That’s the question that sparked Dr. Samantha Pearman-Kanza's journey. She has spent over a decade exploring how Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) can transform scientific research.
Read all about how Electronic Notebooks elevate research practice ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-you-implement-electronic-lab-notebook-southampton-eln-1keue
Presentation by Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza on: One does not simply implement an Electronic Lab Notebook: The epic saga of ELN implementation! At Future Labs Live 2025 ➡️ https://zenodo.org/records/15584743
PSDI provides many resources that you can use to help you with your research or to support researchers you work with. To view a list of a particular kind of resource you can choose from the options under Browse by Resource Type and alternatively, you can view collections of related resources by selecting from the options under Browse by Resource Theme.
Check out all the Data Resources ➡️ https://resources.psdi.ac.uk/
Even your data needs a little FAIR treatment to stay in a healthy relationship. 💔📊
It ensures that simulation inputs, experimental conditions, calibration files, and contextual documentation are all preserved and accessible.
As physical sciences move toward ever-more integrated and cross-disciplinary approaches, robust data curation isn’t just an administrative task—it’s a scientific imperative.
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Dr. Samantha Pearman-Kanza, along with SharkCat are killing it at Future Labs Live Basel! 💯
Dr. Samantha Pearman-Kanza, is at Future Labs Live Basel! 🙌
SharkCat is helping Dr. Pearman-Kanza prepare her talk about implementing Electronic Lab Notebooks, and taking part in the FAIR panel!
We're excited for all the updates that are soon to come! 😁
The release of these resources follows several years of community engagement, consultation, and development, but this is just the beginning of the PSDI journey, and we are excited to continue working with the community to expand PSDI.
Please share this with your colleagues and research networks to help us collaborate to accelerate! 🚀🚀
#PSDI #Resources #Community #Engagement #PhysicalSciences #DataInfrastructure #DataSources
These are the wrong questions. The question should be, “What are the pain points in your day to day work and what technology can best be used to make your life easier?”
Somehow we need a bridge between the scientists to help them explain what they are trying to do and between the technology people who can explain the capabilities of their technology.
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This is more than a technical issue—it's a scientific one. Funding agencies and journals are already demanding FAIR data practices, and metadata is at the heart of that effort.
Let’s move beyond raw numbers and focus on structured, contextualized data that can stand the test of time, and scrutiny.
Because in science, if data isn’t documented, it might as well not exist. ❌
#PhysicalSciences #ResearchData #MetadataMatters #FAIRData #OpenScience #PSDI
Our new website is now live! 💻 Check out our website: https://www.psdi.ac.uk/
There is a lot to explore! Some resources do require login (which is currently available to UK academics) but most of our resources are available to all! If you encounter any issues please email us at support@psdi.ac.uk
#PSDI #WebsiteLaunch #UKAcademia #Academics #DataInfrastructure
➡️While the call is open to a wide range of physical sciences topics, projects are expected to produce tangible outputs and demonstrate potential for future funding or continued support.
Important details to know 🔽
📄 Details & link to the application: https://www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call-2025/
📅 Deadline: June 23rd 2025, 11.59 pm BST
🚨 Submit application by e-mail to the PSDI Team at psdi@soton.ac.uk
📜 Successful applicants will be notified by 28th July 2025
Team PSDI is at London Lab Live! 🙌 Here are some snippets!
Data is central to research and encompasses both community collections of data as well as access to reference data collections. PSDI are exploring and developing methods to build, store, manage and access collections for types of data, such as:
🟦 institutional data
🟦 facilities data
🟦 legacy data
🟦 orphaned data
We are building a UK, Physical Science, Data Infrastructure!
🟦 Supporting Chemistry, Materials and related disciplines
🟦 Traversing to and interfacing with Life, Medical, Engineering and Environmental Sciences through federated systems
Swedish physician and statistician Hans Rosling turned abstract development data into powerful visual stories. Through his Gapminder project, he animated global datasets on income, health, education, and population, showing how the world was improving in ways people didn’t expect.
His work democratized access to global development data and reshaped public understanding of poverty, life expectancy, and inequality.
Strong data management isn't just good practice, it's essential for accelerating discovery and building trust in science.
#PSDI #DataManagement #FAIRData #PhysicalSciences #OpenScience
🔍 Instead of flipping through pages to compare results from 6 months ago, researchers can now pull up related entries instantly using keywords or metadata.
💡 In collaborative settings, a PI in Boston can review a student’s experiment in real-time, say, from Berlin, leaving comments directly on the entry.
As science grows more data-driven and collaborative, ELNs are not just a luxury, they’re essential.
📈 The lab of the future is here. Are you ready to make the switch?
Data decay threatens long-term research value. As formats evolve and documentation fades, once-valuable datasets can become inaccessible or meaningless. Without proactive preservation and clear metadata, critical insights risk being lost. Safeguarding data integrity ensures future usability, enabling researchers to build on past work rather than lose it to digital erosion.
Stable data makes for a faster race, and keeps your records well-groomed. That's what JJ, Charlie and Birdie from the house of Prof Simon Coles had to neigh, umm we mean say! 🐎
