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25 articles · Latest February 26, 2026

Jesse Gonzalez·Feb 26, 2026

Making LLMs Work for Science: How AI-Powered Storytelling Helps Researchers Communicate Their Software

Large language models get a lot of attention in research for what they might replace. We wanted to explore what they can enable: better, faster scientific communication that actual...

Suvayu·Apr 22, 2025

Solving the mystery of the missing symbols! (part II)

This is the conclusion to the story I wrote about earlier. In that earlier post, we were investigating why the MingW-w64 build of DuckDB fails to export the C-API symbols in the fi...

ole·Feb 21, 2025

A Helpful Noob

Photo by Keiteu Ko on Unsplash Introduction Yesterday, my colleague Faruk asked me to conduct a Hallway Test for the NLeSC/python-template he is working on: he just grabbed me off...

Peter Kalverla·Dec 10, 2024

Amsterdam as seen by a weather model

Visualizing local climate zones in 3D with the Cityblocks package What sets a weather model apart from a video game? While video games prioritize stunning visuals over strict reali...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 3, 2024

The ‘do-it-yourself’ Computed Tomography scanner

By Francien Bossema Researchers developed a method to use existing X-ray imaging facilities for Computed Tomography (CT) scanning Photo by Cara Shelton on Unsplash This is a cross-...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Feb 13, 2024

Differentiation without subtraction

54 A surprising application of complex numbers Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash Some time ago I came across one of those ideas that makes you wonder: “why nobody told me about t...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 28, 2023

Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community

Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community Imagine you’re a researcher who developed a brilliant piece of software that may be useful to many...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Oct 25, 2023

The Utopic Git History

If you love this article and can’t wait to read more about The Utopic Git History, please see this follow-up article(/achieving-utopic-git-history-4cc2a1fd3107?sk=88f3dac86d55ac183...

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Kody Moodley·Oct 12, 2023

the orange3 data mining platform as a research tool

Why aren’t more SSH researchers using and extending the platform? Orange is an open-source Python -based data mining application with a graphical user interface (GUI). It allows pe...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 10, 2023

Summer is here, and so are large language models.

Welcome to the technological revolution of 2023, where the landscape of communication and information processing has been forever transformed. Photo by Google DeepMind on Unsplash...

Carsten Schnober·Jun 1, 2023

Language Modeling: The First 100 Years

ChatGPT has become the symbol for a new wave of Artificial Intelligence. New models with even stronger conversational skills are released on a weekly basis, and the world discusses...

Candace Moore·Feb 16, 2023

The medical chatbot will not see you now

Dr. Candace Makeda Moore, RSE and medical doctor, lays out what she believes the potential pitfalls and problems of AI chatbots in medicine are: closed source, discrimination, (ir)...

Stef Smeets·May 4, 2022

Forget about Jupyter Notebooks — showcase your research using Dashboards

The snippet below generates some data (a normal distribution), fits it, and creates a matplotlib plot out of it. It takes three parameters, muin, stdin, and size. My cool python sc...

Stef Smeets·Jan 5, 2022

What is in the eScience toolbox: Stef on his favourite meshing library

Question: Hi Stef, for this blog series we are looking to highlight our developer’s favourite libraries. Stef: As research software engineers we always get excited by tools that ex...

Maarten van Meersbergen·Jun 17, 2021

Visual Storytelling for data science

Maarten van Meersbergen·Jun 7, 2021 When conducting research, the data collected can in itself be exciting and meaningful, but when it is presented as spreadsheets or bullet points...

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Felipe·Jan 15, 2021

Building a Web Service to Manage Scientific Simulation Data Using GraphQL

Therefore, the Ceiba web service needs to handle two kinds of requests by the client: read-only queries and mutations on the datasets. These “queries” and “mutations” can be easily...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Oct 22, 2020

How is the end of daylight saving time going to affect me?

Photo by insung yoon on Unsplash It happens every year. Twice. And it can be pretty annoying. I am talking about the clock shift to re-adapt our schedules to wintertime or summert...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 9, 2020

Using C++ in a web app with WebAssembly

By Stefan Verhoeven, Faruk Diblen, Jurriaan H. Spaaks, Adam Belloum, and Christiaan Meijer. Let’s say you have some C++ code laying around that you would like to make available to...

Johan Hidding·Jan 16, 2020

Parallel programming in Python

Depending on your level of Python expertise, you might implement such an algorithm in different ways. In an introductory Python course we could write this function as follows. impo...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 9, 2019

Managing the crowd: a big data approach

Crowd disasters have taken many lives. The Love Parade disaster (Duisburg, 2010), the Ellis Park Stadium disaster (Johannesburg, 2001), the PhilSports Stadium stampede (Manila, 200...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 18, 2019

Using deep neural networks to understand molecular interactions

Photography: Michiel Wijnbergh | wijnbergh.nl Dr. Lars Ridder, Prof. Alexandre Bonvin, Dr. Nicolas Renaud, Dr. Li Xue, Dr. Sonja Georgievska The human body contains trillions of ce...

eScience Editorial Team·Sep 26, 2018

analyzing the ‘life’ of newspapers with machine learning

Marcel Broersma, professor of Media and Journalism Studies and Director of the Research Centre for Media and Journalism Studies (CMJS) at the University of Groningen Photography:...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 20, 2017

digital technologies to analyze eyewitness accounts of mass violence

Dr. Susan Hogervorst, historian, assistant professor in historical culture and history didactics, Open University of the Netherlands, and researcher at Erasmus University Rotterda...

eScience Editorial Team·Jun 21, 2017

what is the impact of visualization on science

Scientific visualization impacts all research disciplines. Understanding our past, dealing with the challenges of climate change, discovering dark matter, and analyzing human behav...

Dafne van Kuppevelt·Mar 20, 2017

mcfly time series classification made easy

A deep learning approach for time series Deep learning is hot. It is the state-of-the-art method for object recognition in images and video, and was an important component of the A...