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eScience Editorial Team·May 28, 2026

Research Software Engineers in the Age of GenAI: Same Value, Changing Practice

Stephan Druskat, Michelle Barker, Ian Cosden, Cunliang Geng, Robert Haines, Daniel S. Katz, Joseph Shingleton, Ben van Werkhoven This blog post is being cross-posted by the Researc...

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 9, 2026

FOSDEM 2026: Observations and key takeaways

If you missed FOSDEM 2026 — the largest conference dedicated to open-source software — you can still absorb some of the experience as shared by NLeSC RSEs Flavio Hafner, Ole Mussm...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 26, 2026

Bring Your Own Backend

A pattern for sustainable research software collaboration By Stefan Verhoeven. Image source https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/new-nationwide-modeling-points-widespread-racial-dispari...

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...

eScience Editorial Team·Feb 11, 2026

Enabling best practices for sustainable software in the Natural & Engineering sciences (SS-NES)

Enabling best practices for sustainable software in the Natural & Engineering sciences (SS-NES) Authors: Roel Janssen, Jason Maassen and Carlos Martinez-Ortiz With the availabl...

Bart Schilperoort·Jan 15, 2026

Use Julia to write code that runs on any GPU

Use Julia to write code that runs on any GPU 10 How to write Julia code than can run on any GPU, and why you would want to do that. As the name implies, the main use of Graphics Pr...

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...

Suvayu·Mar 13, 2025

A debugging journey into the unknown (part I)

Faced with a buggy library, most people will just give up and wait for a patch to be released. Certainly not our engineers. NASA/JPL-CaltechIt all started with a colleague trying t...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Feb 20, 2025

FAIR principles: 5000 years of common sense

The FAIR acronym stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. If you are a researcher, certainly you’ve heard about FAIR principles. FAIR data, FAIR software, … It...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 6, 2024

How much research output is really open, and how can we tell?

Written by Esther Plomp, Meron Vermaas, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Nemo Andrea, Ewan Cahen, Felix Weijdema, Dorien Huijser, Marta Teperek, Bjørn Bartholdy & Ana Parrón Cabañero. Du...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 3, 2024

Tackling Advent of Code

By Ewan Cahen Advent of Code 2024 has started this week! If you are not familiar with Advent of Code, it’s an annual coding challenge created by Eric Wastl. It’s like an advent cal...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 24, 2024

From Corridor Coincidences to Cellular Cartography: The grlc Story

1 This is the story of grlc, a tool that transforms complex linked data queries into user-friendly web interfaces. We interviewed grlc’s developers Albert Meroño-Peñuela and Carlos...

eScience Editorial Team·Sep 19, 2024

National Research Software Day: National Infrastructures for Sustainable Software

Written by Luisa Orozco, Daniela Gawehns, and Carlos Martinez-Ortiz The first National Research Software Day already took place more than five months ago in Hilversum, on 23 April...

Carlosmurilorocha·Jun 27, 2024

Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry with qc2

Quantum Computing is a rapidly evolving field that has the potential to transform the way we approach complex computational problems. Quantum Chemistry stands out as a prime applic...

eScience Editorial Team·Jun 12, 2024

Brainstorming on the success of a research software catalogue

Brainstorming on the success of a research software catalogue 1 Researchers reflect on the whys and hows of scientific software catalogues Created with DALL-E. Timestamp: 2024–04–2...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 19, 2024

The FAIR for Research Software Principles after two years: an adoption update

By Michelle Barker, Leyla Jael Castro, Bernadette Fritzsch, Daniel S. Katz, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Anna Niehues, Alexander Struck, Qian Zhang Click here for citation information fo...

Flavio Hafner·Feb 27, 2024

How to manage your IP address in Python

> This post is the first of a series of blog posts arising from a collaboration between the eScience Center and the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team. You can find this text also at...

Ji Qi·Nov 6, 2023

How Easy It Can Be to Whip Up Your Own Orange3 Widget: A Chatbot Adventure with HuggingChat!

4 Are you ready to dive into the captivating world of Orange3 widgets and unleash your inner chatbot whisperer? 🚀✨ Whether you’re a coding connoisseur or a newbie explorer, develo...

Candace Moore·May 25, 2023

Research Ethics and Authorship: The Technological Solution

Dr. Candace Makeda Moore discusses the potential for distributed version control as a tool to prevent questionable authorship practices. Recently I read a story in Retraction Watc...

Eva Viviani·Dec 19, 2022

Ceci n’est pas une peinture — making art with AI

Over time, the model ultimately learns how to discriminate between these two groups (Van Gogh vs. other) and outputs the probability that a new observation belongs to the Van Gogh’...

Florian Huber·Jul 22, 2022

Mimicking Intelligence: AI imitation crisis

The next generation language models will still just be enormeous parrot-systems that imitate intelligent behavior. But they will feel like much more to us. Florian Huber·Jun 24, 20...

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eScience Editorial Team·May 23, 2022

The mystery of glass: why machine learning can help us

This blog is part of our blog series: The Small-Scale Initiative on Machine Learning, how did it go?, where groups who were invited to participate in a project with eScience Center...

eScience Editorial Team·May 9, 2022

A machine learning approach to laughter

Our mentors at the eScience Center (Patrick Bos, Florian Huber, and Jisk Attema), provided us with practical guidance in the use of such libraries, which provided an invaluable lea...

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...

Peter Kalverla·Feb 21, 2022

Storyboards for science communication

A modern publication format for the hybrid metaverse Originally used by movie directors, a storyboard consists of a series of images that, together, form a story. In the European...

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...

Patrick Bos·Nov 16, 2021

Combining ZeroMQ & POSIX signals

Use ppoll to handle EINTR once and for all Eventually, I found this article on EINTR in ZeroMQ by Martin Sustrik (ZeroMQ creator) himself. More precisely, in the comment section Am...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 21, 2021

Pandemic-proof: shaping the future of scientific exchange

The 2021 (virtual) meeting of the European Meteorological Society started off with the collaborative Future Science Cafe. Inspired by the rapid developments in remote collaboration...

Johan Hidding·Jul 7, 2021

Literate Programming in Science

Photo by Prateek Katyal on Unsplash 2\. The How This is part 2 in a series on Literate Programming in Science. If you haven’t yet, please read part 1 “The Why”. > Literate program...

Patrick Bos·Mar 5, 2021

Automate chores with GitHub Actions

How I keep my Heroku web-app’s data up-to-date automatically Scientists, open source developers, and basically probably most people, have to deal with one common obstacle in life:...

Patrick Bos·Feb 19, 2021

Twitter Bots, for Science!

How to build a bot to show Covid-19 vaccination progress Twitter bots have a really bad rep. Troll armies, spam, fake news… You name it, a bot’s done it. But what if we could harne...

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...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 17, 2019

The success of reliable integration of renewable energy

Countries, companies and individuals are increasingly aware of the need to keep our world clean by supporting sustainable energy. The landscape is evolving rapidly. Of the various...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 20, 2017

introducing nl-rse

Bootstrapping the community of Research Software Engineers in the Netherlands. Research software has become an indispensable instrument for virtually every academic researcher. A c...

Lourens Veen·Oct 5, 2017

free as in free market

Or why the GNU General Public License is open for business When you release your software on the Internet for others to use, you need to choose a license for it. One issue you migh...

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