atomistic simulations with ab initio accuracy and expanded scales, while introducing software frameworks such as janus-core, aiida-mlip, and ML-PEG for data generation, benchmarking, training, and workflow integration within the PSDI ecosystem.

Join PSDI Coordinator and Principle Enterprise Fellow Dr Nicola Knight as she guides you through the PSDI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_20XrRMMM4

Learn how PSDI connects and enhances existing data systems to streamline scientific data handling for chemists, materials scientists, and more. Visit https://www.psdi.ac.uk for full resources.

The @BeilsteinInstitut is hosting an online talk that aligns closely with PSDI’s work on data-sharing and research practice: The value of data-sharing for reaction discovery and development.

It will be presented by Professor Simon Coles (University of Southampton) and Dr Sally Bloodworth (University of Southampton).

📅 Date: Thursday 4 December 2025
🕑 Time: 15:00–16:00 CET (14:00–15:00 GMT)
💻 Format: Online live talk
🔗 Register: https://www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/organic-chemistry-fair/

Data accessibility in the chemical sciences: an analysis of recent practice in organic chemistry journals: https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/articles/21/70

We recently spoke with Dr. Sally about the barriers researchers face, what meaningful cultural change could look like, and how initiatives like PSDI are helping move the field toward a more open and collaborative future.

🔗 Read the full article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chemists-sharing-homework-psdiuk-etjie/?trackingId=kwIVKE5fRom0SwrDBeGZXA%3D%3D

💻 Slides available: https://zenodo.org/records/13928084

This webinar, by Dr. Aileen Day, 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: https://www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webinar-metadata/