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13 articles · Latest April 9, 2026

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 18, 2026

Give Me Data, Yesterday

I want this data, and I want it yesterday!This post is adapted, with the author’s permission and collaboration, from this post in his personal blog. This is a quest. A quest for t...

Flavio Hafner·Jun 17, 2025

Empirically evaluating privacy in machine learning II: Hypothesis testing

Using statistics to think like a hacker, so we can avoid them! Image from page 182 of “Elements of statistics” (1954). Licensed under creative commons.This post is the second in a...

Flavio Hafner·Jun 17, 2025

Empirically evaluating privacy in machine learning III: functional & gaussian differential privacy

1 Using statistics to think like a hacker, so we can avoid them! The Greek letter lambda, symbol of functional programming.This post is the third in a series on differential privac...

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...

Erik Tjong Kim Sang·May 28, 2024

A Tale of Tallness

In the past two centuries, the Dutch have become the tallest people of the planet. What factors caused this remarkable development? This is the central research question in the wor...

Johan Hidding·Feb 2, 2023

Diversity in Software: four ways to think different

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Diversity in Software: four ways to think different Diversity is a hot topic. Let’s talk about diversity in Software. Hackers need to wake up an...

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...

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...

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·Jul 12, 2018

what we can learn from tomatoes — feeding the planet with improved plant breeding

From left to right: PhD candidate Gurnoor Singh at Wageningen University and Research, Dr. Richard Finkers from the Wageningen Plant Research institute and Dr. Arnold Kuzniar from...

Faruk Diblen·Jan 16, 2018

spot visual scientific data analytics made easy

If you are using scientific visualization tools in your work then you should read this post. If you are developing a visualization code for your scientific data then you must defin...

Lourens Veen·May 23, 2017

a license to science

The Beastie Boys were Licensed to Ill, James Bond had a licence to kill. I want a license to science. Science, it is said, is standing on the shoulders of giants. We scientists des...